AFMC Quiz Session (24 August 2013) - The Finals

The Quiz

Final Round

RULES The first two rounds are Infinite Bounce of 12

questions each. First round involves proceeding in a clockwise

manner. Second round: counterclockwise manner.

10 points for every correct answer. +10 on every correct pounce. -10 on every incorrect pounce.

Round One

Infinite BounceTwo pounces allowed per team

1 Illegal trade over the India- Bangladesh border is roughly of

the same volume as the legal. Wheat, rice, sugar, and cough syrup account for 50% of the illegal trade. The other 30% is accounted for by just one commodity—which can fetch as much as $900 per unit. Many people make as much as $22 every time they transport a unit into Bangladesh.

This typically involves a jury-rigged mechanism of bamboo poles, iron hooks and old barbed wire because the units are bulky and need to be hoisted over a 1- foot high fence. In 2008, the BSF captured about 70000 units, worth $63 million, but had to auction them –where they were bought back by the same people who tried smuggling them in the first place.

What?

Cow (Beef)

2 A _________ is a dessert of Australian origin. It

consists of squares of sponge cake coated first in a layer of traditionally chocolate icing, then in desiccated coconut.

They are sometimes served as two halves with a layer of cream or strawberry jam between.

Hint: Spicer College Store, MG Road is famous for selling this variety of desserts.

FITB.

Lamington

3 Who is this woman and what is her claim to

fame?

Annasaheb Phalke, first Bollywood Heroine

4 ____________ is the

misleading marketing practice of including a minuscule amount of an active ingredient in a cosmetic, dietary supplement or food product, insufficient to cause any measurable benefit.

The advertising materials may claim that the ingredient is helpful and that the ingredient is contained in the product, both of which are true.

However, no claim is made that the product contains enough of the active ingredient to have an effect – this is just assumed by the purchaser. Thus, while misleading, it is typically legal.

Angel-Dusting

5 “Boredom Rooms” are special rooms which

are sprouting up in corporate offices around Japan, since the great recession of 2008, owing to social traditions in the country.

Companies like Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba have developed “Boredom Rooms” for their staff.

According to The New York Times, the real purpose of Boredom Rooms is, “To make employees feel forgotten and worthless.”

What are these “Boredom Rooms”? Put funda.

Social traditions in Japan oppose mass layoffs of workers. Therefore, in order to combat this, companies like Sony have designed special ‘boredom rooms’ for the staff they intend to “lay off,” – putting them in a room where they feel so worthless that they quit themselves.

6 _____ has been defined as, “An object consisting of

an axle connected to two disks, and a length of twine looped around the axle, similar to a slender spool.

It was used as a weapon in the Philippines in the 16th century. The modern _____ came into existence in 1928 when Pedro Flores opened the _____ Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California.

A year later,  an entrepreneur named Donald F. Duncan recognized the potential of this new fad and purchased the Flores _____ Corporation and all its assets, including the Flores name, which was transferred to the new company in 1932 - the same year that the name “_____” was first registered as a trademark.

FITB.

Yo-yo

7 Identify the lady in the stamp and the reason

behind its issue.

The woman is Neerja Bhanot, the youngest ever recipient of the Ashoka Chakra. She was an air hostess on board a Pan Am flight which was hijacked, and helped save the lives of a lot of passengers.

8 X is a publication founded in 1875 and is published

simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar. Its headquarters are located at Chowringhee Square in Kolkata, and its national editorial office is at Connaught Place in New Delhi.

It is a direct descendent of two newspapers both published in Calcutta – The Englishman, and The Friend of India. It was managed by a British corporate group until it transferred ownership to an Indian company in the mid-1960s.

The first editor assigned under this new ownership was Pran Chopra.

What is X?

The Statesman

9 _________ was an Imperial Princess of

the Mughal Empire. She was a talented poetess, the mastermind behind her brother's accession to the throne, and by the time of her death in 1671, one of the most notorious women in the Mughal Empire.

She died at the age of 54, and her brother had her buried at the _________ Bagh, a garden that she had designed and commissioned herself.

Who was this famous Mughal princess?

Roshanara Begum

10 Happy Farm, a FarmVille-esque game

released by Peak Games in Istanbul, released an Arabic version with 3 significant differences.

1st related to the females wearing a hijab. Other 2 are notable in their absence due to reasons of Sharia compliance.

