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CONQUISITION 2014 Open Quiz Finals
CONQUISITION 2014Open Quiz Finals
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What’s At Stake!
1st Place – Prizes worth INR 27,000/-
2nd Place – Prizes worth INR 18,000/-
Other finalists – Thunderous round of applause
Format for Finals
1. Written Round – 8 Questions
2. Infinite Pounce – Clockwise – 17+1 Questions
3. Relative round – 8 Questions
4. Infinite Pounce – Anti-clockwise – 17+1 Questions
5. Buzzer / Written Round – 8 Questions
60 Questions overall.
Round One: Written Round
Advertisements and their references
8 advertisements. 8 questions.
+10 for getting each answer.
If you get everything right…. Big round of applause!
Identify the city and the monument in the background.
Video
Q1
An ad for the Californian gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown. Which company’s ad campaign is being referenced?
Video
Q2
Which Shakespearean play does this Google Plus ad borrow its script from?
Also, what are the first lines of this speech?
Video
Q3
Two parts to the question.
a. Which organization is this an ad for?
b. What is Irons referencing?
Video
Q4
The directors behind this movie, ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’ threatened to sue a particular company as they felt they had obviously seen this before they embarked on their communication.
Which company?
Video
Q5
A rather scary and controversial advertisement played during the 1964 presidential elections. The penultimate line is a nod to a poem by W.H. Auden. Name the poem
Video
Q6
Which movie does this ad reference?
Video
Q7
Name the person shown (or) What nickname was given to the team of victorious all-round gymnastics team she was part of, which represented the US at Atlanta, 1996?
Video
Q8
Exchange sheets please!
Identify the city and the monument in the background.
Video
Q1
Jodhpur, Mehrangarh Fort
An ad for the Californian gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown. Which company’s ad campaign is being referenced?
Video
Q2
Dos Equis commercial.
Which Shakespearean play does this Google Plus ad borrow its script from?
Also, what is the first line of this speech?
Video
Q3
As You Like It
“All the world’s a stage…”
Two parts to the question.
a. Which organization is this an ad for?
b. What is Irons referencing?
Video
Q4
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Peter Finch in ‘Network’
Video
The directors behind this movie, ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’ threatened to sue a particular company as they felt they had obviously seen this before they embarked on their communication.
Which company?
Video
Q5
Honda – For their ‘Rube Goldberg’ Cog ad
A rather scary and controversial advertisement played during the 1964 presidential elections. The penultimate line is a nod to a poem by W.H. Auden. Name the poem
Video
Q6
September 1, 1939
The poem was written at the outbreak of the Second World War
Which movie does this ad reference?
Video
Q7
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Name the person shown (or) What nickname was given to the team of victorious all-round gymnastics team she was part of, which represented the US at Atlanta, 1996?
Video
Q8
Kerri Strug, who was part of the ‘Magnificent Seven’
AUDIENCE QUESTION
Roberto Schmidt is a Colombian photojournalist for AFP based in India.
Roughly two months back, he said “I took these photos totally spontaneously, without thinking about what impact they might have. We moved about 500 pictures, trying to portray their true feelings, and this seemingly trivial image seems to have eclipsed much of this collective work.”
What incident is he referring to?
High profile Selfie
Round Two: Infinite Pounce Round
17+1 questions. Clockwise.
+10/0 on the bounce; Chennai rules apply (If no team gets the answer; question goes back to the same team)
+10/-5 on the pounce
The one extra question is a follow up on one of the normal questions. Answers to be only written down for +10/0
‘Edwards vs. Aguillard’ was a 1987 case in the Supreme Court of the United States that overturned a particular Louisiana law as it was seen to be advancing a particular religion. In this context, Charles Thaxton, editor of a particular book, was looking around for a term and found it in a speech by a NASA engineer. Thaxton says, “That's just what I need. It's a good engineering term. After I first saw it, it seemed to jibe. When I would go to meetings, I noticed it was a phrase that would come up from time to time. And I went back through my old copies of Science magazine and found the term used occasionally”.
What phrase did he coin/popularize? Which book was he editing?
Q1
The law prevented schools from teaching creationism. Hence, as an alternative, Thaxton came up with ‘Intelligent Design’. The book was ‘Of Pandas and People’.
This company started making its first combine harvesters in 1923. They decided to use the name _______, based on inspiration from an 1857 work.
