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Rules of Engagement
● 6 rounds in total (41 questions in total)
● Rules for each round to be explained before the round
● Please refrain from relying on electronic devices or nearby participants
● The order is as follows :
○ Inﬁnite Pounce 1
○ Written round 1
○ Written round 2
○ Connect Round

Clockwise I
8 questions. +10 / -10

1. Who is Fancy Bear? Why these companies?
Area 1, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity ﬁrm, detected in early January that
"Fancy Bear" has been systematically hacking into the email servers of KUB-Gas,
Aldea, Esko-Pivnich, Nadragas, Tehnocom-Service, Pari, and Kvartal 95.
To steal employees’ credentials, Fancy Bear directed them to fake login pages. Area
1 was able to trace the look-alike sites through a combination of internet service
providers frequently used by Fancy Bear, rare web trafﬁc patterns, and techniques
that have been used in previous attacks against a slew of other high-impact victims.

Russian Hackers. Burisma.
Fancy Bear is a Russian cyber espionage
group (hackers) said to be associated
with the Russian military intelligence
agency GRU
These companies are subsidiaries of
Burisma, on whose board the son of US
Democratic Presidential Candidate and
former VP Joe Biden was a member.

2. Fill the blank. Which phenomenon? Where?
Velvet worms are incredibly social; studying them provides clues to the evolution of
social behavior in arthropods. They sleep together in a pile and for that reason a
researcher studying them, who thinks they are "adorable, adorable animals" has
been trying to popularize the phrase “a _______ of velvet worms” as a collective noun.
Velvet worms are highly local, though. This has put them on an extinction path,
thanks to a 2019 phenomenon in the area that the government did not want to
spread to 2020, but miserably failed in achieving.

Cuddle | Bushﬁres in Australia

3. The 1994 book? The condition and procedure?
Her 1994 memoir won praise for opening a dialogue about clinical depression and
helped introduce an unsparing style of confessional writing that remains inﬂuential.
She died in early January 2020 of a genetic mutation that caused a condition most
women dread post their mid-life. In 2015, she underwent a surgical procedure, and
had since been a champion of its preventative advantage.
"I could have had [the procedure] with reconstruction and skipped the part where I
got [the condition],” she wrote. “I feel like the biggest idiot for not doing so.”

Book: Prozac
Nation
Condition: Breast
Cancer
Procedure:
Mastectomy

4. What does Flygskam mean? Whose rise?
Flygskam is the most popular among a group of similar meaning European words to
have become prominent in 2019, thanks to the rising fame of a person. The person
avoided Flygskam by travelling from England to the US on the Malizia II and back to
Spain on the La Vagabonde.

5. Give event, threat, country.
In this sporting event, every year the course, which originally ran from France to
Senegal, requires drivers to navigate several thousand miles of dunes. So
treacherous is the terrain that more than 50 competitors and spectators have died
since the ﬁrst edition in 1979. Which event?
In 2009 the race relocated to South America because of a growing threat. What
threat?
I'm January 2020, however, the event is being hosted by a country which has
recently been trying to project a friendly image worldwide by hosting some
high-proﬁle sporting events, including major chess tournaments, a boxing world
championship, and an El Clasico. Which country?

Event: Dakar Rally
Threat: Remnants
of Al Qaeda in
Northwest Africa
Country: Saudi
Arabia

6. Why was there an explosion of rats?
Between September 1941 and January 1944, when the Nazis laid siege to
Leningrad, over a million citizens, including four hundred thousand children died;
many of them due to starvation. One of the reasons for food scarcity was the
unexpectedly large population boost of rats and other vermin in the city within
months of the siege. The vermin pillaged stored food and ate away the produce in
kitchen gardens throughout the city.

7. Which movie ? What did they add?
After a long and arduous search, the artists went with the original novel cover as the
inspiration. However, they added one element to add perspective since people were
not able to gauge the size of the creature (which was misinterpreted as baby-size to
King Kong by the test audience).
Which iconic movie ? What was the additional element that they added to the
original book cover ?

Jurassic Park
The backdrop of the
forest and the small
trees

8. Which year ? Which event does it sponsor?
Luzhou Laojiao is a Chinese liquor distilled from fermented sorghum and has been
around for hundreds of years. It also produces a baijiu called Guojiao ____ based on
the year of its founding.
Post 2019, it has risen in popularity due to sponsoring a certain event every year.
Which year was it founded (linked with the event) ? Which event does it sponsor ?

