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Chemathlon 2k16A general quiz

ROUNDSROUND 1 : Chemistry

ROUND 2 : Clockwise 19 Questions

ROUND 3 : List It

ROUND 4 : Anti Clockwise 19 Questions

ChemistryWRITTEN ROUND

7 Questions

5 Points each

Bonus 5 on a full house

1That quote, X and anyone else. Why was it such a self inflicted low punch to yourself when you reached No. 8 in the world in your own right? Was it a throwaway line to deflect all the praise on X?The above is an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Y. Who are X and Y ?

2The last two film credits to feature them together were Zamana (1985) and Mr. India (1987), although the split happened in 1981 during the filming of Shakti.Which pair, that shared a magical chemistry that propelled many blockbusters of the 70s ?

3X attempted to take some credit for his wife's Olympic victory at her press conference, claiming that it was his triumph that had "inspired" her. Ys indignant response was, "Really? Okay, go inspire some other girl and see if she throws a javelin fifty metres!".Identify X and Y.

4The X-Y medal is awarded by the Linnaean Society of London for "major advances in __________________". Historically, the medals have been awarded every 50 years, beginning in 1908 and then has been awarded in 1958,2008 and 2010 when the society decided to make this an annual affair.The picture next slide shows a faunal line named after Y which divides South-eastern Asia and Australia into different eco-zones.

5X is immediately distinguishable from Y as a teenager wearing an orange shirt, due to his longer hair and a tuft of hair sticking out from the back of his head while Y wears a blue shirt and sports a shorter crew-cut hair.Who are X and Y ?

6X's production of Y works underwent three distinct phases. The first took place in 1962, during which he created realistic images, and produced numerous pencil drawings of the subject. In 1965, X revisited the theme while arbitrarily replacing the original two colours with a wider variety of hues. In the late 1970s, he again returned to the Y while inverting and reversing the images.Today, the most well-remembered Y works are from the first phase.Who is X and what is Y ?

7Mango, banana and tangerineSugar and ackee and cocoa beanWhen we get marry we make them growAnd nine little chil in a row

X was singing this while Y joined in. And thus the sizzling chemistry developed. Who are X and Y ?

ANSWERS.

1That quote, X and anyone else. Why was it such a self inflicted low punch to yourself when you reached No. 8 in the world in your own right? Was it a throwaway line to deflect all the praise on X?The above is an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Y. Who are X and Y ?

Peter Fleming & John McEnroe

2The last two film credits to feature them together were Zamana (1985) and Mr. India (1987), although the split happened in 1981 during the filming of Shakti.Which pair, that shared a magical chemistry that propelled many blockbusters of the 70s ?

Salim- Javed

3X attempted to take some credit for his wife's Olympic victory at her press conference, claiming that it was his triumph that had "inspired" her. Ys indignant response was, "Really? Okay, go inspire some other girl and see if she throws a javelin fifty metres!".Identify X and Y.

Dana & Emil Zatopek

4The X-Y medal is awarded by the Linnaean Society of London for "major advances in __________________". Historically, the medals have been awarded every 50 years, beginning in 1908 and then has been awarded in 1958,2008 and 2010 when the society decided to make this an annual affair.The picture next slide shows a faunal line named after Y which divides South-eastern Asia and Australia into different eco-zones.

Darwin-Wallace Medal

5X is immediately distinguishable from Y as a teenager wearing an orange shirt, due to his longer hair and a tuft of hair sticking out from the back of his head while Y wears a blue shirt and sports a shorter crew-cut hair.Who are X and Y ?

6X's production of Y works underwent three distinct phases. The first took place in 1962, during which he created realistic images, and produced numerous pencil drawings of the subject. In 1965, X revisited the theme while arbitrarily replacing the original two colours with a wider variety of hues. In the late 1970s, he again returned to the Y while inverting and reversing the images.Today, the most well-remembered Y works are from the first phase.Who is X and what is Y ?

Andy Warhol, Campbells Soup Cans

7Mango, banana and tangerineSugar and ackee and cocoa beanWhen we get marry we make them growAnd nine little chil in a row

X was singing this while Y joined in. And thus the sizzling chemistry developed. Who are X and Y ?

Honey Ryder, James Bond

CLOCKWISE19 QUESTIONS

RULESINFINITE POUNCE WITH INFINITE BOUNCE

+10/-10 ON POUNCE

+10 ON BOUNCE

CIVILISED POUNCING IS SOLICITED

1

Identify the band

My chemical romance

2Whose 19th century illustration of which 1667 work ?

Paradise lost by Gustav Dore

3The drink starts with a ________ _________ (1 part vanilla vodka and 4 parts club soda) and then a gamma bomb (3 drops green food colouring and one ounce of any alcohol you prefer) is dropped in the cup to create a __________.FITB both to give me the basic ingredient and the cocktail.

Bruce banner, Hulk

4This is a picture of tourists cycling through a farm in Mendoza, Argentina. Though this is a flourishing business in Argentina, this had its origins in France, Austria and Germany among others. What essentially are they indulging in ?

