St. Stephen's College QC Inter-Dept 2013

The Inter-Departmental Quiz 2013

Prelims

Lots of things blanked out here. You need to give us what’s important. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Hungarian striker Miklos Feher spent most of his nine-year career in Portugal, representing three teams as a professional and amassing top division totals of 80 games and 27 goals. He

gained 25 caps for Hungary.

In the final match of his professional career, playing for Benfica, what did Feher do immediately after receiving a stoppage time

booking that resulted in a bust of his being installed at the Estadio da Luz and his number 29 shirt being retired?

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He died.

The title of this 20th century novel is a reference to lyrics from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", by Julia Ward Howe:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:He is trampling out the vintage where the _____ __ ____ are stored;

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:His truth is marching on.

These lyrics refer, in turn, to the biblical passage Revelation 14:19–20, an apocalyptic appeal to divine justice and deliverance from

oppression in the final judgment.

The phrase also appears at the end of chapter 25 in the book, which describes the purposeful destruction of food to keep the price high:

...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing _____. In the souls of the people the _____ __ _____ are filling and growing heavy, growing

heavy for the vintage.

Blanked out words are identically the title. Quite simply, fill them in.

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The New York Times dubbed 2012 'The Year of the X,' and it has since become one of the hottest topics in its field. Time magazine said that free Xs open the door to the pinnacle in the field to the masses. This has been

primarily due to the emergence of several well-financed providers.

Since you are where you are, you’ve probably heard of these. Who knows, you might even be part of X. Go on,

what is it?

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The artist X produced several triptychs. Among his most famous is The Garden of Earthly Delights. This painting, for which the original title has not survived, depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many

wondrous animals on the left panel, the earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic punishments of the various

types of sinners on the right panel.

Name the artist, please, whose work is known for its use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. 5

In a review of this film, Mihir Fadnavis, film critic for MidDay wrote:

"The disappointment is hard to mask, and unless the next two films offer something drastically different, I would be forced to believe what I feared: that X is now Y, Z's ________ is ________, and over the years it

has consumed him and turned him into a disillusioned and slightly evil creature that feasts by stealing from your pockets.“

X, Y, and Z, please (but mostly, X).

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X: Peter JacksonY: Gollum

Z: J.R.R. Tolkein

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Moebius Strip

We’re interested in the name of this city, photographs of which you see on your left.

The 2010 G-20 summit and the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit were held here.

If someone is believed, the city is home to perhaps warm, humanly girls, some of

whom know how to enjoy a cup of coffee or two.

Boys, too, in fact (yes, no perversion implied), but those probably just drink

their coffee too quickly.

Wait, what? Anyway, name of the city, please.

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Red is a chaser, alternately called Macky, Shadow or Blinky.Pink is an ambusher, also known as Micky,Speedy or Pinky.

Cyan is fickle, nicknamed Mucky, Bashful or Inky.Orange is stupid, a trait noticable by his slow movement, and is

affectionately referred to as Mocky, Pokey or Clyde.

They aren't really very helpful when you meet them, nor are they useful in any way, except four times for about 10 seconds.

Collectively they are also called "ghosts","goblins or "octopi". Man, you’ve probably packed in at least a few hours with these guys.

Where?

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Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth

remains an important and achievable goal for India.

In "An Uncertain Glory," Dreze and ________ argue that the country's main

problems lie in the lack of attention paid to the essential needs of the

people, especially of the poor, and often of women. There have been major

failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the

public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's

living conditions. There is also a continued inadequacy of social services such as schooling and medical care as

well as of physical services such as safe water, electricity, drainage,

transportation, and sanitation.

Published in 2013, fill in the blank with the name of the second author of An

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What collective term were Yusuf Akçura, Ayetullah Bey, Osman Hamdi Bey, Refik Bey, Emmanuel Carasso

Efendi, Abdullah Cevdet, Ziya Gökalp, Talaat Pasha and associates known by?

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The Young Turks

Until the 1964 Summer Olympics, the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off and the Scissors technique were used. What was used in the 1968 games and after?

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The Fosbury Flop

X was a German philosopher (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831), and is considered one of the major figures in the

Idealist school of thought. X attracted severe criticism despite the well-acknowledged philosophical importance of his work.

