THEY ALL

DID IT

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the LONE WOLF

11th Feb, 3 PM, NCDo it alone !

IIM IndoreMridang 2012

Sutra – Lone WolfPrelims

Rules• Solo Quiz• Use of mobile phones, and any other Internet connectivity devices during

the duration of this quiz, is strictly discouraged, at risk of disqualification.• Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.

• Write your name, Institute name, and a contact number, on the answer sheet.

• Starred questions will be used to arbitrate ties (more stars win): no. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Mentioned on the slides. Please mark them on the answer sheet.

• Quizmasters’ decisions are final.

1.

• According to the Anti-Defamation League, the term “___ ___" was popularized by white supremacists Alex Curtis and Tom Metzger in the late 1990s.

• One of the most influential aspects of Metzger's right-wing activism has been his advocacy of the “___ ____ " or "leaderless resistance" model of extremism, which favors individual or small-cell underground activity, as opposed to above-ground membership organizations. The term “___ ____" was subsequently adopted by US law enforcement agencies and by media to refer to individuals following this strategy. Currently, the term “____ ____ terrorism" now refers to violent acts that take place outside a command structure, regardless of ideology.

• Identify the term.

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2.

• What is unusual about these logos ?

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3• Varahappa Iyer, who was a minister in the Maratha court of Tanjore, was also a

friend of the British governor in Madras. The Governor had a band which he showed off to Iyer. When Iyer saw the piano, he fell in love with it immediately, given its range of seven octaves that could support singing in the very low pitches prevalent in South India and its versatility in composing.

• There was one problem though. The piano could not produce the nuanced microtonal variations called gamakam, the soul of a Carnatic ragam. This prompted him to do something.

• Sometime, also in the late 18th Century, Balaswami Dikshitar, brother of composer Muthuswamy Dikshitar, attended a Western music concert by the European Orchestra, run by the East India Company. Inspired as he was, This prompted him to do something.

• Two alternative stories behind what prominent inclusion to Carnatic Music?

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4

• Whose tombstone?

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5*

• This is the Besant Theosophical High School in Adyar, Chennai.

• The school made history when she came to Madras teach children in 1939, and train teachers through the War years.

• Shown is a pic with her teaching some children.

• Who she?

5

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6

• Dow B. Hover (born ca. 1901, died June 1, 1990) was the last person to serve as a State Electrician of the New York State, after which that post was removed.

• He worked from the mid 1950s to 1960s.

• Who/What is a State Electrician?

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7

• X is the world's first and premier Hindi a cappella group, formed in 1996 by students at the University of ______ . X’s music has been influenced by the Eastern and Western cultures that represent the group’s membership.

• The group was featured on the soundtrack of American Desi, and has released seven full-length albums: Awaaz, 11 PM, Soundcheck, The Brown Album, Pehchaan, On Detours, Panoramic, and the compilation album Out of Stock.

• Filename:PM_Obama.jpg

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8

Celebrities who appear on the show are usually impersonated, though some celebrities lend their voice to their characters. Celebrities who have voiced themselves include Michael Buffer, Brent Musburger, Jay Leno, Robert Smith and the bands Radiohead and Korn. Interestingly George Clooney provided the barks for a dog named Sparky in Season One. Identify X.

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9

X is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms. Considered a very graceful dance meant to be performed as a solo recital by women. The credit for reviving this dance in the nineteenth century goes to Swathi Thirunal. The word X literally means "dance of the enchantress". There are approximately 40 different basic movements, known as 'atavukal', in X. The dance follows the classical text of Hastha Lakshanadeepika, which has elaborate description of Mudras. What dance form is X?

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10*

• Joe Murgo, a meteorologist at central Pennsylvanian news channel WTAJ, tries to interview Phil.

• One of the officials say that before 1993, this event would be lucky to have an attendance of 2500, and now it has increased to over 16000.

• What is this all about?• What happened in 1993 [ need the name of the

most famous person associated with it, as well ]

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11•As a 17-year-old, X became the youngest winner of the women's singles title at the 1989 French Open, defeating World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the final. Monica Seles broke the record the following year when she won the title at age 16.