_________ is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest, and in the broadest sense, it is the act of frugally recovering resources from low-yield contexts. Thus with the name, the company evoked a positive connotation in potential customers' minds, of a brand of harvester that would leave none of the grain behind.
Name the company/Fill in the blank. Whose 1857 work acted as the inspiration?
Q2
Gleaner Manufacturing Company
The work is ‘The Gleaners’ by Jean Francois Millet
When Francois Hollande took office, he commissioned Olivier Ciappa to design a new stamp featuring Marianne, the French symbolism. Ciappa on his part, decided to take inspiration for Marianne from a Ukrainian who lives in France as she was granted political asylum. Some would consider this apt considering normal depictions of Marianne. (Picture on next slide)
The Ukrainian, in typical style remarked, “All homophobes, extremists, fascists will have to lick my a** when they want to send a letter”.
Who is this woman / What is she a member of (one of the earliest members at that)?
Q3
Inna Shevchenko, member of FEMEN
In the first millennium, this avatar of Vishnu was considered a symbol of virility. The Chalukya dynasty adopted the God on its crest and minted coins with His face. Other dynasties include the Chola and Vijayanagara Empires where it was part of the royal insignia.
However, after this period, the worship of this avatar significantly reduced and very few temples of the God is found in India. The most important temple is in Tirumala north of the Venkateswara temple.
Identify the avatar. What reason is cited for this decline in worship? (No part points)
Q4
Varaha avatar
India came under Muslim rule after the 12th century, who considered the pig/boar and its meat unclean.
As part of the 65 years of NHS, the NHS website carried a set of stories highlighting pioneering work. One such person highlighted was Dr. Andrew Deaner. A consultant cardiologist at Bart's Health NHS Trust, knew he could help. He says, “I turned to my brother and said, ‘They're doing CPR. I should go and help’. Something sort of told me I should go down. A couple of stewards didn't want to know, but I managed to persuade an older steward that this is what I do every day and he let me through”
Secondly, Dr. Deaner’s desire to take the patient to the London Chest Hospital may have been crucial. It was later confirmed that the patient’s heart had stopped for 78 minutes in total.
Who is the patient?
Q5
Fabrice Muamba
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United Kingdom from 16 to 19 September 2010 was the first state visit by a pope to the United Kingdom. Prior to this, John Paul II had only made a pastoral visit and not a state visit.
As part of preparations for this visit, the Church drew up a list of ‘useful terms’ meant for the staff, police officers, broadcasters and journalists who may not be Catholics and are unsure about the Church’s rituals and beliefs. They did so by ‘using language familiar to their experience but still emphasizes the reverence of the occasion’. (Picture on next slide)
Q6
In this comparison, what are the two words missing?
Sanctuary – ‘Stage’ - The area around the altar in a church is called the ‘sanctuary’
Sacristy – ‘Backstage’ - a room for keeping vestments and other church furnishings
“The Tale of Tsar Saltan” is an opera in four acts with the libretto written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on the poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. In the opera, Tsar Saltan leaves for war and in the meantime, the Tsaritsa bears a son, Gvidon. While sending the message however, the Tsaritsa’s sisters changed the word ‘son’ to ‘beast’ or ‘monster’. The son and mother are ordered to be put in a barrel and thrown into the sea. Both of them land at Buyan. Gvidon grows up and one day saves a swan from a kite. As part of the Swan Bird’s gratitude, the swan helps Gvidon realize his wish of seeing his father.
How does this happen? / What is the interlude to the next scene in the Act?
Q7
Flight of the Bumblebee, by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
The name comes from the “Abri de ____ _____” near the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in southwestern France, where the first discovery occurred.
The term soon came to be used in a very general sense as was the case with the far-flung Jebel Qafzeh in Israel. Now, the term falls outside nomenclature conventions as it has lost its formal taxonomical status, but it still an important term within the scientific community as an identifier in Europe and adjacent areas. Current scientific literature prefers the term EEMH.
What are we talking about?
Q8
Cro-Magnon
According to folklore, the King of Mahim, Bhim used an interesting ritual when he was deciding how and who to assign a difficult task. He would call for a general meeting at his fort and huge pandals were erected. Select warriors and bravemen would be asked to participate in the royal feast. Then the commander in chief announced the king’s predicament and put forth the challenge. According to this ritual, whoever volunteered to accept the task would rise and indulge in something. Afterwards the commander in chief would declare him a soorma (a gallant man).
This idea has still remained in Bombay lingo. What are we talking about?
