LitSoc Main Quiz Finals

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• After a certain incident in 2010, this company stopped using this sportsperson in their ads and released these new ads. Which sportsperson was in their earlier ads and which company is this?

Who is featured here on the Polish Zloty?

Which American painter created this ad for Coca-Cola in 1935, 8 years before his most famous series

of artworks were created?

Who is featured here in this Swiss Franc?

Who created these ads when he worked at an ad agency early on in his life?

Who’s featured in this Swedish Krona?

Mercedes ad featuring which circuit?

Called the primary founder of his country, who is featured here?

Union Bank of India ad for what?

Which bird is featured on this Brazilian Real?

Answers follow

Tiger Woods, Accenture

Nicolaus Copernicus

Norman Rockwell

Le Corbusier

Dr Seuss

Carl Linnaeus

Silverstone

David Ben-Gurion

Joint Account

Great Egret

Special Round Note: Some flags are unofficial

Religion

Community

Ensign of an organiza=on

Special Administra=ve Region

Spor=ng Body

Indian State

Interna=onal Organiza=on

Country

Movement – Used by UNPO

Answers

Religion

Jainism

Community

Transgenders

Indian Navy

Hong Kong

Spor=ng Body

Interna=onal Fencing Federa=on

Indian State

Karnataka

Interna=onal Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Montreal

Country

Morocco

Khalistan

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MAIN QUIZ 14

• If M in MS Subbalakshmi stands for Madurai, what does M in ML Vasanthakumari stand for?

• What is Russia’s national air carrier?

• What name, known to us in another context, was given to the patriarch Jacob after he wrestled with the angel of the Lord?

• The name of which chemical element, used to make magnets, literally means new twin?

• What name was given to Rani by her boyfriend Vijay, according to a recently released movie?

• Which German footballer, also once General Manager of Bayern Munich, was found guilty of tax crimes on 13th March 2014?

• Which novel describes the story of Sir Cedric’s disinherited son, who returns from the Crusades in order to win back his father’s respect and his beloved’s heart, and also goes on a series of adventures against the Normans?

• On the waters of which river would you find the Victoria Falls?

• Complete the rhyme:

• In _________________________, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

• What was started in 2003 by a then 15 year old student from New York named Christopher Poole?

EXCHANGE SHEETS

MADRAS

AEROFLOT

ISRAEL

NEODYMIUM

ULI HOENESS

IVANHOE

ZAMBEZI

LitSoc Main Quiz Finals

Jayadev BhaskaranSwaroop IR

Prateek VijayavargiaKavin Aadithiyan C

Both of the systems listed below used the EwingSystem (the main wheels of the train run on a singlesteel rail). These two systems were the first twoexamples of what in India, and which is the third entitywhich was recently added to this list?

1. Kundala Valley Railway (1902 to 1908) – FromMunnar to Top Station for the purpose oftransporting tea and other products from Munnarand Madupatty to Top Station

2. PSMT – Opened in February, 1907, connected Basiwith the railway at Sirhind

Monorails in India, Mumbai Monorail

The Popular Front government of this countrydecided to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympicsentirely and together with labour and socialistgroups around the world, organize an alternativeevent, the People's Olympiad. However, the eventdid not take place and was cancelled.

Which country is this and why was the People’sOlympiad cancelled?

Spain, Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

• What seven letter word is used to refer to formations like this? The same word is also used for matrices resulting out of Gaussian elimination.

Echelon

The two-word term is used to refer to an auxilliary monetary account or a reserve fund.

The term was originally a nautical term: the ____ was the fat or grease that was obtained by boiling salted meat. The sale of the fat could then be used to provide the crew with special luxuries. The money obtained from this sale was placed into the ____ ____(which is the term)

Which term?

Slush fund

What is this clip a reference to?

(Clip from The Simpsons)

Electric soldier Porygon – The Pokemon episode which caused seizsures

Johnny Carson once defined it as 'the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn.'

It appears to have originated in Texas around 1967. It is a reference to the frenzied and hectic pace of the lives of people living in _____.

It is also the name of a popular(?) Olsen twins movie set in ____.

What 'unit of time'?

New York Minute

Having worked for the political party A for many years, X became disillusioned with it in 1958 when the party broke up into numerous factions after the death of its founder in 1957.

X later went on to found his own party B in 1984. When he wanted to take an electoral symbol for his party, he remembered his early days at A. Party A was founded with the mission of equality for all and took its inspiration from Party C of the same name in the USA, which also advocated for equality in its country. Keeping this in mind, X chose the electoral symbol of B from the symbol of C.

Who is X? What are the parties A, B and C?

X – Kanshi Ram

A – Republican Party of India

B – Bahujan Samaj Party

C – Republican Party (USA)

This TP Kailasam classic is the Kannada version of which song?

(Video of Kannada song)

It's a long way to Tipperary

Grown mainly in the Burgundy region of France, these grape varieties get their names because of the tightly clustered arrangement of the grapes, resembling something else.

What are the two varieties called?

Pinot noir and Pinot blanc

They resemble pine cones

Roberto Alomar, Carlos Baerga, Bernie Williams, Juan González, Edgar Martínez, Carlos Delgado, Rubén Sierra, Rey Sánchez and Carmelo Martínez.

Members (not exhaustive) of what, in the world of sports?

Puerto Rico’s baseball ‘Dream Team’

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Swaroop IR

Prateek Vijayavargia

Kavin Aadithiyan C

Cesare Borgia was an Italian nobleman, politician and cardinal.His sister was Lucrezia Borgia, a famous Italian noblewoman.He features prominently as a villain in one of the Assassin'sCreed games.

It is said that something/someone is modelled after CesareBorgia and that is the primary reason why we remember himtoday. What/Who?

[Image on next slide]

Cesare Borgia's father was Pope Alexander VI and he chose Cesare as the model for Jesus.