Forget me not
Each slide has a mnemonic devised to remember
something that high-school students around the
world often forget easily.
The ﬁrst letter of each word is indicative and the
lists are exhaustive.
+10 for each.
+20 for all.
e.g.
King Henry died drinking chocolate milk.
For remembering the preﬁxes of SI units.
Kilo-, hecto-, deca-, deci-, centi-, milli-

1.
Richard of York gave battle in vain

2.
Kings play chess over ﬁne green silk.

3.
Boring, average politics can become very corrupt. People
everywhere get used sometimes.

4.
Tall girls can ﬁght. And other queer things can develop.

5.
Bad boys run our young girls behind victory garden walls

6.
Every beginning guitarist does all exercises!

Colours of the
Rainbow
Richard Of York Gave Battle In
Vain
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Indigo, Violet

Biological
taxonomy order
Kings play chess over fine green silk.
K - Kingdom
P - Phylum
C - Class
O - Order
F - Family
G - Genus
S - Species

The countries of
South America
Boring, Average Politics Can Become Very
Corrupt. People Everywhere Get Used
Sometimes.
In order of largest to smallest by area:
Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia,
Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guyana,
Uruguay, Suriname

Moh’s Scale of
Mineral Hardness
Tall Girls Can Fight. And Other
Queer Things Can Develop.
Talc(=1) Gypsum(=2)
Calcite(=3) Fluorite(=4)
Apatite(=5) Orthoclase(=6)
Quartz(=7) Topaz(=8)
Corundum(=9) Diamond(=10)

5.
Tall girls can ﬁght. And other queer things can develop.

The EIA
electronics
color code
Black(0), Brown(1), Red(2),
Orange(3), Yellow(4), Green(5),
Blue(6), Violet(7), Gray(8),
White(9)

Guitar strings in standard tuning
Every Beginning Guitarist Does All Exercises!
EBGDAE

Anticlockwise I

1. Which norm?
Human eyes take between 10 and 30 minutes to fully adjust to darkness. This delay
could prove disastrous in the case of accidents, when one typically has to get their
bearings quickly and escape out of the vehicle. This fact led to the emergence of a
vehicle norm during the second half of the 20th century.

Flights turn off cabin
lights during takeoff
and landing.

2. What feature of the solar system?
In a vacuum, gases travel further than solids of same volume, when impressed by the
same force. High-school teachers in Finland routinely demonstrate this in
classrooms to explain what feature of the solar system?

Planetary circles
The inner circle planets (Mercury, Venue, Earth, Mars) are solid
The outer circle planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) are gaseous

3. What is the chhaupadi tradition about?
Every winter, in Nepal’s snow-covered hills, young women keep dying because of a
deadly superstition. Keeping with the chhaupadi tradition, women are exiled to small
huts, cowsheds or makeshift bunkers, no matter how cold it is outside. Women
typically die due to hypothermia or asphyxia by inhaling smoke from the small ﬁres
they stoke. Survivors are considered "god-touched" while the unfortunate ones face
posthumous shame of "one who was tempted by the devil."

Banishing
women to
Menstrual
Huts

4. Which two events?
"Activism has become one of the easiest ways to project yourself as cool,” says a
teenager about Instagram activism and goes on to ridicule how thousands of
accounts changed their profile pictures in the summer of 2019 to a deep blue and
then to a striking red in protest of two events in two different parts of the world.
She said people did so in the name of spreading awareness and showing solidarity
"without moving a finger beyond flicking through their phones". She was
immediately panned for her comments, of course.

Blue: Sudan. Military crackdown on citizens
Red: Kashmir. Abrogation of Article 370

5. What am I talking about?
Cotton is made up of chains of cellulose, which are held together by weak hydrogen
bonds that slip, slide and break apart when subjected to torsional stress. Once the
stress is removed, the bonds are reformed. Another way these bonds break and
reform are under high temperature and moisture conditions.

Why clothes
wrinkle up on
washing and
why they
straighten out
on ironing

When Spanish explorers ﬁrst reached the West Indies, they found tribes of Indians
who described their chiefs as "caziques". The conquistadors applied the word, which
also refers to a tropical bird similar to an oriole, to all native chiefs.
While the term remained fairly common in Spanish, English speakers had hardly ever
used it till 1982, when a certain Dr. Karl Khoshnaw popularized the term among
logophiles around the world.
6. What did Khoshnaw do?