Wine tourism

5One of the most popular child artists of the 70s, Alankar Joshi was part of popular films like Dream Girl, Don, Sholay, Seeta Aur Geeta, Andaz, Bachpan, Deewar, Zameer and many more. He quit acting to pursue higher studies after the 1987 dud, Satyameva Jayate. However he did appear as a well known character, on screen in mid 80s in a disastrous venture which was remade on small screen by the same director, albeit in a different language, more than a decade later. What was Alankar Joshis character and what is the name of the late 90s remake ?

Topshe, jato kando kathmandute

6This is a 1973 advert by Scintilla bedsheets featuring X, who gained a lot of media attention and hence landed with a handful of endorsements like these. Identify the person blanked out (if you are done with ogling)

Bobby Riggs

7Legong is a refined dance form characterized by intricate finger movements, complicated footwork, and expressive gestures and facial expressions. Originally performed in the palace courtyard to entertain the king, there are several stories that can be enacted but it is always performed by young female dancers in colourful outfits with elaborate headdresses.What are these dancers thought to be descendants of and also, which place do they belong to ?

Apsaras, Bali

8Black women had been wearing braids and cornrows for as long as they could remember but X turned the style into a cross-cultural craze in 1979. Women were calling black beauty salons in Watts to set appointments to have their hair braided like X.Identify X.

Bo Derek

9This is a still from a factory in Burano, Italy in 1954. X have been known to beam pictures like this onto their catwalk backdrops to emphasise the incredible craftsmanship this demands. Who/ what is X ?

Dolce and Gabana

10Connect to give me a good word. (and explain at least two for full points)

Sepia

11In 1859, to explain Mercurys odd behaviour, Le Verrier proposed the existence of an unseen planet called X, which orbited closer to the sun. He suggested that the gravity from X was influencing Mercurys orbit. But repeated observations revealed no signs of X.Identify X immortalised in popular culture.

Vulcan

12Free to Sing is a 2003 documentary which has title music by Pete Seegar and opens with these lines from Woodie Guthrie Instead of ..getting loose from the people to devote myself to art, I want to get loose from art to devote myself to people.Who is the subject of the documentary?

Suman Chattopadhyay/Kabir suman

13This is X, a starlet who starred in films such as Ramshastra in 1997 and Agnivarsa in 2002 and her career never quite took off. However, in 2001 following her romance with the director of a certain project Y, she replaced Gul Panang and that is how she became a popular face in our households. She currently owns the company which produces Y and also Z, a similar kind of show with indigenous content.Who is X? Also, what are Y and Z ? (clues next slide)

Deepti Bhatnagar, Musafir ho yAaron, Yatra

14This is a noodle dish that comes from the mountainous Shan State. It is a one-dish soup meal made of egg noodles and curried beef or chicken with coconut milk, served with a variety of contrasting condiments. A squeeze of lemon adds to the tanginess .What dish is this?

Khow suey

15

Who has been featured in this issue of Better Half- an online magazine on strong, independent women of modern times ?

Amrita Shergill

16Give me a generic connect.

Songs with a particular flower in their title

Edelweiss

Genda Phool

Sugar Magnolia

17This is a cinematic adaptation of a Botticelli masterpiece. The actress portraying Venus, gained immense critical acclaim for this, although she had a maximum of three minutes of screen presence in the film. Identify the film.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

18

This is Martha Washington (1731-1802). Why was she in popular consciousness, between 1896-1891 and briefly in 1896 as well, for which she remains an exclusive entrant to a famous list?

Only woman till date to feature in us currency notes

19When X learned of the quadruple murders, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend Y and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard "Dick" Hickok and Perry Smith, were arrested six weeks after the murders and later executed by the state of Kansas, and X ultimately spent six years working on the book. The picture shows X and Y being portrayed on screen, in a film on X. Identify the book, X and Y.

Truman capote, Harper Lee

SCORES.

Listless FOOTBALL

List all the head coaches/managers of I-league and erstwhile national football league winning teams12 items is the list2.5 points for each.Additional 10 for a full house.

answersSukhwinder SinghT.K. ChattuniSabbir AliMonoranjan BhattacharyyaSubrata BhattacharyyaSubhash BhowmickArmando Colaco Derek PerreiraZoran DordevicKarim BencharifaAshley WestwoodSanjoy Sen

ANTI-CLOCKWISE19 QUESTIONS

RULESINFINITE POUNCE WITH INFINITE BOUNCE

+10/-10 ON POUNCE

+10 ON BOUNCE

CIVILISED POUNCING IS SOLICITED

20According to legends, after the death of Sati, Lord Shiva was carrying her on the tips of his trident when Satis bejewelled ear rings fell into a kund (well) here, and hence the name.Which place of funeral pyres is being talked about?

Manikarnika ghat in benaras

21This monument, at present looks completely different. What is the specific name for this monument, whose present day form is an iconic structure in the country/city it is located ?

Shahid minar, Dhaka

22The earliest prototype of this, that came out in 1876, was known as Spirophore. A modified version known as Drinkers___________, (after Peter Drinker) was first used in the Boston Childrens Hospital in 1928.What ?

Iron lung

23Who is this gentleman, being carried by his fellow mates from Edinburgh University after a triumph ?

