Chakravyuh

20th September 2014

Quizmaster – Rohan Danait

Mains

Rounds

• IR 1

• Written Round

• IR 2

Infinite Rebound 1

• 21 questions clockwise

• +10/-0 for a direct or passed question

• Onefinite pounce - A team cannot pounce

further once it gets a question wrong on

pounce

• +15/-0 on pounce

• Teams can pounce on their own directs

Q1

NH7 Weekender is a music festival which has

been organised in Pune since 2010. In the

middle of the large artificial lake at the festival

venue, artist Chifumi created a huge snake with

the devil's horns hand gesture for a mouth.

What name (also the name of another music

festival which happens in Inverness, UK) is

given to this structure?

(image)

Answer

Rockness Monster

Q2

The coat of arms of Croatia consists of one

main shield and five smaller shields which form

a crown over the main shield. The main coat of

arms consists of 13 red and 12 silver (white)

fields. It's also informally known in Croatian as

"šahovnica". What does "šahovnica" mean in

English?

Answer

Chessboard/Checkerboard

Q3

The word was a form of military discipline used by the Roman Army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences such as mutiny or desertion. The procedure was a pragmatic, yet vicious, attempt to balance the need to punish serious offences with the practicalities of dealing with a large group of offenders. The large group of offenders was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots, and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades.

The word's current usage refers to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force, or as a synonym for the word "annihilation" or "devastation". Which word?

Answer

Decimation

Q4

Lapu-Lapu is a city in the Philippines which is

home to 2 neighbouring monuments - one is

the shrine of Lapu-Lapu himself, a native. While

the other is in honour of X.

X?

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Answer

Ferdinand Magellan, who was defeated by Lapu-

Lapu at the Battle of Mactan

Q5

In football, some countries include stars as part

of their badge, to represent World Cup wins.

For example, Brazil has 5.

Which country apart from Italy and Germany

has 4 stars?

Why?

Answer

Uruguay, for 2 Olympic titles in 1924 and 1928

which were considered as FIFA World

Championships before the FIFA World Cup

Started

Q6

X became famous when he uncovered and

foiled an assassination plot on the life of

Abraham Lincoln, who later hired X's agents for

his personal security during the Civil War. X

then founded a company, which is now a

subsidiary of Securitas AB. It is a provider of

risk management services and solutions for

organizations throughout the world.

Identify X or the company he founded.

Answer

Alan Pinkerton and the Pinkerton National

Detective Agency

Q7

"My Husband and Other Animals" is a book by Janaki Lenin,a wildlife enthusiast, who narrates how it is to share a life with her husband X. The foreword for this work has been written by an American naturalist who is best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband Y, and for co-authoring books with him.

Identify X and Y.

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Answer

X: Romulus Whitaker

Y: Gerald Durrell

Q8

Shyam Benegal's 1976 film Manthan won two

national film awards for Best Feature Film in

Hindi and Best Screenplay.

Who were the respective recipients of these

two awards?

Answer

Amul and Vijay Tendulkar

Q9

The CIA World Factbook is a reference resource by the CIA with information about the countries of the world. It provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 267 entities including U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world.

On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for X for the first time. Before this date, X was excluded from the Factbook. According to the CIA, X was added because it "continues to accrue more nation-like characteristics for itself". X?

Answer

European Union

Q10

At a series of benefit shows in London for Amnesty International, Pete Townshend was persuaded by the producer Martin Lewis to perform his hits "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" on acoustic guitar. The performances were widely seen and heard on a 1980 live album and inspired other rock performers to emulate Townshend.

What, in the world of music, was inspired by these performances?

Answer

MTV Unplugged

Q11

National Highway 223 (the Great Andaman

Trunk Road) connects Port Blair and Diglipur in

the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and passes

through the towns of Kadamtala, Billiground,

Rangat and Mayabunder. In 2013, why did the

Supreme Court of India pass an interim order

banning the tourists from taking a certain

section of the trunk road?

Answer

To ban Jarawa tribe safaris in the area

Q12

3204 Y is an asteroid discovered by Nikolai

Stepanovich Chernykh on September 1, 1978.

In 1996 it was named after the writer X Y by the

Russian Academy of Science. When

announced, the writer is said to have declared

"From now on you can address me Asteroid Y".

Which writer?

Answer

Astrid Lindgren

Q13

Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the science of anthropometry to law enforcement and created an identification system based on physical measurements. The method was eventually replaced by fingerprinting. One of his other contributions is the standardization of the X, which is still widely used by law enforcement officials.

