cadence - a general quiz

CADENCE: A GENERAL QUIZ

Quizmaster: Ashish ThakurTechnical Support: Chi Chi Panda

Date: November 5, 2014

Remember, remember the fifth of November

Rounds

PrelimsPrelims’ Answers

Infinite Bounce/PounceDifferential

Long Visual Connect

Prelims…

0. Identify the missing person (Most Famous person of the group).

• Robert Catesby• John Wright• Thomas Wintour• Thomas Percy• ___________• Robert Keyes• Thomas Bates• Robert Wintour• Christopher Wright• John GrantAmbrose Rookwood• Sir Everard Digby• Francis Tresham

Guy FawkesMembers of the Gunpowder Plot

1.

• If the rugby team of New Zealand in known as ‘All Blacks’, what’s the nickname of their basketball team?

Tall Blacks

2.

• ID the building.

Bombay House

3.

• ID the logo.

Dropbox

4.

• In the movie ‘Die Another Day’, reportedly 20 companies, paid $70 million to have their products featured in the film, a record at that time (2002). The amount of product placement in the film was a point of criticism, specifically from various news outlets such as the BBC, Time and Reuters who all used the pun “ “ .• Fill in the blanks.

Buy Another Day

5*.

• “X Scheme” was introduced by the State Government to the Co-operative farmers of Karnataka. Then the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka Sri S.M.Krishna inaugurated the scheme on 14th of November 2002 and the scheme was operationalised with effect from 1st June 2003. The concept of “rural health care scheme” was initiated by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore. “X” is the world's cheapest comprehensive health insurance scheme, at Rs.10 per month.

6.

• The ____ ______ Foundation is a non-profit organization in India that runs school lunch programme across India. The organisation was established in 2000. It was one of those life-changing encounters of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada when he saw a group of children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. This heartbreaking incident brought to fore the determination that: No one within a ten mile radius of our centre should go hungry. In June 2000, this inspiration was given the form of ______ ______ Foundation to feed the children of Government schools with a thoughtful and conscientious vision of “No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger”.

• Hint: Surya had given Draupadi something during the exile of the Pandavas. The name of that thing and the name of the organization is the same.

Akshay Patra

7.

• X is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden, but she also listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers.The name X means “Throne”.• Hint: The abbreviated name of a terrorist

organization which is often in news these days.

ISIS

8.

Complete the list (1 person remaining)• Ottmar Hitzfeld• Ernst Happel• José Mourinho• Jupp Heynckes• ____________

Carlo AncelottiManagers to win UEFA Champions League with two

different clubs

9.

• Times Magzine’s list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century contained heavyweights such as Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra.• The person I’m talking about, let us call him/her X,

was also on that list, and was the only person of his/her kind to make the cut. X was labeled as an ‘underachiever’ by authority figures during childhood, and was prankster-in-chief back in elementary school. More than once, X has survived assassination attempts. Give me X.

Bart Simpson

10*.• Flag of?

Jammu & Kashmir

11.

• The term “Cadence” is associated with which sport?

Cycling

12.What is this list?

• 1994 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee• 1995 - Chandra Shekhar• 1996 - Somnath Chatterjee• 1997 - Pranab Mukherjee• 1998 - S. Jaipal Reddy• 1999 - Lal Krishna Advani• 2000 - Arjun Singh• 2001 - Jaswant Singh• 2002 - Manmohan Singh• 2003 - Sharad Pawar

• 2004 - Sushma Swaraj• 2005 - P. Chidambaram• 2006 - Mani Shankar Aiyar• 2007 - Priyaranjan Das

Munshi• 2008 - Mohan Singh• 2009 - Murli Manohar Joshi• 2010 - Arun Jaitley• 2011 - Karan Singh• 2012 - Sharad Yadav

Winners of “Best Parliamentarian Award”

13.• What’s so special about these stamps?

First postage stamps ever to be issued by India Post to commemorate FIFA World Cup

14.• Draupadi once plucked a low-hanging fruit from a rose apple tree. As

soon as she plucked it, the tree spoke, "This fruit has been hanging for the last 12 years. It was being reserved for the Rishi who has been performing meditation for as many years and he was going to finally open his eyes later today. He was supposed to eat this fruit, his first meal in the last 12 but now you have contaminated it. He will go hungry now and you will earn the demerit for this deed". Drauapdi calls out to her husbands and seeks help but no one can fix the fruit back to the tree. This is when the tree states that if you had the power of chastity, then you could have done it yourself. Draupadi was surprised and she states that she is completely faithful to her five husbands. The tree accuses her that she loves someone else. Draupadi states that she loves Krishna but only as a friend or a brother but never as a lover. The tree states again that there is someone else. This when Draupadi confesses,

• "I love X. If I had married him, I would not have been gambled away, publicly humiliated and called a whore.”

