quaestio 2016 general quiz - finals

A written round to get things going !!!

Write the events/names of the google doodles

Rules for the written round • +5 per doodle . The answers are to be written

on the A4 sheet provided to each team . At the completion of all the doodles the teams will interchange their respective answer sheets and give to any other group for evaluations.

• For a full-house(if a team gets all the 8 doodles correctly then an additional 10 points will be awarded)

• No negative marking for any incorrect answer.

LOADING ANSWERS…

• 1.Charles Perrault’s 388th birthday.• 2.Hokusai’s birthday. Mount Fuji as an answer is not acceptable.• 3.Robert Burns.• 4.Sergei Prokofiev.• 5.Will Eisner.• 6.London Underground. • 7.Frank Zamboni.• 8. Winsor McCay's Little Nemo.

Stuffs like 170th birth anniversary and all are neglected. Only proper naming of the events and on the occasion on which it was doodled is enough for 5 points

Round 2

Infinite Bounce with Pounce.Clockwise.

Question 1X is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created in a Columban monastery in either Britain or Ireland or may have had contributions from various Columban institutions from both Britain and Ireland. It is believed to have been created c. 800. It is on permanent display at the Trinity College library at Dublin .It is named for the ABBEY that was its home for most of the medieval period .Images follow:-

• Saftey Slide

• Book of Kells

Question 2• Named for the natives of the area and not for the

pests that probably plagued the settlers ,it is today shared between two Western Hemisphere states.

• It was established as a British Protectorate and then as a client kingdom ruled by the British Settlers in the teeth of strong Spanish opposition.

• It shares its name with the name of a book by Paul Therox and a movie based on the book starring Harrison Ford,Hellen Miren and River Pheonix .

• Saftey Slide

• Mosquito Coast(from Miskito Indians)

Question 3 (Audio Question)

Who is the person and what is the “greatest moment of his life” ?

• Saftey Slide

Andrew wiles.On cracking the Fermat’s last theorem.

Question 4• Since 1989, a famous saxophone recording has

become an unconventional mega-hit throughout China. It has become the unofficial national closing song for businesses such as food courts, outdoor markets, health clubs, shopping malls and train stations throughout the country. Many businesses began piping the music over their loudspeakers shortly before closing at night. Television stations also play the song before ending their evening broadcasts at night. Many Chinese, when asked, say they associate the song with the need to finish their activity or business and go home (although they may not even know the name of the song or its artist). Which recording are we talking about and what is the name of the artist?

• Safety slide

• Going Home by Kenny G from the album Kenny G Live

Question 5• One of the definitions of X is as follows :-

X are a structural feature characterized by repeated well behaved folded beds with straight limbs and sharp hinges. Well developed, these folds develop repeated set of v-shaped beds. They develop in response to regional or local compressive stress. Inter-limb angles are generally 60 degrees or less. X folding preferentially occurs when the bedding regularly alternates between contrasting competences.

• Another definition of X is as follows :- • X is an American multinational energy corporation. One of

the successor companies of Standard Oil, it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries. X is engaged in every aspect of the oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy industries, including hydrocarbon exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation.

• X??????

• Safety slide

• Chevron

• X killed Y today. There were hints that this would happen, starting with the departure of Y founder Bill Simmons in May. This summer, news broke that X would be making enormous budget cuts over the next two years. Last month, Y suffered a crippling blow when four top editors—Sean Fennessey, Juliet Litman, Mallory Rubin, and Chris Ryan—left on the same day to join Simmons at a still-unannounced project, and Dan Fierman, Y’s editorial director, went to MTV.

• One senior X employee summarized, “We’re getting out of the pop culture business.”

Question 6This is an excerpt from an article dated October 10th,2015.

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• X=ESPN, Y=Grantland.com

Question 7 The _______ Synod is the name given the January 897

ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus held at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.

The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen (VI) VII – successor to Pope Formosus' successor Pope Boniface VI.

He accused Pope Formosus of perjury and acceding the papal throne illegally.

