Triomphe - Unithree - The Team Quiz
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The images show the flags of Nepal and Bhutan. Both are Himalayan countries located in South Asia.
Triomphe - Unithree - The Team Quiz
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- 2. UNITHREE PHASE ONE WRITTEN ON THE BODY 5 WRITTEN X10 POINTS EACH STAKE +5/+10 FOR EQUAL NEGS SJC Quizzers
- 3. 1 The platform stand for public speakers in the Roman Forum was decorated with the beaks or prows of ships taken in the first naval victory of the Roman republic, over Antium, in 338 B.C.E. That is how a word meaning beak also came to mean a place from where you speak. What word? (7) SJC Quizzers
- 4. 2 The word is literally a small key. So called supposedly from its function as the "fastener" of the shoulder. What word? (8) SJC Quizzers
- 5. 3 The Latin word for flute is also their word for a certain bone, a happy development, historically speaking, since the first flutes were sourced from this bone. Either give the common English word for this bone, or the Latin word.(8/5) SJC Quizzers
- 6. 4. In Greek, this word meant windpipe, or anything carrying air. Possibly because when the ancients such as Galen looked at the human body they found these structures to be empty,. Give us a 6-letter word. SJC Quizzers
- 7. 5. Its roots lie in the word for work, and originally meant that with which we do work--a tool or an instrument. This is probably how the word went into both anatomy and music. What word? (5) SJC Quizzers
- 8. 5. Its roots lie in the word for work, and originally meant that with which we do work--a tool or an instrument. This is probably how the word went into both anatomy and music. What word? (5) SJC Quizzers
- 10. ANSWERS 1. ROSTRUM 2. CLAVICLE 3. SHINBONE OR TIBIA 4. ARTERY 5.ORGAN SJC Quizzers
- 11. UNITHREE PHASE TWO CLOCKWISE 10 X10 POINTS EACH Pounce 10+/-5 Complete answers necessary for pounce SJC Quizzers
- 12. 1. In Alan Moore’s Promethea, one of the first people that the superhero protagonist meets when she enters the realm of the imagination is X, shown on the right in both images. Who is X? Blow-up follows. SJC Quizzers
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- 15. ANSWER Red Riding Hood SJC Quizzers
- 16. 2. This joke campaign featuring a Nurhadi and a made-up figure named Aldo won a lot of attention in a recent presidential election. Where? What shortform was used to publicise the campaign? (5+5) SJC Quizzers
- 18. ANSWERS Indonesia Dildo for president. SJC Quizzers
- 19. 3 Photographs from an event organised in a European capital on 1 April this year. Which city? What are these people attempting? (5+5) SJC Quizzers
- 21. ANSWER Budapest Tribute to the Ministry of Silly Walks episode from Monty Python. SJC Quizzers
- 22. 4. This is Leo, a sea lion at the Yokohama Sea Paradise. Why did this photograph go viral earlier this year? SJC Quizzers
- 24. ANSWERS Reiwa, the name for the new Japanese monarch’s reign. SJC Quizzers
- 25. 5 Logo of an American company that uses badnaam technology for humanitarian purposes in Africa. What exactly do they do? Your answer should have TWO keywords in it. SJC Quizzers
- 27. ANSWERS Drones to ship vaccines/blood/medicines SJC Quizzers
- 28. 6 The species X has a common 6-letter name, and a generic name that you can get from this picture. The map shows its incidence across Eurasia, while the colours represent breeding/visiting/resident patterns. Y=bv. G=br, B=nbv. Give one of the two common names for X. (3) Operation Y was named after the species X and ran from May 1989 till about 30 June 1997, and saw the active involvement of three British PMs—Thatcher, Major and Blair. It may have involved up to 135 separate projects. What was it about? Why was it wound up inside that specific timeframe? (3+4) SJC Quizzers
- 30. ANSWERS Yellowbird or Siskin Operation was aimed at helping dissidents escape China via Hong Kong before it was handed back in 1997. SJC Quizzers
- 31. 7 These are photographs from 2013 and 2017 respectively, arising from media attempts at tracing somebody from the 1980s. They seem to show that he went from being sound recordist to auto-driver in Bangalore. Who/What is his claim to fame? SJC Quizzers
- 33. ANSWERS Shafiq Syed who played Chaipau in Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay SJC Quizzers
- 34. 8 In March 2019, the editors of The Economist compared a two- year effort that had just been completed to a slightly more literary 1850-51 effort, similar only in that the target got away. What was the contemporary effort? What was the target in the 1850-51 effort? SJC Quizzers
- 36. ANSWERS Mueller Report Moby Dick/The Great White Whale SJC Quizzers
- 37. 9 The photographer Nan Goldin and her group PAIN led this protest earlier this year. Where was it held? What ‘form’ did their protest take? What were they protesting? (3+3+4) SJC Quizzers