What features?

Absence of pigs and vineyards

11 This is an artistic representation (NOT REAL)

showing whom?

Elvis Presley – as he would have looked today if he were alive!

12  In December 2003 there was an article

published in the Harvard Crimson accusing X for an animal torture which was really a prank call to the police.

The true story is that X was responsible to take care of a chicken and take it wherever he went; and so when he went to the restaurant with his partner he fed some ‘chicken to the chicken’.

ID X - he was the first investor in a multibillion dollar worth company today.

Eduardo Saverin (investor in Facebook)

SCORES

Round Two

Infinite BounceTwo pounces per team

1 When the first cars rolled on Indian soil, only

one company made spare tyres for them. This company was named after a road in Wales. Nowadays, its name is used as a generalisation of the product involved.

Which company?

Stepney Tyres

2 “Arizona suffered the most loss. Next in line

was Oklahoma. The others under the fire were West Virginia, California, Nevada, Tennessee, Maryland and Pennsylvania.”

What is the context of the above information?

Losses suffered by US warships at Pearl Harbour. USS Arizona was completely destroyed.

3 According to British tabloid press, Pippa

Middleton is in a relationship with George Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland.

He is known by a nickname, the Earl of _______, derived from his residence, Alnwick Castle, shown in next slide.

FITB.

The Earl of Hogwarts, because Alnwick Castle was used for the shooting of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter franchise.

4 There are 4 mandatory constitutional duties in

South Korea – taxes, education, labour and military service. The only exemption to military service being Olympic medallists and gold medal winners in Asian Games.

X supposedly performed his military service form 2003-05, but was later accused of not doing it properly. X filed a litigation to block his re-conscription. However, he lost his appeal & was eventually re-drafted in Dec 2007. This was the first such incidence in Korean history.

ID X.

PSY

5 “I always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated,

"said X, paying homage to the Reggae legend. X explained how after several years in hip-hop, he was tired of rapping and felt his creative juices plateau.

While at a Rastafarian temple in Jamaica, X met a high priest and instantly felt a spiritual awakening. "No more. You are the light; you are the lion," said the priest. This prompted X’s name change and a new direction for his music.

Give me X’s former and present name. No part points.

Snoop Dogg Snoop Lion

6 XY is the trademark for a heat rub manufactured

and distributed by Haw Par Healthcare in Singapore. It was originally developed in the 1870s by a herbalist, Aw Chu Kin, in Rangoon, Burma, who on his deathbed asked his sons Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par to perfect the product.

Originally named for containing X bone, an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine dating back 1,500 years to treat pain, inflammation and to strengthen muscle, XY now consists purely of herbal ingredients.

What is XY?

Tiger Balm

7 On December 9, 1893, a French anarchist

named Auguste Vaillant made a sensational attempt to avenge the execution of Ravachol, a fellow anarchist.

His attempt injured several people and he was arrested and sentenced to death. Vaillant defended his actions during the trial, maintaining that he merely wanted to wake up the privileged classes.

How did Vaillant’s actions and his words come back into the limelight some 36 years later?

Bhagat Singh’s actions in 1929 were inspired by Vaillant’s bombing of the French assembly. He also paraphrased Vaillant’s statement “It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear” in the pamphlets thrown inside the Central Assembly Hall.

8 The original use of this word  implied an individual

unfamiliar with the demands of life outside of urban settings.

The oldest usage was typically applied to a well-dressed male, or one who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city. The word became prominent in surfer culture in the early 1960s, but it wasnt until the mid-70s that it started creeping into the mainstream. Some usages in mainly American pop culture have contributed to the spread of this word.

What’s the word?

“Dude”

9 This is a Thai drink called the Krating Daeng

and was developed by Chaleo Yoovidhya.

It served as the inspiration for something else. What?

Red Bull

10 These two clubs share arguably the greatest

rivalry in club football in the world. Popularly known as “El Superclassico,” match

upsets frequently result in riots in the country’s capital.

In 2004, English newspaper The Observer put the Superclásico atop a list titled “50 Sporting Things You Must Do Before You Die.”

Give me the names of both clubs. No part points.

Club Atlético Boca Juniors; andClub Atlético River Plate.

11 _______ is a genus of rhizostome jellyfish with

only one known species, found off the central eastern coast of Australia.