•Nicknamed “Barcelona Bumblebee” by Bud Collins for her “unceasing in determined pursuit of tennis balls, none seeming too distant to be retrieved in some manner and returned again and again to demoralize opponents”. X holds the records for the most matches won by a player in Fed Cup competition (72) and for most ties played (58)

•Who?

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12This quarry is located in a village on the Swedish island of Resaro, in the Vaxholm municipality in the Swedish archipelago is famous for giving the world, 4 rare earth minerals. Name the place.

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13

• X, a Nobel prize winner, is a prolific literary figure known for writing in a variety of styles that spanned epics, political manifestoes, surrealism, prose and erotica. He almost always wrote in green ink, as it was his colour of hope .

• His Pseudonym is said to be a tribute to a French poet Paul Verlaine, and a Czech Poet Jan _____ .

• We know him as ______ ______ . Who X?

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14

After whom is the asteroid named and what is the funda behind it?

• 25924 ________ is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by LINEAR on February 19, 2001 and given the provisional designation 2001 DA42.

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15*

• Robots like these are frequently seen in Indian fairs these days [ no, this is not a MELA question]

• For only 5 rupees or so, the robot’s handler will allow you to plug a pair of headphones into its metallic underpants and listen to it.

• Listen to what?

15*10.

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattlogelin/

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• The on-screen magic of X and Y in their famous and only work together was the result of two actors doing their very best work, not any real-life sparks, though X's perennially jealous wife assumed otherwise.

• Off the set, the co-stars hardly spoke during the filming, where normally she had a reputation for affairs with her leading men. Because Y was taller than X, X had 3-inch (76 mm) blocks attached to his shoes in certain scenes.

• She reportedly said later, "I kissed him but I never knew him”. Years later, after Y had taken up with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and bore him a child, X confronted her. "You used to be a great star", he said, "What are you now?" "A happy woman," she replied

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17

The Company was incorporated on 9th February, 1984 as a private limited company in the name and style of Genius Leasing Finance and Investment Company Limited. The business commenced on 14th March. It was promoted by S.K. Modi of the Modi Group of Companies. The main objective of the company was to manufacture Private air taxi operation.Later X was started as an airline project in February, 1993 by S K Modi, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar K S Jamwal in collaboration with the German flag carrier and on 5 May 1993 took the first flight from New Delhi to Mumbai.The airline due to lack of funds changed hands and became airborne again in a new avatar as Royal Airways . Presently known as Y , it is headquartered in Gurgaon.Id X and Y.

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18

X was discovered by V. S. Wakankar in 1957 and is situated in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within massive sandstone outcrops, above comparatively dense forest, are five clusters of natural rock shelters, displaying paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic Period right through to the historical period. The cultural traditions of the inhabitants of the twenty-one villages adjacent to the site bear a strong resemblance to those represented in the rock paintings. X?

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19• A long rant about a project being started a couple of folks.

Friends, Robots, Public Domain Literature Fans:• We're editing a new version of X's Y that won't be bogged down with what X was trying to say

about racism.

• Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed Y as being "the best book we've ever had." We agree with him-even if he did drink too much. But this classic novel has been banned from many schools and libraries ever since its first publication, because of the book's use of a word over two hundred times. Publisher NewSouth Books is attempting to get the book back on library shelves and in classrooms by publishing a new version that replaces the controversial word.

• Critics are calling this "censorship" and "whitewashing of history." We call it "not far enough."• Robots instead of : Statistically, people prefer robots to the original word . Robots are fun and

cool...even when they're trying to take over our world! So we've decided to take the word out of X's classic and replace it with "robot."

• Why robots? Well, there's no denying it: robots are "in" right now. The film "Transformers" made over $708 million around the world. The film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made over $800 million dollars. The last film version of Y only brought in $24 million dollars. Even accounting for inflation (which we frankly don't know how to do), it's clear that robots are more popular than Y.

• But why not vampires? They're "in" too, aren't they? Good point, hypothetical question asker. Vampires are "in." But replacing the word with vampire would be silly. Robots have a long history in literature and popular culture of being used as a metaphor for slavery and oppression.

• X, Y, word?