X?

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Answer

Mug shot

Q14

In the 1920s, a certain Oliver Gingold of Dow Jones was standing by the stock ticker at a brokerage firm when he noticed several trades at $200 or $250 a share or more. He said to one person standing next to him that he intended to return to the office to "write about these ____ ____ stocks". This phrase has been in use ever since, originally in reference to high-priced stocks but is now also used in sports for athletes, particularly high school players, targeted for drafting or signing by teams at the college level.

FIB

Answer

Blue-chip

Q15

This club is described thus: "There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the ________ Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion.“

Which club? Who was the co-founder?

Answer

Diogenes Club, Mycroft Holmes

Q16

Lost Girls is a graphic novel by Alan Moore depicting the adventures of three important female fictional characters of the late 19th and early 20th century: Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz and the character X from Y. They meet as adults in 1913 and describe and share some of their adventures with each other. The title is a play on the name of a group of characters from the work Y.

Identify either X or Y.

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Answer

X: Wendy Darling

Y: Peter Pan

Q17

Until 2000, the Union Budget was announced

at 5:00 pm on the last working day of the month

of February. It was Mr. Yashwant Sinha, the

then Finance Minister, who changed the ritual

by announcing the 2001 Union Budget at 11

am. Why was the Union Budget announced so

late in the evening until 2000?

Answer

Before Independence, the U.K. budget was

presented around noon in the U.K. Parliament

in London and then the one in India in the

evening so that British ministers could tune in

to a radio and listen to the Indian budget

Q18

This is formed by a mixture of two colloids:

crema and microfoam. Neither of these colloids

are stable – crema dissipates while microfoam

converts into drier foam – both degrading

significantly in a matter of minutes, and thus

this lasts only briefly.

What am I talking about?

Answer

Latte Art

Q19

The name of this place comes from the first European explorer to visit these lands. He believed he was seeing the many fires which were visible from the sea and that the native people were waiting in the forests to ambush his armada. Originally called the "Land of Smoke", the name was later changed to "Land of Fire". The state emblem of a country, commonly referred to as the "Land of Fire" has the fire symbol at its centre. This symbol comes from the fact that the country has many everlasting fires. Identify the place and the country (unrelated to each other).

Answer

Tierra del Feugo, Azerbaijan

Q20

In 2008, the Samanvaya Parivar charity submitted an application for the statue of Mahatma Gandhi to be put up in the city X, which has a predominant Indian population. The MP for X wrote to former footballer Y, asking his opinion after there were calls for a statue of him to be put up instead. In his letter to the MP, Y wrote "Clearly cost will be a factor and perhaps the extra materials required for my ears would make the statue too expensive". Y was made a freeman of the City of X in 1995 and he is often referred to as "X's favourite son".

Identify X and Y.

Answer

X: Leicester

Y: Gary Lineker

Q21

An oculus denotes a circular opening in the

centre of a dome or in a wall. Originating in

antiquity, it is a feature of Byzantine and

Neoclassical architecture. It is also known as

an "oeil de boeuf" in French.

What does "oeil de boeuf" mean in French?

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Answer

Bull’s eye

Scores

Written Round

• 6 questions on airports in the world

• Teams have to write down their answers

• Differential scoring –

• +20 if 1/2 teams gets it

• +10 if 3/4 teams get it

• +5 if 5 teams get it

• No points if all teams get it

Q1

The name of this international airport was

chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and

refers to a fictional kingdom said to have

been located somewhere in Southeast Asia.

The other international airport located in this

city is Don Mueang International Airport.

Which airport?

Answer

Suvarnabhumi International Airport - Bangkok

Q2

The airport in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County,

California, United States is named after X,

who lived here for more than 30 years. The

airport's logo features one of X's most

famous creations in World War I flying ace

attire atop his Sopwith Camel aircraft. Identify

X and Y.

Answer

X: Charles M. Schulz Y: Snoopy

Q3

The motto of which international airport is

"above us only sky"?

(Points only for airport name AND city)

Answer

John Lennon International Airport - Liverpool

Q4

There are 2 airports named after Alexander

the Great. One is the airport in the Greek city

of Kavala. The other one is located in the

capital city of another country. Name both the

capital and the country.

Answer

Skopje, Macedonia

Q5

The international airport in Boscobel is

named after X, whose estate is located here.

