Q 2014 finals

QThe Finals

Format

• IR 1: 20 Q• SVC• IR 2: 20 Q• List it!

I R 1

• 20 Questions• +15• Irrespective of whether question is

answered or not, the next question moves onto the next team.

• 1 Finite pounce: +15• Point Generosity applies

Q1• ID the singer, and who is the author

of the this bhajan? (No part points)• Audio

Answer

Lata Mangeshkar; Meerabai

Q2• Who is going on a journey/‘safar’? I

want the character’s name.• Audio

Answer

Ash Ketchum

Q3• In X written by Y, there is an interesting entry regarding

another great author Z. In chapter 6 of the first Department, it says;-

“Whosoever is of reverse character, whoever has not his organs of sense under his control, will soon perish, though possessed of the whole earth bounded by the four quarters. For example: Bhoja, known also by the name, Dándakya, making a lascivious attempt on a Bráhman maiden, perished along with his kingdom and relations; as well as the corporation of the Vrishnis in their attempt against Dwaipáyan (Z).”

• There is a festival dedicated to Z.• Y was the subject of a 2010 bestseller, which reached no. 1

position in 2011 and the film rights were acquired by UTV.• ID X, Y (part points) and Z.

Answer

Arthashastra, Chanakya;Vyas

Q4• ID the person who has painted the following. (pic follows)• X, who at this point in the 1920s planned to become a painter,

moved in with his brother and devoured not only films but also theater and circus performances, while exhibiting his paintings and working for the left-wing Proletarian Artists' League. However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as "putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.

• Posthumously, he was named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as "one of the [five] people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years". He has accepted and Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Answer

Akira Kurosawa

Q5• In April 1914, an initiative was taken in St. Petersburg,

Russia, to form an international federation for the sport. Players also made the first attempt to produce rules for world championship matches—in 1922, were proposed the "London rules”.

• The organization was founded in Paris, France, on July 20, 1924. Its motto is Gens una sumus, meaning "We are one people". Its current president is Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and is HQed in Athens.

• In 1999, it was recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Two years later, it introduced the IOC's anti-drugs rules to the game, as part of its campaign for the game to become part of the Olympic Games.

• What organization?

Answer

FIDE(Fédération Internationale des

Échecs )

Q6• It is a pole weapon used for

throwing or hurling, usually a light spear or javelin made of wood and pointed with iron.

• It is used alongside its shorter version, the iklwa, after Shaka’s military reforms.

• It is also the name of a southern African tree (Curtisia dentata) whose wood was suitable for making spears or lances, most notably by the Bantu peoples of southern Africa.

• ID this weapon.

Answer

Assegai

Q7• The difficulty of navigating the river has meant that it has

divided, rather than united, the people who live near it. The earliest known settlements date to 210 BC, with Ban Chiang being an excellent example of that early Iron Age culture.

• The first systematic exploration began with the expedition led by Ernest Doudard de Lagrée and Francis Garnier, which ascended the river from its mouth to Yunnan between 1866 to 1868.

• An Asian coperation movement is named ______-Ganga Cooperation. It is interesting because etymologically this river’s name means ‘Mother of Waters, Ganga.’

• What river?

Answer

Mekong

Q8• The hot-blast design, also known as a "tubular-"

due to the metal tubes used in its construction, was invented by John Irwin and patented on January 12, 1868. The hot-blast design collected hot air from above the globe and fed it through metal side tubes.

• The cold-blast design is similar to the hot-blast, except that cold fresh air is drawn in from around the top of the globe and is then fed though the metal side tubes.

• What apparatus am I talking about, which gets its name from the cylindrical wick protector and not because it was used in ships during storms?

Answer

Hurricane Lamp

Q9• An ushanka or trooper hat, is a Russian fur cap with

ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap, or tied at the chin to protect the ears, jaw and lower chin from the cold. The thick dense fur also offers some protection against blunt impacts to the head. While no match for a helmet, it offers protection far superior to that of a typical beanie cap should the wearer fall and hit his or her head against ice or packed snow. (Pic follows)

• Why would a bunny wearing an Ushanka (locally known as a "Lei Feng hat") with a red star and a red scarf around its neck and a sack on its back be in news w.r.t. India recently?

