Naalam Quiz Finals (Nuals, Kochi)

Bodhi- Finals
Presented by NUALS QUIZ FORUM

• 6 Rounds, all Pounce (except theme)
• +10
• -5 in case of a pounced wrong answer

1.
• This is a monument on the northern margin
of the Tagus river estuary, in the civil parish
of Santa Maria de Belem, Lisbon . Located
along the river were ships departed to
explore and trade with India and the Orient.
The Monument represented a romanticized
idealization of the Portuguese exploration
that was typical of the Estado Novo regime of
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.

The Monument to the Discoveries

2.
X: "If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll
never speak to him again."
Y (at X's funeral): "Chaplin wasn't the funniest,
I wasn't the funniest, this man was the
funniest."
Identify X and Y.

X- Stan Laurel
Y- Buster Keaton

3.
• The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of
Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, was a famous
American legal case in 1925 in which a high school
teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating
Tennessee's Butler Act. The trial was deliberately staged
in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton,
Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was found guilty
and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a
technicality. The trial served its purpose of drawing
intense national publicity, as national reporters flocked
to Dayton to cover the big-name lawyers who had
agreed to represent each side. What was it about

John Scopes, was accused of violating
Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it
unlawful to teach evolution in any
state-funded school.

4.
• K Street is a major thoroughfare in the
Washington, D.C. known as a center for
numerous think tanks, law firms, and advocacy
groups. In political discourse, "K Street" is the
common and often negative metonym for a
peculiar kind of 'industry'. It has been a subject
of much debate and discussion due to its
alleged corrupting influence in politics. What
are we talking about?

5.
• The ________________ delusion is a type
persecutory/grandiose delusion in which
patients believe their lives are staged plays or
reality television shows. The term was coined in
2008 by brothers Joel and Ian Gold, a
psychiatrist and a neuro-philosopher,
respectively. It is not officially recognized and is
not separately listed in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric
Association, but could be classified as a
"Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type"

6.
• M.O. Mathai (1909-1981) was assistant to India's first
Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Mathai worked
with the United States Army in India before becoming
an assistant to Nehru in 1946. He resigned in 1959
following Communist allegations of misuse of power.
Later he wrote two books on his alleged experiences
of Nehru and his times, which became controversial.
It has been alleged that Mathai was a plant by the
American intelligence agencies to scour Nehru
household. "One of Mathai's letters (UO No
D/S13170 of 2/12/1954) dug out by the Delhi-based
non-profit trust had become controversial in 2006.
Why?

• A confusion was triggered off by a by M O
Mathai, secretary to the then prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru that "a small amount of Rs
200 odd was received by minister of External
Affairs from our embassy in Tokyo along with
the ashes and other remains of Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose.” This was contrary to Indian
governments statements that the ashes were
still in Renkoji temple in Tokyo.

Predictions by Jules Verne
• Electric Submarine
• Skywriting
• News casting
• Taser Gun

• Sound Tracks by Zakir hussain

Damien Hirst
• Britain's richest living artist

Acquistions by facebook
• Instagram
• Face.com
• Lightbox.com
• Spool

1
Connect
•Kevin Carter
•Greg Marinovich
•Ken Oosterbroek
•João Silva

2.
X was a propaganda poster produced by the British
government in 1939 during the beginning of the Second
World War. It had only limited distribution with no public
display, and thus was little known. The poster was
rediscovered in 2000 and has been re-issued by a number of
private companies and used as the decorative theme for a
range of products. It was believed there were only two known
surviving examples of the poster outside government archives
until a collection of 15 originals was brought in to the
Antiques Roadshow in 2012 by the daughter of an ex-Royal
Observer Corps member.

3. Id this cricket team and its
importance?

• The Australian Aboriginal cricket team in
England in 1868 was a side composed of
Australian Aborigines which toured England
between May and October of that year, thus
becoming the first organised group of
Australian cricketers to travel overseas.

4.
• Remastered CD versions of the Pink Floyd album Atom
Heart Mother contain a card of "Breakfast Tips". On one
side is a recipe for a "Traditional Bedouin Wedding Feast",
Reference to this recipe is made in the comedic novel I
Served the King of England first published in 1971 by
Czech author Bohumil Hrabal as a traditional Ethiopian
dish cooked for a visit to Prague by the Emperor Haile
Selassie. Although the recipe has been published in a
number of cookbooks and recipe webpages, the recipe is
often treated with skepticism, and many think it might be
an exaggeration of a real, less impressive, culinary
experience. What dish?

5.
• The phrase originates from a public execution in
18th century England, when an audience
platform next to the scaffold collapsed and
killed twenty onlookers, to the amusement of
the man who was about to be beheaded
• What “phrase”

6.
• X was a retired intelligence agent who followed the
deathbed wish of his dying father, Jarvis, to carry on
the tradition of serving his father’s erstwhile
employers. He is very popular, having received a
nomination for the R.A.C. "Squiddy" Award for Favorite
Supporting Character in 1994 and for Best Character in
2001. He was also nominated for the Wizard Fan Award
for Favorite Supporting Male Character in 1994. He is a
fan of the Artemis Fowl novels. He had been an actor
in Britain’s theatre. Last seen he was enjoying a
peaceful holiday after retirement in Florence. ID

Azed
• 10 per letter
• 5 if all the answers are correct.