So most representations of Jesus Christ feature a Caucasian even though there is no evidence to suggest that Jesus was Caucasian

A very popular dessert of Hyderabadi cuisine, it is made ofdried apricots. Dried apricots from Afghanistan are especiallyprized for their flavor. Preparation of the dish involves boilingapricots with syrup until they assume the consistency of athick soup or compote. The dessert is topped with blanchedalmonds or apricot kernels, and is traditionally garnishedwith malai (extra thick cream, ideally from buffalo milk), butalso with custard or ice cream.

What is the dessert?

Qubani ka meetha

Derived from a term meaning ‘star-taker’, this device was an inclinometer used by astronomers and navigators to determine positions, triangulate distances and cast horoscopes in ancient times. A spherical version of this device (also known as an armillary sphere) is also seen on the flag of Portugal, as a tribute to their naval heritage.

• Which device?

Astrolabe

In June 622 CE, warned of a plot to assassinate him, Prophet Muhammad secretly escaped out of Mecca with Abu Bakr. Muhammad and his followers immigrated to the city of Yathrib, 320 kilometres north of Mecca, in several steps. The city of Yathrib was soon renamed Madinat un-Nabi (the City of the Prophet).

What was this event called, a term which entered the English language as ‘an exodus or migration’?

How was this event incorporated in Islam?

Hijra/Hijrat or Hegira.

The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Caliph Umar. Muslims typically call their calendar the Hijri calendar.

This weekly newspaper, widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the RSS, was started under the editorship of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1948.

In the past, it had published interviews of political leaders across the spectrum, ranging from MorarjiDesai to K Karunakaran.

After which entity from Indian mythology was it, somewhat appropriately, named?

Panchjanya (Krishna’s conch)

Graph showing the best performances in what?

Who (or what) has been blanked out at the bottom?

[IMAGE ON NEXT SLIDE]

High jump

Javier Sotomayor

A Sucessora is a novel written by the Brazilian writer CarolinaNabuco. It was first published in 1934.

A Sucessora follows the character of Mariana, a young womanthat has married the widower Roberto Steen. As Marianaattempts to acclimate to her new marriage andresponsibilities, she discovers that his dead wife Alice stillseems to have a hold over the household.

Which work is said to have plagiarized A Sucessora ?

Rebecca

(Clip from the movie Anniyan)

Which event is being shown?

Where is it held?

The song shown here is the first of a particular list. What list?

Thyagaraja Aradhana

Thiruvaiyaru

Thyagaraja’s Pancharatna Kritis

Something from this scene from Twisted Nerve featured in an iconic movie. Which movie?

(Clip from Twisted Nerve)

Whistling from Kill Bill

This system prohibits usury and certain other practices that are against a particular code of laws.

The major institutions following this system include ____ Melli Iran, Al Rajhi _____, _____ Mellat and ______ Saderat Iran.

Six out of the top ten _____s following this are Iranian.

What system are we talking about?

Islamic Banking

Swaroop IR

Kavin Aadithiyan C

When Mother India was selected as India’s entry for best foreign film, two significant changes were made.

The first was the reduction in runtime, in order to make it more palatable for western audiences.

The second was a cosmetic change on the official poster of the movie. What?

• [Image in next slide]

The logo of Mehboob Productions (Hammer and Sickle) was removed, in order to quell any suspicions of communist affiliation.

Cairina moschata is a large bird native to Mexico,Central, and South America. The name means 'from the_____ region' but these ducks are neither native therenor were they introduced there before they becameknown in Western Europe.

How is it better known?

Muscovy Duck

In his autobiography, “We Were Young and Carefree”released recently, Laurent Fignon relives the epicdrama of this sporting event of 1989. Even thoughFignon won the event twice – in 1983 and 1984, he isperhaps best remembered for losing to X by 8seconds, the closest margin ever to decide thewinner in the history of this event. X won the eventthree times – 1986, 1989 and 1990.

Name the event and X.

Tour De France, Greg Lemond

In 1842, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough issued hisfamous 'Proclamation of the Gates' in which he ordered theBritish army in Afghanistan to return and bring back to Indiathe sandalwood gates from Afghanistan. These were believedto have been taken by ________ from X. There was a debatein the House of Commons in London in 1843 on the questionof the gates of the X. After much cross-fire between theBritish Government and the opposition, the gates wereuprooted and brought back in triumph. But on arrival, it wasfound that they could not be the historic gates of X. Thus, theywere placed in a store-room in the Agra Fort where they stilllie to the present day

Somnath Temple

Which Shakespearean play does this webcomic depict?

In 1639 Jonas ______ migrated to New Amsterdam in New Netherlands. In New Amsterdam, he owned a 680 acre farm which was rather unimaginatively called _____'s land and the river abutting the land was called _____'s river.

He held the land only for 4 years and died soon after in 1643. Later, the region around the river came to be called just “_____'s” which then got corrupted to X.

•This is the most accepted origin story behind the name origin of what?

It was called Bronck's which got corrupted to Bronx

This author won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi award for his Tamil novel, Korkai, based on the lives of fishermen in Tamil Nadu.

Recently, a publishing house called Navyana halted the translation of another of his works, citing certain remarks he had made as the reason for doing so.

Who? What was the reason?

Joe D’Cruz

He expressed support for Narendra Modi

Julie Delpy impression of whom?

(Video)

Nina Simone

Also known as the Kalinago people, this group originated in the northern coast of South America.

From the Orinoco river area, they migrated north and settled in the islands off the coast of the continent. Their descendants continue to live there (with a lot of intermixing), while their language died out in the 1920s.

Which group of people, who give their name to something in the area?

