BAQC October General Quiz October 11, 2015 Vinod Viswanath
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BAQC October General QuizOctober 11 2015Vinod Viswanath
Rules1 written round4 regular roundsInfinite bounceNo pounce unless specified2 embedded themes10 points per question unless specified
(good old bounce rules if a question goes unanswered next question goes to the next team)(ldquoluck of the draw is part of the gamerdquo
-- your grizzly old QM)
Rules1 written round4 regular roundsInfinite bounceNo pounce unless specified4 embedded themes10 points per question unless specified(good old bounce rules if a question goes unanswered next question goes to the next team)(ldquoluck of the draw is part of the gamerdquo
-- your unapologetically old QM)
You are old Father William the young man saidAnd your hair has become very whiteAnd yet you incessantly stand on your headmdashDo you think at your age it is right
Round 1 Written round10 Questions10 points per questionPart points might be available
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Rules1 written round4 regular roundsInfinite bounceNo pounce unless specified2 embedded themes10 points per question unless specified
(good old bounce rules if a question goes unanswered next question goes to the next team)(ldquoluck of the draw is part of the gamerdquo
-- your grizzly old QM)
Rules1 written round4 regular roundsInfinite bounceNo pounce unless specified4 embedded themes10 points per question unless specified(good old bounce rules if a question goes unanswered next question goes to the next team)(ldquoluck of the draw is part of the gamerdquo
-- your unapologetically old QM)
You are old Father William the young man saidAnd your hair has become very whiteAnd yet you incessantly stand on your headmdashDo you think at your age it is right
Round 1 Written round10 Questions10 points per questionPart points might be available
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Rules1 written round4 regular roundsInfinite bounceNo pounce unless specified4 embedded themes10 points per question unless specified(good old bounce rules if a question goes unanswered next question goes to the next team)(ldquoluck of the draw is part of the gamerdquo
-- your unapologetically old QM)
You are old Father William the young man saidAnd your hair has become very whiteAnd yet you incessantly stand on your headmdashDo you think at your age it is right
Round 1 Written round10 Questions10 points per questionPart points might be available
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
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A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Round 1 Written round10 Questions10 points per questionPart points might be available
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
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A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
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A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
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A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
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Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
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Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q3What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
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Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
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Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
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A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
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A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
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A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
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Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for AnswersExchange sheets or just correct it yourself
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q1 What is the context
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A2 Name the scientists
1 point per scientist 10 points if you name them all
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q3 What are we measuringbull It was called Hoppus Foot in Britain or a Cord in
the US bull 1 cord = 100 hoppus feet bull The metric analog is a sterebull The name cord comes from using a cord or a
string to measure itbull Cord is still one of 3 legal standards in Canada
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A4 Maldives Monetary AuthorityMaldivian cowrie shells were the basis of currency trade in the old world (China many African countries etc)
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibitJitish Kallat is known for his radical paintings and his Public Notice series of art installations
Public Notice 1 burnt the words of Nehrursquos ldquoTryst with Destinyrdquo speech in rubber adhesive on acrylic mirrors to protest the carnage of Godhra riots
Public Notice 2 is at Sabarmati Ashram and displays Gandhirsquos 1000-word speech at the start of the Dandi March ndash the words made of fiberglass bones set on shelves
He made his mark in the US early this decade in Chicago with his Public Notice 3 ndash an art installation at the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of the original address What two events form the theme of this exhibit
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911Swami Vivekanandarsquos text in LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Womanrsquos Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago adjacent to the site of Vivekanandarsquos original address Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11 2001
