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A concerto for teams A concerto for teams in the key of Q Minorin the key of Q Minor

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BalaBala at BQC on 12/ at BQC on 12/11/14/14

Invocation song ( audio sampler)

....(Invoked Name), oh won't you come to me

Won't you help me face the music

Bring it out so we can sing it out

Help me to find it before we lose it

At night when the stars are near

And there's no one to keep you from coming here

And there's no one to shield me before your eyes

Is it mine, is it mine, is it mine to know?

I can see it's not too good to me

To be afloat in the sea of glory

(Invoked Name), oh how you comfort me ....

Chaplin of a metaphysical sort ...

Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies wrote the song as they were impressed by the Beatles' journey and the Fab Four's experience with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

a) Name this band.

Hodgson had finished reading a 1946 worldwide bestseller book which inspired him to develop this song. b) Name the book.

Noel Paul Stookey got chosen in his place as Dave's voice and style were too idiosyncratic.

What famous group's performing name did Dave nearly become a part of ?He was known as The Mayor among folk musicians in Greenwich Village, NY.

Though he's far from looking anything like one, A) what's the name of the tribe/clan this lad belongs to?

B) name the blacksmith whose forge he spends time in.

a) Which 12th century thought-leader and reformer is being played in this recent film portrayal?

b) Very briefly, what's the incident?

Before the live LP of a tour (shown here) was released, there was a 1975 album There's One in Every Crowd.

The album's original title, ___ _____' _ ________ ______ ______ (There's One In Every Crowd), was changed/shortened as it was felt its ironic intention would be misunderstood.

FITB.

Go after wrong etymology with an axe...

The faith obtains its name from the 29 principles of morality and conduct articulated by its leader, and not as erroneously supposed by some, from attachment to a Deity in the Trinity.

Name the group/community.

Had an Italian visited Lucknow...

First recorded in 1952–53 in an outbreak on the Makonde plateau, later it emerged in Southeast Asia.

It appeared in Europe in 2007, when over 200 people in Ravenna were taken ill. Possibly, it spread from someone who had recently visited an affected area in India.

Its name in an African dialect means "that which bends up" because of the contorted posture of its victims.

Let's talk antidotes... and anecdotes

Z's other major discovery was seven years earlier. He discovered the antiseptic enzyme ________ in 1921 after he had accidentally contaminated a culture plate with his own cold germs.

Answer for the blank, and Z's subsequent discovery.

Rapidex Course in Indian Bhaasha

A) Tirhutia was famous from ancient times for its use among scholars, and it still retains many antiquated linguistic forms. On account of its literary wealth, it has been the object of increasing interest since 1947. By what name is this language better known?

B) Anglo-Irish civil servant who worked in Bengal, George A. Grierson carried out pioneering research on South Asian, particularly Indo-Aryan, languages. In 1898 he began work on the 19-volume _________ ______ __ _____ and spent the next 30 years publishing data on 100s of languages and dialects. Name it.

One slip, and you are a former sportsperson...

Name the Olympics-like competition that ESPN developed in the 1990s, around sports with an element of strong hazard such as skateboarding, mountain biking, snowmobile racing and snowboarding.

Om Shanti Shanti Shantih - NAMe him

The centre at Plum Village, Dordoigne, in southern France – set up by someone who has taught at Columbia University, and was nominated for a Peace Nobel by a peace laureate.

Notations on your sheet – for upto 26 points

1.The new airport terminal here includes a 3 kilometre long multi-storey art wall that houses 7000 art pieces from across the country. What is this display titled?

2. If Onkara was Othello, what will Hamlet be, where Shahid Kapoor will play the title role?

3. Instead of pub and cafe discussions, you collaborate at a gym or exercise class thus burning fat while in the company of colleagues/friends, and drink green tea. The word for this new socialising trend is ____________.

4.Since 1961, when Jagjivan Ram was the Minister for Railways, they are an authorised presence at Mumbai railway stations and presently pay a licence fee of Rs.263 per month to the railways. Who?

Mind your spellings!

5. To commence in India before 2018, name the radiation therapy that uses charged protons to kill the tumour in the affected body part, and not X-ray beams, so that there's minimum damage to surrounding normal tissues.

