Quizzinga! - The Asha Quiz 2012 Finals
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The document outlines a quiz event called 'quizzinga!', detailing various rounds, types of questions, and notable quiz answers. Questions cover a wide range of topics such as history, literature, pop culture, and science, providing both questions and their respective answers. It also includes audience interactions and scoring rules for the quiz competition.
Quizzinga! - The Asha Quiz 2012 Finals
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- 4. FINALS • Metro – written round • Clockwise – 15 questions • QUIZZINGA! • Anticlockwise – 15 questions • ASHAQUIZ Quizzinga!
- 5. METRO • Written round of 8 questions, culled from designs based on metro maps • 5 points per question • Bonus of 10 if you get all correct Quizzinga!
- 6. 1. Name the two regions (2.5 each) Quizzinga!
- 7. 2. What is this? Quizzinga!
- 8. 3. This is a depiction of what molecular circuitry that takes place in the human body? Quizzinga!
- 9. 4. What’s this? Quizzinga!
- 10. 5. Keep the Faith? Quizzinga!
- 11. 6. A fine way of wishing patrons...Fill in the blanks. Quizzinga!
- 12. 7. One was the Titan god of forethought, and the other was the god of afterthought. Name both. Quizzinga!
- 13. 8. This is X, the third largest in a sense, after Y and Kinshasa. Name X and Y. Quizzinga!
- 14. Exchange Sheets… Answers follow Quizzinga!
- 15. 1. Name the two regions (2.5 each) Quizzinga!
- 16. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne Quizzinga!
- 17. 2. What is this? Quizzinga!
- 18. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions Quizzinga!
- 19. 3. This is a depiction of what molecular circuitry that takes place in the human body? Quizzinga!
- 20. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions 3. Cancer Quizzinga!
- 21. 4. What’s this? Quizzinga!
- 22. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions 3. Cancer 4. Alice in Wonderland Quizzinga!
- 23. 5. Keep the Faith? Quizzinga!
- 24. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions 3. Cancer 4. Alice in Wonderland 5. Kabbalah Quizzinga!
- 25. 6. A fine way of wishing patrons. Quizzinga!
- 26. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions 3. Cancer 4. Alice in Wonderland 5. Kabbalah 6. This New Year’s Eve the metro will be up and running all night. Quizzinga!
- 27. 6. One was the Titan god of forethought, and the other was the god of afterthought. Name both. Quizzinga!
- 28. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions 3. Cancer 4. Alice in Wonderland 5. Kabbalah 6. This New Year’s Eve the metro will be up and running all night. 7. Prometheus and Epimetheus Quizzinga!
- 29. 8. This is X, the third largest in a sense, after Y and Kinshasa. Name X and Y. Quizzinga!
- 30. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne 2. Google acquisitions 3. Cancer 4. Alice in Wonderland 5. Kabbalah 6. This New Year’s Eve the metro will be up and running all night. 7. Prometheus and Epimetheus 8. X – Montreal, Y - Paris Quizzinga!
- 32. AUDIENCE • Sometimes called i2K road by the geeks in Bangalore, what road in Bangalore has the official name of Mahayogi Vemana Road? Quizzinga!
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- 34. •Inner / Intermediate Ring Road Quizzinga!
- 35. AUDIENCE • When the history of marketing innovation is outlined, which 1450 event is regarded as the first and why? Quizzinga!
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- 37. • Guttenberg’s printing press • First mass production of brochures, flyers and so on Quizzinga!
- 38. CLOCKWISE 15 Questions Infinite Bounce: +10 on direct and pass No negatives
- 39. 1 This WWII innovation was founded on scientific ground that the actual color of clouds perceived by a human on the ground depends on what kind of light gets to them and what they are floating next to. Since the actual amount of scattered blue light getting to clouds is very little and there may be diffraction by water droplets adding to cloud scattering, the actual color of clouds shifts towards red or even shades closer of _____, orange or green. This made what innovation safer than what people assumed it would be? Quizzinga!
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- 41. Pink Spitfires as spy planes Quizzinga!
- 42. 2 Lord Byron called them misshapen monuments and supported their cause in the poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed By British hands, which it had best behoved To guard those relics ne'er to be restored. Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved, And once again thy hapless bosom gored, And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred! Stephen Fry recently endeared himself outside of Britain in supporting this cause. What cause? Quizzinga!