Two movies “A” and “B” from 1969 made the
academy awards of the same year quite
memorable. “A” a French language movie by
Costa Gravas was nominated for “C” and “D”,
whereas “B” an English language movie by
John Schlesinger was the first “E” movie to be
nominated for “D” and won “D”. Identify A to E.

• A- Z
• B- Midnight Cowboy
• C- Best foreign language film
• D- Best film
• E- X-rated

• Ans- Open Leaks, the alternative to wikileaks

1.
• In 1991, the name of X became the object of
a dispute between Y and the newly
independent Republic of X. The Republic of X
is accused of appropriating symbols and
figures that are historically considered parts
of Y's culture (such as Vergina Sun, which is
depicted in its flag), and of promoting the
irredentist concept of a United X,

• X- Macedonia
• Y- Greece

2.
• X was formed in 2001, and based in Moyock,
North Carolina as a company that would train
US Navy SEALs for combat. X later evolved and
diversified, and claims to have been absolutely
successful in certain theatres. ID X.

The largest of the U.S. State
Department's private security
contractors

3.
• X is latin for 'nourishing mother'. It was used
in ancient Rome as a title for various mother
goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and in
Medieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary.
Y, (derivative from the same verb) is a Latin
noun that means "foster son".
Solve for x and y.

• X- "alma mater“
• Y- Alumini

4.
• Named after the westernized-name of its Russian inventor, who
patented the device in 1928, it is an early electronic musical
instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from
the player. The controlling section usually consists of two metal
antennas which sense the position of the player's hands and
control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude
(volume) with the other, so it can be played without being
touched.

5.
• Arthur Gilligan first visited India in 1926 and in a
meeting attended by the Maharaja of Patiala
promised to press for its inclusion in the X if all
the promoters in the land came together to
establish a single entity. An assurance was given
and a meeting held in Delhi on November 21,
1927, and hence Y was formed in 1928 under
Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act.
• Identify X and Y

The Answer is
• X- ICC
• Y-BCCI

6.
The idea of X is very simple, and it is probable
that it has been invented and reinvented
numerous times. The word X dates to 1784, and
may have derived by combining the words
tongue and slap. The first references to X in its
modern context date to the 1920s. Alternatively
it may be a word of Roman origin being related
to the Roman tradition of selling red apples.
Modern X is said to have been invented in 1908
by an American named George Smith of New
Haven, Connecticut

Audience Question
• The Department X was in news a year ago when it
cashed in on the home team’s win in a prestigious
tournament, by connecting it to William Blake’s
famous poem, “Tyger” and had 150 billboards
made of the same to promote public safety, with
the poem, “Knight Knight, Burning Bright, Drive
Safe, Day and Night.” The same department was
met with uproarious applause recently on social
networking sites certain posters went viral which
depicted the Beatles and was being used by them
to educate Jaywalkers with the Tagline, “If they
can, why can’t you?” which is the department?

Theme connect
• +30,25
• 15
• 15 10
• 10 5
• 10

2.
• The national flag of this country consisted of
a Buddhist khorlo prayer wheel with
the gankyil as the central element.
• Until 1967, the previous flag showed a very
complex design with a fanciful border
and religious pictograms surrounding the khorlo.
• A more simple design was adopted in 1967
because of the difficulty in duplication of the
complex flag. The border became solid red, the
pictograms were removed and the wheel was
redesigned.

4.
• In the early hours of 17 September, the Indian army
entered Bidar. Meanwhile, forces led by the 1st
Armoured regiment were at the town of Chityal about
60 km from the capital city, while another column took
over the town of Hingoli. By the morning of the 5th day
of hostilities, it had become clear that the army and
the Razakars had been routed on all fronts and with
extremely heavy casualties. At 5PM of 17 September a
ceasefire was announced thus ending the armed
action.
• What are we talking about?

• Tippu Sultan
• Sikkhim
• Pragaash
• Operation Polo
• Colechal War Memorial.

Individual residencies
• Mysore
• Sikkhim
• Kashmir
• Hyderbad
• Travancore

• Morgan Robertson is a famous American author
of short stories and novels, and the first person
to apply a patent for the periscope. He is best
known for his short novel __________, whose
main plot is said to have striking similarities to a
disaster that happened fourteen years after the
book was written, thus being the subject of
discussion for many supernatural theorists and
the like.
• Identify the book/Context

One Word Connect
• The term ______________is applied to organisms that have
been rediscovered as being still alive after having been widely
considered extinct for years, without ever having appeared in
the fossil record. In this last case, the term Lazarus taxon
applied in neontology.
• Auto-resuscitation after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation is
the spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at
resuscitation. Its occurrence has been noted in medical
literature at least 25 times since 1982.
• The phenomenon, is related to the dynamics of the induced
defects in the semiconductor bulk where it was found out that
at temperatures below 130 kelvin (about -143 degrees Celsius),
dead detectors apparently come back to life

• Originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and
popularized by a play written by John Guare, It is
a theory that everyone and everything is six or
fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from
any other person in the world, so that a chain of
"a friend of a friend" statements can be made to
connect any two people. This phenomenon has
gained tremendous relevance due to the
development of the Internet and Social
Networking.

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