Carib people, from where we get Caribbean

The company initially planned to change its name, inkeeping with the four-letter format. However, duringthe planning process, it was noted that the governorof Nebraska had the same surname. Renaming thecompany after a sitting governor seemed ill-advised,and thus a name to create a neutral but distinctivelabel for the company came up. Within days, it wasbeing called the "double cross company" but thiseventually subsided.

Which company?

The Corn Laws were trade laws designed to protect cereal producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign imports between 1815 and 1846. To ensure that British landowners reaped all the financial profits from farming, the corn laws imposed steep import duties, making it too expensive for anyone to import grain from other countries, even when the people of Great Britain and Ireland needed the food.To advance the repeal of the Corn Laws, what did James Wilson found with the help of the anti-corn law league? Also, how does the entity remember Walter Bagehot, who was an instrumental person in the early years of the entity?

He founded The Economist.

Bagehot is The Economist’s weekly commentary on current affairs in the UK.

• Their shared genus, Fratercula, literally means ‘little brother’, and refers to their black and white plumage that resembles monastic robes. What is the common for the birds belonging to this genus?

Puffins

Identify the Indian actress and the Non-Indian singer whose song is featured.

(Video of song)

Anushka Sharma and Nazia Hassan

• Which phenomenon connects the following?

Solar eclipse

In all three works, a solar eclipse is used as evidence of magical powers.

Bengaluru - Sun GroupDelhi - DEN NetworksGoa - Dattaraj Salgaocar and Shrinivas V. DempoGuwahati - John Abraham & Shillong Lajong F.C.Kochi - ________ __________ & PVP VenturesKolkata - ___________ ___________, HarshavardhanNeotia, Atletico Madrid, Sanjeev Goenka, Utsav ParekhMumbai - Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal ParekhPune - Salman Khan and Wadhawan Group

FITB (Two people). Also, what list is this?

Kochi – Sachin Tendulkar

Kolkata – Sourav Ganguly

Franchise owners of the Indian Super League

In earlier times, gloves from a particular country were luxury items in France.The French used to call these "gants de ____”, literally meaning “gloves from ____”. The material used to make these gloves was much softer than the standard material.The word was then used to refer to the material itself. It is popularly seen in upholstery, bags, jackets and shoes nowadays.

What material?

Suede (suede leather), from the French word for Sweden.

His father had a particular name/title, referring to his belief in a deity of his choice. The son was also named after the deity. The son’s name literally translated to “Living Image of __(1)___”.

After the father’s death, the son went back to worshipping another deity, and changed his name to “Living image of ___(2)____”.

Who was the father? Who was the son?

Father: Akhenaten

Son: Tutankhamun (originally Tutankhaten)

Some say that this body part was offered during animal sacrifice, while others believe that it was the seat of the soul of man, and hence a holy place.

Names in other languages, such as heiliges Bein(German) and heilig been (Dutch) also refer to its holiness.

What in the human body gets its name from this?

Sacrum

Mandalay was a poem by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892. The title referred to a city in Burma, which was under British rule during that period.

After the poem, what started being referred to as the ‘Road to Mandalay’?

The Irrawady river in Myanmar

The Straits Times is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper which was established on 15 July 1845 as the The Straits times and _____ journal of commerce.

Owing to incidents on 9 August 1965, the paper became more focused on its original base, leading to the establishment of another paper – New Strait Times. The result of the incident also led to the newspapers being unable to sell their papers in each others’ territories.

What was the incident which led to the creation of The New Strait Times?

Singapore became independent from Malaysia

The Strait Times is based in Singapore and New Strait Times is based in Malaysia

LitSoc Main Quiz 2014

PRELIMS

Jayadev ‘Fufa’ Bhaskaran

Kavin ‘Coimbatore Kaatan’ Aadithiyan

Prateek ‘Patrick’ Vijayavargiya

Swaroop ‘Chipko’ Ramaswamy

Rules for the prelims

• 40 questions in the prelims

• Here’s the twist: Please abandon your teams and write the prelims on your own

• Top 24 people will be made to form 8 teams of three members each – more on that later

• Questions 11 – 20 are starred and will be used to break ties

• This was a hastily set quiz, so please bear with us

• All the best!

LET’S BEGIN!

Ready?

• In 1959, it was inaugurated by Prof.Humayun

Kabir, Union Minister for Scientific and

Cultural Affairs.

• Dr.A.Lakshmanaswamy assumed office as the

first Chairman of the Board of Governors and

Dr.B.Sengupto as the first Director.

• Which ‘Institute of National Importance’ is

• Osamu Suzuki, the Chairman of Suzuki Motor

Corporation, is a connoisseur of alcohol.

• In his personal bar, he has a bottle of what he

believes is the ‘best alcohol brand’ from each

country, with a total of 192 such brands.

• Which popular drink represents India in this

collection?

When I find my code in tons of trouble,

Friends and colleagues come to me,

Speaking words of wisdom:

"Write in C.“

As the deadline fast approaches,

And bugs are all that I can see,

Somewhere, someone whispers:

“Write in C."

Write in C, Write in C,

Write in C, oh, Write in C.

LOGO's dead and buried,

Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,

For science it worked flawlessly.

Try using it for graphics!

Write in C.

Parody of what?

• The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe.

• The League was created to protect economic interests and diplomatic privileges in the cities and countries and along the trade routes the merchants visited.

• Which present day entity derives its name from the league, taking its legacy from the trade routes that the Hanseatic League symbolised?

• Identify the currency and the element used as

the red anti-counterfeit tracer.

• This court in front of the Panch Mahal at

Fatehpur Sikri is paved with large square slabs

of red sandstone. According to legend, this

grand court was used by Akbar to play a game,

which continues to be played in modern times.

• Which game? [IMAGE]

[IMAGE]

• Identify the two rivers merging near

Khartoum in Sudan.