The genus name _______ has two cultural references: firstly, as a colloquialism meaning, “Fooled you!" uttered by one of the protagonists in a popular TV show.

Secondly, it is also the name given to a seven-string harp, and the straight radial canals of this new species are reminiscent of such strings.

Picture follows.

Bazinga

12 David Peterson, a language expert, explains

his process for creating a new language based on a small sample of words present in a series of books for a warrior tribe whose world revolves around horses.

Whose language?

The Dothraki from Game of Thrones (HBO)

SCORES

Long Connect

This round follows six questions - each of which are connected to each other. Correctly identifying the answer to one question gives you 10 points. Points for correctly identifying the connect will be displayed on each slide.

A total of 120 points are up for grabs in this round.

1 +60/-30 _______ is the first book of the Hebrew

Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament. The book's author or authors appear to have

structured it around ten “toledot” sections, but modern commentators see it in terms of a “primeval history followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories.

For Jews and Christians alike, the theological importance of _______ centres on the covenants linking God to his Chosen People and the people to the Promised Land.

FITB.

2 +50/-25 _______ is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th

century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.

It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil.

In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the earth.

FITB.

3 +40/-20 __________ is a fictional character that appears in

publications published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #12 (July 1965), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

The character has appeared in over four decades of Marvel publications, featuring prominently in the X-Men titles and starring in two one-shot solo publications.

In 2008, __________ was ranked 188th on Wizard's list of Top 200 Comic Book Characters; and in 2009, 19th on IGN's list of Top 100 Comic Book Villains.

Identify this character.

4 +30/-15 Identify the sports team by its logo.

5 +20/-10 ________ is a fictional character,

a supervillain that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics since 1963.

A highly intelligent mad scientist, ________ is one of Spider-Man's greatest foes.

He is typically portrayed as a stocky, myopic man who utilizes four powerful, mechanical appendages, and is obsessed with proving his own genius and destroying Spider-Man.

Give me the character’s full name, and NOT the nickname.

6 +10 ______ or Lacedaemon emerged as a political entity

around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population.

______ was unique for its social system and constitution, which completely focused on military training and excellence. Its inhabitants underwent the rigorous agoge training and education regimen.

This love or admiration of ______ is known as Laconophilia.

FITB.

Connect, anyone?+10

Answers

1 +60/-30 _______ is the first book of the Hebrew

Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament. The book's author or authors appear to have

structured it around ten “toledot” sections, but modern commentators see it in terms of a “primeval history followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories.

For Jews and Christians alike, the theological importance of _______ centres on the covenants linking God to his Chosen People and the people to the Promised Land.

FITB.

The Book of Genesis

2 +50/-25 _______ is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th

century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.

It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil.

In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the earth.

FITB.

Inferno

3 +40/-20 __________ is a fictional character that appears in

publications published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #12 (July 1965), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

The character has appeared in over four decades of Marvel publications, featuring prominently in the X-Men titles and starring in two one-shot solo publications.

In 2008, __________ was ranked 188th on Wizard's list of Top 200 Comic Book Characters; and in 2009, 19th on IGN's list of Top 100 Comic Book Villains.

Identify this character.

Juggernaut

4 +30/-15 Identify the sports team by its logo.

Oklahoma City Thunder

5 +20/-10 ________ is a fictional character,

a supervillain that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics since 1963.

A highly intelligent mad scientist, ________ is one of Spider-Man's greatest foes.

He is typically portrayed as a stocky, myopic man who utilizes four powerful, mechanical appendages, and is obsessed with proving his own genius and destroying Spider-Man.

Give me the character’s full name, and NOT the nickname.

Dr Otto Octavius (aka Dr Octopus)

6 +10 ______ or Lacedaemon emerged as a political entity

around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population.

______ was unique for its social system and constitution, which completely focused on military training and excellence. Its inhabitants underwent the rigorous agoge training and education regimen.

This love or admiration of ______ is known as Laconophilia.

FITB.

Sparta

And the connect is obviously.....

Connect – Batches of AFMC Book of Genesis – Genesis – B2 Inferno – Infernos – I2 Juggernaut – Juggernauts – J2 Oklahoma City Thunder – Terrelean Thunders –

T2 Dr Otto Octavius – Octavians – O2 Sparta – Spartans – S2

FINAL SCORES!!!

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