SEQC Margao June 2016

Margao June 2016

Quizmaster: Mahesh Prabhu(With a little help from his friends Annie & Rajiv)

Round One

Coming up is a series of 12 amazingly-worked Photoshop mash-ups of celebrity faces (two people per portrait, in many cases people linked in some

way) by German artist Gesichtermix (‘Gesicht‘ means face in German). You have to identify both

personalities in each portrait.Answers are to be written down, and checked later.5 points for each person correctly identified (that is,

10 points per slide)

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Exchange papers, please!

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Charlie Sheen & Ashton Kutcher

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Leonardo di Caprio and Sean Penn

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

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Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

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Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman

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Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber

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Kevin Spacey and Robert de Niro

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Stephen Spielberg and Woody Allen

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Round Two

16 questions, Infinite Pounce, 10 points for a correct answer, +10/-5 on the Pounce

When it opened in 1924, this was the tallest hotel in the world, and Detroit's tallest building. Its façade features

the sculpture of four notable figures from Detroit's history – General Anthony Wayne, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe (after whose title the hotel is named), Chief Pontiac, and

Robert Navarre. Name the hotel.

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The Cadillac

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The man on the left is Frank Lloyd Wright. Identify the man on the right.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim

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What place name has been blanked out on this book cover?

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Thermopylae, which literally means ‘gates of fire’.

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How did these two people become famous in 1972?

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One took the photo; the other was central to it. The two people are Kim Phuc and Nick Ut.

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John William Burgon wrote this poem referring to “the inaccessible city” which he had heard described but had

never seen. The Poem was awarded the Newdigate Prize in 1845. Which city is it about?

It seems no work of Man’s creative hand,by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned;

But from the rock as if by magic grown,eternal, silent, beautiful, alone!

Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine,where erst Athena held her rites divine;

Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane,that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain;

But rose-red as if the blush of dawn,that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn;

The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,which Man deemed old two thousand years ago,

match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,a rose-red city half as old as time.

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Petra

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Started by Dwarkanath and Kedarnath Anand in 1931 in Sialkot, this company moved to Meerut in 1950, where it

is based now. They have since been much sought-after by professional users of their products, but post-1983

witnessed a boom in demand, especially after they began to be endorsed by a superstar in that field who

coincidentally had the same initials as the brand, and today they are the largest manufacturers in the world of

their particular range of products. Name the brand.

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The Greater Antilles consist of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and which other island that became a territory of the

United States as part of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War in 1898?

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Puerto Rico

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In Arabic, this city is known as ad-Dar al-Bayda, which has the same meaning as the Hispanic version by which we

know it, a name with a cinematic connection. If you were to translate it into English, however, the immediate

connection that would come to mind would be that of a famous residence on the other side of the ocean. Which

city in northern Africa?

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In Gaelic languages, the verb ‘tywys’ means to lead, giving the term in modern Irish for the Prime Minister, the

Taoiseach. The same root leads in Welsh to the title ‘Tywysog Cymru’. What is the holder of this title known as

in English?

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The Prince of Wales

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The man in the middle of this group photo is a guy called Michael Mascarenhas. What world record feat did this

team help pull off over 59 days from August to October 1990?

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The airlift of 111,711 Indians in 488 Air India flights that operated daily from Amman to Mumbai, subsequent to

Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

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What’s on the wall on this much-shared (but almost certainly Photoshopped) image?

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The Harpadon nehereus is a species of lizardfish that is known to us by the name of a different creature. What do

we call it?

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Bombay duck

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This man was born Erode Venkata Ramasami Naicker on September 17, 1879, in the town of Erode, then a part of the

Coimbatore District of the Madras Presidency. In 1929, he announced the deletion of his caste surname Naicker from his name at the First Provincial Self-Respect Conference of

Chenggalpattu. One generally only sees pictures of him much older, so this is an unusual portait. By what single-

word name is he generally referred to?

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Periyar

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What name of Krishna – also the first name of an eminent Konkani litterateur – comes from the fact that his mother tied him to a large urn to prevent him getting up to any

mischief?

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Damodar (which comes from the Sanskrit words ‘dama’, meaning ‘rope’, and ‘udara’, meaning ‘belly’)

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One theory for the origin of a certain word is that it comes from the name of the 8th century alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan, originally referring to the incomprehensible

jargon that Jabir and his fellow-alchemists often used. What’s the good word?

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Gibberish

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One of the Navratnas in the court of Akbar, he was born Abdul Momin, but, legend has it, began to be called

__________________ after he accidentally added extra onions to a dish that was cooking. The dish went on to become a

staple of Hyderabadi cuisine. Name the dish or the courtier.

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Do Pyaaza

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Break!

Round Three

16 questions, Infinite Pounce, 10 points for a correct answer, +10/-5 on the Pounce

Cells are most vulnerable to the effects of radiation when they are dividing. In humans, cell division is taking place

all the time, whereas in the case of these creatures it takes place only about once a week, while they are

molting. And since all are not likely to be molting at the same time, only a small section of their population would be affected. What popularly-held belief does this explain?