Q9
Usage of ‘Supari’ to mean a hit job
This was part of an ad campaign launched by Lacoste as it wanted to visualize the world of sports in the future. Here, it attempts to portray how tennis would be played in the 150th year of the founding of the company.
Why did this ad campaign bring Lacoste some bad press in September 2011?
Video
Q10
Lacoste was founded in 1933, and hence the 150th anniversary was 2083. This campaign was titled ‘Lacoste 2083’ which led to suspicions of collaboration between Lacoste and Andres Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer who wrote ‘Manifesto 2083’.
This was further aggravated when he turned up in court wearing Lacoste shirts!
AUDIENCE QUESTION
Identify the singer
Carl Douglas, of ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ fame
This institution was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou (the wife of Henry VI), and was refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville (the wife of Edward IV). As a result, the full name of the institution should include “…. Of St. Margaret and St. Bernard”
Which institution is this?
How is the founding history reflected in its name?
Q11
Queens’ College, Cambridge
The apostrophe is after the ‘s’ and not after the ‘n’
This word derives from an Old Norse word which was the name of a hump or swelling on the body. This later modified into meaning any swollen or rounded item, for example, a bird's gullet, the seed head of a ripe plant (the source of the word crop as applied to cereals etc.) or the rear end of a horse.
When a horse suddenly stops without any warning, two body parts hit the ground, of which one was the backside.
What phrase, which we probably would have heard in a sporting context, thus results?
Q12
Neck and crop
The painting shown in the next slide is Ludovico Cigoli’s “Assumption of the Virgin”. The inspiration for certain details of the painting was Cigoli’s friend.
Who was Cigoli’s friend?
Why did this painting cause a controversy with the Vatican?
Q13
Cigoli’s friend was Galileo. Access to his telescope helped Cigoli in drawing the moon with the pock marked pattern as seen in the painting.
All depictions of the ascension showed the Virgin Mary on a pure white moon, a sign of her purity. This painting was hence seen as insulting the Virgin Mary.
Recently, people have taken to posting pictures of themselves online imitating someone’s signature action or some incident. The most famous example of this was ‘Tebowing” where the Twitterverse was full of pictures showing people posing like Tim Tebow (down on one knee and fist on the forehead).
In what seems to be a very disturbing trend, two such instances of the same are shown in the next slide.
Identify both the controversial incidents / people involved.
Q14
Trayvoning – For Trayvon Martin
Hernandezing – For Aaron Hernandez
Most of the Nuremberg rallies were held at night, so in order to create the mystical effect Hitler wanted (“The concluding meeting in Nuremberg must be exactly as solemnly and ceremonially performed as a service of the Catholic Church.”) he created something.
Dr. Robert Santoro says, “Well, it's a very inexpensive way of creating interest. Hitler is very much aware of German mythology, his favorite entertainment is German opera, certainly Wagner and all the mythological stories that go with Wagner. And certainly anytime you’re looking at mythology and gods, you're looking skyward. So I don't think it's an accident that he says to him, ‘Let's create an environment of looking towards the heavens, and that's what it does.’”
Who is the ‘he’ being talked about and what did ‘he’ create?
Q15
Albert Speer
Emporio Caritas is a medium-sized supermarket (around 500 square metres) with automated boxes, trolleys, shelves and insignia. It benefits families and people in economic hardship not only residents of a particular city but also those who are deprived of residence and not have a permanent residence, subject to authorization.
Apart from donations, what is its other major source of revenue (which arrives once in a week)?
Q16
Coins from the Trevi fountain
The national anthem of Kosovo named ‘Europe’ was composed by Mendi Mengjiqi, a composer of Albanian descent. An open contest was held to select a winner and one of the rules stated, “Texts can be included as well in the application, in any official language”.
While the current name of the anthem might also be a mark of respect to the European Union’s efforts in Kosovo’s independence struggle, what did Kosovo earlier adopt as its national anthem to pay respect to the EU?
The fact that Kosovo consists of a lot of ethnic minorities, and that the Government doesn’t want to antagonize any one of them is purpoted to be a reason for a particular property of the national anthem, by which it gains entry into a unique list containing 4 entities. What list?
Q17
Ode to joy, the anthem of the European Union
The anthem has no lyrics, putting it in the same list as Spain, San Marino and Herzgovina.