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q6 Name the original movieTalvar is Meghna Gulzarrsquos recent movie starring Irrfan Khan Konkana Sen and Neeraj Kabi
The movie follows a three-part narrative and is about the 2008 Noida double murder case (aka Aarushi murder case)
Vishal Bharadwaj the writer (among other roles) pays homage to which classic movie from the 1950s where the characters provide alternative sometimes contradictory and usually self-serving accounts of events
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos RashomonTalvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q7 What is this image portraying
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquo
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A7 Loon for allGooglersquos balloon powered internet-for-all project with high altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Who said ldquoWhen yoursquore dying of malaria I suppose yoursquoll look up and see that balloon and Irsquom not sure how itrsquoll help you When a kid gets diarrhea no there is no website that relieves thatrdquoBill Gates
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q8 Name the term and its originIt was used primarily in New England in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe two women living together independent of the financial support of a man
This notion of a formalized romantic friendship between women came from a particular work of an author although he himself did not use that term in the book (he called them new women) Itrsquos said that his sister was in one such relationship
What is the termName the author and the work
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A8 Boston Marriage Henry JamesHenry James in his book The Bostonians talks about new women His sister Alicersquos relationship with Katherine Loring was said to be his inspiration and source for this
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q9 What is this art form calledOr just explain what is significant about these sculptures
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q10 What is this practice calledbull It is an event showcasing superior mastery of
cognitive capabilitiesbull Of observation memory multitasking task switching
retrieval reasoning and creativity in multiple modes of intelligence - literature poetry music mathematical calculations puzzle solving etc
bull It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
bull All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody
bull No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks
bull There are different variants of this event based on the hardness level (measured in number of people)
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A10 Avadhana
nishastylz
The performer faces multiple questioners at the same time Itrsquos called an Ashatavadhana with 8 questioners and Shatavadhana with 100There are legends of Sahasravadhana with 1000 questioners
The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random There is no limit or restrictions on questions
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
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Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Embedded Themesbull In the spirit of the avadhana there are 2
themes embedded within the rest of the questions although here you only have two parallel threads to worry about
bull The actual questions themselves are not part of the themes
bull Each ldquoWaiting for Answerhelliprdquo slide has a visual clue leading up to a theme There is a no textual question associated with it You have to connect the visual clues over 6 questions and answer the theme
bull The themes are in Round2 and Round5 onlybull +30-15 after 1st and 2nd cluesbull +20-10 after 3rd and 4th cluesbull +10-5 after 5th cluebull +5 after 6th clue
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Round 2 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q11 What are we talking aboutThis custom dates back to at least Emperor Nero The French organized and institutionalized this It could take multiple forms There were Commissaires Rieurs Pleureurs (generally women) Chatouilleurs and bisseurs (who cried Bis Bis)Wagner opposed the custom as did Toscanini and Mahler While the custom slowly died out in Europe and America the Bolshoi Ballet famously continued it The custom made a comeback with television series in the US starting with I Love Lucy
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
commissioner) - learned the piece by heart and called the attention of their neighbors to its good points between the acts
bull Rieurs (laughers) laughed loudly at the jokes
bull Pleureurs (criers) generally women feigned tears by holding their handkerchiefs to their eyes
bull Chatouilleurs (ticklers) kept the audience in a good humor
bull Bisseurs (encore-ers) simply clapped and cried Bis Bis to request encores
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q12 Who And the workHe wrote glowing reviews of his own work when he first published it In one review he described himself as ldquoa naiumlve masculine affectionate contemplative sensual imperious personrdquo Although the work was not well received when it first came out Emerson wrote I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributedldquo The author promptly included Emersonrsquos quotes in particular ldquoI Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Careerrdquo and published the next edition The author never really finished this work and kept tinkering for 33 years until the year of his death growing the book from 12 poems in the first publication to almost 400 when he was finally done
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image2
