Prelims for the Ganesh Nayak Memorial Quiz, held by the Karnataka Quiz Association in NOvember 2015

1. KQA
Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open
Quiz
The 26th edition
Prelims
26 questions with 13 supps

2. 1.
This Banaswadi-based business enterprise
uses a logotype with a careful bit of angling.
What is the angling meant to achieve/
suggest/remind you of?

3. Answer Follows

4. The Answer
The V is uterus/womb-shaped, and
the O joins the V in a manner that
looks like ovary with
oviduct/Fallopian tube.
One of these two gets full points.
Female reproductive system/cervix
etc get half.

5. 2.
It is the smallest country in Africa both by area and
by population. Their crest shows a long-lived
species variant found on one of their territories.
Identify the country, (and the species for bonus
points).

7. Answer Follows

8. The Answer
Seychelles
SUPP1
The Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Giant Tortoise gets ½

9. 3.
What does this map represent? What does the
colour grey signify?

11. Answer Follows

12. The Answer
Writing systems/scripts of the world
SUPP2
Grey is Latin/Roman

13. 4.
His 1867 decision was received with
derisive nicknames such as Walrussia
and Icebergia. Who? What decision?

15. Answer Follows

16. The Answer
William Seward, Andrew Jackson’s Sec. of
State
SUPP3
The purchase of Alaska

17. 5.
Which Nobel laureate in Literature derives his
surname from the practice seen here? Also, what
metaphorical name is usually applied to what the
men are doing?

18. Answer Follows

19. The Answer
Faulkner, from ‘falconer’
SUPP4
Goose-stepping

20. 6.
Its title is explained in a 1316 letter to
Cangrande della Scala with respect to
content and style.
The name was chosen since the poem
develops from harsh and terrible events to a
peaceful ending,and its style is intermediate
between the high tragic style and the low
elegiac one.
Name the poem. Who wrote the letter?

21. Answer Follows

22. The Answer
Commedia, later The Divine Comedy.
SUPP5
Dante Alighieri

23. 7.
He was able to pursue risky long-term research, such as an
innovative suspension system for cars, because he refuse to
let his firm go public."I would have been fired a hundred
times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into
business to make money".
He taught for more than 45 years, and in 2011, donated a
majority of his company’s shares to the school. While the gift
provides them with annual cash dividends. they cannot sell
the shares and do not participate in the company’s
management.
Who? Full name
OR Which company?

24. Answer Follows

25. The Answer
Amar Bose
OR
Bose Corporation

26. 8.
Daria Marchenko’s Face of War. Who is the subject
of this artwork? How was it made—be specific?

28. Answer Follows

29. The Answer
Vladimir Putin
SUPP6
Bullet shells used by Ukrainian

30. 9.
His surname is often misspelt. It actually
indicates Viennese origins, but often another
surname meaning wheel-maker or
winemaker is used. Which man of science
and founder of a 20th century discipline?

32. Answer Follows

33. The Answer
Norbert Wiener, not Weiner

34. 10.
Often divided by medieval mapmakers,
quite fancifully, into three regions:
Petrea, or rocky, Deserta, or the desert
and Felix, or the blessed, because
myrrh and frankincense were found
there. 19th century traveller Charles M
Doughty borrowed one of these names
for the book he wrote, Travels in _ _ _ _
_ _ Deserta, about his 1878 journey. Fill
blank.

35. Answer Follows

36. The Answer
Arabia

37. 11.
What hashtag did Snickers add to this
ad from June 2014?

38. Answer Follows

39. The Answer

40. 12.
Josef Koudelka did not dare publish many of the 5000 images he shot
over one week till about two and a half decades later, in the 1990s,
because he was afraid of reprisals against his family. This is perhaps
one of the most popular of those images. In which city? What event?