Answer

Xiaomi Logo

Q10• X launched as an a la carte education marketplace —

experts could teach a class on any subject, and anyone could attend, for $20 or $25. But this past March, it pivoted to a $10 per month, all-you-can-eat model. And unlike most education startups, it doesn't use professors from top-notch universities; you need not be a Ph.D. to be able to teach something useful. And on the student side of things, it's easy — and relatively inexpensive — to become a lifelong learner.

• Lesson learnt via this model: Leverage the intelligence and expertise of normals to create a massive intellectual marketplace.

• ID X. It gets its name from what a person does to earn in this model.

Answer

Skillshare

Q11• Very simple.

What is blanked out?

Answer

Ebola

Q12: Part points present.• Dark Horse Records is

a record label founded by former Beatle George Harrison in 1974.

• The logo is inspired by Uchchaihshravas, Indra’s 7-headed horse (also Bali’s in some records).

• Q: How was he obtained by Indra? And why do I say the logo is ‘inspired’ from Uchchaihsravas and not ‘is’ Uchchaihsravas?

Answer

During Sagar Manthan;He is snow-white

Q13“An Act to provide for the establishment of a

Board to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate, the securities market and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”

The Act was passed in 1992 with amendments to make it effective in 1995, 1999 and 2000.

What was established?

Answer

SEBI

Q14. Collective name.• Vimal Vasahi: Adinath.• Luna Vasahi: Neminath.• Pithalhar: Rishabh.• Parshvanath: Parshva.• Mahavir Swami: Mahavir.

Answer

Dilwara Temples

Q15.• jaconet /ˈdʒakənɪt/ n. a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and

slightly stiff finish. < modification of Sanskrit X, in the city of

<del> from India, where such cloth was first made.

• Jaconet is not the only word which is derived from X. The other word is quite ‘unstoppable’.

• ID X.

Answer

Jagannath

Q16.• Usually, a it occurs upon death or

resignation. It may also occur because of a recall, ennoblement, a serious criminal conviction, failure to maintain a minimum attendance, bankruptcy or mental incapacity.

• The Congress would probably like this two-word term considering current events.

• What term?

Answer

Bye-Election

Q17.• Connect

Answer

Bharadwaj• Vishal Bharadwaj• The sage Bharadwaj• The bird.

Q18.• An integral part of this country’s culture is

Blushtika. It means ‘Goat Dance Twisting’ and is the National Dance of the country.

• Not only a dance, but this country also has a National Lake named Pollishoff (Lake of Sharks).

• Whereas the common people of this country use Cyrillic, the Royal Court uses Latin Alphabet.

• What country whose motto is "Eih bennek, eih blavek” which means “If you gather thistles, expect to be pricked”.

Answer

Syldavia

Q19.• What is happening in this pic (follows)? It

is taken in Taiwan.

Answer

Making noodles• It is called misua, and is made from

wheat flour. It is very thin, much thinner than rice or moong noodles.

Q20.• ID the speaker and the subject. (No part

points)• Audio

Answer

David Attenborough, Sloth

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Answer

Pro Kabaddi Teams

I R 2

• 20 Questions• +15• Irrespective of whether question is

answered or not, the next question moves onto the next team.

• 1 Finite pounce: +15• Round reversal; Points generosity

applies

Q21.• Connect to Google.

Answer

Accent of English that the "text-to-speech" audio of Google translate of each

country uses Green: British, Pink: American, Yellow:

Oceanic, Black: No Service available

Q22. Give one word• Gujhia (Hindustani)• Fara (Hindustani)• Karanji• Pith (East India)• Modak• Kozhakkattai (Tamil) or Kadabu (Kannada) • Ada and Pidi (from Kerala)• Samosa• Momo (Nepal)

Answer

Dumpling • “Cooked balls of dough”

Q23.The concept was originated by American musician Joel Cohen,

who spent two seasons as a producer of musical radio programs for the French National Radio. The idea later was adapted made official by the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang and later spread to 110 countries around the world.