FOLLOW UP
Because Kosovo doesn’t have a FIFA sanctioned football team, the football association of the country have decided to opt out of the race to get a particular player to represent their country. Other countries in the fray include England, Belgium, Albania, Croatia and Serbia.
Which football player are we talking about?
Adnan Januzaj
Round Three: Relative Round
8 questions.
Underlying theme is present but no points for getting the connect
Scoring pattern: If 1, 2 or 3 teams get it right - +10 If 4,5 or 6 teams get it right - +7 If 7 or 8 teams get it right - +4
If you get everything right…. Big round of applause!
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach designed a precursor of the modern petrol (gasoline) engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle and, in the next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat.
What did he call the engine, as a result of its resemblance to something?
Q1
Watch the video.
What movie does JLaw say she was referencing?
Q2
Which parable do
the following paintings
depict?
Q3
This artefact, given by Sir Herbert Baker in 1926, stands at a height of 1.63 meters.
During the blitz, it got entangled in the steel cable of a barrage balloon protecting the place and hence it got wrenched from its perch.
It has now been permanently moved.
What are we talking about?
Q4
Anthony Burgess states that this was inspired from advertising billboards for a company called “Bennett's”, current during World War II.
The original posters showed J. M. Bennett himself; a kindly looking old man offering guidance with the phrase “Let me be your father” attached.
After Bennett's death, his son took over the company, and the posters were replaced with pictures of the son, who looked imposing and stern in contrast to his father's kindly demeanor. What are we talking about?
Q5
________ is a circuit board meant to be an extension of the mainboard, or occasionally of another card. They often have plugs, sockets, pins, connectors, or other attachments for other boards, which is what differentiates them from standard expansion boards.
These usually fit on top of and parallel to the board, separated by spacers or standoffs, and are therefore sometimes called “mezzanine cards” due to being stacked like the mezzanine of a theatre.
Q6
What epithet was used by the Financial Times to describe these companies collectively?
China National Petroleum Corporation (China) Gazprom (Russia) National Iranian Oil Company (Iran) Petrobras (Brazil) PDVSA (Venezuela) Petronas (Malaysia) Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
Q7
Published in 1927, this was a polemical book by the American author Katherine Mayo. In her book, Mayo attacked society, religion and culture of the country of India by pointing to the treatment of India's women, the untouchables and so on.
In 1952, someone decided to make a film challenging this book and hence decided to use the name of the book for his movie. However, in 1955, Information and Broadcasting became suspicious that it would glorify the book and hence demanded that they review the script. This issue was cleared later on.
Who is the person in question and name the book/movie?
Q8
Exchange sheets please!
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach designed a precursor of the modern petrol (gasoline) engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle and, in the next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat.
What did he call the engine, as a result of its resemblance to something?
Q1
Grandfather Clock Engine
Watch the video.
What movie does JLaw say she was referencing?
Q2
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club
Which parable do
the following paintings
depict?
Q3
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son
This artefact, given by Sir Herbert Baker in 1926, stands at a height of 1.63 meters.
During the blitz, it got entangled in the steel cable of a barrage balloon protecting the place and hence it got wrenched from its perch.
It has now been permanently moved.
What are we talking about?
Q4
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son Old Father Time
Anthony Burgess states that this was inspired from advertising billboards for a company called “Bennett's”, current during World War II.
The original posters showed J. M. Bennett himself; a kindly looking old man offering guidance with the phrase “Let me be your father” attached.
After Bennett's death, his son took over the company, and the posters were replaced with pictures of the son, who looked imposing and stern in contrast to his father's kindly demeanor. What are we talking about?
Q5
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son Old Father Time Big Brother in 1984
________ is a circuit board meant to be an extension of the mainboard, or occasionally of another card. They often have plugs, sockets, pins, connectors, or other attachments for other boards, which is what differentiates them from standard expansion boards.
These usually fit on top of and parallel to the board, separated by spacers or standoffs, and are therefore sometimes called “mezzanine cards” due to being stacked like the mezzanine of a theatre.
Q6
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son Old Father Time Big Brother in 1984 Daughterboard (attached to the Motherboard)
What epithet was used by the Financial Times to describe these companies collectively?
China National Petroleum Corporation (China) Gazprom (Russia) National Iranian Oil Company (Iran) Petrobras (Brazil) PDVSA (Venezuela) Petronas (Malaysia) Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
Q7
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son Old Father Time Big Brother in 1984 Daughterboard (attached to the Motherboard) The New Seven Sisters
Published in 1927, this was a polemical book by the American author Katherine Mayo. In her book, Mayo attacked society, religion and culture of the country of India by pointing to the treatment of India's women, the untouchables and so on.