The renaming of the airport was

controversial, with some locals feeling that it

should have been named after a prominent

native instead of X. On this, the Prime

Minister remarked that X gave the place "an

image much larger than it would otherwise

have had", and that this was where the

creativity emerged that enabled him to

achieve fame with his works. X? Place?

Answer

X: Ian Fleming

Jamaica

Q6

The international airport of Réunion is named

after a person who was born there. In the

1920s, one of the places which this person

attended religiously when he was studying in

Paris, was named after him. Who?

Answer

Roland Garros

Scores

Infinite Rebound 2

• 21 questions counter-clockwise

• +10/-0 for a direct or passed question

• Onefinite pounce - A team cannot pounce

further once it gets a question wrong on

pounce

• +15/-0 on pounce

• Teams can pounce on their own directs

Q22

Ignaz Semmelweis was a physician who discovered that complications in pregnancy could be drastically cut if doctors adopted a simple practice. However, his observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Some doctors were offended at his suggestion and Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings. Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death because of the discoveries of Louis Pasteur and Jospeh Lister. What practice did Semmelweis propose?

Answer

Washing hands (with disinfectants)

Q23

The X-class landing ships are amphibious

warfare vessels of the Indian navy currently in

active service. Only two ships, the INS X and

the INS Y of this class were designed and built

by Hindustan Shipyard Limited and are now

stationed at Vishakapatnam. X and Y are

named after two animals belonging to the same

order and native to India.

Identify X and Y.

Answer

Magar and Gharial

Q24

The February Revolution was the first of two

revolutions in Russia in 1917 and took place on

8th March 1917. The October Revolution was

the second such revolution and took place with

an armed insurrection in Petrograd on 7th

November 1917. Why are these revolutions

named after the months preceding to the

months in which they actually occurred?

Answer

Russia followed the Julian Calendar in 1917

and the months are a reference to the Julian

dates. Russia switched to the Gregorian

calendar only in 1918.

Q25

In 1841 Mark X and Henry Mayhew conceived the idea of Y. Although Y takes its name from an old British tradition, the name was also a rerference to a joke made early on about Mark X, that "Y is nothing without X". In context of the joke, Y was something brought to England from India by sailors and employees of the British East India Company in the early seventeenth century.

X and Y?

X: Lemon

Y: Punch Magazine

Q26

NASA held an online poll to name Node 3 of the International Space Station. Users were allowed to choose from among four provided names or to suggest their own. Fans of a cult science fiction TV series boosted Y, also the name of a spin-off film, to the top. However, popular television X, urged his viewers to vote for the node to be named after him. Y was the top choice among the NASA-provided names, but finished second overall, losing to X. However, NASA had ultimate discretion in choosing an appropriate name for the node and it was announced that the node would be named Z in honour of the first lunar landing. NASA also decided to name the treadmill the astronauts used for exercise, which was located in Node 3, as "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill".

X, Y and Z?

Answer

X: Serenity

Y: Stephen Colbert

Z: Tranquility

Q27

The Khitan people of Mongolia and Manchuria

were nomads who, in the 4th century,

dominated a vast area north of, and including

parts of, China. An archaic form of the word

"Khitan" was used to refer to China by the

British and the French, and is now best known

as the name of a company headquartered in

Hong Kong.

Which company?

Answer

Q28

At the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, Glenn

Weiss won the Award for "Outstanding

Directing for a Variety Special" for the 67th

Tony Awards. Why couldn't he come on stage

to accept the award?

Answer

He was directing the 66th Primetime Emmy

Awards

Q29

Which one word connects:

1) A geographic and cultural region consisting

of the "eastern Mediterranean littoral between

Anatolia and Egypt"

2) The eastern region of the Iberian Peninsula,

on the Spanish Mediterranean coast (also the

name of a football club based in that region)

3) An easterly wind that blows in the western

Mediterranean Sea and southern France

Answer

Levant/Levante

Q30

In 2000, while managing FC Barcelona, Louis

Van Gaal was widely ridiculed for a “dream”

that he envisioned might happen in the near

future. However, in 2012, during the 26th

minute of Barcelona’s match, when Dani Alves

came off injured to be replaced by Martin

Montoya, his vision was turned into reality.

What was his dream?

Answer

A Barcelona team comprised entirely of home-

grown graduates from La Masia

Q31

King Santanu fell in love with Satyavati who

was Ved Vyasa's mother. Santanu was

formerly married to Ganga, who had killed all

her children at birth except Bhishma, who was

Santanu's heir apparent. Santanu wanted to

marry Satyavati but her father would only

consent to the match on condition that

Satyvati's children and their descendants

succeed to the throne. This story is the reason

behind what mythological event?