In October 1981, Maurice Fleuret became a Director at Jack Lang’s request, and applied his reflections : “the music everywhere and the concert nowhere”. When he discovered, in a 1982 study on the cultural habits of the French, that five million people, one child out of two, played a musical instrument, he began to dream of a way to bring people out on the streets and this resulted.

What am I talking of?

Answer

Fête de la Musique

Q24.The English name of Pluemeria flower comes from an Italian

noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name comes from "breaking/fragmenting bread," a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.

In Cantonese, it is known as 'gaai daan fa' or the 'egg yolk flower' tree.

Plumeria alba is the national flower of Nicaragua and Laos.Among some Bengalis most white flowers, and, in

particular, plumeria are associated with funerals and death. However in Karnataka, these flowers are used in special garlands during marriage.

What flower?

Answer

Fragipani

Q25.It is recognised by the Election Commission of India as a 'National

Party'. To date, it happens to be the only national political party from India to have contested all the general elections using the same electoral symbol.

The British colonial authorities had banned all activity, which made the task of building a united party very difficult. Between 1921 and 1924 there were three conspiracy trials against the movement: Peshawar Conspiracy Case, Moscow Conspiracy Case and the Cawnpore <lit: one of the majority> Conspiracy Case.

The specific charge was that they as belonging to such a movement were seeking "to deprive the King Emperor of his sovereignty of British India, by complete separation of India from imperialistic Britain by a violent revolution.“

What party?

Answer

Communist Party of India

Q26.X, is the common name for a group of small to large sea

snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae. The word is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.

If something is worthless, you wouldn’t even give “one broken X” for it.

The word Y is also known by the name of a country which was the birth-place of Y making. Y derives its name from X because both have a similar translucent appearance. The word is of Italian origin.

ID X and Y; part points present.

Answer

Cowrie, Porcelain

Q27. 1. Brick City2. Store house for Agar (a kind of oily valuable

perfume tree)3. the land where the flower Kewhi grows4. Fields of aidu (turmeric)

I could not find the etymologies of three others. Complete the list.

Any two for part points. Exhaustive.

Answer

Shillong, Imphal, Dispur

Q28. The issue of biopiracy and unethical bioprospecting made

headlines after the government of India successfully revoked or limited turmeric and basmati rice patents granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the neem patent granted by European Patent Office (EPO) in the late 1990s.

The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) is an Indian digital knowledge repository of the traditional knowledge, especially about medicinal plants.

It was Set up in 2001, as a collaboration between the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Department of A, Y and Naturopathy, U, S and Homeopathy (Dept. of AYUSH).

ID A, Y, U, and S. Part points for any two.

Answer

Ayurved, Yoga, Unani and Siddha

Q29. ID this structure, from the artwork.It is taken from the game Civ V, and the

accompanying quote is:"When you realize how perfect everything is, you

will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." –Gautama Buddha The temple's three levels represent the three

realms of Buddhist cosmology: the world of desires, the world of forms, and the formless world.

Answer

Borobudur

Q30. Connect

Answer

Ambassadors of Interpol

Q31. “Herefore strength and

safety.”What is this organization

doing since the last 46 years?

The three crowns have been the symbol of this country since the 13th century.

Answer

Nobel Economics

Q32. Concerns about the application's origin were raised by

many bloggers, with belief that it may involve spying,

and believed that it collects users' critical information. These concerns were later featured by Al Arabiya News website, referring to the CEO’s serving in the army.

Later, in an interview with The Guardian, he confirmed that the app was funded entirely by "friends and family". "We never took a single dollar from the State. We are not even incorporated in there. We maintain a research and development center there and that's it.

On 14 February 2014, the startup was acquired by Japanese Rakuten for $900 million.

What app?

Answer

Viber

Q33. In fluid dynamics, these equations describe the

motion of a rigid body in an ideal fluid.In electrical engineering, they are understood as

corollaries of Maxwell equations in the low-frequency limit.