Some criticisms are:

Schopenhauer - “pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers”

Boltzmann - “unclear thoughtless flow of words”

Russell - “the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers”

Popper - “meaningless verbiage”

Before dying, X supposedly told his favourite student, “Only you have ever understood me ... and you got it wrong.”

Who is X? 13

To X is to zigzag between obstacles.

X usually refers to downhill skiing, but may also refer to water skiing, kayaking/canoeing, skating,

skateboarding, and windsurfing.

Give X.

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Slalom

13th March 2013, the first was changed to the second.

Why?

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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was made Pope

“The first step I have taken toward the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bind me to Warner Bros.

was to change my name from X to the Love Symbol. X is the name that my mother gave me at birth. Warner Bros. took the name, trademarked it, and used it as the main

marketing tool to promote all of the music that I wrote. The company owns the name X and all related music marketed under X. I became merely a pawn used to produce more

money for Warner Bros... I was born X and did not want to adopt another conventional name. The only acceptable

replacement for my name, and my identity, was the Love Symbol, a symbol with no pronunciation… that is a

representation of me and what my music is about. This symbol is present in my work over the years; it is a concept

that has evolved from my frustration; it is who I am. It is my name.”

Give X.

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Prince, the Artist Formerly Known as

X was first recorded by Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds in South Africa in 1939. Linda, a singer of Zulu

origin, wrote the song, originally titled "Mbube" (Zulu: lion), while working for the Gallo Record Company as a

cleaner and record packer.

According to South African journalist Rian Malan: "Mbube" wasn't the most remarkable tune, but there was

something terribly compelling about the underlying chant, a dense meshing of low male voices above which

Solomon yodelled and howled for two exhilarating minutes, occasionally making it up as he went along. The third take was the great one, but it achieved immortality only in its dying seconds, when Solly took a deep breath,

opened his mouth and improvised the melody that the world now associates with these words: “________”

Give X or ______.

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In the Jungle / The Lion Sleeps Tonight

X is mentioned in the Bible as a beast of great strength, “the Re’em” or “the Tahash” and in ancient Oriental texts as “Qilin” or “Kirin”. They became well

known in the Middle Ages.

Marco Polo has described them as "scarcely smaller than elephants. They have the hair of a buffalo and

feet like an elephant's. They have a single large black horn in the middle of the forehead... They have a head like a wild boar's… They spend their time by preference wallowing in mud and slime. They are

very ugly brutes to look at. They are not at all such as we describe them when we relate that they let

themselves be captured by virgins, but clean contrary to our notions.”

X is also the national animal of Scotland.

Give X.

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The Unicorn

X - Ares, Mars, Iron, Volvo, U+2642.Y - Aphrodite, Venus, Copper, U+2640.

What are X and Y.

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“Increased time spent indoors with patients”“Seasonal viruses”

“Low humidity allowing small droplets to disperse farther and stay in the air longer.”

These are all attempted explanations for the relationship between what two things?

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Being Cold and Having a Cold

X, an album by Y, explores abandonment and isolation, symbolised by a _______. The songs create an approximate storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Z, whose father was killed during the Second

World War. Z is oppressed by his overprotective mother, and tormented at school by tyrannical, abusive teachers. Each of these

traumas become ___________.

The protagonist eventually becomes a rock star, his relationships marred by infidelity, drug use, and outbursts of violence. As his

marriage crumbles, he finishes ___________, completing his isolation from human contact. Z’s crisis escalates, culminating in a

hallucinatory on-stage performance where he believes that he is a fascist dictator performing at concerts similar to Neo-Nazi rallies, at which he sets men on fans he considers unworthy. Tormented with

guilt, he places himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to ____________, opening Z to the outside world.

Album name only, please. Come on, come out of your enclosed gardens and answer this one.

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The Youtube video for the song X has been called the hottest viral video of summer 2007 by CTV and the second-greatest viral video in the world by utalkmarketing.com.

The video features the bespectacled singer singing into a condenser microphone, and moving away from the

microphone to breathe.

The singer has said that the song’s lyrics are a reference to modern racism in the USA, and he later went on to

describe the song as “cheesy”. The melody and the drum track of the song have also been criticised extensively by the gaming community for being

overly derivative of one of the music tracks from the arcade game UN Squadron.

Give X.

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Chocolate Rain, by Tay Zonday