In 1952, someone decided to make a film challenging this book and hence decided to use the name of the book for his movie. However, in 1955, Information and Broadcasting became suspicious that it would glorify the book and hence demanded that they review the script. This issue was cleared later on.
Who is the person in question and name the book/movie?
Q8
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son Old Father Time Big Brother in 1984 Daughterboard (attached to the Motherboard) The New Seven Sisters Mother India
Answers
Grandfather Clock Engine First Wives Club Return of the Prodigal Son Old Father Time Big Brother in 1984 Daughterboard (attached to the Motherboard) The New Seven Sisters Mother India
Hence, the Relative Round.
AUDIENCE QUESTION
Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha is a manufacturing federation located in the Bengeri area of the city of Hubli. Their major customers are mainly politicians or people from politics. On certain days, however, the customers reach out from far and wide.
What is their chief product?
Indian National Flag
Round Four: Infinite Pounce Round
17+1 questions. Anti-clockwise.
+10/0 on the bounce; Chennai rules apply (If no team gets the answer; question goes back to the same team)
+10/-5 on the pounce
The one extra question is a follow up on one of the normal questions. Answers to be only written down for +10/0
In 1827, Jean-Baptiste Lapostolle founded a modest distillery which soon acquired a reputation for fine fruit liqueurs. The business really took off under his son-in-law, Louis Alexandre _____, as he ventured to blend Cognac (which he had obtained from a journey there) and orange. After having succeeded, he called the product Curacao ____.
He personally promoted the liqueur in France and César Ritz as a friend, he introduced the liqueur at the Savoy. It was Ritz who gave it the name that we now it by.
Ritz departed from the fashion of the time (from the newspaper to what one called their friend) and named it, thus bestowing a noble status. What name did Ritz give the liqueur?
Q18
Grand Marnier
Formerly an overseer for Oakland Plantation, where LSUA stands today, he established himself as a planter. A certain transaction in 1843 was reversed in 1852, when he decided to build a house (shown in the next slide).
His name is still part of the vernacular in the surrounding areas of Louisiana where his farm once stood. If you’re misbehaving, or acting out of line, they’d say ‘Don’t be an ______’, which is a bit synonymous with, ‘Don’t be a prick.’”
Who is this person? (Last name is acceptable)
Q19
Edwin Epps, the person who bought Solomon Northup as a slave, and thus forms the basis for ‘12 Years a Slave’.
Jacob Bernoulli died in 1705. For his tombstone, Bernoulli chose the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”) and a certain figure for his gravestone. The gravestone executed however was different.
Jacques Bernoulli wrote that the figure may be used as a symbol, either of fortitude and constancy in adversity, or of the human body, which after all its changes, even after death, will be restored to its exact and perfect self.
What was the mistake? (Picture on next slide)
Q20
Bernoulli wanted a logarithmic spiral. However the tombstone carries an Archimedean spiral.
As part of a course, Elaine Treharne had to go through and understand all possible imagined adaptations from the oral rendition to the Heaney translation, Zemeckis film and, particularly, R. D. Fulk’s edition. She ultimately used Fulk’s edition for her project of 14,000 characters. because it is lexically similar to Old English. Following are some excerpts:
1. “Scyld shuffled off, but not before ring-giving. Out on the sea in a gold-laden vessel, he bore love&praise, hope for hereafter”
2. “The coastguard was curious as the Geat-troop climbed cliffward, “Hey! Where’d you come from? And who’s that well-armed one there?””
Q21
Two part question
What work is being talked about?
What is the project about?
Beowulf
The project is to compress Beowulf into 100 tweets
Gladys Heldman is best known for founding World Tennis magazine in 1953. She worked with female tennis players to create a separate women's circuit in 1970. Female players felt they were being denied the financial rewards of the men's game. With backing from Philip Morris, the first participants in the circuit, known as the ‘Houston Nine’, played the first _______ ______ Circuit tournament in Houston in late 1970. The players accepted $1 contracts from Heldman.
Fill in the blanks.
Also, if Peaches Bartkowicz, Rosie Casals, Judy Dalton, Kristy Pigeon, Nancy Richey, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Julie Heldman, Kerry Melville are 8 of the ‘Houston Nine’, who is the ninth one?