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- 44. Repatriating the Parthenon/Elgin marbles to Greece Quizzinga!
- 45. 3 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, is said to have first established formal rules governing qualification for this. The rules require one to have retired from the Armed Forces of Commonwealth realms with at least 22 years service. Traditionally only NCOs from the Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force are eligible, but since 2011, those from the Royal Navy are also eligible. In 2007, Moira Cameron became the first woman to be selected. Who/what group? Quizzinga!
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- 47. Yeoman Warders/Beefeaters guarding the Tower of London Quizzinga!
- 48. 4 The picture shows the famed Space Pod, also the media broadcast box, at the Lord’s cricket ground. While TV and radio broadcasters traditionally follow the game through the glass of the Space Pod, one and only one window has been designed to open out and actually view the game directly. What special request was this design feature a result of? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 51. On the request of the Test Match Special radio broadcasting team. They wanted their microphones to pick up sounds from the game for the benefit of their listeners. Quizzinga!
- 52. 5 If this picture is from Tirunelveli, what local favorite are these people waiting in line for? Quizzinga!
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- 54. IruttuKadai (Dark Shop) Halwa in Tirunelveli. The shop used to operate in candle light during the old days and hence the name. Quizzinga!
- 55. 6 Derived from the Latin term “full”, this word connotes a general meaning of completeness or being absolute. In religion and politics, it is used as a prefix for councils or assemblies that are attended by all members. As business executives or technology enthusiasts, we are most likely to come across it in relation to portions of a conference/ seminar that are open to attendance for everyone. What word? Quizzinga!
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- 57. Plenary, from “plenus” Quizzinga!
- 58. 7 Connect the video and the pictures, and weave a story <Video of Pavarotti performing Rigoletto removed> Quizzinga!
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- 60. •Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” (video) is based on Victor Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse (The King Amuses Himself). •The play and the opera both ran into heavy censorship problems since they were supposedly parodying the ‘sex-capades’ of King Louis-Phillipe of France. •To placate the censors, Verdi replaced all references to the King with a then extinct noble family, the Gonzagas, from Mantua, Italy Quizzinga!
- 61. 8 Twice a year, in some European capital, this firm organizes a secret meeting of representatives from various nations. Over two days, they will debate concepts, organized roughly around a theme chosen in advance (this time, it’s “unity”), that they believe will be dominant in the next Spring/Summer. The results are published in the firm’s $750 publication purchased by companies across the fashion designer, supermarket retail to the floral industry. 2006’s winner was Sand Dollar, while 2009 was Mimosa. What firm and what title is the winner awarded? Quizzinga!
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- 63. Pantone Color of the year Quizzinga!
- 64. 9 In television, this term is applied alternately with the terms ‘safe harbor’ or ‘adult time’ denoting the time period during which programs with adult content can air. Similar to the term’s original usage in the USA or Britain as ‘the geographical feature dividing two drainage areas’, this term in television refers to the dividing line where content for families crosses over to content for adults. What term? Quizzinga!
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- 66. Watershed Quizzinga!
- 67. 10 In 1950, a curious notice turned up in the New Yorker summarized below: “The University of California Berkeley’s scientists have discovered elements 97 and 98 in the Periodic Table and christened them berkelium and californium respectively. These names indicate a lack of foresight because the scientists could have given these names to elements 99 and 100. Instead they have forever last the chance to immortalize the table with some sequence such as universitium (97), ofium (98), californium (99), berkelium (100).” Not to be outwitted, what did Glenn Seaborg and Albert Ghiroso of UCB give as their reason for naming elements 97 and 98? Quizzinga!
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- 69. Seaborg/Ghiroso said that their choice was pre- emptive genius to sidestep the appalling possibility that had they named 97 and 98 “universitium” and “ofium”, University of New York scientists might have followed up with the discovery of 99 and 100 naming them “newium” and “yorkium” Quizzinga!
- 70. 11 It was born in 1914, when the War Office handed a commission to adapt the outfits worn by officers for modern use. After the war, it became popular with civilians. The waterproofed material used to make them was also used synonymously with the item itself. In the height of the cold war it became associated with spooks. Paul Simon sings in America: Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces She said the man in the _________ ____ was a spy I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera Two parts – Name the item, and fill in the blanks. Quizzinga!