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20*

• Waard is a locally brewed drink in this Middle Eastern country. A mixture of locally grown pomegranate and trinj (which is a kind of bitter orange) is combined with carbonated rosewater to produce an aromatic juice.

• Every year it receives a bit of media attention, mostly because of its non-alcoholic nature.

• Which country and why?

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21

• Cartoon making fun of which incident? • Close enough spelling will do

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22

• A non-fiction book released in 2005.• This proves the laws of physics also apply to storytelling. From

powerful events come transformative stories. Some excerpts:• Colonel Yaroshuk is dying now. He’s a chemist-dosimetrist. He

was healthy as a bull. Now he’s lying paralyzed. His wife turns him over like a pillow. She feeds him from a spoon.

And:• One day I walk into the hallway and tell the nurse, “He’s

dying.” The nurse says, “What did you expect? He’s got 1600 roentgen. Four hundred is a lethal dose. He’s a nuclear reactor.”

What is the Book about?

22

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23• We love some controversy, don’t we • X once told Ray Martin that he saw himself in Y, but 15 years after that famous

interview, the theory that Y is a modern-day version of the greatest ever has been debunked.

• Tony Shillinglaw, a former English player and coach who has conducted an extensive biomechanical study of X's technique, argues that there are very few similarities to be made with in terms of style.

• X's tale about watching Y on television became the stuff of legend. • ''I was very, very struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him,''

X said. ''Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this fellow is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on the television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two.”

• So, if Y is not made in the mould of X, and is in fact significantly different, then who has come closest to replicating X?

• ''Funnily enough, the nearest I've seen of all people is Z, even though he was a big bull of a man,'' says Shillinglaw. ''His playing movements were the nearest I've seen to X, and amazingly his timing and his foot movement for a big man - they were very quick.'‘

• X, Y, Z ? [2/3 for part points]

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24• A funny interpretation of something being assembled the IKEA way. ( or is

it IWAY? )

• What it is?

24.

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25*.• A military manoeuvre known as Goose-stepping

was in practice at this place, in full gusto since 1959.

• It has now been agreed by the two parties at either side that the ceremony will now be toned down.

• The reason given was that the people involved found this to be undignified, and it caused them mental and physical strain, and it hurt their feet.

• What specific ritual/tradition?

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Audio/ Visuals

26

• In 1961, V S Naipaul wrote a novel set in the Indian community in Trinidad titled A House for Mr Biswas . It went on to achieve worldwide acclaim, post which it was adapted as a stage musical with compositions by Monty Norman. One of the songs in this musical (titled “Good Sign, Bad Sign”), he claims, served as an inspiration for something iconic. What ?

• AV clip

26

• http://grooveshark.com/s/Good+Sign+Bad+Sign/37Tfan?src=5

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27• Connect

http://grooveshark.com/s/Kurai+Ondrum+MSS/2DvSLG?src=5

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28• The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton

box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton.

• The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom.

• A simulation+diagram of this device is shown.

• What does this device demonstrate?

28

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC6VeE4bzAs

28

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29• What is this move called? • Name the goalkeeper as well

• Image in the next slide, see that first

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CtQytrZGXw&feature=related

29

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30*.• This parody video references : • A TV Show.• A Famous TV-Science personality, with an

epithet that rhymes with his surname.

• Name both [ part points are there]

30*.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fkc5r2lFZs

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ANSWERS

1.

• According to the Anti-Defamation League, the term “___ ___" was popularized by white supremacists Alex Curtis and Tom Metzger in the late 1990s.

• One of the most influential aspects of Metzger's right-wing activism has been his advocacy of the “___ ____ " or "leaderless resistance" model of extremism, which favors individual or small-cell underground activity, as opposed to above-ground membership organizations. The term “___ ____" was subsequently adopted by US law enforcement agencies and by media to refer to individuals following this strategy. Currently, the term “____ ____ terrorism" now refers to violent acts that take place outside a command structure, regardless of ideology.

• Identify the term.

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1.

• Lone Wolf

2.

• What is unusual about these logos ?

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2.

• Google hoaxes as part of April Fool joke

3• Varahappa Iyer, who was a minister in the Maratha court of Tanjore, was also a

friend of the British governor in Madras. The Governor had a band which he showed off to Iyer. When Iyer saw the piano, he fell in love with it immediately, given its range of seven octaves that could support singing in the very low pitches prevalent in South India and its versatility in composing.