Answer

Bhishma renounced his claim to the throne and

took a vow of celibacy.

Q32

This appearance is an effect of polarization and scattering of the light reflected from Earth. The polarization effect depends on various factors such as cloud cover, exposed areas of oceans, forests, deserts and snow fields, etc. The contribution of each surface type is a combination of Rayleigh scattering above the surface and reflection at the surface. The integrated effect causes Earth to appear as it does depending on wavelength, scattering angle and cloud cover. The degree of polarization is particularly strong in the blue region of the visible spectrum due to Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere. This "appearance" was given a certain 3 word name, which was then used as the title of a book.

Which book? Which author?

Answer

Q33

This person is the founder of an organisation

which works to promote human rights,

environmental sanitation, non-conventional

energy and waste management. He has

received global recognition for his work, being

awarded the Padma Bhushan, Stockholm

Water Prize, Energy Globe Award among

others. Which organisation?

(image)

Answer

Sulabh International

Q34

Woh was a show which aired on Zee TV in 1998 and starred Ashutosh Gowarikar. The story depicts seven teenagers who battle a evil force called Woh, who kidnaps children, and rid the town of Panchgani, of his menace. They promise that they'll return, if Woh ever returns. Fifteen years after they part ways, Ashutosh starts seeing balloons, at the places where children are being kidnapped. He immediately recognizes that Woh has returned and calls his friends up to return. It is inspired by a 1986 horror novel which won the British Fantasy Award. The novel deals with themes which would eventually become staples in the author's further works: the power of memory, childhood trauma, and the ugliness lurking behind a façade of traditional small-town values. Identify the author and the book.

Answer

“It” by Stephen King

Q35

Livadia Palace was a summer retreat of the last

Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family. In

2007, Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru,

celebrated her 60th birthday at the palace in

the company of the presidents of Russia,

Ukraine, and Moldavia. Before this, for which

event had a similar group of three people

gathered at the same place?

Answer

Yalta Conference

Q36

The map of Juan de la Cosa made in 1500 in

the city of Puerto de Santa Maria is preserved

at the Museo Naval of Madrid. Its rich

decoration hints that it was ordered by some

powerful member of the court of the Catholic

Monarchs, who ruled the kingdoms of Castile

and Aragon at that time. What “first” does this

map hold?

(image)

Answer

It was the first map to depict the New World

Q37

After Metallica played to a crowd of around 120

people in December last year, they entered the

Guinness Book of World Records for achieving

a certain feat. What feat?

(image)

Answer

Only band to perform on all the 7 continents

Q38

In the novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the head of the British Intelligence Service is called Control. He assigns the code names "Tinker," "Tailor," "Soldier," "Poor Man," and "Beggar Man" to five senior intelligence officers and suspects that one of the five, whose identity is unknown, is a Soviet mole. Control assigns these code names with the intention that if anyone uncovers information about the identity of the mole, it can be relayed back using an easy-to-recall codename.

The names are derived from the rhyme "Tinker, Tailor": Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief.

Why does Control not assign the code name "Sailor" to any officer?

Answer

Because it rhymes with Tailor and might lead to

confusion

Q39

This was a tiny village until the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution led to the growth of the entire area. In the early 20th century, it was the most important coal mining town in all of Europe. The town is now home to a football club which drew many of its players and fans from the coal mines. The club has had mining themed team photos and once the players have actually gone down into the mines. This year, the indoor tunnel of their stadium was redesigned to resemble the interior of a coal mine. Which football club?

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Answer

Schalke 04

Q40

Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist who declined to specialize in only one field. His critics called him _____ because he always came in second in all his endeavours. On the other hand, his disciples called him _______, after the Greek sportsmen who were all-round competitors, for he had proven himself to be knowledgeable in every area of learning.

Fill in the blanks.

Answer

Beta, Pentathlos

Q41

William Paley was an English clergyman who put forward the argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity using the __________ analogy. He stated that the complexity of living organisms was evidence of the existence of a divine creator by drawing a parallel with the work of an intelligent __________. One of the strongest criticisms to this argument was from a person who dubbed the evolutionary processes as analogous to a _____ __________. Fill in the blanks with the name of a book written by this person.

Answer

Q42

His statue is located in the city of Shijiazhuang,

China and you would best know him as the

subject of a pre-Independence Hindi film. Who?

(image)

Answer

Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis

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