The ‘Freshie’ Quiz Finals

15th September 2015

Choose Team Numbers : 1 to 8

The team topping the Prelims get to choose first, the team that placed second gets to choose next and so on...

Rules:

Bounce:

Pounce:

Rounds

◼Round 1 - Written Theme Round. ◼Round 2 - B/P - 8 Q’s Clockwise.◼Round 3 - Written Theme Round.◼Round 4 - B/P - 4 Q’s Clockwise, 4 Q’s Anti-Clockwise.

◼Round 5 - Written Theme Round.◼Round 6 - B/P - 8 Q’s Anti-Clockwise.

Bounce Pounce 18 questions, clockwise

1.

The Doors' "Morrison Hotel" [1970] album cover artwork consists of the band members standing behind a plate glass window of the "Morrison Hotel". Nothing else. However, the Doors gave a name to each side of the record. On the back of the cover, side two is sub-headed "Morrison Hotel," while side one is simply entitled

"____ ____ ____."

Sometime next year, they got a call from England from a guy who said, "Hello. Would you mind if we use that name on the back of your album? We're starting a cafe over here in London and we would like to use that name." And they said no, go ahead.

This is how “____ ____ ____”, a chain with presence in 59 countries came about. FITB.

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2.

Initially, X’s departure from Earth was successful, and everything was going according to plan. About a hundred thousand miles from Earth, he told Ground Control to “ tell my wife that I love her.”

The first hints of trouble then started to appear, with Ground Control informing X that “there’s something wrong.”

His last heard communication indicated his hopeless situation, with him exclaiming, “There’s nothing I can do.”

X?

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2.

Major Tom, from David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

3.

This phrase originated in the Medieval Ages. In an age where chivalry and personal honour were considered paramount, a knight tossing his armoured glove at another person’s feet was considered a grave insult - one that could only be answered with personal combat.

What phrase did this practice give rise to - one that means “to issue a challenge” ?

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Throwing down the gauntlet.

4.

This food product originated in Europe, most likely amongst monasteries in the Early Middle Ages.

Its distinctive symmetrical looped shape is believed to have been modelled after arms crossed in prayer. Another theory explaining its shape is that the three holes in the product represent the Holy Trinity.

What food item?

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Pretzels.

5.

A book called 100 Coloriages Anti-Stress was released in France in 2013. Aimed primarily at relieving stress levels in adults, it was a roaring success, and even began to outsell cookbooks.

In the US, a similar kind of book called The Mindfulness _______ Book: Anti-stress Art therapy for busy people was released, and is hugely out of stock.

These books are a type of book that remind us of when we were five years old. What kind of book?

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5.

Coloring books

6.

X is a water dwelling segmented micro-animal with eight legs. They vary in size from below 0.1 to above 1.5 mm. They are known for their ability to survive in extreme environments from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water. They can also survive extreme pressures and ionising radiation. They can go without food or water for more than 10 years.

Neil De-Grasse Tyson once said that aliens could be forgiven if they mistook earth as the planet of the X.

Give me X.

6.

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6.

Tardigrades, or Waterbears

7.

This well-known website has been subject to multiple legal controversies and take-down attempts, which finally culminated in it being taken offline in December 2014 following a police raid on its servers.

In mid-January 2015, though, the site’s homepage was up again, displaying a phoenix and a countdown timer. The symbolism was brought full circle on February 1st, when the timer’s countdown finished and the site was brought back up.

What website? (Image on following slide.)

7.

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The Pirate Bay

8.

Called SABR by him and his coaching retinue, he said that he tried it out for fun during practice. He then realised that he could utilise it even during matches, which he started off doing a week or so ago to great effect.

Unsettling even the world No.1 with this tactic, SABR has gone on to receive lots of attention worldwide.

Expand SABR, or tell us what this tactic is.

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8.

Sneaky Attack by Roger, where he started returning serves from the service line B)

Bounce Pounce 24 Clockwise + 4 Anticlockwise

1.

This person is one of the most successful leg-spinners to have played for his country.

His nickname X was bestowed on him for two reasons:◼His deliveries were relatively fast for a spinner, i.e, “as

fast as a ____X_____ __Y__”◼He had uncommonly large, or __X__ feet

Who, and what was the nickname?

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Anil Kumble

Jumbo

2.

On 23rd October 1966, the Secretary-General of the U.N., U Thant, invited her to give a special concert at the United Nations. This programme took place in the magnificent General Assembly hall.

ID this famous personality from the A/V clip.

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2.

M.S. Subbulakshmi

3.

The next slide shows a mashup of a Dr.Seuss book called Oh, the Places you’ll Go! and a very famous movie.

Which movie?

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3.

Back to the Future

4.

The streams of water vapour that are shot out of the backs of jets are called contrails. Most of us would have seen plenty of these in the sky.

Scientists thought initially that contrails had a net warming effect on the world. However, for a long time, there was no effective study carried out to verify this hypothesis.

