2016 KQA Jan Open Prelims

2016 January Open
Prelims with Answers
Research By
Venkatesh S
Vivek Karthikeyan

Usual drill…
 36 questions, all-written, for teams of 4 or less
 *-marked questions to resolve ties
 No negatives, please take guesses
 1 point per question
 8 team finals

Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Jan Open 20161.
The foundation stone for this magnificent structure in Bengaluru was
laid on Nov. 22, 1864 by Lady Grant, wife of Lt-General Sir Hope Grant
and it opened for the public on Nov. 18, 1866. When a more
prominent structure on St Mark’s Road caught fire, people used this
structure for the same purpose till the former was restored.
Built in the architectural style from a particular country and in a
distinct colour, identify this structure that was once termed a “Kirk”
and celebrated Burns’ Night and such festivals in its premises.

Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 20142016 Jan Open
St Andrew’s Church

This is Mohammed Shah’s tomb. In which public space in Delhi,
named after an Afghan dynasty will you find it?

Lodhi Gardens

A cricket story that comes from the 1956 Australian tour of England. The
former England opening batsman Len Hutton was in the press box, as was
Arthur Mailey. During one of the matches, the news came in that Hutton
had been granted a knighthood by the Queen.
Mailey went up to him, shook his hand, and said in a whisper loud enough
for everyone to hear: ‘Congratulations, Sir Leonard. But I hope next time it
is a _____. The last ____ to be knighted was Sir Francis Drake’.
Fill in the blank.

Bowler

Connect these films to a 2007 film

Films based on trailers that featured in Grindhouse

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What connects these countries?
Which country with a 2-word name is the latest to join this
classification?

Islamic Republics
The Gambia

• Laser Range Finder
• Front Camera
• Bumper Mounted Radar
• Aerial for Geo-location
• Ultrasonic sensors on wheels
• Software to interpret road signs
• Advance route mapping
• Programmed for real-life road behaviour
These are some of the technologies that power which breakthrough? Please give a specific answer.

Google Driverless / Self-driving Car

The word for this military ritual first appears in Othello. It derives from
the Flemish term, Kasseren. The term originated in the era when
British Army officers generally bought their commissions; being ____
meant that the amount they had paid was lost, as they could not “sell-
out” afterwards.
One of the most famous examples of this was a French artillery officer
in the 1890s, who was subject to this at the Champs de Mars.
Identify the word, which has a financial connotation.

Cashiering (or any variant)

According to a Fox News article from September 2013, scientists at the
Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms accidentally created an iconic
artefact. Scientists there found a way to make ___ that bounces off of
___. They’re not interested in satisfying various fan groups, but are
more interested in using this knowledge to move towards quantum
computing. What is needed to create this is a power source and
emitter, a crystal, a containment field, and a negatively charged
fissure, and the colour depends on the crystals used.
What are they attempting to create?

Lightsaber

This is an actor playing the role of a lineage of Ninja warriors initially
in the 1980s and then in this 2003 Direct-to-DVD series. In a 2004 film,
the actor reprised a role, which was named after the same Ninja
character, supposedly the 14th in the line. Which actor and character?

Sonny Chiba
Hattori Hanzo

One of the three offices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, this LA building was originally built as a TV station. Designed by
Claud Beelman, it opened in 1948 as the Don Lee Mutual Broadcasting
Building. ABC eventually took it over, and later it was a home for AIDS
Project Los Angeles.
The Academy purchased the building in the early 2000s and spent millions
restoring it and making it usable as a movie vault, and it today hosts the
Academy Film Archive, apart from the 286-seat Linwood Dunn Theatre
where numerous public events are presented throughout the year.
Identify the silent-era legend after whom the building is named.

Pickford Centre

A Google Doodle on Dec 26, 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of
which country’s Independence and Unity Day? The centrepiece of the
doodle is the highest mountain in the country, Mount Triglav.

Slovenia

The 2002 Hindi film Dil Vil Pyar Var was directed by Anant
Mahadevan, with music by Babloo Chakravorthy. The soundtrack had
fourteen songs, including tracks like, Ab ke Saawan Mein, Gum Hain
Kisi Ke Pyar Mein, O Hansini and so on.
What was unique about / common to (almost) all the songs in the
film?

Re-arrangements of songs by RD Burman

Aer Lingus (4.1%)
Air Serbia (49%)
Air Seychelles (40%)
Air Berlin (29.21%)
Alitalia (49%)
Darwin Airline (34%)
___ _______(24%)
Virgin Australia (24.2%)
Fill in the blanks and connect (no part points)

Jet Airways; stakes held by Etihad Airways

When the list of greatest men’s singles finals matches at Wimbledon is
tabulated, one of the matches mentioned is the 2001 final between
Ivanisevic and Rafter. Apart from the fact that it was an epic five setter
and played in front of a raucous crowd, with many celebrities in
attendance, what is unique about this match, with respect to
Wimbledon finals in the Open Era?

Only time the finals was held on a Monday

Darshan Patel, in July 2011, before launching his second brand in a category asked
everyone for feedback, "People said it smelt good, the pricing was fine but one
feedback kept surfacing that ‘they get over fast',”.
Armed with this feedback, he went ahead and launched a brand, which in a couple
of years became market leader overtaking brands from behemoths like HUL. Name
the brand / company.
The company that marketed this brand was launched by Darshan Patel after he sold
his stake in a pharma company he had started, where he marketed successful
brands like Krack cream, Itch Guard, Set Wet, Dermicool and Livon.
Name the company he sold his stake in.

Vini Cosmetics / Fogg deodorants
Paras Pharma

Identify the inspiration
for these 1920s styled
dresses, which have
become a rage in the last
five years.