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- 72. •Trench coat •Gabardine Suits Quizzinga!
- 73. 12 At first glance, these paintings present a flat black surface. But longer viewing reveals more than one shade of black and an underlying geometric structure. These are by the artist Ad Reinhardt. When his black paintings were first exhibited at MoMA, in 1963, their reductive imagery and stark palette shocked visitors, prompting Museum membership cancellations in protest. Eleven years ago, in the eyes of Art Spiegelman these inspired something else. His creation was printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four colour printing inks, and the image was in keeping with the gloominess of the times. What? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 77. 13 X is a German manufacturer of premium appliances (ovens, freezers, washers, rotary ironers, wine storage units…). Since its inception in 1889, X has been a family-owned and family-run business based in Gütersloh, Germany. To promote its association with the food industry, X started something for Asia, following the long-standing example set by Clermont-Ferrand, France based Y. What are X and Y? Quizzinga!
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- 80. 14 How does this flower, the name of which literally translates to “daylight beauty,” connect with the world of movies? Quizzinga!
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- 82. •The French name for the day lily, a flower that blooms only during the day, also refers to a prostitute whose trade is conducted in daytime Quizzinga!
- 83. 15 This album cover (initial drawing shown here) was styled like a stacking record player with a clock face, pizza, film- reel can and a tyre piled beneath a glace cherry-decked cake. The cake itself was made by a famous British cook and TV presenter, who is also UK's best-selling cookery author, with more than 21 million copies sold. What are we talking about? Name the cook. Quizzinga!
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- 87. AUDIENCE In many swords/daggers/knives, a central groove is carved by artisans. What is the common name for this groove?
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- 90. AUDIENCE The footwear shown is a type of athletic shoe with a canvas upper and rubber sole, developed originally by the Liverpool Rubber Company. The shoes acquired their popular nickname when the colored horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled markings on a ship’s hull and also indicated the line above which the wearer of the shoe could get wet. What nickname?
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- 92. Plimsolls
- 93. QUIZZINGA! Choose a question for another team •If they get it right: +10 to them, - 5 to you •If they get it wrong, take a shot for (+10,-5) •If neither gets it right, other teams write: (+5,0)
- 94. MENSA QUOTIENT CINEMA PARADISO GREEN DEBATES DARK CONTINENT SORRY, CAN’T RIDE! TURKISH DELIGHTS TO ERR IS HUMAN THAI GRAB!
- 95. MENSA QUOTIENT This IQ exam dates back to World War II when the government used it to select pilots for training. Consisting of 50 multiple choice questions to be answered in 12 minutes, the test was coopted by coach Tim Landry to help him build his dream team. While doing well in the game itself has nothing to do with effectiveness on the test, there is speculation that low scores on the test give owners a chance to bail out on a high salary player. What test and for which game is it used as a mandatory scouting measure? Quizzinga!
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- 97. Wonderlic Test American Football - NFL Recruiting BACK Quizzinga!
- 98. Connect CINEMA PARADISO Quizzinga!
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- 100. All movies/films based on the annual journey “The Way of St. James/El Camino Santiago” undertaken by pilgrims to the site where St. James’ bones are interred BACK Quizzinga!
- 101. GREEN DEBATES In 1988, a member of a family owned hardwood logging factory authored a book published by the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers’ Association. Offering a logging friendly perspective to an anthropomorphic tree known as the Guardbark, the book convinced the tree that logging was indeed environmental friendly and was efficient as a result of re-seeding of the ground. What was the publication of this book a reaction to? Quizzinga!
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- 103. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – the logger friendly book paralleled a conversation between the Once-ler and the Lorax BACK Quizzinga!
- 104. DARK CONTINENT A city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, it was first captured by the forces of King Agaja and then colonized by the Portugese, English, Dutch and French to protect their slaving interests. The town came into public consciousness as the setting of a 1980 novel loosely based on the life of Brazilian slave trader Francisco Felix de Sousa, which was later adapted into Cobra Verde by Herzog starring Klinski. Name either the town or the 1980 novel. Quizzinga!
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- 106. Ouidah/The Viceroy of Ouidah BACK Quizzinga!