6. Jews arriving from which country introduced a dish

of poached eggs in a tomato sauce into Israel, the dish's name could itself be from Arabic for `mixture', or Hebrew for "to shake"?

7. Which set of symbols of faith is said to have originated from the idea of `permanent renunciation of the renunciation' i.e. it expresses the opposite of the ritual of turning into a Jogi or a Sannyasi, and within the complementary pairs, thus there's a concept of orderly control?

8. How can the mathematical sign for the geometric relation "is similar to" be X) approximately equated to thumbs kept busy, and Y) connected with a/any Spanish gentleman?

Mind your spellings!

9. About 25% of all the criminal cases filed under pornography and obscene video laws in India in the last couple of years have been registered in which State?

10. Long before Dhanush's song, it is said to have affected Dutch troops posted in Indonesia in the 1800s, because they ate unpolished rice which had no thiamine; they showed muscle atrophy, paralysis and mental confusion. What was their condition called?

11. "Yamaha Wo Tsubusu" is not a shloka, what is it?

12. The 2007 winner of the African Footballer of the Year played for Mali, but how was he (a player also for Sevilla FC) a first-time in the award's history since its inception in the early 90s?

Any team with ten/twelve or more, add +2 to your score. Four points per question.

Answers :

1. Jaye He 2. Haider 3.Sweatworking 4. Shoe-shiners/Boot Polish wala

5. Hadron Beam Therapy 6. Tunisia ( the dish is shakshouka)

7. Khakaars/ 5 Ks of Sikhism – kesh etc. 8. Tilde is also called x) Twiddle y) placed over N in Senor.

9) Kerala 10) Beri-beri 11) "We will crush Yamaha" – Honda's mission slogan 12) Frederic Kenoute was born in France

Let's launch into the quiz with a French painting from 1786. Name the famous pair depicted here.

Which famous fictional character ( who you've seen on screen) was born in the King's cages at Oodeypore, and `...broke the silly lock with one blow of..." ?

The book, its writer.

1962 quote from Ch.17 of the book.

"The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."

Just throw in the name...

Robert Parish 1,611 1,560 John Stockton 1,504 Karl Malone 1,476

Name the film.

Jason Robards who played Lt.Gen. Walter C.Short in this 1970 film happened to be a witness to the actual event that had taken place a few decades ago.Akira Kurosawa was to be invited to direct a section of the film, but eventually that didn't happen.

Your couturier, perhaps....

This bodybuilder created the famous black dress worn by Demi Moore in the 1993 movie, Indecent Proposal. He directed the video for George Michael's Too Funky in 1992, and was artistic advisor and costume designer for Beyonce's 2009 world Tour.

The name now refers to the specific style of bag with a drawstring closure, though it can also be any bag made of thick fabric used to carry luggage or sports equipment.

Here's a Sunday question:

The most frequent occurrences of a person's name in the Bible is ________, which occurs 1,085 times, followed by JESUS, which occurs 973 times.

Then comes the name of _________, which occurs 829 times.

This depicts a famous abduction in mythology ( we've already had a question on Troy). Name the perpetrator and the victim.

You can bet the victim's mother was distraught.

Name the four west European cities ( as taught to US school students)

In the Middle Ages, the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas were used as the highways of commerce. Genoa and Venice were the main centers where the merchants of Asia and Europe gathered. But the discovery of America and of a sea-route to the east made the Atlantic, the chief highway of commerce. Q, R, S and T were now the centers of commercial activity.

Identify the work, and name its inspiration.

...an Abyssinian maid,

And on her dulcimer she played,

Singing of Mount Abora.

Could I revive within me

Her symphony and song...

Mount Abora is said to be the same as the Hill of Amara in the book that

inspired the poet - "There are two Temples, built before the Raigne of the Queene of Saba, one in honour of the Sunne, the other of the Moone, the most

magnificent in all Ethiopia".

Thomas Moore's (d.1852) poem:

The harp that once through _______'s halls

The soul of music shed,

Now hangs as mute on _______'s walls

As if that soul were fled.

So sleeps the pride of former days,

So glory's thrill is o'er...

... some heart indignant breaks,

To show that still she lives.

The capital of the ancient Videha

kingdom(Vardhaman Mahavira is said to have lived here) is identified as which present-day

town in Dhanusa district of Nepal?