- 39. ANSWERS Guggenheim Museum, NY Die-in, protesting the Sackler family’s role in marketing Oxycontin—leading to the opioid crisis. The Sacklers are benefactors of the Guggenheim SJC Quizzers
- 40. 10 This is the last stanza of a poem by Diana Ferrus, titled” I’ve come to take you home”. I have come to take you home where the ancient mountains shout your name. I have made your bed at the foot of the hill, your blankets are covered in buchu and mint, the proteas stand in yellow and white – I have come to take you home where I will sing for you for you have brought me peace. The poem is said to have spurred an international effort since its publication in 1978 that finally .succeeded in 2002, on Women’s Day. Who is the poem addressed to? What happened in 2002? (5+5) SJC Quizzers
- 42. ANSWERS Sarah Baartman, also called The Hottentot Venus France returned her remains to South Africa for burial SJC Quizzers
- 43. UNITHREE PHASE THREE SNOWBALL 5X10 POINTS EACH IF THEY PASS, THEY GATHER +1 EACH TIME NO POUNCE SJC Quizzers
- 44. 1. This is sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon’s tribute to a contemporary, finished in the 1770s. Who was this? Where would you have seen it? SJC Quizzers
- 46. ANSWERS Disappearing Head of Voltaire by Dali SJC Quizzers
- 47. 2. What’s missing? What connects these images? SJC Quizzers
- 49. ANSWERS Kunal Kamra’s don’t vote Modi campaign. The fourth photograph was of the Bombay Stock Exchange SJC Quizzers
- 50. 3. What are these crucial for in cinema? SJC Quizzers
- 52. ANSWERS Tracks, for tracking shots SJC Quizzers
- 53. 4 Identify the publisher, and name the periodical that they launched in order to compete with Nandan, published by the HT Group. Their content promoted rationalism and breaking away from superstition, in sharp contrast to Nandan’s focus on Indian mythology. SJC Quizzers
- 56. 5 Identify artist and the object of curiosity here., SJC Quizzers
- 58. ANSWERS Da Vinci and the Camera Obscura SJC Quizzers
- 59. UNITHREE PHASE FOUR NO QUARTER GIVEN 6 WRITTEN X10 POINTS EACH STAKE +5/+10 FOR EQUAL NEGS SJC Quizzers
- 61. 2. Legendary location. SJC Quizzers
- 62. 3. Life form. SJC Quizzers
- 65. 6. Historical incident or its consequence. SJC Quizzers
- 67. ANSWERS 1. GETTYSBURG 2. ELLIS ISLAND 3. BRISTLECONE PINES/METHUSELAH 4. HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES 5. SARATOGA 6. THE DEFENCE OF FORT McHENRY/STAR SPANGLED BANNER SJC Quizzers
- 68. UNITHREE PHASE FIVE ANTICLOCKWISE 10 X10 POINTS EACH Pounce 10+/-5 Complete answers necessary for pounce SJC Quizzers
- 69. 1 The original X was an appreciative 2012 mash up on a T-shirt that was banned at the last minute in order not to give offence. The X seen here was a hostile but opportunistic spinoff in another context. What 2012 mash-up is this? Where did it occur? Where did it travel to? (3+3+4) SJC Quizzers
- 71. ANSWERS ObaMao In China,but travelled to the US where the ultra-right seized it. SJC Quizzers
- 72. 2 Identify this alliance described by Edward Snowden as a “supra-national organisation that does not answer to the known laws of its own countries”. It takes its name from a restrictive information-sharing arrangement. SJC Quizzers
- 74. ANSWERS Five Eyes—US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand SJC Quizzers
- 75. 3. X is the latest in a line of Y to have Z. Others include José Manuel Balmaceda and Salvador Allende; Germán Busch of Bolivia; and Brazil’s Getúlio Vargas. Give X, Y and Z. (4+3+3) SJC Quizzers
- 77. ANSWERS Alan Garcia of Peru President/former such in Latin America to have taken their own lives SJC Quizzers
- 78. 4 Since about February this year, the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation has focused its energies on a site in Pathum Thani province, north of the capital,. The enterprise is known to have put them back by $3.1m—it covers 100 square metres and within the highly secure area, an aeroponic system bathes the area in pinkish light for up to 20 hours a day. A batch of 2,500 bottles of sublingual allergy will appear in July as a result. Which country? What are they trying to do? (5+5) SJC Quizzers
- 81. 5 In this scene from a national epic, a mermaid is sent to prevent X from completing a task, but ends up falling in love. The work itself fuses two familiar words—the protagonist’s name and the word for fame. Identify the work, and the country (3+2). Also who is X? What is the mermaid supposed to prevent? (2+3) SJC Quizzers
- 83. ANSWERS Ramker, derived from Rama Kirti Cambodia Hanuman The mermaid is supposed to prevent him from crossing to Lanka. SJC Quizzers
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- 85. 6 In 2017, this gentleman re-renacted a moment from 40 years ago that resulted in his country being occupied by a foreign power for more than ten years. They finally left in 1989. Who? What is he re-enacting? What did this act lead to? (3+3+4) SJC Quizzers