- 107. SORRY, CAN’T RIDE This original attraction opened at Disneyland in 1955 and has been a children’s favorite, containing 16 vehicles, all shaped similarly, connected to a rotating hub. One of the most famous stories associated with a ride involved Harry Truman, who visited the park in 1957 and tried many other rides, but politely declined testing this ride. What ride and why did Truman decline? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 110. Dumbo the Flying Elephant Truman declined because the elephant was a Republican symbol BACK Quizzinga!
- 111. TURKISH DELIGHTS Despite some claims that this word came from Swahili, the origins point to the Turkish/Persian region, where it was used originally for an open sided summer house, many of which survive in Istanbul as well as Greece. The word was taken to the Western Hemisphere and has now come to be used in the retail and information/enquiry related domains. What word? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 114. Kiosk BACK Quizzinga!
- 115. TO ERR IS HUMAN After his ISP was ordered to block access to Pirate Bay, a UK blogger found that he received the “403 Forbidden error” which implied that Pirate Bay – not the government – was denying him access. The blogger found that both the 403 and 404 error codes would not fully explain the case when the government was preventing a connection. A Slashdot commenter IonOtter suggested something as a tribute to this issue. What? Quizzinga!
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- 117. Error code 451 in honor of Ray Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451” about government censorship BACK Quizzinga!
- 118. THAI GRAB The confluence of the Mekong river with the Rukak river is a popular tourist spot where visitors get to see across the river into Laos and Myanmar. The Thai tourism department uses what evocative term, popular until the early half of the 21st century, to promote this tourist spot? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 121. Golden Triangle – also synonymous with the opium/drug production regions of South East Asia BACK Quizzinga!
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- 123. AUDIENCE This Thai word with local roots literally meaning “five colors” is used to refer to a kind of painted porcelain with repetitive decorative forms, usually geometric or flower- based. The designs are usually in many more than 5 colors and include flora, plant, and flame designs as well as cultural symbols like The Garuda and the emblem of Thai kings. What word, which is much familiar in another context, to folks in Chennai and Bangalore? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 126. Benjarong Quizzinga!
- 127. AUDIENCE The book gives a chemist’s perspective on this crowd puller that draws millions of visitors to view it every year. The author led a team of 24 researchers in analyzing the subject of the book and backed up his conclusions with microscopy, chemical analysis and scientific arguments. What was being analyzed? (larger picture follows)
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- 130. Shroud of Turin Quizzinga!
- 131. ANTI-CLOCKWISE 15 Questions Infinite Bounce: +10 on direct and pass No negatives
- 132. 1 This is a shot at the Gulf of Alaska. What causes this effect? Quizzinga!
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- 134. •Melting glaciers are composed of fresh water. The ocean has a higher percentage of salt. •When the two bodies of water come together, they have different densities and therefore makes it more difficult to mix. Quizzinga!
- 135. 2 He was an American writer, and a long-time contributor to The New Yorker and a co-author of the widely-used language style guide, X, which in the vein of books such as Wren-Martin, is commonly known just by the names of the authors. In the late 1930s, he turned his hand to children's fiction on behalf of a niece. His first children's book, Y was published in 1945. Talking about how he got the idea he says, "...many years ago I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a mouse.” Name X (or the authors) and Y. Quizzinga!
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- 138. 3 Four Armenian brothers, the Sarkies from Julfa, leased a 10-room bungalow and in 1887, renamed it. The owner of the property was an Arab who later improved it. The Japanese occupation ran it down, but it was renovated, and later declared a National Monument in 1987. We know it better perhaps through a Ngiam Tong Boon creation that combines fresh Sarawak pineapple juice and a liqueur, Cherry Heering. Two parts – which place, and what did Boon create? Quizzinga!
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- 140. •Raffles Hotel •Singapore Sling Quizzinga!
- 141. 4 They are called 'three-inch golden lilies' or san-tsun-gin-lian, and as a connoisseur puts it, the owner moved ‘like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze.’ They were meant to induce a feeling of protectiveness in the onlooker. Many also found them erotic. What is being described? Quizzinga!
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- 143. •The practice among Chinese women of binding feet. Quizzinga!