Eric liddel

24How can you connect the image below with a certain Italian dairy product made from unskimmed cows milk ?

Gorgonzola (cheese and rastapopoulas as marquis gorgonzola in the red sea sharks)

25This is an art form called Wayang, which essentially depict tales from mythology. Which two word term can be used to describe this and where did this originate in?

Shadow puppetry, Java

26He gave Toyota University Cricket Championship (TUCC), an extension of Rohinton Baria Trophy, its famous tagline ab humari baari hai. He is still an enthusiastic follower of University cricket. In his heydays he represented the Rajasthan Ranji team and even captained the U-22 side.However he is more known for his works in another field, starting from his seminal creation back in 1988. Who and what indigenous creation is being talked about?

Piyush Pandey, Mile sur mera tumhara

27

This is an August 2015 issue of NEJM which was barred from publication owing to vehement protests from a section of Medical fraternity. This gentleman, one of the four founding fathers of Johns Hopkins Medical School was a legendary physician, teacher and mentor at the beginning of 20th century and had a great work-ethic, if this picture is anything to go by. Who is he ?

William Osler

28 "Marco Riccione" was born in Sicily and visits Massachusetts, Cuba, Florida, Mexico, Texas, and Guatemala. A knowledgeable reader will recognize the characters and history used as background for this story. Marco is expert in arranging the elimination of inconvenient people for organized crime.

The above plotline is of a 1974 thriller (Picture in next slide) by Norman Lewis, known more for his wonderful travelogues. The fictional tale of crime and camaraderie ends with one of the most important assignments of Marcos life, based on an actual event. What?

28

JFK assassination

29A mansion in West Los Angeles was put on sale on 11th January,2016 for 138m. It has 29 rooms, a wine cellar and a home theatre, but real estate experts say the home would need major upgrades to match current high-end properties in Beverly Hills.In addition to Xs, the estate is currently home to monkeys, cockatoos, peacocks, African cranes, parrots, toucans and pelicans. And the new owner could keep them - thanks to a rare zoo licence.Whose property which has appeared in numerous TV shows as a luxurious bachelors pad? Also what is X ?

Hugh Hefner, Bunnies

30

To the left is Mr. K.K Rajnith, who was in news a couple of months ago for an alleged misconduct on his part, that lead to suspension. What two word term can be associated with his predicament which was famously employed by the lady on the right?

Honey trap

31The Sword and the Flute is a 1959 documentary where the visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar (1542-1605), who united what is now India and Pakistan, and his son Jahangir (1569-1627).According to the director, This turned out to be a romantic film about India made by someone who had never been to India, but who already had very romantic feelings about everything Indian.Who was the director ?

James Ivory

32Michael Goaman was one of the leading British graphic designers of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The defining quality of Goaman designs was their integral nature, whereby the iconic function (the image, clarity and impact) and the indexical function (the relevant information about the country or event) were seamlessly unified.A vital aspect of that Michael mastered was the role of typography in assuring legibility and strong visual impact.So, what did Michael Goaman do for a living ?

Stamp designer

33X A chairman of Calcutta Municipal Corporation, X was a patron of Mohun Bagan, and helped them gain a maidan at Shyamapukur for training which later shifted to the present day tent opposite Eden Gardens.

Y A scholar and music and art, Y authored a pioneering book called Masterpieces of Rajput Painting.

Z completes this particular list. Identify Z and also, what list is being talked about?

Satyajit Ray DHARANIX- Harry LeeY- O.C. Ganguly

34This is an equestrian statue of Edward VII. A relic of the colonial past, the statue was relocated in 1965 from the centre of the Esplanade Road to the zoo at Byculla. What annual event, usually occurring in the second week of February, derives its name from this long forgotten artwork funded by David Sassoon, the founder of Bank of Persia and the wealthiest man in Bombay in the 1870s ?(Picture next slide)

Kala Ghoda Art Festival

SCORES

35In 2010 , John Underwood decided to launch a few projects which put emphasis on talking about X. Since then, the idea has gone viral on either side of the Atlantic and have given rise to a number of X cafs where a visitor essentially sips a cup of tea while discussing X.

What? (Pictures on next slide)

35

Death Cafes

36On June 17, 2015 , The Times crossword opened with one across Pretty Welsh girl widely thought not to be all there. The answer: Delyth. This was just the beginning of an ingenious method thought of, by a certain Mathew Dick, which attracted a lot of media attention worldwide.What did he do ?

Proposed his partner through clues in The Times crossword

37This Tendulkar being interviewed by Gavin Larsen after receiving the MOM for his blistering 72 and bowling figures of 4 for 55 against New Zealand at Christchurch, December 4,2002. Despite this, India lost the game.What was so unique about this match from an Indian point of view and also, suddenly, why will this be topical ?

Indias only Cricket Max international match, Martin Crowe invented Cricket Max format in 1996

38 It imposes restrictions on randomisation and derives its name from the ______ number of unique possible starting options it provides. It was officially launched in Buenos Aires in 1996, though the governing body only inducted it in their ranks in 2008.What ?

Chess 960

FINAL SCORES

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