- 87. ANSWER Hun Sen, crossing over to Vietnam from Cambodia. Vietnam invaded, bringing down Pol Pot. SJC Quizzers
- 88. 7 Yama Zatdaw was an import brought back to X either by sculptors hired to work in Bagan or as the aftereffect of an invasion of Siam by Alaungapaya. What is Yama Zatdaw? From what familiar source does the suffix derive? (5+5) SJC Quizzers
- 90. ANSWER Dance-drama based on the Ramayana. (Ravana is called Yavana here) Zatdaw is said to be a corruption of Jataka SJC Quizzers
- 91. 8. This graph depicts a particular fall in the last 100-odd years, from 169 to about 40. Some specific incidents have been hidden. What does the graph represent? Name any two of the missing events. (5+3+2) SJC Quizzers
- 93. ANSWER Decline in monarchies 1. Russian Revolution 2. Iranian Revolution 3. Massacre of the Nepalese Royal Family by Dipendra in 2001. ANY TWO SJC Quizzers
- 94. 9 Theophrastus coined a word derived from the Greek for to lick. He applied to phenomena found on rock and on trees, and the form he created meant ‘ to eat around itself’. The curious dual nature of this phenomenon was explained centuries later in 1867 by Simon Schwendener. The sense of consumption was later borrowed to describe a certain set of skin diseases. What term did Thephrastus coin? What discovery did Schwendener make? SJC Quizzers
- 96. ANSWER Lichen That they were a symbiosis between fungus and alga SJC Quizzers
- 97. 10. The London Transit Workers Study was conducted by Jeremy N. Morris, a British epidemiologist in the late 1940s and early ’50s. It laid the scientific groundwork for something that is part of the urban lifestyle across the world. He was awarded an IOC medal for his work in 1972. What did his study conclude? What developed as a result of the study? SJC Quizzers
- 99. ANSWER He compared conductors and bus-drivers, and found that heart disease was more common amongst the latter because they had a more sedentary routine. Aerobics is said to have its origins in his ideas. SJC Quizzers
- 100. UNITHREE PHASE SIX SNOWBALL 5X10 POINTS EACH IF THEY PASS, THEY GATHER +1 EACH TIE NO POUNCE SJC Quizzers
- 101. 1 What specifically would the letters AQ lead to if you were emoji-minded, on most platforms? The shape of at least one letter is crucial as a visual cue. The other signposts the name. SJC Quizzers
- 103. ANSWER Antarctica or the Flag of Antarctica SJC Quizzers
- 104. 2. Connect . SJC Quizzers
- 106. ANSWER Connect: Majlis Owaisi is from the Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen Oxford and Cambridge had student societies for South Asians known as the Majlis. SJC Quizzers
- 107. 3 Identify and Connect. SJC Quizzers
- 109. ANSWER Connect:Bombay in the title Bombay Velvet Bombay Talkie by Merchant-Ivory Humma sequence from Manirathnam’s Bombay SJC Quizzers
- 110. 4 Identify and connect SJC Quizzers
- 112. ANSWER Winona Ryder Gary Cooper Connect: Both named after American towns—Gary, Indiana and Winona, Minnesota. SJC Quizzers
- 113. 5. Just give the one-word title for this non-fiction work. SJC Quizzers
- 116. UNITHREE PHASE SEVEN MEAT IS MEET 5X10 POINTS EACH Stake 10+/-5 for equal negs Complete answers for pounce SJC Quizzers
- 117. 1 X is from Turkish, Y is Persian in origin. The words mean the same—a sharp, pointed object. X sounds like an sound made in disappointment, or perhaps a minced oath. Y sounds like it is fashionable, or like you want to learn, depending on how you aspirate. Give X and Y. Order is important. SJC Quizzers
- 118. 2 X Dhal Baccha paal Is apparently a common expression among Bangalore Muslims. The X is also present in the visuals below. Identify X. SJC Quizzers
- 119. 3. This ad for Athena, a meat major, features a distinctive cut cooked in Italian, specifically Florentine style. The cut has a generic name X derived from a visible shape. The Italian word for this preparation Y comes from the corruption of an English word Z. Give X, Y and Z. (5+3+2) SJC Quizzers
- 120. 4 In Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala, these spare parts X and Y, sourced from the goat, are referred to by metaphors signifying rock and mud. Y is sometimes also referred to by a name meaning ‘stick-to-the-wall’ in Tamizh. Give English names for X and Y, both closely associated organs in anatomy. The pictures are of Y, raw and cooked. SJC Quizzers
- 121. 5 The X and Y of the previous question are combined into one lethal, sticky preparation that is actually meatball, but is called Batti Chutney because X and Y are crushed together. Which Karnataka Bahujan community is known for this combinatory dish? If you can hear the clock ticking, who is the most well-known member of this community? (5+5) SJC Quizzers
- 123. ANSWERS 1. X: SHEESH/SHISH Y: SHEEK/SEEKH 2. PHAAL 3. T-BONE; BISTECCA; BEEFSTEAK 4. LIVER AND SPLEEN 5. IDIGA & DR. RAJKUMAR SJC Quizzers