•The 1828 presidential election between Republican John Quincy

Adams and Andrew Jackson was one of the dirtiest presidential

elections ever. Adams supporters called Jackson a ______ -

comparing him to a stubborn, dumb ______.

•Jackson was a populist was his slogan “Let the people rule”

reinforced this. Republicans claimed that if the people ruled, it

would be a bunch of _____ ruling the country.

•But Jackson being the savvy politician use this insult and extolled

the virtues of a ______, persistence, loyalty, and the ability to

carry a heavy load.

•What did this lead to?

• Delhi: A Novel

• The Company of Women

• A History of the Sikhs

• The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous

• Whose works?

• In March this year, the city of Simferopol

shifted its time forward by two hours.

• Why was this shift necessitated?

STARRED QUESTIONS....

11 – 20

• Red on black, friend of Jack; Red on yellow, kill a

fellow.

• In North America, what is this mnemonic used

• Originally named Hindustan Machine Tools, this entity was started in 1953 by the Government of India as a machine tool manufacturing company.

• Starting with tractors, printing machinery, bearings and so on, the company diversified to a different field through a collaboration with a Japanese company in 1961, thereby becoming the first manufacturer of this product in the country.

• How is the company known today, and which product did it become the first manufacturer of in India?

• Born in 1953, David Rudder is a popular

calypso artist.

• This song is one of his most popular ones.

Apart from being a popular calypso song, it has

also been used for another purpose, through

which it became famous.

• What is the song, or where would we have

heard it? [AUDIO]

[AUDIO]

• A _______ is a type of wrathful deity in

Tibetan Buddhism. The term literally means

‘Protector of the Law’.

• Principal _____s include Mahakala, Yama,

Yamantaka, Hayagriva and Vaisravana.

• FITB.

•Although this movie was made when talkies were beginning to take a hold in cinema, the decision was made to make it as a silent film.

•The primary reason for this decision was that the lead actor was required to wear a pair of dentures pulling back the corners of his mouth. These dentures did not allow him to speak and therefore the director thought it would be pointless to make it as a talkie.

•Which film?

• The centre of which national flag bears the

country’s emblem, the Eagle of Saladin?

• After coming to power, he made a change to

the situation in the state in 1972.

• When asked why he did it, he said, "Tamil

Nadu cannot serve as camphor in the midst of

raging fire."

• Who?

• What was the change?

•There have been many scientific rationalizations of this mythical creature. Some say that the origins may lie in embellishments of the often-witnessed power of the eagle that could carry away a newborn lamb.

•Another possible origin of the myth originated from the enormous Aepyornis elephant bird, hunted to extinction by the 16th century.

•Recently a giant subfossil eagle identified from Madagascar was suggested as a possible origin.

•Which mythical creature?

•“It was Pradeepji, the poet, who wrote the immortal lyrics, who came to me and asked me to sing the song. I declined, because there was no time to rehearse. You see, at that time I was working round-the-clock. To give special attention to one song seemed impossible. But Pradeepji insisted. My regret is that Pradeepji had not been called for the Republic Day function where I sang the song. If he was there, he would have seen with his own eyes what impact it had”

•Who on what?

•The Navajo name of this place literally means “Valley of the Rocks”. According to Keith Phipps, “Its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West”.

•It is most famous for its use in many John Ford films and some fairly recent movies like Forrest Gump.

•What place?

END OF STARRED QUESTIONS

• The first in this list assumed office on 21st

March 1950, and left on 19th December 1958.

• The current person assumed office on 10th

June 2012. He is a 1973 batch IAS officer from

the Andhra Pradesh cadre.

• Which post?

• Who was the first person?

• Who currently holds the post?

•He was the first legislator of Athens in Ancient

Greece. Little is known about his life. He may have

belonged to the Greek nobility of the Attica.

•He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and

blood feud by a written code to be enforced only

by a court. His written law became known for its

harshness.

•Who was he or how do we remember him today?

•____ ____ is a genericized trademark that derives from the German town _____, which is renowned for its mineral springs.

•Naturally carbonated water has been commercially bottled and shipped from this town since the 18th century or earlier. Generally, ____ ____ has no added sodium salts.

•Fill in the blanks.

• Conrad, a French professor, first conceived the idea of using electrical conductivity of ore rocks in order to distinguish them from surrounding rocks.

• After conducting a series of trials in various countries, Conrad and his brother Marcel (later joined by his brother in law) started a company and named it after their family.

• Which company’s origins?

•After the Fukushima disaster, there were

widespread blackouts in Tokyo and other

areas on the eastern side of Japan, though

the western side was unaffected.

•However, surplus power from the west

could not be pumped into the east,

because of a unique problem.

•What?

• In this photo, Sachin Tendulkar can be seen

attending the muhurat of a Bollywood movie.

Which movie, which recently completed

twenty years of its release?

•A land animal is kosher if it has spilt hooves and chews its cud.

•The Torah lists 24 non-kosher bird species - basically all predatory and scavenger birds. All other birds are considered kosher.

•A water creature is kosher only if it has fins and scales.

•All reptiles, amphibians, worms and insects - with the exception of four types of locust - are not kosher animals.

•Which is the only non-kosher animal product to be considered kosher?

• In the 2005 World Championship of his sport,

held in Malta, he became the first player to

complete a grand double by winning both the

point and the time formats in the same world

championship.

• Which player, and which sport?

•Riku, Antti and Matti are a team of engineers at

Codenomicon. They were improving the

SafeGuard feature in Codenomicon's Defensics

security testing tools when they discovered X.

•At the same time, Neel Mehta, a Google

researcher, independently discovered X and

reported it to the Y team.

•Identify X.

• Reference to what? [GIF]

•Abacá is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

•The plant is of great economic importance, being harvested for its fiber. The fiber was once generally called ____ hemp.