• There was one problem though. The piano could not produce the nuanced microtonal variations called gamakam, the soul of a Carnatic ragam. This prompted him to do something.

• Sometime, also in the late 18th Century, Balaswami Dikshitar, brother of composer Muthuswamy Dikshitar, attended a Western music concert by the European Orchestra, run by the East India Company. Inspired as he was, This prompted him to do something.

• Two alternative stories behind what prominent inclusion to Carnatic Music?

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3

• These are the stories behind how the Violin, the western classical instrument, became a standard feature of a Carnatic Music concert.

4

• Whose tombstone?

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4

5*

• This is the Besant Theosophical High School in Adyar, Chennai.

• The school made history when she came to Madras teach children in 1939, and train teachers through the War years.

• Shown is a pic with her teaching some children.

• Who she?

5

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5*

• Maria Montessori of Montessori Movement fame

• Additional Trivia : One of the kids in that pic is the famous Chennai Quizzer Swaminathan’s dad.

6

• Dow B. Hover (born ca. 1901, died June 1, 1990) was the last person to serve as a State Electrician of the New York State, after which that post was removed.

• He worked from the mid 1950s to 1960s.

• Who/What is a State Electrician?

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6

• Executioner who operates the Electric Chair.• New York is now a no death-penalty state.

7

• X is the world's first and premier Hindi a cappella group, formed in 1996 by students at the University of ______ . X’s music has been influenced by the Eastern and Western cultures that represent the group’s membership.

• The group was featured on the soundtrack of American Desi, and has released seven full-length albums: Awaaz, 11 PM, Soundcheck, The Brown Album, Pehchaan, On Detours, Panoramic, and the compilation album Out of Stock.

• Filename:PM_Obama.jpg

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7

• Penn Masala from the University of Pennsylvania

8

Celebrities who appear on the show are usually impersonated, though some celebrities lend their voice to their characters. Celebrities who have voiced themselves include Michael Buffer, Brent Musburger, Jay Leno, Robert Smith and the bands Radiohead and Korn. Interestingly George Clooney provided the barks for a dog named Sparky in Season One. Identify X.

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8

• South Park

9

X is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms. Considered a very graceful dance meant to be performed as a solo recital by women. The credit for reviving this dance in the nineteenth century goes to Swathi Thirunal. The word X literally means "dance of the enchantress". There are approximately 40 different basic movements, known as 'atavukal', in X. The dance follows the classical text of Hastha Lakshanadeepika, which has elaborate description of Mudras. What dance form is X?

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9

• Mohiniattam/ Mohiniyattam

10*

• Joe Murgo, a meteorologist at central Pennsylvanian news channel WTAJ, tries to interview Phil.

• One of the officials say that before 1993, this event would be lucky to have an attendance of 2500, and now it has increased to over 16000.

• What is this all about?• What happened in 1993 [ need the name of the

most famous person associated with it, as well ]

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10*

• 126th edition of ‘Groundhog Day’. Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter.

• Bill Murray comedy “Groundhog Day”

11•As a 17-year-old, X became the youngest winner of the women's singles title at the 1989 French Open, defeating World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the final. Monica Seles broke the record the following year when she won the title at age 16.

•Nicknamed “Barcelona Bumblebee” by Bud Collins for her “unceasing in determined pursuit of tennis balls, none seeming too distant to be retrieved in some manner and returned again and again to demoralize opponents”. X holds the records for the most matches won by a player in Fed Cup competition (72) and for most ties played (58)

•Who?

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11

• Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

12This quarry is located in a village on the Swedish island of Resaro, in the Vaxholm municipality in the Swedish archipelago is famous for giving the world, 4 rare earth minerals. Name the place.

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12

• Ytterby - yttrium (Y), ytterbium(Yb), terbium(Tb) and erbium (Er) have been all named after this place

13

• X, a Nobel prize winner, is a prolific literary figure known for writing in a variety of styles that spanned epics, political manifestoes, surrealism, prose and erotica. He almost always wrote in green ink, as it was his colour of hope .