- 144. 5 It was approximately 200 miles long, and stretched from Switzerland to the vicinity of the Belgian frontier near Montmédy. The manner in which it was overcome was a huge shock to those who made it. Kasparov referred to it during the Anand-Gelfand match, when he saw drawn games loaded with theory, artificial tension and a conscious effort to stay away from trouble as the characteristic features (of the match). What? Quizzinga!
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- 146. •The Maginot line Quizzinga!
- 147. 6 Linnaeus gave a name to the bird on the left, based on the Greek myth character on the right. What is the name and why was it given? Quizzinga!
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- 149. • The Sarus Crane is called Antigone, after the daughter of Oedipus who hung herself • The reference is to the bare skin of the head and neck on the Crane Quizzinga!
- 150. 7 The brand Christy, at one point used to make these for Queen Victoria. This year, they made 99,500 of these, of which 6000 were earmarked for specific use over a 2-week period. The colors change every year; this year, the ones given to males have letters in a color called “buttermilk”, while the ones given to women have raspberry, purple and buttermilk colors. Given that an Indian company owns Christy since 2006, these will finally be available in India only from next year. What? Quizzinga!
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- 152. •Wimbledon Towels Quizzinga!
- 153. 8 In 1981, TV presenter Kieran Prendiville on a popular BBC TV show was trying to explain the indestructible quality of Compact Discs, by using a Bee Gees CD. What did he do, which became a major marketing / positioning statement for CDs? Which show did this happen on – an iconic BBC show that introduced to the British, technologies such as ATM, Breathalyser, digital watch and vacuum cleaner among others? Quizzinga!
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- 155. • Tomorrow’s World • He spread strawberry jam on the CD! Quizzinga!
- 156. 9 In 1939, François E. Matthes introduced this term into scientific literature to describe a period mainly around the 17th century where there was increased activity around glacial advances round the world and a general drop in temperatures. Today, scientists believe that this period with its colder winters and cooler summers, produced slower tree growth, which in turn led to denser wood. What did Matthes call this period? Scientists attribute this climatic change as the reason for the efficacy of what item from this time period? Quizzinga!
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- 158. •Little Ice Age •Superior quality of Stradivari instruments Quizzinga!
- 159. 10 Though this person’s name meant “without sorrow”, his most famous act came from sorrow. The name by which he called himself later means “The beloved of the Gods, who brings joy” Jawaharlal Nehru paid tribute to this person, in possibly three ways – two official and one personal. Who and what did Nehru do? Quizzinga!
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- 161. • Ashoka • The Ashoka’s Lion Capital as the symbol of India; Ashoka’s chakra on the Indian flag • Nehru also named his daughter Indira Priyadarshini, (possibly) after Ashoka’s other name, Devanamapriya Priyadarshi Quizzinga!
- 162. 11 One of the most iconic ad campaigns in the US, it was for a product of the Morton Company. The graphic clearly portrayed the product’s flowing ability; their famous registered slogan came about when took an old proverb and removed the negativity in it! Also, the Morton Company is credited as the first to introduce a product variant as an express result of the request of the US government to deal with the soil conditions in the Great Lakes and in the Pacific Northwest. Name the character, the slogan and what did they introduce? (Image on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 165. • Umbrella Girl • When It Rains It Pours • Iodized Salt Quizzinga!
- 166. 12 This cricketer held the world record for the highest test score from 1903 to 1930, having scored 287* on debut at the SCG (this remains the highest score by a debutant in Test Cricket till today). When this book was first published in 1909, it was assumed that the author based his hero on this player. The author maintained that this early work was his best and that “the book to him still captured the 'ring of a ball on a cricket bat, the green of the pitch, the white of the flannels, the cheers of the crowd”. Name the cricketer, the author and the novel (Image of cricketer on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 169. • RE ‘Tip’ Forster • PG Wodehouse’s Mike Quizzinga!
- 170. 13 One of the earliest references to this comes from the 14th century bestseller, The Voyage and Travel of Sir John Madeville “In that country and by all Inde be great plenty of _____, that is a manner of a long serpent, as I have said before. And in the night they dwell in the water, and on the day upon the land, in rocks and in caves. And they eat no meat in all the winter, but they lie as in a dream, as do the serpents. These serpents slay men, and they _______; and when they eat they move the over jaw, and not the nether jaw, and they have no tongue” Recent research has shown that there is no sentimentality involved; rather, it is a protection against potential debris from the thrashing of the prey, or a mere stimulation of glands caused by the movement of biting. What falsity is being described? Quizzinga!
