Saarang 2008

Buzzer Quiz Finals

1) The audio is the Instrumental version of the anthem of a certain country. However, most people not in this country don’t know that this is not the anthem, in fact they think it is something else. i.e. in general people were found to believe that something else was the anthem of this country. Identify the country and put Fundaes.

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The Song ‘Eidelweiss’, made famous by ‘The Sound of Music’.

2) Identify the person on the right in this picture

Frank William Abagnale Jr

3) This phrase originated from the following poem in 1917 by Fred W Leigh and Charles Collins

‘Why am I _____________,____________________?Ding! Dong! Wedding Bells,______________________.But one fine day –Please let it be soon –I shall wake up in the morning_____________________.’

This phrase however became popular only after a 1929 advertisement by Listerine mouth-wash, which essentially said that “ ____” happens, because you don’t use listerine mouth wash.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride

4) Connect the following companies which form an exhaustive list..

These are the companies which have single letter ticker codes on the NYSE (arranged in order)

A: Agilent Technologies

B: Barnes Group

C: Citigroup

D: Dominion Resources

E: Eni SpA

F: Ford Motor Company

G: Genpact

H: Realogy Corp.

K: Kellogg

M: Macy's, Inc.

O: Realty Income Corporation

Q: Qwest Communications International Inc.

R: Ryder System Inc.

S: Sprint Nextel

T: AT&T X: United States Steel

Y: Alleghany Corporation

5) Chang and Eng Bunker were brothers born to Chinese father Ti-eye and a half-Chinese/half-Malay mother Nok. At a young age they joined P T Barnum’s circus, where they performed in an act together. This act was billed as the ‘____ _____ act” and this gave rise to a popular phrase which has been used extensively since. However in recent times, it has come to be considered a pejorative phrase and hence its use has decreased.

Which phrase are we talking about?

They were born in 1811 in Siam, and gave rise to the term Siamese twins. They are probably one of the most famous examples of cojoined twins, who are commonly called Siamese twins.

6) Over the last 2-3 years, taking pictures in this particular posture has gained immense popularity. People take photos in this posture and upload it on the net, infact there is even a website dedicated to this, inviting people to send in their pics of them in this posture. Pics shown in the next slide. Usually people take pictures of them pointing to other people when they are in some embarrassing position – like being drunk or vomiting into the toilet (next slide). Taking photographs like this is known as ‘Doing a ______’Put Fundaes on this..

• This posture of taking a photograph is called 'Doing a Lynndie', from the infamous pic below...

Pvt Lynndie England

7) When a certain gene is deleted from the DNA of the Drosophila fly, the fly is found to be formed without external genitalia. What is the name given to this gene?

This T Shirt which said _____(heart) ____ was a fairly popular Tshirt. However in 2006, sales of the shirt plummeted and the only way the makers were able to cut their losses was by crossing out the “hearts” writing “Dumped” instead. Fill in the blanks

The Ken Gene – from ken in barbie, always made without external genitalia.

8) MVC – complete list.

The teams in the Premier Hockey leagueDelhi DazzlersBengal TigersLucknow NawabsImphal Rangers Bangalore Hi-Fliers Chandigarh Dynamos Hyderabad Sultans Sher-e-Jalandhar Orissa Steelers Maratha Warriors Chennai Veerans

9. Connect these 5 sets of visuals

All phrases which mean there is no turning back, and that you have no option but to go forward with whatever you are doing :

1) Break the woks and sink the boats – from an order given by a Chinese general to the soldiers so that there is no way to return across a river crossed and they had to go forward (which was instumental in them winning the war)

2) Burning bridges – similar to above – burn the bridge after crossing it

3) Crossing the rubicon – when Caesar crossed it during his invasion of Rome, war became inevitable

4) Point of no return – in airlines, both when fuel onboard is not sufficient to return to point of origin (and you have to go forward), and when there is no space left on runway to slow down, the plane is commited to taking off.