• His Pseudonym is said to be a tribute to a French poet Paul Verlaine, and a Czech Poet Jan _____ .

• We know him as ______ ______ . Who X?

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13

• Pablo Neruda

14

After whom is the asteroid named and what is the funda behind it?

• 25924 ________ is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by LINEAR on February 19, 2001 and given the provisional designation 2001 DA42.

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14

• Douglas Adams – 2001 is the year of his death and 42 – answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

15*

• Robots like these are frequently seen in Indian fairs these days [ no, this is not a MELA question]

• For only 5 rupees or so, the robot’s handler will allow you to plug a pair of headphones into its metallic underpants and listen to it.

• Listen to what?

15*10.

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattlogelin/

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15*

• Your Fortune.• The robots’ wisdom, apparently, comes on

prerecorded tapes, audio fortune cookies that foresee the future in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu.

16

• The on-screen magic of X and Y in their famous and only work together was the result of two actors doing their very best work, not any real-life sparks, though X's perennially jealous wife assumed otherwise.

• Off the set, the co-stars hardly spoke during the filming, where normally she had a reputation for affairs with her leading men. Because Y was taller than X, X had 3-inch (76 mm) blocks attached to his shoes in certain scenes.

• She reportedly said later, "I kissed him but I never knew him”. Years later, after Y had taken up with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and bore him a child, X confronted her. "You used to be a great star", he said, "What are you now?" "A happy woman," she replied

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16

• X – Humphrey Bogart; Y – Ingrid Bergman

17

The Company was incorporated on 9th February, 1984 as a private limited company in the name and style of Genius Leasing Finance and Investment Company Limited. The business commenced on 14th March. It was promoted by S.K. Modi of the Modi Group of Companies. The main objective of the company was to manufacture Private air taxi operation.Later X was started as an airline project in February, 1993 by S K Modi, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar K S Jamwal in collaboration with the German flag carrier and on 5 May 1993 took the first flight from New Delhi to Mumbai.The airline due to lack of funds changed hands and became airborne again in a new avatar as Royal Airways . Presently known as Y , it is headquartered in Gurgaon.Id X and Y.

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17

• X – Modiluft• Y – Spicejet

18

X was discovered by V. S. Wakankar in 1957 and is situated in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within massive sandstone outcrops, above comparatively dense forest, are five clusters of natural rock shelters, displaying paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic Period right through to the historical period. The cultural traditions of the inhabitants of the twenty-one villages adjacent to the site bear a strong resemblance to those represented in the rock paintings. X?

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18

• Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

19• A long rant about a project being started a couple of folks.

Friends, Robots, Public Domain Literature Fans:• We're editing a new version of X's Y that won't be bogged down with what X was trying to say

about racism.

• Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed Y as being "the best book we've ever had." We agree with him-even if he did drink too much. But this classic novel has been banned from many schools and libraries ever since its first publication, because of the book's use of a word over two hundred times. Publisher NewSouth Books is attempting to get the book back on library shelves and in classrooms by publishing a new version that replaces the controversial word.

• Critics are calling this "censorship" and "whitewashing of history." We call it "not far enough."• Robots instead of : Statistically, people prefer robots to the original word . Robots are fun and

cool...even when they're trying to take over our world! So we've decided to take the word out of X's classic and replace it with "robot."

• Why robots? Well, there's no denying it: robots are "in" right now. The film "Transformers" made over $708 million around the world. The film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made over $800 million dollars. The last film version of Y only brought in $24 million dollars. Even accounting for inflation (which we frankly don't know how to do), it's clear that robots are more popular than Y.

• But why not vampires? They're "in" too, aren't they? Good point, hypothetical question asker. Vampires are "in." But replacing the word with vampire would be silly. Robots have a long history in literature and popular culture of being used as a metaphor for slavery and oppression.

• X, Y, word?

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• Mark Twain• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Replacing ‘n-word’ with‘slave’ was the incident.

20*

• Waard is a locally brewed drink in this Middle Eastern country. A mixture of locally grown pomegranate and trinj (which is a kind of bitter orange) is combined with carbonated rosewater to produce an aromatic juice.

• Every year it receives a bit of media attention, mostly because of its non-alcoholic nature.