Q22
Virginia Slims tournament, which later merged with the USTA
The last one was Billie Jean King
Shown in the next slide is a 2013 meeting of two people in Bangalore who became famous for their work 3 decades ago. The one on the right, then 42 years old was already well-known having been nominated to join Magnum. The other, then 29 years old, was working as a freelancer and in Sultanpur, on his way to Amethi to cover the election campaign. When the news broke, both of them caught the same flight.
Both of their most famous works were extremely similar, yet, the younger one won the accolade for that year. Both of them tried to find the identity of their subject but failed.
Name the two people and the work/subject in question.
Q23
Raghu Rai and Pablo Bartholomew, who covered the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and are known for this.
Dr. Rush’s bilious pills (although technically, should have been called ‘anti-bilious’ pills), invented by Dr. Benjamin Rush had copious amounts of calomel, which was the wonder drug of the age. In large doses, it guaranteed the restoration of one’s bile balance and in small doses, it was effective against the most dreaded “social disease” of the age, syphilis. These pills formed an important part of the medical kit of a group of people on their journey from Camp Wood, St. Louis to Fort Clatsop, Oregon.
Which group of people is this? Also, these pills are now proving to be helpful in tracing the journey taken by this group. How? (Recipe shown in next slide might help)
Q24
The Corps of Discovery, which included Lewis and Clark
These pills functioned as laxatives. Hence, historians are now following a trail of mercury to map their journey.
Bog-wood, also known as ‘abonos’ is a material from trees that have been buried in peat bogs and preserved from decay by the acidic and anaerobic bog conditions. It is an ideal material for the manufacturing of a particular item because of a high percentage of minerals, reaching up to 12%, which makes it especially resistant to burning.
Additionally, the thousand-year long washing erased all traces of tannin, resin and similar ingredients.
However, it is hard to carve, some parts can be supple while others extremely hard, the percentage of hidden flaws in material is huge, which all may cause cracks. Hence, only a few people use ‘abonos’ to make this item.
Q25
What item are we talking about?
How does the thousand year washing make ‘abonos’ ideal to manufacture that item?
It is used to make pipes for smoking (resistant to burning)
Washing over thousand years, makes the wood taste-neutral which makes tobacco smoking better.
The sequence of actions as illustrated by this proverb does not intuitively make sense to most people. In fact, it is when the order of actions mentioned are reversed that people seem to find the proverb logical. However, by treating ‘and’ to mean ‘simultaneously’ rather than ‘chronologically’, one can derive the desired meaning and in this case, the order of actions wouldn’t matter.
A certain person’s mother however, taught him the supposedly correct way (i.e. the intuitive order), and it was this idiosyncrasy that showed up later in his manifesto (shown in the next slide), which was spotted by the FBI, which ultimately resulted in his arrest.
Q26
What proverb are we talking about? Which person was caught in this unique way?
The relevant part of the manifesto reads:
“To relieve the pressure on nature it is not necessary to create a special kind of social system, it is only necessary to get rid of industrial society. Granted, this will not solve all problems. Industrial society has already done tremendous damage to nature and it will take a very long time for the scars to heal. Besides, even pre-industrial societies can do significant damage to nature. Nevertheless, getting rid of industrial society will accomplish a great deal…….”
“…..As for the negative consequences of eliminating industrial society -- well, ____________________. To gain one thing you have to sacrifice another.”
“To have your cake and eat it too”
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber
Gordon Brown, on his first visit to President Barack Obama in the White House in March 2009, gave the President a gift of a pen holder made from the wood of ‘HMS Gannet’, reflecting her role in Victorian anti-slavery efforts.
This automatically led to parallels being drawn to another gifting incident in 1880 which involved Rutherford. B. Hayes.
Why?
Q27
The sister ship of HMS Gannet is HMS Resolute, from which the Resolute Desk was made and given to
Rutherford Hayes by Queen Victoria as a gift.
In computer science, this refers to the tendency to unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous to human behaviors. In its specific form, it refers only to “the susceptibility of people to read far more understanding than is warranted into strings of symbols — especially words — strung together by computers”. An example of the specific form involves an automated teller machine which displays the words "THANK YOU" at the end of a transaction. A (very) casual observer might think that the machine is actually expressing gratitude; however, the machine is only printing a preprogrammed string of symbols.
This is named after a Joseph Wiezenbaum creation, which in turn is named for a fictional character. Name both.