Name the bard and the title-place.

"My city's fit and noble name resumed,

Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,

A rocky founded island – shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves."

Get a famous name in science and philosophy – his first name and his family name – a location in each of these maps bears the names.

His work with a celebrated collaborator aided in formulation of Leibniz's calculus. His full name required.

nemtsy (немцы), nemtsi (немци), nimtsi (німці), Niemcy, Němci, Nemci, Nijemci, Német and Nemţi are various words from the region for a certain set of people. It derives from a common root which means "mute", whereas these people use variants of a term which means "speech" or `the speaking ones' to refer to themselves.

Name the two groups ( i.e. who refer thus to whom).

Eek, another abduction question?

When King Agenor of Sidon found his daughter was missing, he set his 3 sons to search for her. One went to Africa, one to Asia and the other smart guy dropped in at the Oracle of Delphi.

The eldest, didn't find his sister (who Zeus had abducted) in Africa and after 10 wandering years, settled there and the area became an advanced region because of his knowledge. Name it ( the land/people/civilisation).

On August 29, 1952 at Woodstock,NY, an American pianist David Tudor used a stopwatch to lift and close the keyboard lid at three times.

Explain.

...rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight...

This artist separated from his then spouse, a month before his birthday in 2006, thus the answer (in his own case) to a question in a famous song he composed while in his teens, is "No". Name the song.

Late 80s California band won a Best Rock Album Grammy (an award they won again recently) for their 2004 rock opera which sold 5 million copies in the US. In 2010, a stage adaptation debuted on Broadway. Name the work.

Cultural documentation...

Maharaja Shubhankar (1516-1607) of the Kharaoire dynasty in Mithila – like some of the rulers of the region was a great patron of the performing arts. What is the subject of his tract Sri Hasta Muktavali, cited as a leading expert work ?

...ask not for whom the...

In 1796-97, during Napoleon's military campaign in northern Italy, mainly against the Austrians, Baron Jean Larrey's special design using two or four wheels was put into practice, and pioneered a concept that came to be adopted worldwide.

What did he pioneer?

Y. Menuhin wrote from London in 1964: " _______'s _______ ____ ______ will, I hope, enable many to follow his example and to become the teachers whom mankind so sorely needs. If this book will serve to spread this basic art and will ensure that it is practised at the highest level, I shall feel more than ever grateful for having shared in its presentation." FITB.

Connect the two.

Richard Towneley was a late 17th c. Englishman who liked to go up to his house's roof. He installed a funnel there, and used the base area of the funnel's cone to make a certain calculation.

"But there's one thing I know

The blues they send to meet me won't defeat me

It won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me."

Connect the poem to the picture. Edwin A.Robinson's

(d.1935) poem:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And _______ ______, one calm summer night,

Went home and .... ..... ... ....

Name the two places in Yeats' famous poem.

Far called, our navies melt away;

On dune and headland sinks the fire:

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday

Is one with _____ and ____

Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,

Lest we forget – lest we forget!

Connect the verse with the picture – clues are a Bach cello suite, Max von Sydow (1961)

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:

But when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see ... ... ........ ...... ; but then face to face: Now I

know in part;( from Corinthians I)

Supply the missing phrases in English

XIII

Some for the Glories of This World; and some

Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

Ah, ................. ..... ............ ...... .........

Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

What is the structure in front of which you see the statue?

On 15-6-1961, against which Latin American side did the star score a hat-trick in less than 20 minutes, in a French tournament?

Height of foster-parenting.....

According to the Persian fable, who brought up the wise whitehaired Prince Zal of Seistan, on top of Mount Elbrus?

As an infant, he'd been abandoned, but was reclaimed in his youth to be coronated.

What got killed (which had eyes of flame) when the vorpal blade went snicker-snack?

Ten point question – open to all, write your five answers.

Carl Sandburg's poem "GRASS"Pile the bodies high at ________ and _____,

Shovel them under and let me work-

I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at __________

And pile them high at _____ and ______.

Shovel them under and let me work.

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?

Where are we now?

I am the grass.

Let me work. ( Visual clues follow )

So name the five places/fields...

Get clever now....