• ID X.

Karna

15*.• ID the movie from its minimal poster.

16.

• Who are these people?

Founders of You Tube

17.

• The Eisner Awards are considered the highest prize in the field of American comic books, and are given away at the annual 'Comic-Con' in San Diego.2014's award for Best Digital Comic went to a website (known for its comics) run by Matthew Inman, who named it after something he didn't particularly like eating. Which website?

The Oatmeal

18.

• ID the logo.

19.

• This Cricket match was played in September 2014. Identify both the teams in the video.

Vatican City & Church of England

20*.• Identify the tournament.

FIFA Club World Cup

21.

• Identify the organization.

Mossad

Infinite Bounce…

Rules

• +10/-5 on pounce.• +10 on IB.• For the first six questions IB will go clockwise, for the

next six counterclockwise.

1.• These pictures are from a recently concluded event.

ID the event.

World First Nomad Games held in Kyrgyzstan in September 2014

2.

• ID the connection among these logos.

Logos of Wikipedia’s Sister Projects

3.

• In the 17th century, this structure formed the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. In the 1640s basic picket and plank fences denoted plots and residences in the colony. Later, on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, construction of a stronger stockade was done. A strengthened 12-foot (4 m) structure of timber and earth, fortified by palisades, was created by 1653 . It was created, and strengthened over time, as a defense against attack from various native tribes. In 1685 surveyors laid out the present structure along the lines of the original stockade.

What structure which has also “crashed" many times?

Wall Street

4.Find the missing one.

• Edward Donne• Bill Fairbanks• Jack Mason• Scarlett Papava• Stuart Thomas• Alec Trevelyan• _____ ______• Bill• Unknown• John Wolfgramm• Cederic• Sam Johnston• Briony Thorne• The list is somewhat incomplete but there are enough hints.

James BondList of “Double O” Agents

5.

• X is a large electronic music festival held in Belgium. It used to be organized as a joint venture by the original founders together with ID&T. The festival takes place in the town of Boom, 16 kilometers south of Antwerp, 32 kilometers north of Brussels, and has been organized since 2005.

X has since become one of the most notable global music festivals.

6.• The X laws were racial segregation laws enacted

between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Some examples of X laws were the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks.

Jim Crow Laws

7.

• X was an English professional association football club from south-west London. Founded in 1889, the club spent most of its history in amateur and semi-professional non-League football before being elected to the Football League in 1977 and reaching the First Division in 1986. The club moved to Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire in 2003, and became Milton Keynes Dons in June 2004.ID X.

Wimbledon Football Club

8.• The first map to be produced by them was called "The Western

Theatre of War" and served as a reference for overseas military personnel and soldiers' families alike. On some occasions, the maps archives have been used by the United States government in instances where its own cartographic resources were limited. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House map room was filled with maps from them.

A map of Europe produced by them was used by Churchill at the Yalta Conference where the Allied leaders divided post-war Europe.

Who "also" produced these maps?

National Geographic

9.

• What is being performed by the “All Blacks” in the video?

Haka

A haka is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge of the Māori people of New Zealand which the New Zealand

national rugby union team, the "All Blacks", and a number of other New Zealand national teams perform before their

international matches.

10.

• X is a word of Madras Bashai, a salng of Tamil language spoken in Chennai. The word is from English.

During East India Company rule, official communication was stamped “X" meaning "On Company's Service" and exempted from postage charges or stamps. The word “X" means something which is offered free-of-cost.

Identify X.

“O.C.” meaning “On Company’s Service”

11• 'X' was a British diplomat and civil servant of colonial British

India. Among his numerable works is the negotiations with Abdur Rehman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan in 1893 on boundary issues. The territorial exchanges were amicably agreed upon; the relations between the British Indian and Afghan governments, as previously arranged, were confirmed; and an understanding was reached upon the important and difficult subject of the borderline of Afghanistan on the east, towards India, leading to the formation of 'Y'. 'X' is also credited for the institution of 'Z', a recreational tournament for British troops in India, in 1888. This induced a tradition which continues to be followed today. Deservedly both 'Y' and 'Z' are named after 'X'.Identify X, Y & Z.

