Prelims with answers-Oktoberfest(16.10.11)

* 25 questions in the PRELIMS* 1 point for every correct answer* Inbuilt tiebreakers in the form of ‘*’s and

‘**’*Keep away your phones* Lightsabers allowed

ALL THE BEST!

(00) 'Peter Sellers started the whole thing off when he appeared on BBC TV's Parkinson show on 28 October 1972. Sellers said ‘___ ____ ______ ____ ____'. This is my Michael Caine impression. You see, Mike's always quoting from the Guinness Book of Records. At the drop of a hat he'll trot one out. 'Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five and a half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground? Now there's ___ ____ ______ ____ ____ !' '. It was not until 1981 that the remark really caught on. Caine was given the line to say as an in-joke in the film Educating Rita (1983) and he put his name to a book of trivial facts for charity with the slight variant ___ ____ ______ ____ ____!' in 1984.' What immortal and much apt phrase?

“Not A Lot Of People Know That!”

(01) Lego’s parody of which phrase?

A B

C D

(02) Same stadium, lit up in 3 different colours. Id the stadium (0.25) Funda (0.25 x 3)?

* Why RED? * Why BLUE? * Why WHITE?

(03)

* (04) It is an English type of part song spanning the late baroque, classical and early romantic periods. It is usually scored for at least three voices, and generally intended to be sung unaccompanied. These often consist of a number of short, musically contrasted movements and their texts can be convivial, fraternal, idyllic, tender, philosophical or even (occasionally) dramatic. Although most were originally written to be sung in gentlemen's singing clubs, they often included soprano parts—which were sung by boys (church choristers) in earlier years, and later by ladies who were often present as guests. Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of London, founded in 1762, popularized this mode of part song, and today it is a phenomenon in a different avatar. What are we cogitating?

(05) X and Y?

X

Y

*(06) The Ballad of X and Y (1889):

……………………………………………… Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's

great Judgment Seat; But there is neither X nor Y, Border, nor

Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face,

though they come from the ends of the earth!

Id the famous first line of this poem.

* (07) Rowland Purton, in his book, 'Day by Day' wrote, "It was while he was sitting in church that X had a brilliant idea. In front of him was the organ with its rows of pipes. Beneath each pipe was a stop, which closed a small hole. As the key was pressed, the stop opened and allowed one note to come out. Soon X was busy making his own machine, which he called a Y. It was like a box filled with ___ and had several pipes leading from it to the ground. As the Y was pulled, the ___ dropped through the pipes to be ___ in straight rows.“

Id X and Y

** (08) Illustrations from which literary piece.

(09) Id A (0.25), B (0.25) and C (0.5)

(10) This is a rhyme published in 1955 in A Diller, a Dollar: Rhymes And Sayings For The Ten O’clock Scholar, compiled by Lillian Morrison

“Clap my hands and jump for joy;I was here before X.”

“Sorry to spoil your little joke;I was here, but my pencil broke.”— X

Id X

* (11) In his youth, he was sent to serve as page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and later joined the Russian military. He served until 1750, in particular taking part in two campaigns against the Ottoman Turks. It was his version of the journey back that gives us reasons to remember him. An object of numerous works of art, the final say to his visual image belongs to an edition of the book produced in 1862 and illustrated by the artist Gustave Doré. Who?

(12) His real name was Edward Betchley, a former soldier who had served in the Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War in Egypt and Italy, before being de-mobbed with an 'exemplary character' in January 1946. He died in 1969 of emphysema. How did he influence the world of sports?

(13) What was the name of the character played by the supporting actress in this 1980 movie?

** (14) What does the map depict? I’m looking for a specific term.

* (15) The only survivor who returned home to tell the tale. Id the story.

(16) John Tukey was the co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm along with James Cooley. He designed polls to predict and analyze election for NBC. He also coined two terms, X and Y, which are now ubiquitous. X was coined in a 1958 American Mathematical Monthly article about electronic calculators, predicting X of the calculators would become atleast as important as the “tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like”. Twelve years earlier, while working at Bell Labs he coined the term Y.

What are X and Y?

* (17) Shown here is the first recorded (Thome de Gamond’s) illustration of/ proposal for what?