A certain event, which had many security backlashes, was instrumental in creating an environment conducive to conduct contrail studies. Which event?

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4.

9/11

Since planes were grounded for three days post the attack, the sky was clear containing very few contrails, and no new ones.

Anti-ClockwiseStarting from Team 8

5.

Sofmat Ltd, a UK based company, has created a system that supposedly helps in identifying counterfeit drugs. The key is that most tablets are created using injection moulding. This enables easy introduction of this system.

The way to verify the genuineness of the tablet would be to put it into a scanner machine which returns a unique number for each tablet, which should match the one that is present on the box in whichthe tablet is sold.

What is this system?

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5.

3D Barcodes, essentially. By varying the depth of those marks on each tablet, you can sequentially label them.

6.

This video (without audio) describes the plight faced by certain people when they try to do something. Watch the video, and tell us which people’s situations it is describing.

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6.

Migrants fleeing from Syria

7.

The sense of X for _____ signals is similar to the concept of timbre for music (which is also called tone X).

This convention of naming these signals started off with white _____, whose spectrum has equal power within any equal interval of frequencies.

What is X? Also, FITB.

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The ‘color’ of noise

X - color

8.

Roberta Vinci inflicted the shock defeat of the year when she beat Serena Williams a few days ago in the semifinals of the US Open.

In the US Open’s official report, what was the tagline for the article detailing the match?

The title read : ____ ____ _____ : Italian shocks Serena, with a pun on her name.

FITB.

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Bounce Pounce 38 questions, Anticlockwise

1.

Ironically, the most secure way of storing X is to print it out. Piper, one such printer, had a successful Kickstarter run.

If X is stored electronically, there is always a risk of you losing what is rightfully yours. The irony is because X is a purely digital and electronic entity, which is most secure off the internet.

1.

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X - Bitcoin

If you store it on your computer, somebody can inject some sort of malware and steal it.

2.

◼Which celebrity posted this image of a silhouette of himself captioned “Wimbledon” this year?

◼What was the reason for his absence in the audience as shown by the images in the next slide?

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2.

1. Lewis Hamilton2.Men invited into the royal box are expected to wear a

jacket, tie and shoes. He was wearing none.

3.

This is something that plays a central role in Aldous Huxley’s great novel Brave New World. It is described as the ideal hangoverless tranquilizer drug.

It is mentioned in the Rig Veda too.

We have drunk ____ and become immortal; we have attained the light, the Gods discovered.Now what may foeman's malice do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man's deception?

It has been made popular to us via an Indian Fantasy series.

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3.

Soma or Somras.

4.

Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 did something that no Pope had ever done before - resigned. The announcement was made to a gathering of the press on the 11th of February.

However, only one news agency, Asna, broke the news out immediately despite there being reporters from various agencies in attendance.

What was the reason that the news did not gain widespread popularity?

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4.

The Pope’s announcement was made in Latin, and of all the reporters, only Giovanna Chirri of Asna understood what the Pope said.

5.

The object in the picture is called Pythagorean cup, which has a central column in it as in the picture, and using Pascal’s laws it achieves its intended purpose.

What is the objective of this invention, which made it infamous, especially with immodest drinkers?

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5.

It spills extra wine, thereby preventing gluttony.

6.

In the fictional world of China Miéville's 2012 novel, Railsea, oceans are deserts populated by giant, predatory mole rats - and can only be crossed using an endless network of rails.

The novel follows the adventures of three young orphans who join train-captain Abacat Naphi's obsessive hunt for her nemesis "Mocker-Jack" - an ivory-coloured mole that maimed her arm.

Which classic is Railsea a dystopic reimagining of?

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6.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The mole is a parallel to the white whale."Abacat Naphi" is an anagram of Captain Ahab, the tyrannical captain obsessed with hunting down Moby-Dick.

7.

If - “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived” refers to the fates of Henry VIII’s wives, then whose fates do “possessed, insane, resigned, exposed, attacked, promoted and disposed” refer to?

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7.

Hogwarts’ 7 Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers: Quirrell, Lockhart, Lupin, Moody, Umbridge, Snape and Amycus.

8.

In the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, some people are able to manipulate one of the four elements - a power called ‘bending.’ However, at any given time, only the Avatar can bend all of the elements. His/her spirit is reincarnated after their lifetime.

The protagonist of the show, Aang, narrates that his true identity as the Avatar was revealed in a “test” in which he chose four toys out of thousands, each of which were the childhood toys of previous Avatars.

This test is a nod to which real-life entity?

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8.

The Dalai Lama

Tie - Break...

1.

Shown on the right is the logo for “Theatre De Liege” local designer Olivier Debie in Belgium. Shown on the left is a design and centred on a “T” for _____, and takes inspiration from the _________ flag, with a red circle representing the sun, designed for a 2020 event.

What is the left one a logo for [7], and connect the one on the right to the one on the left [3].

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1.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and allegations of Plagiarism.

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