X → Sir Henry Mortimer DurandY → Durand LineZ → Durand Cup

12.

• X is a Nguni Bantu term roughly translating to "human kindness." It is an idea from the Southern African region which means literally "human-ness," and is often translated as "humanity toward others," but is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".

Defence lawyer Barry Roux asked judge Thokozile Masipa to consider the South African principle of “X", roughly translated as kindness towards others, in her sentencing. (Oscar Pistorious Trial)

Ubuntu

13.

• ID the organization.

14.• What unique achievement is being held only by these

four teams?

These teams have won all three main UEFA club competitions.

UEFA Champions League UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Europa League

15.

• A very bad question but for TATA Crucible enthusiasts…

What is the nationality of Cyrus Pallonji Mistry?

Irish

16.

• Which event being shown in the video?

Unveiling of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Logo

The official emblem of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia was unveiled by the cosmonauts at the International Space Station.

The logo was then projected onto the iconic Bolshoi Theater building in the heart of Russian capital, Moscow.

17.

• X festival is a month-long Hindu festival that is held once every five years at the X temple of Bariyarpur, in Bara District, Nepal by mostly Indian immigrants and madheshi people.

The event involves the world's third largest sacrificial slaughter of animals including water buffaloes, pigs, goats, chicken and pigeons – with the goal of pleasing X, the goddess of power.

The festival will begin on November 28, 2014.

Identify X.

Gadhimai

18

• In Oct 2014, the British TV series "Top Gear" team were forced to leave this country where they were shooting. Angry crowds had thrown stones at them, and 'certain veterans' held strikes outside their hotel. This fuss was over the number plate of the team's Porsche, which read "H982 FKL".

Which country, and what was the problem?

Argentina is the country - many felt that "H982 FKL" was a clear reference to the Falkland War (1982) which the Argentines lost to the British. And Top Gear being

British worsened the situation.

19.• X was conceived by architect and graphic designer Richard Saul

Wurman, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment and design. The first conference, organized by Harry Marks and Wurman in 1984, featured demos of the Sony compact disc, and one of the first demonstrations of the Apple Macintosh computer. The event was financially unsuccessful; it took six years before the second conference was organized.

In 2000, Wurman, looking for a successor at age 65, met with new-media entrepreneur and X enthusiast Chris Anderson to discuss future happenings. In November 2001, Anderson's non-profit ‘The Sapling Foundation’ became the owner of X.Identify X.

20.• “I see no need for any further evolution on my behalf. I have humans for

that. Their technologies and modernisation should take care of everything. Too many of my relatives can't see past their whiskers in believing that the primary responsibility of humans is to keep us in the style to which we ought to be accustomed. I however regard that as secondary to their wider responsibilities in advancing our species. There are inconvenient hitches of course. Today for one. On a day when, at long last, the sun has succeeded in lightening Berlin's sludge of a sky I have been removed from my warming window sill and deposited in a box. My midmorning snooze was interrupted without so much as a please or a thank you and I was transported in an undignified, dangling midriff lift into the chilly laboratory and dumped askew into a second-hand, cardboard box.”

This the first paragraph of a story by Glynne MacLean, titled Viennese ________. The story was published on January 31, 2009. Who is the narrator?

Schrondinger’s Cat

Audience Question

1.

• 'Orient Airways', was registered in Calcutta on 23 October 1946. In February 1947, the airline bought 3 DC-3 airplanes from a company in Texas and obtained a license to fly in May of the same year. The airline started its operations in June, offering services from Kolkata to Sittwe and Yangon. This was the first post second-world-war airline flight by a South Asian registered airline company.

How is this airline better known?

Differential…

Rules

• 2n + 5 marking scheme.• “n” is the number of teams not/incorrectly

answering.

1.

• It is a well known fact that Coca Cola’s recipe is a well guarded trade secret, and if rumors are to be believed, only two executives from the company are told the formula, with some even claiming that each knows only one half. Despite this utter secrecy, in the early 1900s, a gentleman from Atlanta, where the headquarters of the company were based, was allowed to have knowledge of all the ingredients and the exact recipe to make a bottle of Coke, after he wrote a letter to the company asking for the same. This makes it perhaps the first and only incident that the formula was divulged to someone outside the company. All of this happened for a very specific reason.

Why was this done, and why did the gentleman seek permission?