(18) Id X and Y (0.5 x 2)

(19) Possibly the nickname arose because “most of them wore beards, some were Jews and all were desperately earnest”. They regarded themselves as initiates, and used a private vocabulary. They called a studio ‘ergasterium’, and ended their letters with the initials E.T.P.M.V. et M.P., meaning "En ta paume, mon verbe et ma pensée" ("In the palm of your hand, my word and my thoughts."). What group from late 1880s that found prophetic resonance in a 2009 block-buster?

** (20) Shown here is a painting by Dali (talk of stating the obvious) depicting X (in the sense, real life person X’s face forms the subject ) as the eponymous subject Y of the painting. The object on the subject’s elbow is a dedication to Z. Tell us X, Y, Z. {0.5 points for getting 2 right.}

(Bigger pic next slide)

(21) Connect

(22) In the Samkhya school of philosophy, X is one of the three gunas (or qualities), the other two being rajas (passion and activity) and sattva or purity). X is the template for inertia or resistance to action. It has also been translated from Sanskrit as ‘indifference’. Id X

* (23) Reflecting on his time in government, Daniel Ellsberg has said the following, based on his extensive access to classified material:

“The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers. If you can't handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn’t stay in the government at that level, or you’re made aware of it, a week. ... The fact is Presidents rarely say the whole truth—essentially, never say the whole truth—of what they expect and what they’re doing and what they believe and why they’re doing it and rarely refrain from lying, actually, about these matters.”

So, with extensive access to classified material thanks to his former RAND corporation colleague, what did Daniel Ellsberg bring to light?

(24) This Cleveland DJ organized the first ever Rock and Roll Ball in Harlem’s 6000 seater St. Nicholas arena, featuring the Drifters, Coasters, Moonglows, Harptones in 1955. Self-styled ‘King of the Moondoggers’, his DJ-ing career effectively ended with the pay-for-airplay Payola scandal, of which he was the first high-profile scapegoat. It is his contribution to musical lexicon and music in general that saw him become one of the 1st inductees into the Rock n roll Hall of fame in 1959-60. Who, and what has been his pre-eminent contribution to the musical lexicon?

Oeconomicus. Household chores was a clue from myside wonly.

S.V.C.

Stage I: +3/-1.5

Stage II: +2/-1

Stage III: +1/0

* 25 questions in the PRELIMS* 1 point for every correct answer** Inbuilt tiebreakers in the form of ‘*’s and

‘**’*Keep away your phones* Lightsabers allowed

ALL THE BEST!

(01) Lego’s parody of which phrase?

A B

C D

(02) Same stadium, lit up in 3 different colours. Id the stadium (0.25) Funda (0.25 x 3)?

* Why RED? * Why BLUE? * Why WHITE?

RED FC Bayern Munich

BLUE TSV 1860 München

WHITE Germany

(03)

* (04) It is an English type of part song spanning the late baroque, classical and early romantic periods. It is usually scored for at least three voices, and generally intended to be sung unaccompanied. These often consist of a number of short, musically contrasted movements and their texts can be convivial, fraternal, idyllic, tender, philosophical or even (occasionally) dramatic. Although most were originally written to be sung in gentlemen's singing clubs, they often included soprano parts—which were sung by boys (church choristers) in earlier years, and later by ladies who were often present as guests. Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of London, founded in 1762, popularized this mode of part song, and today it is a phenomenon in a different avatar. What are we cogitating?

(05) X and Y?

X

Y

* (06) The Ballad of X and Y (1889):

……………………………………………… Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's

great Judgment Seat; But there is neither X nor Y, Border, nor

Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face,

though they come from the ends of the earth!

Id the famous first line of this poem.

“Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” - Rudyard Kipling.

* (07) Rowland Purton, in his book, 'Day by Day' wrote, "It was while he was sitting in church that X had a brilliant idea. In front of him was the organ with its rows of pipes. Beneath each pipe was a stop, which closed a small hole. As the key was pressed, the stop opened and allowed one note to come out. Soon X was busy making his own machine, which he called a Y. It was like a box filled with ___ and had several pipes leading from it to the ground. As the Y was pulled, the ___ dropped through the pipes to be ___ in straight rows.“

Id X and Y

** (08) Illustrations from which literary piece.

(09) Id A (0.25), B (0.25) and C (0.5)

(10) This is a rhyme published in 1955 in A Diller, a Dollar: Rhymes And Sayings For The Ten O’clock Scholar, compiled by Lillian Morrison

“Clap my hands and jump for joy;I was here before X.”