In 2010, in a strategy to top the UK chart during X'Mas, artists including Mr.Hudson, The Kooks, Enter Shikari, Heaven 17, Suggs and Pendulum, Billy Bragg and Imogen Heap kept entirely quiet in the studio, however it placed only at No.21 on the chart. What did this collection of artists call themselves?

What's the good word?

In horse-racing, the term is used for events where only female horses take part.

A holder used in flax or wool spinning.

Associated with domesticity.

During the War of Mexico at the start of the 19th c., a prominent soldier and politician asked a firm to supply 1000 weapons which he ordered to be strictly identical. Thought the famous company engaged Eli Whitney Jr. To help in standardisation, it wasn't possible because of no automation.

In 1876, a household appliance Co.( which made 75 mm cannons during WW One) was the first to achieve standardisation, it went on to become an ubiquitous brand, and owned an early landmark in New York City.

The music composed for the Austrian emperor Francis II and performed in Feb.1797 was used officially by various regimes. It came back into official use being adopted in mid-20th c.

It is also the second movement of the composer's string quartet Op.76, No.3.

Name the composer, and its current song title.

What a misadventure....

Medusa got snakes for hair because she had sex in the holy temple of Athena. Because of desecration and insult, she was punished with ugliness. Who was she with?

Name these two people who impacted industry and pioneered in their fields.

"A stable competitive market never has more than three significant competitors, the largest of which has no more than four times the market share of the smallest."

"Costs characteristically decline by 20-30% in real terms each time accumulated experience doubles."

"The desire to stand well with one's fellows, the so-called human instinct of association, easily outweighs the merely individual interest adn the logic of reasoning upon which so many spurious principles of management are based."

In the 1550s, an anatomy professor at Padua University (Italy) came up with the idea of using washed pig intestines to prevent the spread of a certain disease. How was it put to use?

After observing North Africans, this American said the progress of word-of-mouth rumour in Arab country is 40-60 miles a day.

So many decades before the concept of web velocity of a viral.

Who was this much-admired American?

On 17th Feb.,1864, Capt. Horace Hunley of the Confederate vessel H.L.Hunley sank the Housatonic near Charleston. What was historic in this?

Name the artist, and also the subject of the TV biopic.

The song was recorded to lobby for a US national holiday in January as a tribute, which became a reality in 1986, with all States joining by 2000.

The artist also sang this while attending the premiere of the TV biopic of someone, for that person's 89th birthday.

Identify.

Teaches philosophy in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has written a trilogy of novels :

Spurious

Dogma

Exodus

Project location, who by etc.

Question on European finance....

When the Vienna Philharmonic came to Paris in 1900 to play at the Exposition Universelle, the concerts were poorly attended so it was a financial loss. The celebrated conductor (who made his US debut in 1908) was lent money to pay for their return fare.

Name the borrower and who gave the money.

Explain the object of interest in exact terms.

Name this mythical squirrel ( its name means drilling-tooth) which runs up and down the tree carrying tales from/about the eagle Hraesvelgr, perched atop the tree to Niohoggr, a dragon that is chewing up the tree's base.

Name the two respective subjects in the portraits.

From the mandi.

A) Give the family name of the couple who wrote this.

B) Complete its subtitle:

__________ Recipes to Win Friends and Influence ____ - ______

Thanks! Hope it's been fun. Invocation song : Babaji by SuperTramp. Book - Autobiography

of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

Dave Van Ronk would have been part of Peter, Paul and Mary - the folk trio which might have been Peter, Dave and Mary.

Hiccup is a Hairy Hooligan and works with Gobber, the blacksmith.

Basavanna of Karnataka, who reciprocated the devotion of a cobbler, Haralayya who made shoes for him out of his own hide.

"The World's Greatest Player" - Eric Clapton's 1975 album.

Bishnoi ( from Twentynine, and not from Vishnu) - Guru Jambheswar.

Chikangunya fever

Lysozyme and Penicillin ( Sir. A. Fleming in the 1920s )

Maithili, Linguistic Survey of India ( Bhaasha question / Grierson )

X-Games from ESPN

Thich Nhat Han is in southern France. Martin Luther King Jr. nominated him for his pacifist role in the Vietnam conflict.