5) “Alea Jacta est” – Caesar’s famous “the die has been cast” saying

10) X, and integral part of Organization Y gets its name from the title of a book by William Willoya and Vinson Brown. Z, the founder of organization Y first read this book during a voyage on the rough seas of the North pacific (where incidentally the name Y too was coined). The book describes what the authors say are Hopi prophecies of warriors who would be mankind's key to survival. The legend says these warriors would appear at a dark time when the fish would die in the streams, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees would no longer be; mankind as we know it would all but cease to exist. Widely repeated accounts of the legend recorded in the Naturegraph book say "They will be called The _________, Protectors of the Environment." (the blank is the title of the book).

Identify X,Y?

Greenpeace, The Rainbow Warrior – the famous ship of Greenpeace

The book is Warriors of the Rainbow.

11) What are these toys called?

Beeblebears – after Zaphod Beeblebrox, bears with an extra head and arm

• 12) This book, a collection of short stories for children was released recently as a limited edition- only 7 copies were made, all handwritten and illustrated by the author. They were leather bound and decorated in silver and semi-precious stones. 6 were given away as gifts to the author’s close friends, and the 7th was auctioned in Sotheby’s on 13th Dec 2007 to raise money for ‘The Children’s Voice’ charity. It was expected to raise £50,000, but raised £1,950,000 instead, bought by London fine art dealers Hazlitt Gooden and Fox on behalf of Amazon.com. The short stories in the book are :

• • "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"• • "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"• • "The Warlock's Hairy Heart"• • "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump"• • "The Tale of the Three Brothers"

Identify/put fundaes.

The Tales of Beetle the Bard, mentioned in the Deathly Hallows. Rowling wrote this as her ‘farewell’ to the series.

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13) Fill in the blanks

The Man in the Iron Mask – by Alexandre Dumas, about Louis XIV, the instrument is an iron maiden (used to cover face and body), inspired the name for the Band, they have an album called Brave New World, inspired by Huxley’s book.

14) Bob Simmons was a popular movie stuntman, particularly for actor X. In one of X’s earliest movies, one scene was added in the last moment and X was unavailable for the shoot and so Bob took his place. He used one of the oldest tricks to cover facial features – wearing a hat. As they say, the rest is history.

Identify the movie / X / Put Fundaes..

Sean Connery, Dr. No, The ever so famous Gun Barrel Sequence. Bob Simmons is the only non-Bond to act in the gun barrel sequence, for the first 3 Bond movies.

15)Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological sexual fascination with horses.

• Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a teenage boy who blinded six horses. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play is essentially a detective story, with the psychiatrist trying to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.

• The play was originally staged at the Royal National Theatre at the Old Vic in London in 1973. It was directed by John Dexter and starred Alec McCowen as psychiatrist Martin Dysart and Peter Firth as Alan Strang, the young patient. It was subsequently presented on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre with Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth.

• It was also made into a film of the same name in 1977.

Why has this play been in the news in the last year or two?

This is the play in which Daniel Radcliffe acted. He played the role of Alan String, which required the character to appear naked on stage, which did create a big story.

16) Whose epitaph reads..

_____________

Beloved Wife

Born December 3, 1963

Departed this earth February 25, 1990

At peace March 31, 2005

(Pic of Dove with olive branch)

I kept my promise

Terri Schiavo

17) Hitoshi Igarashi, a Japanese translator was stabbed to death on July 11th.

Ettore Capriolo, an italian translator was stabbed and seriously injured in the same month.

William Nygaard, a Norweigian publisher survived an assasination attempt in Oslo 2 years later in October.

Put fundaes.

These were guys involved in the translation of ‘The Satanic Verses’. The fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini said “I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all those involved in its publication who are aware of its content are sentenced to death.”

As they too were 'involved' in writing the book, people were trying to kill them.

18) Richard Felton Outcault was an American comic strip scriptwriter, sketcher and painter and is considered the inventor of the modern day comic strips. He worked for the ‘New York World’ in the 1890s and is famous for his comic strip “Hogan’s Alley” in which the chief character was this kid.

In 1896, he defected to the ‘New York Journal’, attracted by a much larger pay check and continued to draw the cartoons with this character, albeit the name had to be changed due to a lawsuit which awarded the title “Hogan’s Alley” to the New York World. The Journal too continued the cartoon with a different artist.

