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2011 Ganesh Nayak Open Finals

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The Finals of the Ganesh Nayak Open Quiz conducted by Team Nexus for the Top 8 teams from the prelims.

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2011 Ganesh Nayak OpenFinals

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Rounds

• Written round – 8 qns• Clockwise – 18 qns

• Theme 1 – SVC with Maximiser – 9 qns

• Anti-clockwise – 18 qns• Theme 2 – Written – 9 qns

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• 8 Qs on Sheldon Cooper’s quotes• All-written

•+5 for each; +10 if only 1 or 2 teams get it• Bonus 10 if you get all 8

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1.

According to what Sheldon taught Penny, ___ ________ are not named after the scientist, but after the town in Massachusetts.

What is he referring to?

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2.

Wolowitz: It gets better! Someone has to go up with the telescope as a payload specialist. And get who that someone is?

Sheldon: Mohammed Lee!

Wolowitz: Who’s Mohammed Lee?

Sheldon: _________________________________

What does the statistically minded Sheldon reply?

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3.

Howard [to Leonard]: Are you familiar with the _____ ______?

Sheldon: The one that estimates the odds of making contact with extra-terrestrials by calculating the product of an increasingly restrictive series of fractional values such as those stars with planets, and those planets likely to develop life? N equals R times FP times NE times FL times FI times FC times L? [pause]

Howard: Yeah, that one.

Fill in the blanks

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4.

Sheldon: I need your help in a matter of _____

Penny: What?

Sheldon: _________, the study of signs and symbols as a branch of the philosophy related to linguistics.

Penny: Okay, sweetie, I know you think you are explaining yourself, but you're really not

Fill in the blank; as an added question, what three branches is this divided into? (5+5 points)

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5.

Sheldon: “There's an economic concept known as a ______ ____ in which an object is only valued by the possessor because it's not possessed by others. The term was coined in 1976 by economist _____ _____ to replace the more colloquial, but less precise "neener-neener".”

Fill in with the name of the concept and the economist (5+5)

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6.

After Leonard asks him why a letter is in the trash: “Well, there’s always the possibility that a trash can spontaneously formed around the letter, but _______ _____ would suggest that someone threw it out.”

Fill in the blank with a concept

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7.

Sheldon: “Engineering - where the noble, semi-skilled labourers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, _____ _____of science!”

Fill in the blank with the

name of characters from

a well-loved book/film

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8.

Amy: Trust me. With your right hand, locate the spot where the scapula meets the acromion process.

Sheldon: All right.

Amy: Now push your third finger along the ridge of the shoulder blade, making a small rotation as you do so.

Sheldon: Rotating.

Amy: You should feel a small node-like object rolling back and forth along the bone.

Sheldon: You mean the _______ _____?

What are such points, which doctors use to cite as the source of unexplained pain?

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Exchange Sheets….

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Answers

1. Fig Newtons2. Mohammed is the most common first name, and Li is the most common surname in the world3. Drake Equation4. Semiotics – Semantics, Syntactics, Pragmatics5. Positional Good – Fred Hirsch6. Occam’s Razor7. Oompa Loompas8. Myofascial / Trigger points

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Clockwise

• 18 questions• 10 pts per question

• Infinite Bounce

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1.

Someone’s explanation for a certain decision:

• "Maybe it's 'cos I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear. The wisdom you've accumulated. Somehow it lives on. But sometimes I think it's just like an ____ ____. Click and you're gone. And that is why I don’t like putting….”

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Answer

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• Jobs explaining why he preferred having no on-off switches on Apple

devices

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2. Two paintings by Australian artist John Brack, titled “The Bar” and “Collins St. 5 PM”. The paintings depict something called, “Six o’clock swill” – a prevalent phenomenon in ANZ in the first half of the 20th century. What?

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Answer

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• The six o'clock swill was an Australian slang term for the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar before it closed. During a significant part of the 20th century, most Australian and New Zealand hotels shut their public bars at 6 p.m. A culture developed of heavy drinking during the hour between finishing work at 5 p.m. and the bars closing at this early hour.

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3.• A study by Columbia University’s Earth

Institute has concluded that this has played a role in 21% of civil wars worldwide between 1950 and 2004.

• The vicious cycle begins with spread of infectious diseases, increases in income inequality and a labor market effect that promotes unemployment and makes it attractive to fight.

• A contributing factor is the inability of governments to enforce laws during weather driven events.

• What was being correlated with civil wars?

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Answer

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• El Nino

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4.• New findings suggest the name may

have come from a character Admlithi found in an Irish tragedy titled The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel.