Downton Abbey

Identify the lady celebrated in this
stamp who achieved a first for her
country in 2013.

Alice Munro

This infamous surname is a topographic name for someone who lived
on a plateau; it comes from a Middle High German word for ‘plateau’
+ the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant from a place near St. Gallen,
Switzerland, a promontory of the Alps and a wide elevated plateau.
Who is the most (in)famous person with this surname, who held a
role as head of press and information of the Swiss State Association
for Physical Education in the 1960s?

Sepp Blatter

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______ and ______ was a documentary nominated for an Emmy for
for Outstanding Sports Documentary in 2012. It plays out a famous
rivalry that lasted only 14 matches. After being defeated in the
fourteenth match one of the two rivals never played another major.
The other guy, a prodigy from Douglaston, Queens, didn’t win a major
after he turned 25.
Name the documentary. (blank lengths not indicative)

Fire and Ice

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The Latin spelling of the name of this month is the same as in English.
It shares its roots with two other words. One of them originally stood
for a punishment in which one in every ten men would be killed, with
the present day meaning ‘to kill in large numbers. The second one
originally meant ‘a chief of ten men’ but stands for a senior college
administrator in present times.
What is the month, and give the two words. (0.5 pts for any two)

December
Decimate
Dean

This type of hat originally came from a part of an Alpine region in
western Europe that is now part of Austria and Italy. It carries a brush
made of the tail of the chamois goat. What is the hat called?

Tyrolean Hat
From Tyrol / Tirol

This season, Jamie Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record of scoring
in ten consecutive Premier League games by scoring in eleven—the
last one, rather fittingly, against Manchester United.
Which Irishman holds the record in the top rung of English football,
scoring in twelve consecutive games in the 1931–32 season?

Sheffield United’s Jimmy Dunne scored in 12 straight games
in 1931-32

These are door-less, conveyor-belt-style elevators that are largely
extinct, except in some places in Eastern Europe where enthusiasts
have kept them running.
They get their name from The Lord’s Prayer, presumably because they
look like a rosary with the beads moving, or from the fact that one has
to pray for safety when getting on or off it! What are they called?

Paternosters

It has been achieved only twelve times—by Sir Barton in 1919
(although at the time the term did not exist), Gallant Fox in 1930,
Omaha in 1935, Assault in 1946, and Affirmed in 1978, with a few
others in between.
In 2015, American Pharoah (sic) completed the dozen as it stands
today. What did he do?

Win the Triple Crown
Winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont

These are three paintings of Simonetta Vespucci, a distant relative of
the namesake explorer. The first one is by Piero di Cosimo. How do we
know this lady who died very young, due to TB at the age of 22?

The model for Venus in Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus

This process or the thought behind it is not new. The word used for it
comes from the Greek word for ‘twig,’ referring to the act of cutting
twigs—a method that has been widely used in agriculture for
centuries, where new growth is spawned without the need for a seed.
What is this that we are familiar with from another branch of
science, where the application is in a fashion analogous to the one in
farming?

Clone / Cloning
The term ‘cloning’ originates from the Greek word clonos, meaning 'twig';
clonizo is the verb 'to cut twigs'

A 1995 adaptation of which work?

Richard III

Give a word for both of these,
and a person who travels to a warmer place during winter.

Snowbird

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Use the pictures nominally and figure out a zoological connection.

The giraffes at Mysore Zoo
Honey and Henry first came from Germany. They begot Krishnaraja, Narasimha,
Chamaraja and Yuvaraja. Lakshmi is Krishnaraja’s daughter.

Mystery continues to surround what happened to it the second time.
The first time when it happened, a Brazilian, Abrain Tebel, is said to
have remarked, ‘It would never happen in Brazil’. Sadly his faith in his
fellow countrymen was misplaced. The perpetrators of the second
instance also made away with the Equitativa and the Jarrito de Oro.
What are we referring to?

The 1983 theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy

Who, reading the
script for which
movie—a rather
appropriate
image, because
he would go on
to spend most of
his screen time in
little more than a
loin cloth?

Charlton Heston
Planet of the Apes

Building these is akin to designing an ice-cube tray. A _____ shouldn’t
exceed the dimensional limit of 965 feet in length and 106 feet in
width. There is a third factor too—a limit of 39.5 feet draught-wise to
account for the Bridge of the Americas at Balboa.
Fill in the blank.

Panamax
These are dimensions for midsize cargo ships
that are able to fit in the Panama Canal

This is fan art by an artist Viktor Hertz
where he has reimagined songs as
pictograms. Who is this particular
poster a tribute to?

Johnny Cash

These are valleys formed by glacial erosion. Mountain glaciers carve
out bowl-shaped areas, which may get filled with water over time. The
Scots call these ‘corries’. The other word for these formations (through
French) comes from the fact that they are evocative of ancient arenas.
What is the good word that we usually come across as part of the
name of one of the world’s largest theatrical production outfits?

Cirque
From the Roman Circus

The two people seen here came together in 1989, to film a movie
based on a book by the person on the left. The book involved
survivors of a 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica.
Book, Author and Actor? (0.5 pts for any two)

Oliver Sacks
Awakenings
Robin Williams

According to the results of a recent study revealed by National Geographic,
a bunch of Physics students have used stress calculation to assess the
durability of this thing. The result will significantly upset the dynamics of
many a tiny-tot’s belief in fantasy.
The study explains that, when standing, the force acting downward is
assumed to be evenly shared between the protagonist’s feet, but, if the
person was walking or running, that downward force is pushing entirely on
one foot at a time.
What is supposed to have given way?

Cinderella’s Glass Heels Would Have Shattered

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