Askqance 2012- Junior College Quiz

FinalsQMs: Mitesh Agarwal and Navin

Rajaram

Currency Affairs

Written Round 8 Qns on Coins, +5 for

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Issued by a general to his soldiers, this coin bears an important date (in Latin) associated with the general. Name the general or what happened on this date.

Issued in 2001, this coin commemorates which fictional character?

This coin commemorates the world’s 2nd largest brackish-water basin. What water body?

Issued in 1970 to commemorate a bicentenary, whose portrait is featured here alongside the eastern coastline of a country?

The Canadian 1-dollar coin is popularly called a _____, which may remind most of us of cartoon shows. The term derives from the common _______, a very well known bird of Canada. Fill either blank.

This coin was issued to commemorate an event that was held for the 2nd time in India after 1951. What event?

This tradition involving Japanese coins was initially started to prevent counterfeiting. As minting technology improved, it was slowly removed but survives in 5 yen and 50 yen coins because the Bank of Japan feels this helps distinguish these coins from others and helps people with visual impairments.What tradition?

Who was honored with this South African Rand?

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Issued by a general to his soldiers, this coin bears an important date (in Latin) associated with the general. Name the general or what happened on this date.

ANSWER

Marcus Junius Brutus/ Assassination of Julius Caesar (Inscription translates to Ides of March)

Issued in 2001, this coin commemorates which fictional character?

ANSWER

Heidi

This coin commemorates the world’s 2nd largest brackish-water basin. What water body?

ANSWER

Baltic Sea

Issued in 1970 to commemorate a bicentenary, whose portrait is featured here alongside the eastern coastline of a country?

ANSWER

Captain James Cook

The Canadian 1-dollar coin is popularly called a _____, which may remind most of us of cartoon shows. The term derives from the common _______, a very well known bird of Canada. Fill either blank.

ANSWER

Loonie/Loon

This coin was issued to commemorate an event that was held for the 2nd time in India after 1951. What event?

ANSWER

Asian Games

This tradition involving Japanese coins was initially started to prevent counterfeiting. As minting technology improved, it was slowly removed but survives in 5 yen and 50 yen coins because the Bank of Japan feels this helps distinguish these coins from others and helps people with visual impairments.What tradition?

ANSWER

Holes in the center

Who was honored with this South African Rand?

ANSWER

M K Gandhi/Mahatma Gandhi

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1. Better known for a site he updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, his new blog What If? answers one hypothetical physics question every week such as the fate of a baseball travelling at nearly the speed of light or the power output of Yoda.

Who and what is his popular online creation?

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ANSWER

Randall Munroe/ xkcd

2. Pyongyang became the official national capital of North Korea only after 1972. Until 1972, what was the official capital of North Korea and why?

ANSWER

SeoulEven though South Korea was a separate country, North Korea believed they owned the entire Korean peninsula so Pyongyang was only a provisional capital

3. The popular name for this style of houses in small town England is a term that is most familiar to followers of Newcastle United. What term?

ANSWER

Magpie Houses

4. This geographical entity is one of the three largest of its kind along with the Iberian and the Balkan. Because it is shaped as such, it is often called Lo Stivale (The Boot) by local residents.

What are we talking about?

ANSWER

Italian Peninsula

5. What word, originating from legal terminology and referring to the matching/opposite components of a legal document signed by different parties, is now used in the sense of complementing someone or something?

ANSWER

Counterpart

6. Until well past 1900, Russia used a misaligned calendar devised by Julius Caesar’s astrologers, thus leaving it weeks behind rest of Europe which was using the Gregorian calendar.This fact is frequently cited by historians as a footnote when speaking about what?

ANSWER

October Revolution actually occurred in November

7. What does this floating hotel pay tribute to?

ANSWER

Yellow Submarine by The Beatles

8. This was a letter written by a boy to Ripley about his dog Spike that swallowed everything. Who was this boy and when he grew up, how did he immortalize Spike in the minds of children?

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ANSWER

Charles Schulz, Spike became Sniffy and then Snoopy

9. The Weeping Rock/Mount Sypilus formation in Turkey resembles a woman’s face and being composed of porous limestone allows rainwater to seep through. This leads to its association with the Greek legend of the arrogant daughter of Tantalus, who was turned into stone and wept incessantly when Artemis and Apollo killed her 14 children.

Who?

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ANSWER

Niobe

10. In 1944, when an Axis power favoring committee won him the Nobel in Chemistry, he did not acknowledge the contribution of his female protégé.However, justice was poetic when the Russians rejected naming transuranic element 105 after him and instead named it dubnium, thus ensuring he’d never have an element named after him, ever.His protégé is now immortalized as element 109.

Name this mentor-protégé duo.

ANSWER

Otto HahnLise Meitner

11. Train no. 6865/6866 of the Indian Railways, which currently runs from/to Tiruchhirapalli to/from Ernakulam. The original route of this train which was from Cochin to Mettupalayam at the foot of the Nilgiri mountains took it through numerous ______ ______, which gives it the name it retains today.