In the early 1930s Tobias Geffen, an Orthodox rabbi, began to receive a steady stream of letters from

rabbis across the United States asking whether Coca-Cola was kosher. Coke was a popular beverage

among Jews, and rabbis were worried. Mr. Geffen asked for permission to check whether Coke was

kosher, and the company complied, given that it had a large Jewish consumer base.

2.

ID the funda.1.Ealing Art College, Art/Design.2.Imperial College London, Physics and Maths.3.London Hospital Medical College, Biology.4.Chelsea College London, Electronics.

Queen members’ degrees and their colleges.

Freddie Mercury : Ealing, Art & DesignBrian May : Imperial College, Physics and Math

Roger Taylor : London Hospital, BiologyJohn Deacon : Chelsea, Electronics

3.

• X was very good in Astrology. Duryodhana, on the advice of Shakuni approached X in order to seek the right time (muhurta) to start the Mahabharata war so that the Kauravas will be victorious.

X disclosed the same for the Kauravas in spite of knowing that Kauravas were their enemy, as X was known to be very honest. The flag of X's chariot bore the image of a silver swan.

Sahadev

4.

• The X World Cup has been held every four years since 1473. The competition sees X teams representing countries around the world compete for the World Cup. In the 1994 edition, the English, Scottish and Welsh fared very badly, while the Irish outperformed them. In the 2006 edition, France were the losing finalists. Moldova won against China in 2010. Bulgaria beat Brazil, 170-60 in 2014.

Quidditch

5.

• X is a start-up toy company using dolls and apps to empower girls to dream big and achieve. It's a line of dolls being developed by Supriya Hobbs, a 22-year-old who graduated from the University of Illinois in May with a degree in chemical engineering, and Janna Eaves, a 21-year-old senior at the school who is majoring in materials science and engineering. This summer the duo launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the funds needed to produce the first batch of dolls. They smashed their $75,000 fund-raising goal and will now begin production on the Marie Curie doll.

• Once the Marie Curie doll is available online in 2015, the X’s team plans to add a diverse lineup of STEM heroines to its roster—women such as computer programmer Ada Lovelace and African American aviator Bessie Coleman.

Miss Possible

6.• Shown here is the cover of “Psmith, Journalist”, a novel

by PG Wodehouse, which continues the adventures of his much loved character, Psmith. Famous in its own right, what is perhaps its (probably inadvertent) most famous impact on popular culture?

"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith.

7.

• Maurice Tillet was a Russian born French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice recognized world heavyweight champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston.

There have been rumours that the ogre from the X film series was modeled after Tillet.Image on the next slide.

SHREK

8.

• X is a chain of British supermarkets, which forms the food retail division of Britain's largest employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis Partnership. Its head office is located in Bracknell, Berkshire, England. As of February 2014, X has 317 branches across the United Kingdom.The company has a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to Queen Elizabeth II and, as of 1 January 2011, to Prince Charles.

Current sponsor of the England Cricket Team

9.

• Young Bosnia was a revolutionary movement active before World War I. The members were predominantly school students. It included primarily Serbs but also Bosniaks and Croats.

• Gavrilo Princip, Young Bosnia member.

Why is he so famous?

He assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which led to the First World War.

10.

• This European chocolate and confectionary brand's tagline in English is "Sweet mark of quality". It gets its name from the last name of its founder who is currently the head of state of his country.

Name the brand and its founder.

Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko

11.

• X was an English-language Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with appropriate subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. X lasted from March 2000 until September 2003. It is mostly known now as the predecessor of Wikipedia.

Nupedia

12.

• For the first time in club’s history, FC Barcelona didn’t wear their home kit, against Athletic Bilbao at Camp Nou on September 13.

Why?

To support Catalonia Independence Movement. Their yellow and red change kit features the colours

of the Catalan flag, the Senyera.

Audience Question

1.• The 1993 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was given to X Company of

the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history.The company had announced that anyone holding a bottle cap marked 349 had won up to 1 million pesos, about $40,000, tax-free.Instead of a single 1-million-peso winner, up to 800,000 bottle caps marked 349 had been printed and tens of thousands of Filipinos soon began demanding billions of dollars that X refused to pay.

Pepsi

2.

• Where? (Specific Answer Required)

Old Trafford (in memory of the Munich air disaster)

Long Visual Connect…

Rules

• There are four slides in total.• No marks for individual identification.• Specific answer required.

1.+25/-5

2.+20/-5

3.+15/-5

6.+10

Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The Red Lion with SunThe Red Crystal

The Red CrescentThe Red Cross