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That cockroaches can survive a nuclear disaster.

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Why?

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Albert Einstein was a Swiss patent clerk.

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Newly-discovered species or genuses are often named after their local name. The African Mahogany is a genus of seven

species of trees native to Africa and Madagascar. When it was discovered by two Western botanists in the 19th century, they inquired as to what the tree was called locally and named the

genus khaya. Thus the trees are called khaya senegalensis, khaya anthoteca etc. What does khaya mean in Shona, which

is what the natives spoke?

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“I don’t know”

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In the early 1990’s, the bassist of the band worked at a Starbuck’s in Alberta, Canada. Since most products at a Starbuck’s are priced $1.95, $2.95, he would frequently say “Here’s your _______________” to his customers while returning their change, and that’s how the band got its

name. Identify the band.

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Peter Willey played 26 tests for England in the 1970’s and 80’s and had an unremarkable career accept for two

incidents that have gone down in cricket folklore. The first is the famous Lillee c Willey b Dilley scorecard entry in an England-Australia match in 1979, and the other is when Brian Johnston, commentating on a match between West

Indies and England in 1976, said “The bowler’s _______________, the batsman’s ______________. Fill in the

blanks.

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“The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey.”

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In the US, if sports events are canceled due to bad weather or other unavoidable circumstances, then

spectators who have bought tickets are not refunded their money, but given a slip like this that can be used to buy a

ticket to a future game. What are these called?

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According to one theory, which automobile brand’s logo is inspired by that of this brand of coal briquettes produced

by the Southern Compressed Coal Co. in the early 20th century?

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This term was originally trademarked by John Player & Sons in 1893. It refers to the way in which sailors would wind twine around rolls of tobacco leaves allowing them to mature under compression, and then slice off the end

shredding the tobacco when they needed a smoke. Which term?

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Navy Cut

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Completed in 2011 and called the ‘Laces’ building, this structure was based on the concept of connecting bridges at various levels acting like laces and tying the different work-spaces together. This is the global R&D centre of

which company?

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The Fox Plaza in Los Angeles is the official headquarters of Twentieth Century Fox and has featured in several movies

including Speed, Airheads & Fight Club. Its most well-known role, however, was as the headquarters of a

fictional company in which 1988 film?

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According to a myth prevailing in the village of Anjuna, many years ago a procession of the goddess Santeri was winding its way through the village streets when a man

who was sitting in a balcony above the street spat out, his spit falling straight onto the idol. Since then, what curse is supposed to have befallen the village, one that is largely heeded to by the villagers, with them pointing to many examples of people who have fallen foul of the curse?

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That ill-luck will befall whoever builds a two-storied building. Most buildings in Anjuna even today are only

ground floor structures.

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Peter Paul Fernandes (1936), Leo Pinto (1948), Lawrie Fernandes (1948), Walter D’Souza (1948), Reginald

Rodrigues (1948), ______________ (1972), Mervyn Fernandes (1980) and Marcellus Gomes (1996). Fill in the blanks with what is perhaps the most well-known name in

this list.

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Vece Paes. This is a list of Goans who have played hockey for India at the Olympics.

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The biggest auto exhibition in the world is held in a country that has no automobile manufacturers of its own,

which ensures a level playing field for all exhibitors. Although the rest of the world refers to it by its full name, in that country it is known simply as “the Show”. Which

annual event?

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The Geneva Motor Show

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Which genus of birds, two species of which are found in India, gets its name from the corruption of the name of a city in Gujarat where the first specimens to be described

were found in the city’s thriving bird market?

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Avadavat, from Ahmedabad

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In the story of Lady Godiva, her husband said he would grant her request to remit the tolls on Coventry if she

would strip naked and ride through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a

proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in

her long hair. Only one person in the town, a tailor, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous

instances of voyeurism. In the story, he bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind. What phrase do we get from this infamous tailor’s

name?

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Peeping Tom

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Scientists have found that there isn't just one single sound when this 'event' happens - there are actually two

separate sounds. The enclosed space has a liquid in it, and there are ligaments on each side, holding the

constituents of the chamber together. As you pull on it, you first drop the pressure in the enclosed space - and the

ligaments get sucked in. Once this pressure gets low enough, a bubble pops into existence - making the first of

the two sounds. Now this bubble has a certain size - on average, about 15% of the now-bigger space. Because the

space suddenly has a bubble in it, the liquid, just as suddenly, pushes on the ligaments - snapping them back

to their original position. This snapping back of the ligaments is the second sound. What is being described

here?

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Cracking knuckles

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Round Four

6 personalities to be identified, in writing5 pts for every correct ID

Pounce for the theme+30 for the theme on pics 1&2

+20 on pics 3&4+10 on pics 5&6

-10 for every wrong attempt

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Exchange papers!

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Vivien Leigh

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Bob Woolmer

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Cliff Richard

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Ben Kingsley

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Freddie Mercury

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Nasser Hussain

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The theme - all people who were born in India

Thank you!