What name?

ANSWER

Tea Garden Express

12. On its 60th anniversary this year, a bunch of statistics were released based on data gathered. Till 1974, the number of meetings never dropped below 100, while since 1989, the figure has never reached 100. Another statistic on “Time Lost” reveals, that the utilization was only 59% for 2011.

On what were these statistics compiled?

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ANSWER

Parliament of India

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Once the most expensive metal in the world, a capstone made of it was installed on top of a famous American monument in 1884.

Which metal and what monument?

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A

ANSWER

Aluminium, Washington Monument

This term/word is used for a sharp point or projection, especially a broken stump in a waterway that can damage a ship. Over time it has come to be used for a hidden difficulty or drawback and is frequently used in the airlines business.

What word?

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S

S

ANSWER

Snag

What 4 letter suffix connects the following?

K

ANSWER

Fork – Carving fork, Salad fork, Pitch fork, Cold cuts fork

Kuwait Petroleum International is an umbrella company that sells oil and related fuels to over 75 countries from Kuwait.Using what patriotic and witty 2 letter trademark do they sell fuel in some countries?

Q

ANSWER

Q8 (sounds like Kuwait)

Connect: One audio clip and 2 pictures

A

A/V Removed – Bob Dylan/Desolation Row

ANSWER

Ophelia – one of Uranus’ moons, the painting by Millias and mentioned in the song Desolation Row by Bob Dylan

What Japanese firm, originally called AddZest and specializing in audio technology takes its name from this instrument used in the middle ages?

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N

N

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In this gory representation, who is the man seated to the right of the deity in the centre?

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C

C

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Chitragupta

ConnectE

ANSWER

Enigma – Alan Turing cracked the Enigma cipher, Riddler’s real name was Edward Nigma (Enigma) and Michael Cretu was the founder of the Enigma musical project

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1. The Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra watch was first launched in 1948 to commemorate an occasion, where Omega was appointed timekeeper. 64 years later, Omega is re-launching the 1948 Seamaster edition in 2012 to coincide with exactly the same occasion.

What occasion (be specific) ?

ANSWER

London hosting the Olympics

2. Unveiled in 1904, this was erected in the Andes mountains on the border between Argentina and Chile to peacefully resolve a territorial dispute and shares part of its name with a much larger, more famous monument in a neighbouring country.

Name the more famous monument.

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ANSWER

Christ the Redeemer at Rio de Janiero

3. Oligodon is a genus of snakes native to East & South Asia that survive as egg scavengers and occasionally on lizards, frogs and rodents. The common name for these snakes comes from the shape of the broad, flattened, curved, hind teeth which resemble a weapon used in a country neighbouring India.

What common name?

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ANSWER

Kukri Snakes

4. Besides the fact that these are all by the same band, connect the following 3 audio clips

A/V Removed – Ramble On, No Quarter, Battle of Evermore

ANSWER

Songs by Led Zeppelin inspired/ referencing the Lord of the Rings

5. The winning entry to a 2003 essay writing competition in USA was by a 9 year old Arizona resident Sofi Collis. :“I used to live in an orphanage. It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the sparkly sky and felt better. I dreamed I could fly there. In America, I can make all my dreams come true. Thank you for the spirit and the opportunity.”

How was her entry used?

ANSWER

To name the Mars Rovers – Spirit and Opportunity

6. In the poem Lenore, he describes the death of a young woman:The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride

In a later poem, he is again thinking of Lenore when an unexpected visitor turns up.

Which poem and author?

ANSWER

The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe

7. David Bowie turned it down because it did not represent what he had been doing all his life, while John Lennon did the same since Britain supported America in Vietnam. Others in the list who followed suit include Henry Moore, Vanessa Redgrave and Aldous Huxley.

Which Indian did it in 1919 and what was his reason?

ANSWER

TAGORE!Turned down knighthood protesting Jallianwallah Bagh massacre

8. This 2 word name given to the widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture and populations, disease and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres is named after the person who made it possible in the 1400s.

What name?

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ANSWER

Columbian Exchange

9. A large group of bicycle riders in a race is usually referred to by the term that derives from the French for “little ball” or from the generic English word for objects you see on the left. What term?

ANSWER

Peloton, after Pellet

10. Dicentra cucullaria or Dutchman’s Breeches is a perennial herbaceous plant native to North America. The flowers have a pink or white drop between the outer petals. What tragi-romantic name is used for these flowers?

ANSWER

Bleeding Hearts

11. What entity is this song by the band Indian Ocean about?

<A/V Removed – Ma Rewa>

ANSWER

Narmada, also called Rewa

12. Connect the following 3 pictures and tell us a story. Larger images follow

ANSWER

Iago from Othello – the parrot in Tintin, Saif’s character in Omkara and Josh Hartnett’s character in ‘O’