Set the record for highest scoring Scrabble
word in a tournament.

7. What does the Alphaville Herald cover?
The Alphaville Herald is an online newspaper founded by Peter Ludlow, an American
philosopher well known for his work on linguistics and was a student of Noam
Chomsky.
In the past, the newspaper has uncovered multiple scams and prostitution rackets.
What does the Alphaville Herald cover/ where is it based ?

8. Why the irony?
London’s eight Royal Parks are havens in the middle of a bustling city and recently
touted as great conservation sites for various migratory birds. Yet a November 2019
exhibition, Play, Protests and Pelicans at the Garden Museum in Lambeth, suggested
that the claim is rather ironic.

They were originally
hunting grounds

KALtoons
Each slide shows a KAL cartoon
from The Economist. Just put
funda behind each cartoon.
+10 for each.
+20 for all.

Clockwise II

1. Which two changes in which activities?
During the Middle Ages, the rise of the Christian clergy and strong female monarchs
in Europe led to a signiﬁcant loss of inﬂuence of the position of the Prime Minister or
the Grand Minister, which was usually the second-in-command in most Islamic
courts of Europe and Asia Minor.
Two enduring consequences of this are in two recreational activities based on royal
courts, which had come to Europe thanks to Islamic traders and invaders. These
changes have become the universally accepted standards today in the two activities.

Playing Cards and Chess.
In Playing Cards, the Queen was
promoted in rank, and the prime
minister was rebranded as the jester or
Jack and demoted.
In Chess, the Wazir/Minister was
rebranded as Queen. The Oont/Camel,
which was the Minister’s ride, was
rebranded as the Bishop.

2. Modern reason?
The Chinese surname (pictured) is
pronounced Shan, with a falling then rising
tone originated in the Shandong Province.
What modern reason is forcing people with
the surname to adopt a different Chinese
character with a similar pronunciation?

The digital script does not have this character in its alphabet set

3. Give X, Y, and Z.
In An Impossible Dream, author Guillaume Serina tells the tantalising story of the
October 1986 Reykjavik summit between X and Y, who came within a whisker of a
ten-year deal to eliminate both countries’ arsenals.
Contrary to the story peddled in international media, it was Y who was keener to
reach an agreement, as he knew that the cost of maintaining weapons was crippling
his country's economy. X on the other hand had reservations about the deal, since he
did not want to shelve his out-of-the-world pet defense project Z, which even after
33 years is nowhere close to useful deployment.

X: Ronald
Reagan
Y: Mikhail
Gorbachev
Z: Star Wars
Project

4. Which list?
Of a certain list, it is largely believed that the ﬁrst element has its origin in an ox's
head; the second in a house; the third in a camel's neck or maybe a club or throwing
stick; and so forth.

5. What and who triggered the change ?
From the 1800s, the balls used in lawn tennis used to be traditionally black or white
depending on the court. This had been regulated at Wimbledon by the committee
and the government. However, due to a recent phenomenon, the BBC2 controller
appealed for a change in the colour which was introduced at Wimbledon in 1967.
What was the phenomenon that triggered the change ? Who was the BBC2
controller, who would go on to have a long and fruitful career in media ?

Introduction of
colour TV
Sir David
Attenborough

6. Which sports personality ?
He was a 15th round draft by the Phoenix Suns in the 1969 NBA draft. It would be
fair to say that his achievements the preceding year helped the cause as well as his
famed jumping ability.
However, he never actually played in an NBA game despite training with the team.
Who is this sports personality ?

7. What do the names mean?
"In Bali," writes Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat Pray Love, "there are only four names that the majority of the
population give their children, regardless of whether the baby is a boy or a girl. The names are Wayan
(pronounced 'Why-Ann'), Made ('mah-DAY'), Nyoman, and Ketut."
Typical of the lower caste, the Sudras, this practice leads to some rather curious (only to foreigners, of
course) situations. A family could have a Wayan married to another Wayan with kids named Wayan,
Made, Nyoman, Ketut, Wayan, and Made.
Higher castes have other names, but a similar system. So, by simply knowing a person's name, one can
deduce much about the person's standing in family and society.
Thankfully, nicknames abound with several Balinese choosing European names (Mario, for instance,
in Eat Pray Love) to appeal to tourists.