As a result of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty and his papacy was retroactively declared null.

Pope Formosus was represented in court by a deacon chosen for him.

Either give me the blank or tell me what was so bizarre about the trial.

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• Cadaver Synod. Pope Formosus had died in April 896. Pope Stephen had his corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment.

Question 8Sydney Olympics 2000, Women’s Butterfly 200m. What is the term given to the unusual technique followed by the swimmer in the foreground in the following two videos(Next 2 slides) ? No points for identifying the swimmer .

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• The dolphin kick ,which is performed on one's stomach (or back), while the fish kick is performed on one's side.

• The swimmer who was performing this is Misty Hyman(USA).

Bonus Question(+10/-10 :only pounce for this question)

• The next two slides are representation of participation world-wide during the year 2012 and 2014 in an “Annual Festival” that has started in 2003 and is continuing since.

• Very simply tell me what is that “Annual Festival”.

2012

2014

• World Quizzing Championship

Connect the following clues to a very famous personality.

• The points for identifying the proper connection(X) after a definite clue is given at the bottom of each slide. However wrong attempts will lead to negative marking whose value is also given at the bottom of each slide .

• Obviously for the first slide there will be no attempts .

An Easy One !!!!

• Konrad is a masculine given name and surname of German origin.

• Konrad was the name of a 10th-century bishop of Constance, and became popular in post-medieval English and post-medieval French.

• Other variants of Konrad in different languages are as follows:-Dutch: CoenAustria:Kohrt, Kordt.Italy: Corrado.

First Clue

• Following Freddie Mercury's death on 24 Nov.,1991 from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS, the remaining members of Queen(John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor) came together with their manager Jim Beach to organize a concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury, and to raise money for AIDS research and spread awareness about the disease.In February 1992, at the annual BRIT Awards ceremony, May and Taylor announced plans for the concert, where they also invited other artists including X to perform.

• +30/-15

Second Clue

Third Clue

+20/-10

+10/-5

Fourth Clue

Last Clue• For those still unable to answer :-

These are the remembrances that have been flowing in since the death of X few days back:-1.CNN:"Pop artists now, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, all owe a huge a debt to the fact that he really married visuals to sound -- nobody did it quite like X did.”

2. 'His great trick was to work with the best people' - musician journalist Jonathan Wingate on the legacy of British Rock star X.3. Even our very own Baneswar Da : “Qilluminati, our Quizzing venture, is the new Aaron Ramsay it seems. The people about whom we ask questions seems to pass away.Jonah Lomu, Luv Juneja and now X....”

+5/0

• David Bowie, of course !! 1st clue : The name of his first band .2nd clue : David Bowie co-performed with several other artists at Freddie Mercury's Tribute Show.3rd clue :Space Oddity ,his first hit single.4th clue: These are the bands that he has worked with.(only unnamed one is the “ziggy stardust companions :the spiders from Mars”)

Round 3

• Infinite Bounce with Pounce . Anti-clockwise

Question 1• X was first dogmatically defined by Pope Pius IX

in 1854, although it existed in doctrinal form since the first few centuries of Christianity.

• X is not accepted by the Protestant Church.• X is the basis for the dogmatic definition in

1950 by Pope Pius XII of Mary's Assumption into Heaven at the end of her earthly existence without her having to go through to regular process of purgatory.

• Which two-word term is X ? What is X often confused with (name/event will do )….?

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• Immaculate Conception. This is often assumed to refer to the birth of Jesus Christ, which is instead known as the Virginal Birth.

Question 2This novel was initially written as a 25,000 word novella

titled "The Fireman" published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

When urged by publishers Ballantine Books to double its length and expand it into a novel, the author also decided to change its name.

He had an idea in mind for a new name and called up the physics and chemistry departments of several universities but none of them were able to supply him with the exact answer.

He finally decided to call the local fire station and ask them, "Can you tell me the ___________ at which a ____ _____?"

He received his answer and the book got its title.Which novel?

• Safety slide

• Fahrenheit 451. • "Can you tell me the temperature at which

books burn?"