•This fiber was originally used to make a certain product. The product is now made from a variety of fibers but its name derives from the fact that it was originally made from ____ hemp.

•What product?

• It is the lowest pass through the Western Ghats. It is also the only break in that stretch of the Ghats that otherwise runs along the entire eastern edge of Kerala, isolating the state from neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

• It acts as a corridor between the two states and has served as a vital part of the important trade route between the East and West coasts of peninsular India since ancient times.

• It has also played a major role in enabling migrations into Kerala from other parts of India.

• What?

• For the 100th anniversary of FIFA, Pele

released his list of 125 all time greats from all

over the world.

• Germany had two goalkeepers on the list –

Oliver Kahn and Sepp Maier.

• Which was the only other country to have

two goalkeepers on the list?

• Who were the goalkeepers?

• Leon Giglio, known better by his stage name

Leon _______, was an Italian – American

illusionist and stunt performer.

• The name as well as the physical appearance

of a particular fictional character was inspired

by this man.

• Who? [IMAGE]

[IMAGE]

• The name of which dog breed is derived from

a French term meaning ‘rather low’, due to its

short stature?

• _______ _______ is a Rajput epic composed

by Chand Bardai.

• The story describes the adventures of the

titular protagonist, and how he elopes with

Sanyogita (known as Samyukta in some

versions), the daughter of Jaichand of Kanauj.

• FITB or name the protagonist.

•These objects can be broadly divided into two categories X and Y.

•X's were historically made of X and Y's were historically made of Y.

•Today, X's are no longer made of X but are made of titanium, carbon fiber or scandium.

•Y's continue to be made of an alloy that is largely comprised of Y.

•Identify X and Y. What are the objects being referred to?

• On 6th February 1952, the following changes

took place.

• ‘Him’ became ‘her’.

• ‘He’ became ‘she’.

• The order of words in the penultimate line

was changed.

• What are we talking about?

• During the summer, workers of this make a beeline for the banks of the Krishna at Srikakulam in Krishna district, as the water here is crystal clear without effluents, to wash textiles.

• They undertake the 40-km journey from their hometown Pedana every day during the summer to reach Srikakulam. The fabrics are laid in flowing water to get the perfect colour. It brings out the perfect concentration of colour.

• Name this textile fabric, from Machilipatnam and Kalahasti. [IMAGE]

• Song from Kochadaiyaan.

• Identify the two singers.

ANSWERS FOLLOW

Exchange sheets…

ANSWERS

Cultural Affairs.

• IIT Madras

collection?

• Old Monk

"Write in C.“

“Write in C."

Write in C.

Parody of what?

• Let it be

• Lufthansa

• Euro, Europium

[IMAGE]

• Pacheesi or Ludo

Khartoum in Sudan.

• Blue Nile, White Nile

carry a heavy load.

•The donkey being adopted as the symbol of the

Democratic Party

• Delhi: A Novel

• Whose works?

• Khushwant Singh

• Crimea shifted to Moscow Time because of

annexation

11 – 20

fellow.

• Differentiating venomous coral snakes from

similar – looking harmless snakes

• HMT

• Watches

calypso artist.

heard it? [AUDIO]

[AUDIO]

• Rally round the West Indies

• Used as the ‘West Indies national anthem’ at

all ICC events

• FITB.

• Dharmapala

•Which film?

• The Man Who Laughs

• Egypt

raging fire."

• Who?

• M Karunanidhi

• Repealing of prohibition in TN

• The Rukh/Roc bird, seen in Sindbad the Sailor

•Who on what?

• Lata Mangeshkar

• Ae mere watan ke logon

•What place?

• Monument Valley

• Which post?

• Chief Election Commissioner

• Sukumar Sen

• VS Sampath

harshness.

• Draco, lends his name to the word ‘draconian’

• Seltzer water

• Schlumberger

•What?

• One side of Japan was on a 50 Hz grid, while

the other side used a 60 Hz grid.

• Andaaz Apna Apna

• Honey

championship.

• Pankaj Advani

• Billiards

•Identify X.

• Heartbleed

• Taxi Driver

•What product?

• Manila envelopes

• What?

• Palghat/Palakkad gap

over the world.

• Italy

• Dino Zoff and Gianluigi Buffon

by this man.

• Who? [IMAGE]

[IMAGE]

• Mandrake the Magician

short stature?

• Basset hound

• _______ _______ is an epic poem

composed by Chand Bardai.

• Prithviraj Raso, Prithviraj Chauhan

• Wood and Iron (golf clubs)

took place.

was changed.

• God save the king became God save the queen

after Elizabeth II’s coronation.

• Kalamkari

• AR Rahman

• AR Raihanah

FINALS IN A WHILE

Top 24 people in the finals, teams will be formed soon…..

Stamps

Written round+5/0

10 questionsClues on some slides, additional ones if needed

• First person to synthesize Mercurous Nitrate.

• Identify the TV show and the character

• Identify both instruments

• Scenes from the Ramayana. ID art form and country.

• Identify both structures

• Identify the location and the entity in the background.

• Identify the country and the person

• Identify both persons.

Exchange sheets

Answers

• Famous for synthesizing Mercurous Nitrate.