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Ctesais the greek historian describes him as an effeminate debauchee sunk in luxury and sloth who at the last was driven to take up arms and after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance avoided capture by suicideLord Byron inspired by the above story wrote a tragedy in blank verse and dedicated it to Goethe This further inspired the painting below musical works by Berlioz and Ravel and famously an unfinished opera
Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image3
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A13 SardanapalusByron wrote the play SardanapalusDelacroix painted Death of SardanapalusFranz Lisztrsquos unfinished opera Sardanapale
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q14 Poet and workBrowsing through the poetry section of Printers Inc Bookstore and Cafeacute in Palo Alto he found two translations of Pushkinrsquos Eugene Onegin Both had maintained the same stanzaic form as the original Intrigued by the faithfulness of the translation soon he was immersed in them for pleasure and decided that this would be the form he would use to tell his California tales I loved the form the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think during and after reading itldquo
Name the author and the book
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image4
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q15 What is the phrase17th century critic and dramatist John Dennis wrote a play Appius and Virginia and as part of its production invented something new The play was not successful and closed within days At a later performance of Macbeth Dennis who was in the audience came across his invention being used on stage He is purported to have said ldquoThat is my ____ by God the villains will play my ____ but not my playrdquo
What phrase is this story the origin of
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image5
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A15 Steal my thunderldquoThat is my thunder by God the villains will play my thunder but not my playrdquo
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme1 Image6
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Jerusalem Israel Milwaukee
Redding over Sacramento RiverSeville
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
The Courtship ofMiles Standish
Evangeline The Wreck of Hesperus
A Psalm of Life(footprints on the sands of time)
The Song of HiawathaPaul Reverersquos Ride
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q17 Name the productcompanyThe original logo for this product was the profile of an Indian chief In 1953 Cheri Brand was the first to model for this product In 1965 Jodie Foster debuted as an actress in a television ad for it The image was iconic and over time led to Jim Carrey Carmen Electra Kylie Minogue among others to model mimicking the adAt the turn of the 21st century the company revised the ads so it would be less revealing and show no tan lines They also brought down all motorized billboards of this ad One last such motorized billboard still survives in Miami Beach ndash dog pigtails swimsuit the whole works
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q18 What are we talking aboutIkemesho danshi is a recent business trend in Japan where you can hire one of these men below for certain jobs They go under- Little brother type- Showa Era type- Therapeutic Mr Tokyo- Intellectual type- Bad boy type- Sweet dentist type
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q18 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q19 Who are the protagonistsIn a steampunk graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders ____ ____ and Bertha von Suttner use scientific know-how general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path
In the company of several allies the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly ______ John Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi
[pic next slide]
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A19 The Five Fists of ScienceTesla Twain and Edison
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q20 What is the video about
>
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in KodaikanalNicki Minaj put up her approval on twitterBianca Jagger Mark Ruffalo and Ashton Kutcher lauded the rap song and termed it a powerful message
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Unexpectedly the creator denies any inspiration from this class of sculptures the most famous of which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Name either this sculpture or what it did not inspire
These are predatory creatures who neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey They are called the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past Their creator attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmotherrsquos Footsteps
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Round 4 (Clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q23 What happened Why that daybull On March 8 1971 a group of burglars broke into this
office in Philadelphia and stole a bunch of secret documents
bull They were never caughtbull The breaking and entering was supposed to get
evidence so that the public could no longer ignore it bull Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at
her desk at the Washington Post containing secret documents She published the story
bull 42 years later in 2014 Bonnie Raines one of the activists came out of hiding to explain what they did why and why they chose that day
What did they steal Why that day
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A23 Surveillance docs from FBIThey broke into the FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureaus surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations
They chose that day because everyone was following the network updates about Muhammad Ali going 15 rounds against Joe Frazier
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q24 Explain the reasoningbull The Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th