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- 172. • Crocodiles weeping while eating their prey Quizzinga!
- 173. 14 The pastry shown is called a Pfannkuchen or Ballen. Occasionally, the name of the city is added before its name. Len Deighton in his 1983 book, promulgated a myth claiming that 20 years back, a famous person had blundered by referring to this dish rather than his identity. Name the book and what is the myth? (Images of pastry and book on next slide) Quizzinga!
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- 176. • Berlin Game • The myth was that JFK’s famous “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech was wrong – something that linguists have subsequently debunked Quizzinga!
- 177. 15 In English, the word initially just meant “tax”. The phrase was first used in reference to municipal tax levies. Each person in a town would be obligated to pay a share of the ____ (tax), which was called their “lot”. In some areas, you also were not allowed to vote unless you paid your lot of the ____. Those who didn’t pay, such as the poor or those wealthy individuals that could get out of it, were then getting out of paying taxes. What phrase? Quizzinga!
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- 179. • Scot Free Quizzinga!
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- 181. BUZZ, WRITE, Wait 8 Letters on a grid Answers may START or END with the letter Buzz for +10/-10, written Pounce for +7/-7 written Wait and answer for +4, no negatives on Infinite Bounce
- 182. A S H A Q U I Z Quizzinga!
- 183. A Who is the publisher – described as a literary magazine of new writing? Quizzinga!
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- 185. • GrantA BACK Quizzinga!
- 186. S A movie about the rumored affair between Coco Chanel and who? The set painting on the rite is a clue Quizzinga!
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- 188. •Igor Stravinsky – the painting was by Nicholas Roerich for the set of The Rite of Spring BACK Quizzinga!
- 189. H From the world of Harry Potter, what’s missing from this list of Spells? 1. Transfiguration 2. Charm 3. Jinx 4. Curse 5. Counter Spell 6. Healing Spell 7. ? - Consistently affects the object in a negative manner; has a connotation of dark magic, but more so than a jinx. Major inconvenience to the target. Quizzinga!
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- 191. • Hex BACK Quizzinga!
- 192. A In Greek mythology, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named _______, who refused his affections. She prayed to the gods to remain chaste, a prayer which the goddess Artemis answered, transforming her into a white stone. Humbled by her desire to remain chaste, Dionysus poured wine over the stone as an offering, dyeing the crystals purple. Who / what? Quizzinga!
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- 194. •Amethyst / Amethystos BACK Quizzinga!
- 195. Q From the world of business – what? Quizzinga!
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- 197. •Quetzal – the national bird and currency of Guatemala, also found on its flag BACK Quizzinga!
- 198. U Identify this Giant Rock monster from the 9th Wonder! – a meta-fiction comic book in the Heroes series Quizzinga!
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- 200. •UlurU BACK Quizzinga!
- 201. I Which Latin Phrase connects? Quizzinga!
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- 203. •Memento MorI BACK Quizzinga!
- 204. Z • Which Olympic destination – they now have a trademark on “Top of the World”? Quizzinga!
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- 206. •St. MoritZ BACK Quizzinga!
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- 208. AUDIENCE Name this character. What was she the mascot for? Quizzinga!
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- 210. Superkudi Official mascot for ComicCon India
- 212. TIEBREAKER This suffix can be found in prominent city names in Austria, South Africa, UK and the US, and means a fort or fortified settlement from Germanic roots. Fortified places were often towns or cities which made the term synonymous with both forts and cities. So, the town in Austria, for e.g. means “Salt City” Name it Quizzinga!
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- 214. • “Burg” – as in Salzburg, Pittsburg, Johannesburg Quizzinga!
Editor's Notes
- #83: a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who decides to spend her days as a prostitute while her husband is at work. The title is the French name of the daylily (literally: "daylight beauty"), a flower that blooms only during the day, but also refers to a prostitute whose trade is conducted in daytime. The film was directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel, based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel.
- #86: Let it bleed by Rolling Stones; Delia Smith
- #138: The Elements of Style; Strunk and White; Stuart Little