42. Answer Follows

43. The Answer
Prague,
SUPP 7
The 1968 invasion.
The watch records the exact moment
when Soviet tanks began to roll in.

44. 13.
“It is quite a sculptural design but free of
ornamentation; the impressive bow-string
girder-trusses that support the roof are
responsible for its form and the well designed
acoustics of the main space make it a very
functional theatre”.
Architecture scholar Rachel Lee commenting on a 1946
structure originally known as Victory Hall. The architect,
who had found employment in India due to the good offices
of his uncle, a Nobel laureate, used a concrete shell. This
didn’t go down too well with the city’s elite, who were used to
ornate granite constructions —so the response to the
building was rather muted.
How do we know it today? Who was the

45. Answer Follows

46. The Answer
Bal Bhavan, Cubbon Park
SUPP8
Otto Konigsberger

47. 14.
A long-time journalist who worked for a string of Northern California
newspapers landed an assignment in 1957 to write a story about a
United States Department of Agriculture project to control spreading
sand with European beach grasses on the coast of Oregon.
Surveying the encroachments from a low-flying aircraft, he became
fascinated by the implications of this clash between human and nature.
The project, he later wrote, “fed my interest in how we inflict ourselves
upon our planet. I could begin to see the shape of a global problem, no
part of it separated from any other—social ecology, political ecology,
economic ecology.”
He chose its eventual title because of its onomatopoetic similarity to the
word “doom.” He hoped his book would serve as an “ecological
awareness handbook.
Who? What book?

48. Answer Follows

49. The Answer
Frank Herbert
SUPP9
Dune

50. 15.
It was originally built for the judo competition in the
1964 Summer Olympics, hence its name, rendered
in English as Martial Arts Hall. We know it as an
iconic venue for another kind of entertainment.
What?

51. Answer Follows

52. The Answer
Nippon Budokan

53. 16.
This heir to a UK business fortune set up the grant-making body X to
fund the arts and the sciences. While some may cavil at the name
chosen, he offers this defence:
“It's a book about aspirations and visions. If you read page two you will
realise it's nothing to do with wealth or the big parties that X gave, it's
about the power of ideals and illusions. That is enormously important in
life."
Who? What name did he choose?

55. Answer Follows

56. The Answer
David, Lord Sainsbury
SUPP 9
The Gatsby Foundation

57. 17.
What 8-letter word forms the official
Twitter Handle of Pope Francis? It
derives from a function associated with
the Tiber, and was once used by Julius
Caesar. What function?

58. Answer Follows

59. The Answer
Pontifex
SUPP10
Maintaining the Tiber’s bridges

60. 18.
What spoof account on Twitter produced these
gems? Identify the form?
Oh dear, I see gray!
- Golden hair from cheap blue box -
Quick trip to Walmart.
More hair products bought
Than buildings in NYC.
There goes his money.
Is hairy-kiri
an inevitable act
in twenty sixteen?

61. Answer Follows

62. The Answer
Donald’s Hair Haikus

63. 19.
Somebody began an article on HuffPo with these
words:
“My cat is my _ _ _, my eyebrows are #onbleak,
and I rejoice when weekend plans are unexpectedly
cancelled.”
The word blanked out is considered as a shortening
of an existing shortening. Others gloss it as an
acronym for person most important to one. What is
the word? Also, some people use this hashtag
as antonym to what expression popularised by
a Black teenager through a vine?

64. Answer Follows

65. The Answer
Bae
Before Anyone Else
SUPP11
On fleek

66. 20.
Top: 2 Sept 2015. Bottom: 9 Sept 2015.
What?

68. Answer Follows

69. The Answer
Burning Man

70. 21.
What natural wonder does this fireplace by Italian designer
Massimo Battaglia pay tribute to? Who produced it, inmyth?

72. Answer Follows

73. The Answer
Giant’s Causeway
SUPP 12
Finn McCool

74. 22.
One of several used for a particular
purpose sixty years ago. This was sold
for megabucks a few years ago. What
purpose ?

76. Answer Follows

77. The Answer
The Roger Bannister sub-four-minute
mile

78. 23.
Whose graduation photo, according to the Internet?

79. Answer Follows

80. 24. One of the jurors for the Laureus award,
showing off in 2005. Who?

81. Answer Follows

82. The Answer
Nadia Comaneci

83. 25.
This distinctive hairdo has its own Twitter handle. Who/
What’s the Twitter handle called? Also, what 7-letter that
Dubya could never pronounce right is normally prefixed
to her surname to produce a bad-joke nickname?

84. Answer Follows

85. The Answer
Anna Wintour/Anna Wintour’s Bob
SUPP13
‘Nuclear’ Wintour

86. 26.
What slightly shady phone app
launched a new version in 2013 that
incorporated swipe navigation, double-
tap replies, a revamped friend profile
system, and a jokey reference to its
distinctive mascot in the name chosen
for this version, Banquo?

87. Answer Follows

88. The Answer
Snapchat