century came up with a reasoning that enabled him to tax everyone rich and poor
bull Following the same reasoning in Agatha Christiersquos Death in the Clouds Poirot sets a trap for the murderer by asking him to dress in disguise as a blackmailer
bull Although not exactly this Odysseusrsquo affair with Scylla and Charybdis does present a similar line of reasoning although it is not exactly the same
What exactly did the Archbishop of Canterbury reason to levy high taxes on nobles and peasants For full points what is the logical term (named after the Archbishop)
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A24 Mortonrsquos ForkContradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion
ldquoA man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford themrdquo
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q25 What was all the fuss about
These photographs of Celebes crested Macaques from Indonesia were the subject of a major copyright lawsuit
Parallels were drawn to copyrighting digitally edited images as part of the argument
Finally the United States Copyright Office clarified its practices and explicitly added this case study as an example
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A25 Monkey selfiebull The monkey took the shot bull Photographerrsquos argument -- it was artistry and
idea to leave them to play with the camera and it was all in my eyesight I knew the monkeys were very likely to do this and I predicted it I knew there was a chance of a photo being takenldquo
bull US Copyright Office ruled in favor of the monkey and clarified that non-humans canrsquot hold rights and declared the images to be in public domain
bull Last month PETA filed a lawsuit to request that the monkey be assigned copyright
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q26 What are we talking aboutbull The hours are continuous bull You can take a nap but the clock keeps ticking bull If you get to the end of your hours and youre
not done you can do one of two things1 either end it there (the Gaiman Variation) or 2 keep going until youre done (the Eastman Variation)
bull Both of these are considered Noble Failure Variants and true to the task in spirit
bull But you must sincerely intend to do the task in the given hours at the outset
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloudOn 24-hour comic day the challenge is to create a 24-page comic in 24 straight hours
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q27 Name the technique and the filmKatherine Blodgett was the first woman to get a PhD in Physics from Cambridge with a dissertation on electron behavior in ionized mercury vapor At General Electric she worked closely with Langmuir who had pioneered a technique for creating single-molecule thin films on water surfaces During this work she invented something that found great application in the film industry as well as the military during WW2 A popular film (1939) used her technique to achieve its crystal-clear cinematography Subsequently submarines and spy planes used it in their periscopes and cameras
What did she invent Name the first cinematic production to use it
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
bull Kepler-16b is an extrasolar planet It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
bull It orbits the star Kepler-16 and it was the first of a particular kind of planet identified
bull This makes Kepler-16b akin to an iconic planet in fiction
bull A related clue is one of the most iconic sunsets ever on screen
bull What is special about Kepler-16 Name the iconic planet that Kepler-16b is analogous to
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)6 questions+10 for each correct answerInfinite bounce no pounce
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery He requested this design be inscribed on his tombstone The stonemason declined saying it would essentially look like a circle They instead went with this star design in a statue in his birth placeThe design was based on a mathematical discovery that he was so pleased with he changed his field from Philology to Math
Bigger image next slide
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image1
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A29 Gauss Regular PolygonA breakthrough occurred in 1796 when 19 year old Gauss showed that a regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
The regular heptadecagon is a constructible polygon (that is one that can be constructed using a compass and unmarked straightedge)
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q30 What term bull This is a plot device in the form of some goal desired
object or other motivator that the protagonist pursues often with little or no narrative explanation
bull The specific nature of this is typically unimportant to the overall plot
bull The most common type is an object place or person other more abstract types include money victory glory survival power love or some unexplained driving force
bull The term was popularized by Hitchcock who defined it as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what the object itself is the audience doesnrsquot care
bull George Lucas on the other hand believed the audience should care and this should be powerful and suggested R2D2 as an example
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image2
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A30 MacGuffinHitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University
It might be a Scottish name taken from a story about two men on a train One man says Whats that package up there in the baggage rack And the other answers Oh thats a MacGuffin The first one asks Whats a MacGuffin Well the other man says its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands The first man says But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands and the other one answers Well then thats no MacGuffin So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image3