• PC Ray

• Gottlieb Daimler

• Teletubbies, Po

• Rudra Veena

• Sarod

• Wayang kulit

• Indonesia

• Notre Dame Cathedral

• Koln Cathedral

• Noor Inayat Khan OR Nora Baker

• Yellowstone, Old Faithful

• Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah

• Dirk Nowitzki, Lebron James

Ads und Currencies

Answers follow

Tiger Woods, Accenture

Nicolaus Copernicus

Norman Rockwell

Le Corbusier

Dr Seuss

Carl Linnaeus

Silverstone

David Ben-Gurion

Joint Account

Great Egret

Special Round Note: Some flags are unofficial

Religion

Community

Spor=ng Body

Indian State

Country

Answers

Religion

Jainism

Community

Transgenders

Indian Navy

Hong Kong

Spor=ng Body

Interna=onal Fencing Federa=on

Indian State

Karnataka

Interna=onal Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Montreal

Country

Morocco

Khalistan

Litsoc Main QuizKolstylz round

MAIN QUIZ 14

EXCHANGE SHEETS

MADRAS

AEROFLOT

ISRAEL

NEODYMIUM

ULI HOENESS

IVANHOE

ZAMBEZI

Both of the systems listed below used the EwingSystem (the main wheels of the train run on a singlesteel rail). These two systems were the first twoexamples of what in India, and which is the third entitywhich was recently added to this list?

1. Kundala Valley Railway (1902 to 1908) – FromMunnar to Top Station for the purpose oftransporting tea and other products from Munnarand Madupatty to Top Station

2. PSMT – Opened in February, 1907, connected Basiwith the railway at Sirhind

Monorails in India, Mumbai Monorail

The Popular Front government of this countrydecided to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympicsentirely and together with labour and socialistgroups around the world, organize an alternativeevent, the People's Olympiad. However, the eventdid not take place and was cancelled.

Which country is this and why was the People’sOlympiad cancelled?

Spain, Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

• What seven letter word is used to refer to formations like this? The same word is also used for matrices resulting out of Gaussian elimination.

Echelon

The two-word term is used to refer to an auxilliary monetary account or a reserve fund.

The term was originally a nautical term: the ____ was the fat or grease that was obtained by boiling salted meat. The sale of the fat could then be used to provide the crew with special luxuries. The money obtained from this sale was placed into the ____ ____(which is the term)

Which term?

Slush fund

What is this clip a reference to?

(Clip from The Simpsons)

Electric soldier Porygon – The Pokemon episode which caused seizsures

Johnny Carson once defined it as 'the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn.'

It appears to have originated in Texas around 1967. It is a reference to the frenzied and hectic pace of the lives of people living in _____.

It is also the name of a popular(?) Olsen twins movie set in ____.

What 'unit of time'?

New York Minute

Having worked for the political party A for many years, X became disillusioned with it in 1958 when the party broke up into numerous factions after the death of its founder in 1957.

X later went on to found his own party B in 1984. When he wanted to take an electoral symbol for his party, he remembered his early days at A. Party A was founded with the mission of equality for all and took its inspiration from Party C of the same name in the USA, which also advocated for equality in its country. Keeping this in mind, X chose the electoral symbol of B from the symbol of C.

Who is X? What are the parties A, B and C?

X – Kanshi Ram

A – Republican Party of India

B – Bahujan Samaj Party

C – Republican Party (USA)

This TP Kailasam classic is the Kannada version of which song?

(Video of Kannada song)

It's a long way to Tipperary

Grown mainly in the Burgundy region of France, these grape varieties get their names because of the tightly clustered arrangement of the grapes, resembling something else.

What are the two varieties called?

Pinot noir and Pinot blanc

They resemble pine cones

Roberto Alomar, Carlos Baerga, Bernie Williams, Juan González, Edgar Martínez, Carlos Delgado, Rubén Sierra, Rey Sánchez and Carmelo Martínez.

Members (not exhaustive) of what, in the world of sports?

Puerto Rico’s baseball ‘Dream Team’

Swaroop IR

Kavin Aadithiyan C

Cesare Borgia was an Italian nobleman, politician and cardinal.His sister was Lucrezia Borgia, a famous Italian noblewoman.He features prominently as a villain in one of the Assassin'sCreed games.

It is said that something/someone is modelled after CesareBorgia and that is the primary reason why we remember himtoday. What/Who?

[Image on next slide]

Cesare Borgia's father was Pope Alexander VI and he chose Cesare as the model for Jesus.

So most representations of Jesus Christ feature a Caucasian even though there is no evidence to suggest that Jesus was Caucasian

A very popular dessert of Hyderabadi cuisine, it is made ofdried apricots. Dried apricots from Afghanistan are especiallyprized for their flavor. Preparation of the dish involves boilingapricots with syrup until they assume the consistency of athick soup or compote. The dessert is topped with blanchedalmonds or apricot kernels, and is traditionally garnishedwith malai (extra thick cream, ideally from buffalo milk), butalso with custard or ice cream.

What is the dessert?

Qubani ka meetha

Derived from a term meaning ‘star-taker’, this device was an inclinometer used by astronomers and navigators to determine positions, triangulate distances and cast horoscopes in ancient times. A spherical version of this device (also known as an armillary sphere) is also seen on the flag of Portugal, as a tribute to their naval heritage.

• Which device?

Astrolabe

In June 622 CE, warned of a plot to assassinate him, Prophet Muhammad secretly escaped out of Mecca with Abu Bakr. Muhammad and his followers immigrated to the city of Yathrib, 320 kilometres north of Mecca, in several steps. The city of Yathrib was soon renamed Madinat un-Nabi (the City of the Prophet).

What was this event called, a term which entered the English language as ‘an exodus or migration’?

How was this event incorporated in Islam?

Hijra/Hijrat or Hegira.

The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Caliph Umar. Muslims typically call their calendar the Hijri calendar.

This weekly newspaper, widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the RSS, was started under the editorship of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1948.

In the past, it had published interviews of political leaders across the spectrum, ranging from MorarjiDesai to K Karunakaran.

After which entity from Indian mythology was it, somewhat appropriately, named?

Panchjanya (Krishna’s conch)

Graph showing the best performances in what?

Who (or what) has been blanked out at the bottom?

[IMAGE ON NEXT SLIDE]

High jump

Javier Sotomayor

A Sucessora is a novel written by the Brazilian writer CarolinaNabuco. It was first published in 1934.