• The word Admlithi may have been brought to Scandinavia by sailors who used it to refer to dangerous whirlpools.

• Eventually, the Icelandic poet, Snow Bear may well have picked up this word and modified it in the context of the grinding ocean.

• What name?

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Answer

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• Hamlet

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5.

• Nicknamed the Schindler of his domain of business, he established what was called the ______ Freedom Train, a covert means of allowing Jews to leave Germany to the various sales offices of his firm around the world.

• Each new employee of the firm arriving on the New York pier would have around his neck a _____, a symbol of freedom from the Nazis.

• Name him and the brand he pioneered (blank)

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Answer

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• Ernst Leitz II, Leica Cameras

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6• The Great Wyrley Outages were a 1903

event involving slashings of horse, sheep and cows, in which local solicitor George Edalji was tried and convicted.

• While Edalji was temporarily released in 1906 after a suspended sentence, X was persuaded to play detective to prove the man’s innocence, a feat he(X) achieved after 8 months of effort.

• A 2005 Man Booker nominated novel chronicles the friendship between X and Edalji.

• Who is X ?Also name the writer of the 2005 novel

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Answer

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• Arthur Conan Doyle• Julian Barnes

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• In 13th century Bruges, merchants would often hang one (or at times three) of these outside the houses where they met and traded.

• This convention led to the place of exchange itself getting the name of what was hung outside.

• Until 2000, a European institution went by this name until it was changed to something more global in terminology.

• What word?

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Answer

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• Bourse from Purses/Money Bags hung outside houses in which trading was

conducted• (Paris’ exchange used to be called

Bourse until it was changed to Euronext in 2000)

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8.• This term was coined by 20th century

artist Thomas Wilfred to refer to art created from light and distinguished by amorphous spindly moving forms. As conceived, the art form was a self contained and silent art, and though Wilfred intended the term to refer to any art created by light, its use was never widely accepted.

• The term has now enjoyed a revival in a technology context with a first of its kind for a brand.

• What term?

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Answer

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• Lumia – the name of Nokia’s first Windows phone series

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9. Fan tribute with a fictional character’s perspective on something in the popular consciousness. Who on what?

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Answer

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• Rorschach on the Occupy Wall Street Protests

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10.• The true origin of the name of this

profession comes from England when a master artist would take on apprentices to learn his craft. The oldest, most trusted apprentice chosen to manage the other apprentices would be conferred this title.

• The term moved on to films and now refers to either of two roles – the first assistant to the Gaffer (chief electrician) and the one who answers directly to the Key Grip.

• What 2 word profession name?

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Answer

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• Best Boy

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11.• Antonio Pasin arrived in 1914 at Ellis

Island with his cousin from Venice. His background as a woodmaker carving cabinets helped setup a firm which was named after a popular landmark nearby and manufactured a product that was every kid’s toy dream in 1927.

• Since wood carving would not help keep up with demand, Pasin moved to a steel version, and named this new product after a combination of a popular invention of the time and the airplane.

• Name his company and the new steel product.

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Answer

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• Liberty Coaster Company• Radio Flyer (Radio + Airplane)

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12.• Over 4000 laws dictate the act of

reproducing the 304,805 letters therein. The slightest mistake is enough reason to burn and start over and the one entrusted with the act must bathe in the ritual pool before attempting even once the 4 letters that repeat endlessly in these letters.

• Feathers of a goose or turkey are used for writing, while the ink is produced by combining a blend of powdered gall nuts, copper sulfate crystals, gum arabic, and water, preparing only a small amount at a time, so that the ink will always be fresh. 

• What is being reproduced?

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Answer

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• Torah

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13. • Story goes that Grace Greenwood Billings

wrote to him in an Oct 1860 letter urging him that this would garner him more votes, including one from her baby sister.

• He responded in a letter saying he was not sure if it would be silly but having considered it, he supposedly did implement the plan and met with instant success.

• He met her in person later, an event commemorated by a statue at Westfield with the title “______’s Little Girl”

• What was the suggestion and to who was it made?

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Answer

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• Lincoln was asked to grow a beard

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14.• Introduced in 1941, it did not come with

the regular liquid that was characteristic of its predecessors but with a new formula version that had a high isopropyl alcohol content.

• Its body was made of a new plastic Lucite to prevent corrosion by the new formula.

• Named after the year 1939, it had little or no resemblance to the aircraft in the picture, but was nevertheless used smartly by the company’s advertising team.

• What? (Pic on next slide)

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Answer

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• Parker 51• (P-51 Mustang aircraft)

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15.• The project devised by architect

Paul Chemetov involved marking the distance from Dunkerque, Nord-Pas-de-Calais to Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste with trees in a straight line.