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration
Proposed humorous solutionto Buridanrsquos Bridge paradox Parodying Gustav Dorersquos Don Quixote
Q33 What is this mnemonic devicebull The technique itself dates back to Cicero and
is called the Method of Loci bull It is a method of memory enhancement
which uses visualization to organize and recall information
bull Steven Moffatrsquos Sherlock often talks about this mnemonic device and going there
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image5
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Bonus Where are these ads from Who composed these ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Waiting for Answer Theme2 Image6
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
FATTY acidPIP Pirrip LARRY King
Elizabeth BETS Taylor Ms DAISY James BUSTER Douglas
litquizprep
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
BAQC October General Quiz
Rules
Rules (2)
Round 1 Written round
Q1 What is the context
Q2 Name the scientists
Q3What are we measuring
Q4 What is this the logo of Why
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit
Q6 Name the original movie
Q7 What is this image portraying
Q8 Name the term and its origin
Q9 What is this art form called
Q10 What is this practice called
Waiting for Answers
Q1 What is the context (2)
A1 Metrication attempt in the US
A1 Metrication attempt in the US (2)
Q2 Name the scientists
A2 Name the scientists
Q3 What are we measuring
A3 Measuring timberfirewood
Q4 What is this the logo of Why (2)
A4 Maldives Monetary Authority
Q5 Give the theme of the exhibit (2)
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911
A5 Vivekanandarsquos speech and 911 (2)
Q6 Name the original movie (2)
A6 Akira Kurosawarsquos Rashomon
Q7 What is this image portraying (2)
A7 Loon for all
A7 Loon for all (2)
Q8 Name the term and its origin (2)
A8 Boston Marriage Henry James
Q9 What is this art form called (2)
A9 Ephemeral Art
Q10 What is this practice called (2)
A10 Avadhana
Embedded Themes
Round 2 (Clockwise)
Q11 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer
A11 Claque Studio-Applause
Q12 Who And the work
Waiting for Answer (2)
A12 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer
Q13 Name the king the painter and the composer (2)
Waiting for Answer (3)
A13 Sardanapalus
Q14 Poet and work
Waiting for Answer (4)
A14 Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Q15 What is the phrase
Waiting for Answer (5)
A15 Steal my thunder
Q16 Connect or Id the last one
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (2)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (3)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (4)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (5)
Q16 Connect or Id the last one (6)
Waiting for Answer (6)
A16 Santiago Calatrava
Theme 1
Theme 1 (2)
Theme 1 (3)
Theme 1 (4)
Theme 1 (5)
Theme 1 (6)
Theme 1 (7)
Theme 1 Works of HW Longfellow
Round 3 (Anti-clockwise)
Q17 Name the productcompany
Waiting for Answer (7)
A17 Coppertone girl
Q18 What are we talking about
Q18 What are we talking about (2)
Waiting for Answer (8)
A18 Good looking men who make you cry and then console
Q19 Who are the protagonists
Q19 Who are the protagonists (2)
Waiting for Answer (9)
A19 The Five Fists of Science
Q20 What is the video about
Waiting for Answer (10)
A20 Unileverrsquos Hg plant in Kodaikanal
Q21 What problem Who posed it
Waiting for Answer (11)
A21 Leopold Bloom in Joycersquos Ulysses
Q22 Sculpture or what it did not inspire
Waiting for Answer (12)
A22 Angel of Grief Weeping Angels
Round 4 (Clockwise)
Q23 What happened Why that day
Waiting for Answer (13)
A23 Surveillance docs from FBI
Q24 Explain the reasoning
Waiting for Answer (14)
A24 Mortonrsquos Fork
Q25 What was all the fuss about
Waiting for Answer (15)
A25 Monkey selfie
Q26 What are we talking about
Waiting for Answer (16)
A26 24-hour comic Scott McCloud
Q27 Name the technique and the film
Waiting for Answer (17)
A27 Invisible Glass Gone with the Wind
Q28 Name Kepler-16rsquos feature and the analogous iconic planet
Waiting for Answer (18)
A28 Binary Star Tatooine
Round 5 (Anti-clockwise)
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery
Q29 Whorsquos statue What discovery (2)
Waiting for Answer (19)
A29 Gauss Regular Polygon
Q30 What term
Waiting for Answer (20)
A30 MacGuffin
Q31 What did Apley Hall inspire
Waiting for Answer (21)
A31 Blandings Castle Shropshire
Q32 Name the paradox
Q32 Name the paradox (2)
Waiting for Answer (22)
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge
A32 Buridanrsquos Bridge (2)
Q33 What is this mnemonic device
Waiting for Answer (23)
A33 Mind Palace
Q34 Who is referred in the ads
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (2)
Q34 Who is referred in the ads (3)
Waiting for Answer (24)
A34 Victor Frankenstein
A34 Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler
A34 A Study in Emerald Gaiman
Theme 2
Theme 2 (2)
Theme 2 (3)
Theme 2 (4)
Theme 2 (5)
Theme 2 (6)
Theme 2 Waiting for Answer
Theme 2 Five find outers and dog
Thanks See yrsquoall at the lit quiz
Q32 Name the paradoxThis is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition about an event that may or may not happen in the future
The eponymous philosopherrsquos solution involved contradicting the principle of bivalence and implying a system of three-valued logic in which there are three truth values ndash true false and some indeterminate third value
Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by PlatoPlato Socrates if in the first proposition which you utter you speak the truth I will permit you to cross But surely if you speak falsely I shall throw you into the waterSocrates You will throw me into the water
Q32 Name the paradox
Proposed humorous solutionparodying a famous illustration