A Sucessora follows the character of Mariana, a young womanthat has married the widower Roberto Steen. As Marianaattempts to acclimate to her new marriage andresponsibilities, she discovers that his dead wife Alice stillseems to have a hold over the household.

Which work is said to have plagiarized A Sucessora ?

Rebecca

(Clip from the movie Anniyan)

Which event is being shown?

Where is it held?

The song shown here is the first of a particular list. What list?

Thyagaraja Aradhana

Thiruvaiyaru

Thyagaraja’s Pancharatna Kritis

Something from this scene from Twisted Nerve featured in an iconic movie. Which movie?

(Clip from Twisted Nerve)

Whistling from Kill Bill

This system prohibits usury and certain other practices that are against a particular code of laws.

The major institutions following this system include ____ Melli Iran, Al Rajhi _____, _____ Mellat and ______ Saderat Iran.

Six out of the top ten _____s following this are Iranian.

What system are we talking about?

Islamic Banking

Swaroop IR

Kavin Aadithiyan C

When Mother India was selected as India’s entry for best foreign film, two significant changes were made.

The first was the reduction in runtime, in order to make it more palatable for western audiences.

The second was a cosmetic change on the official poster of the movie. What?

• [Image in next slide]

The logo of Mehboob Productions (Hammer and Sickle) was removed, in order to quell any suspicions of communist affiliation.

Cairina moschata is a large bird native to Mexico,Central, and South America. The name means 'from the_____ region' but these ducks are neither native therenor were they introduced there before they becameknown in Western Europe.

How is it better known?

Muscovy Duck

In his autobiography, “We Were Young and Carefree”released recently, Laurent Fignon relives the epicdrama of this sporting event of 1989. Even thoughFignon won the event twice – in 1983 and 1984, he isperhaps best remembered for losing to X by 8seconds, the closest margin ever to decide thewinner in the history of this event. X won the eventthree times – 1986, 1989 and 1990.

Name the event and X.

Tour De France, Greg Lemond

In 1842, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough issued hisfamous 'Proclamation of the Gates' in which he ordered theBritish army in Afghanistan to return and bring back to Indiathe sandalwood gates from Afghanistan. These were believedto have been taken by ________ from X. There was a debatein the House of Commons in London in 1843 on the questionof the gates of the X. After much cross-fire between theBritish Government and the opposition, the gates wereuprooted and brought back in triumph. But on arrival, it wasfound that they could not be the historic gates of X. Thus, theywere placed in a store-room in the Agra Fort where they stilllie to the present day

Somnath Temple

Which Shakespearean play does this webcomic depict?

In 1639 Jonas ______ migrated to New Amsterdam in New Netherlands. In New Amsterdam, he owned a 680 acre farm which was rather unimaginatively called _____'s land and the river abutting the land was called _____'s river.

He held the land only for 4 years and died soon after in 1643. Later, the region around the river came to be called just “_____'s” which then got corrupted to X.

•This is the most accepted origin story behind the name origin of what?

It was called Bronck's which got corrupted to Bronx

This author won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi award for his Tamil novel, Korkai, based on the lives of fishermen in Tamil Nadu.

Recently, a publishing house called Navyana halted the translation of another of his works, citing certain remarks he had made as the reason for doing so.

Who? What was the reason?

Joe D’Cruz

He expressed support for Narendra Modi

Julie Delpy impression of whom?

(Video)

Nina Simone

Also known as the Kalinago people, this group originated in the northern coast of South America.

From the Orinoco river area, they migrated north and settled in the islands off the coast of the continent. Their descendants continue to live there (with a lot of intermixing), while their language died out in the 1920s.

Which group of people, who give their name to something in the area?

Carib people, from where we get Caribbean

The company initially planned to change its name, inkeeping with the four-letter format. However, duringthe planning process, it was noted that the governorof Nebraska had the same surname. Renaming thecompany after a sitting governor seemed ill-advised,and thus a name to create a neutral but distinctivelabel for the company came up. Within days, it wasbeing called the "double cross company" but thiseventually subsided.

Which company?

The Corn Laws were trade laws designed to protect cereal producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign imports between 1815 and 1846. To ensure that British landowners reaped all the financial profits from farming, the corn laws imposed steep import duties, making it too expensive for anyone to import grain from other countries, even when the people of Great Britain and Ireland needed the food.To advance the repeal of the Corn Laws, what did James Wilson found with the help of the anti-corn law league? Also, how does the entity remember Walter Bagehot, who was an instrumental person in the early years of the entity?

He founded The Economist.

Bagehot is The Economist’s weekly commentary on current affairs in the UK.

• Their shared genus, Fratercula, literally means ‘little brother’, and refers to their black and white plumage that resembles monastic robes. What is the common for the birds belonging to this genus?

Puffins

Identify the Indian actress and the Non-Indian singer whose song is featured.

(Video of song)

Anushka Sharma and Nazia Hassan

• Which phenomenon connects the following?

Solar eclipse

In all three works, a solar eclipse is used as evidence of magical powers.

Bengaluru - Sun GroupDelhi - DEN NetworksGoa - Dattaraj Salgaocar and Shrinivas V. DempoGuwahati - John Abraham & Shillong Lajong F.C.Kochi - ________ __________ & PVP VenturesKolkata - ___________ ___________, HarshavardhanNeotia, Atletico Madrid, Sanjeev Goenka, Utsav ParekhMumbai - Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal ParekhPune - Salman Khan and Wadhawan Group

FITB (Two people). Also, what list is this?

Kochi – Sachin Tendulkar

Kolkata – Sourav Ganguly

Franchise owners of the Indian Super League

In earlier times, gloves from a particular country were luxury items in France.The French used to call these "gants de ____”, literally meaning “gloves from ____”. The material used to make these gloves was much softer than the standard material.The word was then used to refer to the material itself. It is popularly seen in upholstery, bags, jackets and shoes nowadays.