8. What is the name of the song ?
______ __ ___ ______ is a single by Canadian
musician Grandson. The song is the lead
single off of Grandson's ﬁrst extended play,
A Modern Tragedy Vol. 1. He describes the
song as a “ﬁrst shot at a personal
revolution”. (lyrics on the right)
What is the song called, evocative of a
famous 1956 sporting incident at the
Olympics ? (blanks are the same as the
title)
Lyrics of the first paragraph
We'll never get free
Lamb to the slaughter
What you gon' do
When there's _____ __ ___
______?
The price of your greed
Is your son and your daughter
What you gon' do
When there's _____ __ ___
_______?

The Modern TnL ConnectWritten Round. 7 Questions X 10 points. 10 Points for Connect.

1. Give me X and Y.
A new partnership involving organizations that look after the X and Y aims to boost tourism
and increase the historical and cultural understanding of the monuments. Historic England and
the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that
the United Kingdom government says is the ﬁrst of its kind and part of a new way to manage
the growth of the heritage sector.
John Glen, the UK's under-secretary for arts, heritage and tourism, said the agreement is a
"perfect example of how heritage can be used to strengthen international partnership, grow
tourism, and build a truly global Britain". Glen said representatives from the two ___ will
examine the challenges and opportunities that come with managing large and complex
archaeological remains, and explore the potential of tourism growth in both countries

2. What is X?
Wadi Rum, which derives its name either from an ancient name for heaven or from
the Aramaic root word for elevated land, is a very famous tourist destination and
movie location. British ofﬁcer TE Lawrence passed through this valley several times.
Lawrence of Arabia and The Martian are popular movies shot here.
X which literally means Valley of Moses is about a 100 km from Wadi Rum. Though
not as picturesque or popular, it’s a popular place because of restaurants and resorts
built for tourists here. The probable tomb of Aaron is also located nearby.

3. Which Peninsula?
There are two reasons as to why the region is named so. In the ancient language of
the natives, they were either saying I do not understand you or Look how they talk
when questioned by the ﬁrst explorers. This gave rise to the name of this place which
claims to be the most visited region in Mexico. Chicxulub, a crater in this peninsula,
is believed to be the impact point of the meteor that wiped out dinosaurs.

4. Who on What?
“The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the X (2
word term) was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so
long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and
mercenaries, ﬁrst oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated
the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the
public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which
rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of
the military government was relaxed, and ﬁnally dissolved, by the partial institutions
of ___; and the ___ world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.”

5. Delicacy and City.
Known to have originated from the kitchens of Mughal emperors, X is one of the two
prime attractions that brings thousands of people to Y. X is soft and chewy with a
candy-like texture. It is made of ash gourd or white pumpkin and is often devoured in
dried form or dipped in sugar syrup. Long ago, X was also used as a form of medicine
and was considered beneﬁcial for blood pressure and hydration. Found in every
nook and cranny of Y’s streets, the best X are found at Panchhi X. You enter the shop
and you will ﬁnd rows of colorfully arranged X, with someone waiting to greet you
and carefully explain the specialty of this basic sugar, water, and fruit delicacy. Gopal
Das X Wale, as the name suggests, is also another option that is widely suggested by
the locals of Y.

6. Brand/Language and the Empire.
X is a mountain sports brand founded in 1997 in Domancy, France, dealing with
hiking, trail running, adventure racing, climbing and mountaineering apparel and
equipment. The name comes from the X language, an indigenous language of South
America and also denominates an indigenous people. The language is believed to be
the main language of the Y empire.

7. What?
Mário Rodrigues Filho, better known as Mário Filho (June 3, 1908 – September 17,
1966) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. His father, Mário Rodrigues, owned the
newspaper "A Manhã" ("The Morning"). The younger Mário began at his father's
paper in 1926 as a sports reporter, pursuing a relatively undeveloped form of
journalism. What popular icon of Brazilian, opened in 1950, is ofﬁcially named in his
honour?

Great Wall of China and Hadrian’s
Wall in England

Edward Gibbon
on Roman Empire
in his book The
Decline and Fall
of the Roman
Empire

Maracana -
Estadio
Jornalista
Mario Filho

Connect:
New 7 Wonders of
the World

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