“Sorry to spoil your little joke;I was here, but my pencil broke.”— X

Id X

* (11) In his youth, he was sent to serve as page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and later joined the Russian military. He served until 1750, in particular taking part in two campaigns against the Ottoman Turks. It was his version of the journey back that gives us reasons to remember him. An object of numerous works of art, the final say to his visual image belongs to an edition of the book produced in 1862 and illustrated by the artist Gustave Doré. Who?

(12) His real name was Edward Betchley, a former soldier who had served in the Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War in Egypt and Italy, before being de-mobbed with an 'exemplary character' in January 1946. He died in 1969 of emphysema. How did he influence the world of sports?

He was charged with stealing the Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966, with the cup eventually being retrieved by Pickles.

(13) What was the name of the character played by the supporting actress in this 1980 movie?

** (14) What does the map depict? I’m looking for a specific term.

The Hijra/Hegira. Mohammed’s journey from Mecca to Medina.

* (15) The only survivor who returned home to tell the tale. Id the story.

(16) John Tukey was the co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm along with James Cooley. He designed polls to predict and analyze election for NBC. He also coined two terms, X and Y, which are now ubiquitous. X was coined in a 1958 American Mathematical Monthly article about electronic calculators, predicting X of the calculators would become atleast as important as the “tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like”. Twelve years earlier, while working at Bell Labs he coined the term Y. What are X and Y?.

* (17) Shown here is the first recorded (Thome de Gamond’s) illustration of/ proposal for what?

(18) Id X and Y (0.5 x 2)

(19) Possibly the nickname arose because “most of them wore beards, some were Jews and all were desperately earnest”. They regarded themselves as initiates, and used a private vocabulary. They called a studio ‘ergasterium’, and ended their letters with the initials E.T.P.M.V. et M.P., meaning "En ta paume, mon verbe et ma pensée" ("In the palm of your hand, my word and my thoughts."). What group from late 1880s that found prophetic resonance in a 2009 block-buster?

Les Nabis- Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard- being the most prominent. Cameron’s Na’vis.

Same thought behind the coinage-

prophets.

** (20) Shown here is a painting by Dali (talk of stating the obvious) depicting X (in the sense, real life person X’s face forms the subject ) as the eponymous subject Y of the painting. The object on the subject’s elbow is a dedication to Z. Tell us X, Y, Z.

(Bigger pic next slide)

(21) Connect

(22) In the Samkhya school of philosophy, X is one of the three gunas (or qualities), the other two being rajas (passion and activity) and sattva or purity). X is the template for inertia or resistance to action. It has also been translated from Sanskrit as ‘indifference’. Id X

* (23) Reflecting on his time in government, Daniel Ellsberg has said the following, based on his extensive access to classified material:

“The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers. If you can't handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn’t stay in the government at that level, or you’re made aware of it, a week. ... The fact is Presidents rarely say the whole truth—essentially, never say the whole truth—of what they expect and what they’re doing and what they believe and why they’re doing it and rarely refrain from lying, actually, about these matters.”

So, with extensive access to classified material thanks to his former RAND corporation colleague, what did Daniel Ellsberg bring to light?

Officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, The PP is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. As the NY Times put it, they "demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance"

(24) This Cleveland DJ organized the first ever Rock and Roll Ball in Harlem’s 6000 seater St. Nicholas arena, featuring the Drifters, Coasters, Moonglows, Harptones in 1955. Self-styled ‘King of the Moondoggers’, his DJ-ing career effectively ended with the pay-for-airplay Payola scandal, of which he was the first high-profile scapegoat. It is his contribution to musical lexicon and music in general that saw him become one of the 1st inductees into the Rock n roll Hall of fame in 1959-60. Who, and what has been his pre-eminent contribution to the musical lexicon?

DJ Alan Freed, who 1st applied the term Rock n Roll to popular music.

Oeconomicus. Household chores was a clue from myside wonly.

S.V.C.

Stage I: +3/-1.5

Stage II: +2/-1

Stage III: +1/0

Real and fictional characters played by Gary Oldman

Sid Vicious in Sid and NancyPontius Pilate in Jesus (TV

film)Ludwig van Beethoven in

Immortal BelovedLee Harvey Oswald in JFKJames Gordon in BatmanSirius Black in Harry Potter Count Dracula in Dracula

The quiz was conducted by Aryapriya Ganguly and Mit Chowdhury, as part of a Kutub Quizzers event, on 16th October, 2011. Feel free to get ‘inspired’ from any of the questions.