In thermodynamics, it explains that a perfect black body absorbs all light that strikes it.

In thermochemistry, it is shown that the variation of the heat of reaction is given by the difference in heat capacity between products and reactants.

Whom am I talking of?

Answer

Gustav Kirchoff

Q34. ID the shaded light brown region.Pic follows.It literally means ‘The

abandoned/ruined place’.

Answer

Takla Makan Desert

Q35. Born Balaji Janardan Bhanu, A was an influential minister and

statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. James Grant Duff states that he was called "the Marattha Machiavelli" by the Europeans.

After the assassination of Peshwa Narayanrao in 1773, he managed the affairs of the state with the help of a twelve member regency council known as the Barbhai council.

The play B is a political satire, written as historical drama based on the life of A. Its theme is how men in power give rise to ideologies to serve their purposes, and later destroy them when they become useless. It was first performed on 16 December 1972, by the Progressive Drama Association in Pune. Jabbar Patel's production of the play in 1973 is considered a classic in Modern Indian Theatre. It was temporarily banned in Maharashtra.

ID both variables. Part points.

Answer

Nana Phadnavis,Ghasiram Kotwal

Q36. In which city will you find this?

Answer

Imphal

Q37. Connect.

Answer

Whistler’s Mother(James Abbot McNeill Whistler)

Q38. • Influence for what title of a series?Some say the world will end in X, Some say in Y. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour X. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction Y Is also great And would suffice.: Robert Frost

Answer

A Song of Ice and Fire

Q39. • What is his profession?• Video

Answer

Conducting

Q40. • What is happening here?

Answer

Tribute to Robin Williams

List it!• The New7Wonders project via global polling made

the following list of the new seven wonders of the world:

1.Great Wall of China2.Petra, Jordan3.Colosseum of Rome4.Chichen Itza5.Macchu Picchu6.The Taj Mahal7.Cristo Redentor8.Great Pyramid of Giza (honorary)

+5 per correct Answer• There were 13 other finalists. List them:6 from Europe (2400 BC, 447 BC, 1333 AD,

1561 AD (date of something near/in/at), 1869 AD, 1887 AD)

3 from Asia (360 AD, 1113 AD, 1633 AD)1 from South America (1250 AD)1 from North America (1886 AD)1 from Australia (1959 AD)1 from Africa (not a specific structure)(1327 AD)

Answers

Stonehenge, Amesbury(2400 BC)

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old and is forgotten under the power of time”

–Aristotle

Acropolis, Athens (447 BC)“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as

the best gem upon her zone." –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alhambra, Granada (1333 AD)

"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”

–Joseph Addison

Red Square (St. Basil’s Cathedral), Moscow (1561

AD)"The Law is a fortress on a hill that

armies cannot take or floods wash away.”

–The Prophet Muhammad

Neuschwanstein, Füssen (1869 AD)

"...the location is one of the most beautiful to be found, holy and unapproachable, a worthy temple for the divine friend who has brought salvation and true blessing to the world."

–King Ludwig II of Bavaria

Eiffel Tower, Paris (1887 AD)"We live only to discover beauty, all

else is a form of waiting”–Kahlil Gibran

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (360 AD)

"For it soars to a height to match the sky, and as if surging up from among the other buildings it stands on high and looks down upon the remainder of the city, adorning it, because it is a part of it, but glorying in its own beauty.”

–Procopius, De Aedificis

Angkor Wat, Cambodia (1113 AD)

"The temple is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of.”

–Antonio da Magdalena

Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto (1633 AD)

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

– Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Moai, Easter Island (1250 AD)

“The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men's lives.”

– Pericles

Statue of Liberty, New York (1886 AD)

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe

free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed

to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”– Emma Lazarus

Sydney Opera House, Sydney

(1959 AD)“Those who lose dreaming, are lost”– Australian Aboriginal saying

Timbuktu (Djinguereber Mosque),

Mali (1327 AD)“With the magnificence of eternity

before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness."

– Thomas Chalmers

AND. . .That’s all folks!

Thank You, Hope you had an enjoyable day!