NOTATIONS - the written round

1.Jaya He 2.Haider 3. Sweatworking 4. Boot Polish wala /Shoe-shine 5. Hadron Beam Therapy 6. Tunisia ( the dish is shakshouka) 7. Khakaars/ 5 Ks of Sikhism – kesh etc. 8. Tilde is also called x) Twiddle y) placed over N in Senor. 9) Kerala 10) Beri-beri 11) "We will crush Yamaha" – Honda's mission slogan 12) Frederic Kenoute was born in France.

SLIDE TWENTYONE : Paris and Helen in J L David's paintiing SLIDE TWENTYTWO : Bagheera in The Jungle Book SLIDE TWENTYTHREE: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Slide 24: Karim Abdul Jabbar NBA ALL-TIME MOST APPEARANCES SLide 25 : TORA TORA TORA Slide 26 : Thierry Mugler SLide 27 : Duffel bag from Duffel, Belgium. Also things like Duffel Coat. SLide 28 : David and Moses Slide 29: Pluto and Persephone ( Hades and Proserpine, if you like). Slide 30: Antwerp, Lisbon, London, Amsterdam ( in the vertical order of visuals) Slide 31 : Kubla Khan, Samuel Purchas's Pilgrimage Slide 32: TARA, the O' Hara estate in Margaret Mitchell's novel. Slide 33. Janakpur Slide 34 : Walt Whitman - Mannahatta ( accept Manhattan) Slide 35 : Blaise Pascal ( St.Blaise Church in Amboli, Andheri and Pascal Wadi on Madh Island_ ) SLide 36: "Mute" for the Germanic people - those are Slavic words, while "slovo" means speech.

Slide 37: Phoenicia ( Punicia) from Prince Phoenix, the son of King Agenor. Slide 38: The pianist premiered the John Cage composition 4:33 ( a silent piece ). Slide 39: When I'm 64 ( Paul McCartney, Heather Mills left him before his 64th birthday). Slide 40: American Idiot by Green Day Slide 41: A study of Hand Gestures in Dance Forms Slide 42 : Field Ambulances Slide 43: B K S Iyengar's "Light On Yoga" Slide 44: Invented the rain gauge, concept of mm of rainfall, the words are from "Raindrops keep falling on my head"

Slide 45 : The poem is Richard Cory, and Simon and Garfunkel had a hit song on the theme in their Sounds of Silence album (cover pic).

Slide 46: Nineveh and Tyre ( rhyming with away and fire ). Slide 47: Through a Glass Darkly, Ingmar Bergman's film Slide 48: Take the Cash, and Let The Credit Go Slide 49: Benfica Stadium, Lisbon. The rival side was Santos. The player is Eusebio. Slide 50: Simurgh, the giant bird Slide 51: Jabberwock, in the Lewis Carroll poem.

Slide 52: Austerlitz, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Ypres, Verdun. SLide 56: "CAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE" - they were "performing" John Cage's 4:33

Slide 57: Distaff Slide 58: Zachary Taylor, Samuel Colt, Singer Sewing Co. Slide 59: Joseph Haydn, Deutscheland Uber Alles, the German National Anthem adopted by FRG in 1950. Slide 60: Poseidon Slide 61: Bruce Doolin Henderson, founder of BCG consultancy, and Elton Mayo, pioneer of Human Relations/industrial psychology at Harvard. Sliide 62: Fallopio experimented successfully with condoms to check syphilis. Slide 63: Gen. George Patton Slide 64: H.L.Hunley was a submarine, it was the first submarine combat strike in history. Slide 65: Stevie Wonder wrote "Happy Birthday" to campaign for Martin Luther King's birthday to be a national holiday, and sang it for Rosa Parks's birthday. Slide 66: Lars Iyer Slide 67 : Cherubim mountain near Sednaya in Syria where a Russian foundation is putting up a giant statue of Christ in the desert despite the fragile military situation there.

Slide 68: Gustav Mahler, the Rothschilds lent the money Sllide 69: It is a candelabra for Hanukkah, that is built into a turkey shape because the day in 2013 coincided with Thanksgiving Day - this cultural artefact was created to represent thecoincidence and became a fad.

Slide 70: Ratotoskr, in Norse myth. Slide 71: Painter is Modigliani, the portrait is that of Picasso. The first one is Picasso's portrait of Modigliani Slide 72: Goldbecks (Nikki and David). Vegetarian recipes to influence the Meat-Eaters.