• Which country and why?

Answers Follow

20*

• BAHRAIN GP – Only GP where this non alcoholic drink is sprayed instead of champagne.

21

• Cartoon making fun of which incident? • Close enough spelling will do

Answers Follow

21

• The Eyjafjallajökull volcano that erupted in Iceland about an year back.

22

• A non-fiction book released in 2005.• This proves the laws of physics also apply to storytelling. From

powerful events come transformative stories. Some excerpts:• Colonel Yaroshuk is dying now. He’s a chemist-dosimetrist. He

was healthy as a bull. Now he’s lying paralyzed. His wife turns him over like a pillow. She feeds him from a spoon.

And:• One day I walk into the hallway and tell the nurse, “He’s

dying.” The nurse says, “What did you expect? He’s got 1600 roentgen. Four hundred is a lethal dose. He’s a nuclear reactor.”

What is the Book about?

22

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22

• Chernobyl Disaster of 1986

• Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

23• We love some controversy, don’t we • X once told Ray Martin that he saw himself in Y, but 15 years after that famous

interview, the theory that Y is a modern-day version of the greatest ever has been debunked.

• Tony Shillinglaw, a former English player and coach who has conducted an extensive biomechanical study of X's technique, argues that there are very few similarities to be made with in terms of style.

• X's tale about watching Y on television became the stuff of legend. • ''I was very, very struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him,''

X said. ''Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this fellow is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on the television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two.”

• So, if Y is not made in the mould of X, and is in fact significantly different, then who has come closest to replicating X?

• ''Funnily enough, the nearest I've seen of all people is Z, even though he was a big bull of a man,'' says Shillinglaw. ''His playing movements were the nearest I've seen to X, and amazingly his timing and his foot movement for a big man - they were very quick.'‘

• X, Y, Z ? [2/3 for part points]

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23

• X – Don Bradman• Y – Sachin Tendulkar• Z – Inzamam Alu Haq

24• A funny interpretation of something being assembled the IKEA way. ( or is

it IWAY? )

• What it is?

24.

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24

• Large Hadron Collider ( LHC )

25*.• A military manoeuvre known as Goose-stepping

was in practice at this place, in full gusto since 1959.

• It has now been agreed by the two parties at either side that the ceremony will now be toned down.

• The reason given was that the people involved found this to be undignified, and it caused them mental and physical strain, and it hurt their feet.

• What specific ritual/tradition?

Answers Follow

25.

• ‘Lowering of the Flags’ Retreat ceremony – The Energetic parade that follows at the Wagah Border

Audio/ Visuals

26

• In 1961, V S Naipaul wrote a novel set in the Indian community in Trinidad titled A House for Mr Biswas . It went on to achieve worldwide acclaim, post which it was adapted as a stage musical with compositions by Monty Norman. One of the songs in this musical (titled “Good Sign, Bad Sign”), he claims, served as an inspiration for something iconic. What ?

• AV clip

26

• http://grooveshark.com/s/Good+Sign+Bad+Sign/37Tfan?src=5

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26

• James Bond theme music

27• Connect

http://grooveshark.com/s/Kurai+Ondrum+MSS/2DvSLG?src=5

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• Connect – C Rajagopalachari. Bharat Ratna awardee. Founder of the Swatantra party. Penned the lyrics of ‘Kurai Ondrum Illai’ ( sung in the 1967 UN General Assembly by M S Subbulakshmi)

28• The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton

box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton.

• The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom.

• A simulation+diagram of this device is shown.

• What does this device demonstrate?

28

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC6VeE4bzAs

28

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28

• Any of these answers acceptable• Central Limit Theorem• Normal Distribution• Bell Curve

29• What is this move called? • Name the goalkeeper as well

• Image in the next slide, see that first

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CtQytrZGXw&feature=related

29

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29

• Rene Higuita’s scorpion kick

30*.• This parody video references : • A TV Show.• A Famous TV-Science personality, with an

epithet that rhymes with his surname.

• Name both [ part points are there]

30*.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fkc5r2lFZs

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30*.

• Breaking Bad• Bill Nye, The Science Guy

Thank you

• Hope you liked the prelims.

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