• From 13 - 15 July, 2000, the sky above Paris was marked with colored lasers located on the Observatory.

• If the French had not been a little too patriotic, the trees might have extended all the way up to Montjuic castle in Barcelona. What was being commemorated?

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Answer

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• The Paris Meridian

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16.• The story of this killer mirrors the first chapter of

a children’s favorite: Thousands of years ago, JEV lived in Indonesia with its friends, the ancestors of the pig and the egret. JEV visited the egret and the pig by hitching a ride with a mosquito. In the 19th century the egret changed its lifestyle. The pig made a deal with an Outsider and the mosquito changed its flight plan to visit the Outsider. This helped JEV manifest in 1870 in a nearby nation.

• A child explaining this will tell you that villain isn’t JEV, the mosquito, the pig or the egret either but that all four friends betrayed each other because of the Outsider.

• What’s JEV and what nickname does it go by in Indian medical circles?

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Answer

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•Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV)•Panchatantra Virus

•(the story mirrors the first chapter The Betrayal of Friends)

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17.• Created by Petri Purho, this

game for Windows launches, starts a full screen black and white progress bar, and checks online to see if anyone else is “playing.”

• If anyone else in the world is currently playing, or launches the game while you play, you “lose” and the game quits. You can only win if you pass 273 seconds without anyone else attempting to play.

• In a dual sort of honor, the game also features “music”.

• What inspired the game?

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Answer

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•John Cage’s silent musical piece 4’33” which is silent for exactly 4

minutes and 33 seconds (273 seconds)

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18.

• Published first in 1974 by two professors from Scotland, the scale has 3 sub categories called eyes, verbal and motor with a grading rating of 1 to 6 on each subcategory.

• The sum rating called the GCS can range between 3 (the lowest and most critical) to the 15 (the highest and least critical).

• What does GCS stand for?

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Answer

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• Glasgow Coma Scale

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Medium Visual Connect•Theme points on each slide

•+5 for identifying the connect for each visual

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V1: +25/-12

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V2: +25/-12

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V3: +18/-9

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V4: +18/-9

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V5: +12/-6

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V6: +12/-6

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V7: +10/-5

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V8: +10/-5

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V9: +8/-4

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Exchange Sheets….

• THEME?

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FAMOUS PEOPLE NAMED AFTER

SOMEONE FAMOUS

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Answers

1. Naguib Mahfouz – the doctor, Naguib Pasha Mahfouz2. Inspector Morse – Jeremy Morse3. F Scott Fitzgerald – F Scott Key4. Roberto Carlos – the namesake singer5. Roald Dahl – Roald Amundsen6. George Washington Carver – George Washington 7. Lewis Hamilton – Carl Lewis8. Neil Harvey Fairbrother – Neil Harvey9. Thejaswi Udupa – Poornachandra Thejaswi

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Anti-Clockwise

• 18 questions• 10 pts per question

• Infinite Bounce

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1.• There are various methods to arrive at the final

‘weights’:• The principle of least effort wherein the effort is

the number of weights required to be able to produce a certain number. The answer would be a power of 2 system involving 1, 2, 4 and 8 weights.

• The competing method, Problem of Bachet, in which 1, 3, 9 and 27 pound weights helped acquire any weight between 1 and 40 pounds.

• Another system involves prime factors of 10, namely 2 and 5, essentially the 1-2-5 system, called the power of 2.2 system.

• Empirical evidence from 150 countries indicates that the power of 3 is preferred. What methods are these?

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Answer

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•Methods to arrive at currency denominations

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2. This work by Nadia Plesner is a recreation of another famous work, and is titled similarly referencing an on-going conflict in Sudan. Nadia has been sued by a brand for poorly representing them in this painting.Name all three – the original work, this title and the brand

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Answer

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• Original – Guernica by Picasso• Title of this painting – Darfurnica,

after the Darfur genocide• Brand – Louis Vuitton

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3.• X – An asst. to the Chairman of Paramount

and revived the Star Trek franchise; worked his way up to President of Production; later turned around Disney’s Feature Animation and Motion Picture divisions as the Chairman

• Y – founded Asylum Records in 1970, which signed artists like Jackson Browne, The Eagles, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. In 1980, founded an eponymous record label that released John Lennon’s Double Fantasy. Also was the Broadway backer for the musicals Dreamgirls and Cats.