This was just one of the many occurrences in the bitter rivalry between the Journal and the World to increase their circulation.

What phrase did the ‘New York Press’ coin to describe the rivalry between these two papers?

Both papers used to print sensational news items and sensationalize all news to increase their circulation. The New York Press coined the phrase ‘Yellow Kid Journalism’ to describe this kind of journalism aimed at increasing circulation, which we now call ‘Yellow Journalism’

19) This street was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of the development of the Burlington Estate, and is named after Lady Dorothy ____, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington. It originally ran from Burlington Gardens to Boyle Street and extended to Conduit Street later. Initially this street was occupied by military officers and their wives, and gradually became the place for many upper class gentry. Some resident include William Pitt the younger and playwright Richard Sheridan. To keep these upper class gentry happy, a group of workers had formed some shops at one end of the street, with some of them having their shops on this street. In 1846, Henry Poole created a second opening to his shop which opened to this street and is considered the ‘Founder of _____’ though their were other shops before his on this street.

Which street are we talking about?

Savile Row

20) What is this song the inspiration for?

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• Mehbooba, sholay

21) Identify the person talking in this audio. This is from a video posted on the New York Times site last year, in the obituary section.

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When writer Art Buchwald died last year, The NY Times posted a video obituary which included an interview with Buchwald, in which they had recorded him saying “Hi. I’m Art Buchwald and I just died” so that they could use it when they died.

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22) The Book X was not a particularly famous book in America, selling a few thousand copies a year at best and by no means a bestseller. However, shortly after the movie Y was released, amazon.com received lots and lots of buy requests for this book and was soon sold out, infact they had a one month backlog of orders for this book X.

Many sarcastic reviews were written by readers for the book like

“________ material, through and through! [...] The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings”

Amazon has since tried to remove such reviews, but new reviews keep coming up.

Identify the book and the movie.

“The Pet Goat”, often incorrectly called “My Pet Goat”. This was the book George Bush was reading in the classroom with students on 9/11. This was ridiculed in the movie ‘Fahrenheit 911’, where according to Micheal Moore, Bush spent 7 minutes reading the book even after being told of the attack. This is what resulted in reviews like the one given.

23) Connect the 2 audio pieces

Audio 1 Audio 2

• Chura Liya hai tumne jo dil ko.. Yaadon ki baraat and tune inspired by if it’s tuesday

24) What is this a picture of?

Angelina Jolie – the places where she got her 4 children

25) The famous Royal Shrovetide Football match occurs annually in the town of Ashbourne in England. It is an all-in football match, where everyone can participate and is a tradition since the 12th century. Though it is technically football, kicking, carrying and throwing the ball is allowed. The 2 teams which play are the Up'Ards and the Down'Ards distinguished by the people who live on the 2 sides of the river which runs through the town. The two goal posts are 3 miles apart and the objective like any football match is to get the ball into the opponents goal (there is no fixed route, you have to just get through the town and across the river). Anything is allowed in the game which is usually quite violent, the only rules being:

1) Committing murder or manslaughter is prohibited. Unnecessary violence is frowned upon.

2) The ball may not be carried in a motorised vehicle. 3) The ball may not be hidden in a bag, coat or rucksack etc. 4) Cemeteries, churchyards and the town memorial gardens are strictly out

of bounds. 5) Playing after 10 pm is forbidden.

What word commonly used by sports commentators do we get from The Royal Shrovetide Football Match?

Ashbourne is in the county of Derbyshire and we get the word ‘Derby’ used to describe any match between 2 teams from the same town, which usually results in an intense rivalry, like the Manchester Derby between ManUtd and ManCity

26) In the medical field, reflex testing is done in the following order.

1) Ankle jerk reflex - The nerve roots that supply it originate from the first and second sacral roots ie S1 and S2.

2) The knee jerk - supplied by nerves from the lumbar roots L3 and L4.

3) Flexion of the forearm (testing biceps) - The bicep reflex is supplied by nerves from the cervical roots C5 and C6.

4) Extension of forearm (testing triceps) - The triceps jerk is supplied by C7 and C8.