What material?

Suede (suede leather), from the French word for Sweden.

His father had a particular name/title, referring to his belief in a deity of his choice. The son was also named after the deity. The son’s name literally translated to “Living Image of __(1)___”.

After the father’s death, the son went back to worshipping another deity, and changed his name to “Living image of ___(2)____”.

Who was the father? Who was the son?

Father: Akhenaten

Son: Tutankhamun (originally Tutankhaten)

Some say that this body part was offered during animal sacrifice, while others believe that it was the seat of the soul of man, and hence a holy place.

Names in other languages, such as heiliges Bein(German) and heilig been (Dutch) also refer to its holiness.

What in the human body gets its name from this?

Sacrum

Mandalay was a poem by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892. The title referred to a city in Burma, which was under British rule during that period.

After the poem, what started being referred to as the ‘Road to Mandalay’?

The Irrawady river in Myanmar

The Straits Times is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper which was established on 15 July 1845 as the The Straits times and _____ journal of commerce.

Owing to incidents on 9 August 1965, the paper became more focused on its original base, leading to the establishment of another paper – New Strait Times. The result of the incident also led to the newspapers being unable to sell their papers in each others’ territories.

What was the incident which led to the creation of The New Strait Times?

Singapore became independent from Malaysia

The Strait Times is based in Singapore and New Strait Times is based in Malaysia

LitSoc Main Quiz 2014

PRELIMS

Jayadev ‘Fufa’ Bhaskaran

Kavin ‘Coimbatore Kaatan’ Aadithiyan

Prateek ‘Patrick’ Vijayavargiya

Swaroop ‘Chipko’ Ramaswamy

Rules for the prelims

• 40 questions in the prelims

• Here’s the twist: Please abandon your teams and write the prelims on your own

• Top 24 people will be made to form 8 teams of three members each – more on that later

• Questions 11 – 20 are starred and will be used to break ties

• This was a hastily set quiz, so please bear with us

• All the best!

LET’S BEGIN!

Ready?

Cultural Affairs.

collection?

"Write in C.“

“Write in C."

Write in C.

Parody of what?

[IMAGE]

Khartoum in Sudan.

carry a heavy load.

• Delhi: A Novel

• Whose works?

11 – 20

fellow.

calypso artist.

heard it? [AUDIO]

[AUDIO]

• FITB.

•Which film?

raging fire."

• Who?

•Who on what?

•What place?

• Which post?

harshness.

•What?

championship.

•Identify X.

•What product?

• What?

over the world.

by this man.

• Who? [IMAGE]

[IMAGE]

short stature?

• _______ _______ is a Rajput epic composed

by Chand Bardai.

took place.

was changed.

ANSWERS FOLLOW

Exchange sheets…

ANSWERS

Cultural Affairs.

• IIT Madras

collection?

• Old Monk

"Write in C.“

“Write in C."

Write in C.

Parody of what?

• Let it be

• Lufthansa

• Euro, Europium

[IMAGE]

• Pacheesi or Ludo

Khartoum in Sudan.

• Blue Nile, White Nile

carry a heavy load.

•The donkey being adopted as the symbol of the

Democratic Party

• Delhi: A Novel

• Whose works?

• Khushwant Singh

• Crimea shifted to Moscow Time because of

annexation

11 – 20

fellow.

• Differentiating venomous coral snakes from

similar – looking harmless snakes

• HMT

• Watches

calypso artist.

heard it? [AUDIO]

[AUDIO]

• Rally round the West Indies

• Used as the ‘West Indies national anthem’ at

all ICC events

• FITB.

• Dharmapala

•Which film?

• The Man Who Laughs

• Egypt

raging fire."

• Who?

• M Karunanidhi

• Repealing of prohibition in TN

• The Rukh/Roc bird, seen in Sindbad the Sailor

•Who on what?

• Lata Mangeshkar

• Ae mere watan ke logon

•What place?

• Monument Valley

• Which post?

• Chief Election Commissioner

• Sukumar Sen

• VS Sampath

harshness.

• Draco, lends his name to the word ‘draconian’

• Seltzer water

• Schlumberger

•What?

• One side of Japan was on a 50 Hz grid, while

the other side used a 60 Hz grid.

• Andaaz Apna Apna

• Honey

championship.

• Pankaj Advani

• Billiards

•Identify X.

• Heartbleed

• Taxi Driver

•What product?

• Manila envelopes

• What?

• Palghat/Palakkad gap

over the world.

• Italy

• Dino Zoff and Gianluigi Buffon

by this man.

• Who? [IMAGE]

[IMAGE]

• Mandrake the Magician

short stature?

• Basset hound

• _______ _______ is an epic poem

composed by Chand Bardai.

• Prithviraj Raso, Prithviraj Chauhan

• Wood and Iron (golf clubs)

took place.

was changed.

• God save the king became God save the queen

after Elizabeth II’s coronation.

• Kalamkari

• AR Rahman

• AR Raihanah

FINALS IN A WHILE

Top 24 people in the finals, teams will be formed soon…..

Stamps

Written round+5/0

10 questionsClues on some slides, additional ones if needed

• First person to synthesize Mercurous Nitrate.

Exchange sheets

Answers

• Famous for synthesizing Mercurous Nitrate.

• PC Ray

• Gottlieb Daimler

• Teletubbies, Po

• Rudra Veena

• Sarod

• Wayang kulit

• Indonesia

• Notre Dame Cathedral

• Koln Cathedral

• Noor Inayat Khan OR Nora Baker

• Yellowstone, Old Faithful

• Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah

• Dirk Nowitzki, Lebron James

LitSoc Main Quiz Finals

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