• ID X & Y, and the missing member of the trio

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Answer

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• X – Jeffrey Katzenberg• Y – David Geffen

• Missing person is Steven Spielberg of Dreamworks SKG

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4. Connect and explain

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Answer

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• Raymond Loewy– He introduced the bright

white lettering instead of the traditional Coca-Cola name

– Loewy design for Skylab including pleasing colors, a new toilet system, and an area for eating and relaxing. His contributions to livability were one of the keys to the success of Skylab

– Loewy’s jacked-up passenger area for Greyhound

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5. ID, connect and explain.

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Answer

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• The tilings in the Alhambra in Spain were laid out by the Moors in the 14th century. They are made of coloured tiles forming symmetrical and geometric patterns.

• They inspired a young M.C Escher, who copied these geometric tessellations into his notebooks and later converted some into tessellations of animals or people.

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6.There’s Oliver Haddo, the protagonist of The Magician, a book by W. Somerset Maugham, loosely based on, and an unkind representation of Aleister Crowley.There’s Andrew Norton, the time-traveller from Slow Chocolate Autopsy, a book by Iain Sinclair.Then there are the constant characters, Wilhel“mina” Harker, and Orlando (probably from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando).Throw in pop references, such as Harry Potter, the Iraq war, Universal Exports, and Rosemary’s Baby, and what do you have?

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Answer

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• They are from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, by Moore and Kevin O’Neill.

• And this one is the fourth book in the series, Century (after Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and The Black Dossier)

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7.

When it was exported to the Norwegian coast from as early as the 17th century, the humidity of the wooden boats and the sea winds combined to cause them to turn from green to a golden yellow and lose their original acidity, resulting in a sweet and syrupy brew. When transportation was modernized in the early 20th century, the beans were much better protected from the elements. In 1972, after repeated complaints of a quality drop, a process was developed to replicate these natural conditions. The beans were exposed to the winds in season—from June through September—in the port city of Mangalore. In 2008, it acquired a Geographical Indication (GI) tag.

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Answer

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• Monsooned Malabar coffee beans

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One of the whackiest conflicts in history, it came about this way. In the name of enforcing the Utrecht treaty, in 1731, a Spanish coast guard sloop intercepted the British merchant brig Rebecca on its way from Jamaica to London. According to the Spanish, the logs and cargo were incongruous, and the captain of the merchant vessel and his crew were accused of violating trade laws. The merchant vessel’s captain supposedly insulted the Spanish captain, Juan Fandino, who in turn did something to him and reportedly said, "Were the King of England here and also in violation of the laws, I would do the same for him!” What Spanish-English conflict did this lead to?

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Answer

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• The war of Jenkins’ Ear (1739-1748)• before a committee of the House of

Commons, Jenkins reported the incident and exhibited his severed

ear.

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____ ______ (X) is a misnomer popularised by the media in recent times. It should actually relate to the establishment of the _____ _____ (Y) in 1946, when two Syrian intellectuals, Michel Aflaq, a Greek Orthodox Christian and Salah al-Bitar, a Sunni Muslim, returned after studying at the Sorbonne, and worked together to formulate a doctrine that combined aspects of nationalism and socialism committed to unity and freedom from Western colonialism.

What are X and Y?

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Answer

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• Arab Spring• Ba’ath Party

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Though the first one in the new series relates how the flagship team came together, Geoff Johns and John Lee's version is a bit darker than earlier– for one thing, the public does not trust the sudden emergence of __________. "We want to show the journey and how we start off in a world where there is paranoia because we have all these superpowers that show up, and a lot of them are aliens, a lot of them have these amazing abilities that make them seem immortal.”

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Answer

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• The new avatar of the DC Justice League

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11.The story of disappointed Westport, Conn., strivers Tom and Betsy Rath, the book is an opportunity to see how a World War II veteran might handle the rat race in 1950s New York City. Made into a Gregory Peck movie, the name itself might suggest the typical sort who one would find working in the rat race.

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Answer

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• The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

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12. Explain

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Answer

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• A psychic sheep, similar to Paul the Octopus, picking winners at the recently concluded Rugby World Cup

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13.

In 2009 speaking about his battle with cancer, Severiano Ballesteros said: “I am not called Seve Ballesteros. I am called Seve ________, because I’ve had the luck to be given… a second chance.”Fill in the blank.

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Answer

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• Mulligan, which in golf is to get a second chance (a retaken shot on the

first tee box, usually due to a previously errant one)

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14.

What is the Kalpasutra?

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Answer

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The Kalpasutra is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, most notably Parshvanath and Mahavira, including the latter's Nirvana.

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15.

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Answer

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• Miniver - an unspotted white fur derived from the stoat, and with

particular use in the robes of peers

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16.