Q28
ELIZA, the chatterbot
Eliza Doolittle, from Pygmalion
Explain the connection between these elements. As a result, how are they opposite of the element in the next
slide?
Q29
These are examples of ‘rebracketing’ or ‘juncture loss’
A nadder – Became ‘an adder’
A noumpere – Became ‘an umpire’
A nauger – Became ‘an auger’
A noumble Pie – Became ‘an umble pie’
The reptile underwent rebracketing, the other way around
An ewte – Became ‘a newt’
Where is the logo taken from?
“To be a pillar biter” refers to being a hypocrite. Denotes a person who throws themselves at the pillar in an ecstasy of devotion, making a dramatic display of his/her faith instead of sitting properly in the pews like everybody else
Q30
Netherlandish Proverbs, by Pieter Bruehgel the Elder
AUDIENCE QUESTION
What are these people parodying?
Nymphomaniac
Inaugurated in 2011, this tournament established by the English Premier League is meant for the U-12 youth academies of the clubs taking part. The tournament will be played annually at least until 2014.
Last year (2013), the teams involved were Manchester City, Arsenal, FC Schalke, Borussia Monchengladbach, Paris Saint Germain, Valenciennes FC, Club Brugge and RSC Anderlecht.
The venue for this tournament is the Belgian city of Leper, but, the city’s French name is commonly used in English, deriving from a time when only French was used for communication in Belgium. Name the tournament and the venue.
Q31
Christmas Truce tournament, played in Ypres every December. 2014 will be the centenary of the Ypres football
match.
One of the eleven districts in the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan, this district lends its name to something native to Central Asia, and are renowned for their ability to forage and thrive under extremely harsh living conditions, as evidenced by its raising in large numbers in Namibia, whereas, in Russia, a Persian variant thrives.
Unfortunately, around 4,000,000 babies are killed every year because the high quality product is obtained only from the fetal or the baby versions.
Which two products (one Central Asian and the other Russian) attribute their origins to this?
Q32
Karakul and Astrakhan
The origin for this American jazz slang is the movement of a conductor’s hands as he/she represents a four beat rhythm. It was used to refer to a person who failed to appreciate the medium, more broadly someone who was out of date or out of touch. Counterculture movements that started in the 1940s used it to refer to someone who clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided, or ‘in the box’ ways of thinking. It traversed all fields as it was used to contest the more conservative national, political, religious, philosophical, musical, and social trends.
This explains the last word of which five-word taunt?
Q33
Be there or be square
In 1903 Wyrley was the scene of the "Great Wyrley Outrages", a series of slashings of horses, cows and sheep. In October a local solicitor and son of the parson was tried and convicted for the eighth attack, on a pit pony, and sentenced to seven years with hard labor. His family had been the victims of a long-running campaign of untraceable abusive letters and anonymous harassment in 1888 and 1892-5. Further letters in 1903 alleged he was partially responsible for the outrages and caused the police suspicion to focus on him.
Who was accused of the crime? Who, after persuasion took up the case of proving his innocence. (A theatre version of the novel that is based on this incident is shown on the next slide)
Q34
George Edalji and Arthur Conan Doyle. The theatre adaptation was based on the novel, ‘Arthur and George’
FOLLOW UP
The novel, ‘Arthur and George’ (2005), along with ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ (1984) and ‘England, England’ (1998) were three failed entries for the Man Booker Prize for a particular author.
He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (his late wife's surname)
Who is the author and which book in 2011 helped him win the Man Booker Prize (finally)?
Julian Barnes
AUDIENCE QUESTION
According to Merriam Webster, “There is a bit of a ______ over the etymology of _______. Some etymologists think the word is onomatopoeic in origin, but others believe it comes from the Hebrew phrase “bārūkh habbā’,”. Etymologists have connected the French derivation to worshippers whose knowledge of Hebrew was limited used to distort the phrase.”
Thus, once out of the synagogue, the word first meant “a noisy confusion of sound” -- a sense that was later extended to refer to any tumultuous situation.
Which word is this?
Brouhaha
Round Five: Buzzer / Written Round
8 questions.
+5/-5 on the buzzer
5 points per question.
If you get everything right…. Big round of applause!
Acknowledgments
Hindu ‘Lit For Life’ – For sponsoring the event
Pranav Ramanathan
Sudharshan Karthik V
Omkar Kamalapur
Siddharth Pai
iQ, the Quizzing, Lits and Debating Club of IIM Bangalore