Question 3• X was a German physician with an interest in astronomy,

who theorized that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called animal magnetism.

• In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title ”De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ”(On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease.

• The evolution of his ideas and his practices led Scottish surgeon James Braid to develop hypnosis in 1842.

• Name this guy whose name is also the root word for an English word.

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• Franz Anton Mesmer . (mesmerise)

Question 4• Plot E in Oise-Aine American Cemetry in France is a separate,

hidden section which currently contains the remains of 94 American servicemen.

• No US flag is permitted to fly over the section, and the numbered graves literally lie with their backs turned to the main cemetery on the other side of the road.

• However a 95th soldier(Eddie Slovik) was exhumed and the remains were sent back to USA in 1987 after the then US President gave his permission.

• Either tell me who are these 94 soldiers or tell me why their backs were turned to the main cemetry?(5 points)

• How was Eddie Slovik different from the group ? (5 points )• (For Pounce I require both the parts; for bounce part points

allowed)

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• Plot E contains the graves of the American Soldiers executed by US army responsible for Rape/Murder of French Civilians after D-day .

• The other soldier was shot for desertion of his regiment .

Question 5• The organisation Nakam/Nokmin was founded in

Bucharest,Romania in 1945. While most of the members were advised to go to the newly found Jewish state of Israel , it did a rather commendable job in achieving it’s target.

• They believed in the PSALM 94:”He(GOD) will repay them for their inquity and wipe them out for their wickedness.”

• They carried on with their “work” by daily materials like loaves of bread,cars,ropes,water,etc.

• Although reduced in zeal and enthusiasm in present day ,this organisation turned quite a head by their remarkable success in their objective.

• Images follow(Next slide)

• Safety slide

• To Kill/assassinate any person involved in the Holocaust.

• By poisoning the water they planned to kill 6 million Germans ,the rough estimate of the JEWS killed during HOLOCAUST.

Question 6• Its quite staggering to find out that a town Konstanz in

Baden-Württemberg ( capital: Stuttgart) did not suffer any bombings during the 2nd World War by the Allied Army. Geographical location on a map is in the following slide.

• The senior-most people of that town deviced a plan to keep off the Allied Army from bombing their town.

• Therefore Konstanz retained each of its pre-war architecture.

• Quite simply tell me what was the plan that they deviced ?

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• The town coucil/senior-most people asked the inhabitants to ignore the black-out regulations and to leave their lights on.

• The Allied army thought that it was a part of Neutral Switzerland and thus did not bomb the town.

Question 7

• “My work at ______ is called Dirty Corner and has nothing to do with X or her vagina. Perhaps it would be good for your correspondent to use her eyes when looking at art, not her ears. There is no doubt that the feminist argument must first be put forward by women, but from where I stand men cannot and must not be excluded. What a shame that narrow-mindedness has space in your journal.” Whose recent(november 2015) letter to The Guardian about a controversial exhibit(5)? Also give us the location and X(5). Part Points allowed.

• Safety slide

• Anish Kapoor’s exhibit at Chateau de Versailles Marie Antoinette.

Question 8

• To determine if a sculpture is of true X, and not resin made from a casting mould there are two simple tests. Heat up a standard straight pin to red-hot and push it into the bottom of the piece in question. If the pin melts its way into the material then it is definitely NOT X. The other test that you can perform is to scrape some material off from the bottom of the piece. If it is real X, these shavings will have no odour and will feel like talcum powder, slippery to the touch. What is X, named so because of its greasy feel?

• Safety slide

• Soapstone.• Steatite is also acceptable.

Bonus Question(+10/-10:Pounce Only)

• It is a term used in religious studies and sociology for the phenomenon of elements of a nation or people’s culture being transformed or at least more embraced elsewhere.

• Some of the examples of this effect are:-• The Apu trilogy films of Satyajit Ray, which were flops in

India before they were given prizes in Western countries and re-evaluated as classics of the Indian cinema

• The popularity in India of movements like those of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and ISKCON based on their popularity in the west