If a gill is a quarter-pint, and a quart is two pints, what is the new Australian measure of two-third pints introduced recently in Britain's in hopes that the new-size glass will curb excessive drinking?

The measure is also a sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremast smaller than the mainmast.

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Answer

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• Schooner

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17.

The background was the difficulty of teaching monks and cathedral singers the Gregorian chant. This official music of the Roman Catholic liturgy was a monodic plainchant. It replaced the early tenth century neumes (from the Greek for 'breaths'), a slapdash method.

What was invented in Arezzo using the first stanza of an eighth-century Latin hymn to John the Baptist written by Paul the Deacon?Ut queant laxis resonare fibrisMira gestorum famuli tuorum,Solvepolluti labii reatum ...

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Answer

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• He got the names of the notes - ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, from which we get

the modern musical notation

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18.

“Called simply The _________, it has some dancers relaxing with their chaperones in the foreground on the right, while more girls descend by means of a spiral staircase that blocks off the view on the left hand side. The _________ itself is going on in the middle distance above an acreage of floorboards. Just visible in the upper right is Jules Perrot with his big stick. It is a lovely example of a moment captured in real life, almost a fly-on-the-wall painting, with lots of things going on at once, people partially obscured, figures broken up by objects in the way, a pair of legs in the top left corner entering from the floor above, a snapshot of a moment in time in a place of bustling activity, people and objects not posed for a picture but chaotic and half-seen, as they are in real life.”

What is being described and who is the creator?

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Answer

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• Edgar Degas’ The Rehearsal

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Theme

•9 Qs All-written•+5 for each

•Theme Points on each slide

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In days of yore, a straight-edged spatula like implement, often placed on the opposite end of the stylus tip, would be used in a razor-like fashion to serve as an eraser. The entire X could be erased for reuse by warming it to about 50 deg C and smoothing the softened wax surface. What expression comes from this practice?

1+25/-10

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While the latter era Codex, protected in leather cases, could be termed ‘random-access’, what would relate to ‘sequential-access’ in today’s computer terms, that were originally stored on open racks, flat suspended on handles?

+25/-10

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Tacitus, who was a boy at the time, talks a lot of how this person opened public buildings and his own gardens as temporary shelter, He also imported grain from nearby places and supplied his citizens. In any case he could not have done what he is often believed to have, since a certain implement was not yet invented. He did however know how to use another stringed one, the X.What is X?

+20/-10

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I used a three string Balalaika in time for the recording of "Jeffery Goes To Leicester Square". Martin Barre kindly gave me a Gibson SG pointy horn electric guitar which I ventured to use on the Benefit album. With our first trip to America, my French Selmer X gave out and was replaced with a US made Artley, a basic student model sturdily made for the school band trade. My practice, or kitchen, X is a Yamaha student model, cheapest in the line, and well recommended. I take it on holiday and leave it assembled when at home to pick up and puff on whenever passing. It undoubtedly helped when I gave up smoking, a good few years ago.

Who is talking, and what is X?

+20/-10

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Consonance occurs when the voice is supported and strengthened due to suitably placed reflecting surfaces, and two identical waves arriving at the same point at the same point time, combine to produce the sum of their effects. Occurring in the space between the actor’s face and X, consonance was described by Vitruvius as the only positive acoustic phenomenon in an otherwise sad atmosphere. What is X?

+15 / -5

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This is a Somerset Maugham novel about a British Medical doctor, fighting a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, wile also being trapped at home in loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.ID

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ID

+10 / -5

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What was originally called Big Head, had nearly limitless power and an altered appearance, characterized by a large set of teeth and green head and was inspired by a combination of the Joker and Steve Ditko's Creeper, as well as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

+10 / -5

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Invented during the Chinese Han dynasty, the two most widely used types are magnetic and gyro. An example of others that work on similar principles, but are not conventional is the Chinese south-pointing chariot, which works by ‘dead reckoning.’

What?

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Exchange Sheets….

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Answers

1. X: Tablets; Tabula Rasa from ‘clean slate’2. Scrolls3. (Nero playing the) Cithara (or Kithara)4. Ian Anderson and the flute5. Tragedy Mask6. The Painted Veil7. LyreBird8. Comedy Mask9. Compass

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Emblems of the Muses

Muse Domain Emblem

Calliope Epic poetry Writing tablet

Clio History Scrolls

Erato Love poetry Cithara

Euterpe Song and Elegy

Aulos (an ancient Greek flute)

Melpomene

Tragedy Tragic mask

Polyhymnia

Hymns Veil

Terpsichore

Dance Lyre

Thalia Comedy Comic mask

Urania Astronomy Globe and compass

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