What memory aid do students of medicine use to remember the order in which to carry out this test, and which nerves are for which reflex?

It is something famous, with a slight modification. Actually since the reflex muscles were known long before this, it is possible that this reflex muscle testing is the origin for this.

• One, two, buckle my shoe - refers to the ankle jerk reflex. The nerve roots that supply it originate from the first and second sacral roots ie S1 and S2.

• Three, four, kneel on the floor - the knee jerk, which is supplied by nerves from the lumbar roots L3 and L4.

• Five, six, pick up sticks - flexion of the forearm refers to the bicep. The bicep reflex is supplied by nerves from the cervical roots C5 and C6.

• Seven, eight, lay them straight - extension of the arm by the triceps muscle. The triceps jerk is supplied by C7 and C8.

27) Horace Lee Logan was the founder of the “Louisiana Hayride" radio and later television program. This program was instrumental in launching the careers of many budding musicians. He is however most famous for something which happened during one of Hayride’s live shows. Most of the crowd started started rushing towards the exits after a certain performance, without waiting for the remaining performances by the other artists. So Hogan took the mike and to request the crowd to stay back for the remaining performances.

What happened?

The crowd all wanted to see Elvis Presley leave and so rushed for the exits. So Horace Logan said “Please, young people... Elvis has left the building. He has gotten in his car and driven away.... Please take your seats”

(rephrase..)

28) When the Los Angeles Herald Examiner reviewed the movie ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1970, a famous record (atleast at that time), which had stood for 30 years was broken. What was the record?

Citizen Kane. William Randolph Hearst was so dead against the movie (which painted him in bad light) and hence forbade any of his numerous newspapers from publishing reviews of the movie. So what is the greatest movie of all time did not have any reviews in the major newspapers owned by Hearst. Only in 1970 (18 years after Hearst’s death) did the Herald Examiner review it, it was the first time a Hearst paper reviewed the movie.

29) Here is the title of a book and all the chapters in it. Simply fill in the missing chapter.

For your eyes only

• From a view to a kill

• For your eyes only

• _____

• Risico

• The Hildebrand Rarity

30) X was reading the script of the movie Y when she came across a paragraph about the character Z. X immediately struck out the paragraph and scribbled something in the margin. That something created a whole lot of news late last year.

Identify X,Y,Z and what was written in the margin.

Dumbledore is gay

31) Donald Sinclair (10 July 1909 – 1981) was the owner of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, known for his miserly, eccentric and snobbish behavior and xenophobic treatment of guests. Once when some workers came to his hotel for repairs and were having a tea break, he flew into a fit of rage thinking they were slacking off. He was also very rude to some guests, throwing a bus time-table at one when asked for some information regarding the bus, hid anther guests suitcase behind a garden wall, thinking it had a bomb (when it had a ticking alarm clock) and ridiculed an american guest’s table manners (using the fork in the wrong hand). He was well known for his ill treatment of his foreign employees (who gave him cheap labour) and so on.

What is he the inspiration for?

Fawlty Towers from the Python Group – many of the plot lines are inspired by his antics

32) _____ are the largest and therefore the main support beams on the deck of a ship. Only very violent movements like seas or a collision could cause them to shake. This term is hence come to be used by a sailors when something really and totally shocking unexpected or scary occurs to them, causing the usually strong nerved sailors to lose their cool.

Shiver me Timbers

33) In the UK, the national Canine Defence league called on all dog owners to observe a minute silence.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals (RSPCA) received many protests even before the public announcement of this.

Animal rights groups with many members of the public protested outside a certain embassy.

Others demonstrated in front of the UN.

However some lab researchers in the US initially supported the action, and later opposed it…

What are we talking about here, and what are the people protesting about?

The Death of Laika, who was sent into space but was sure to die as technology to get her back alive was not available.

34) This company considered themselves to be leaders in both Analog and Digital Systems, and chose their name to represent the intergration of both analog and digital technology. Which company?

35) (video) Simpsons video – whats the reference here?

Video

The entire scene is a reference to the Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds’, and the last part is a reference to Alfred Hitckcock cameo in the movie – fat bald guy just walking across the screen…