Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz 2016

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Sohan Maheshwar & Kaustuba K.V.

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Round 1 - Clockwise
• 20 Questions on Infinite pounce
• No limits on number of pounce
• +10 on direct/pass/pounce
• -10 on incorrect pounce

1
• Here's an important document in 20th century history.
• If you notice, the Canada representative is blank. This is because the representative
- Lawrence Cosgrave, signed in the line below where he was supposed to sign. This
set off an unfortunate chain whereby each succeeding signer also signed one line
too low on that copy of the documents. This caused some consternation among
officials but General Richard Sutherland scratched out the now-incorrect list of
delegates and handwrote the correct titles under each signature. (He also attested it!)
• Question: Look at the names and and tell me what document this is. What is the
reason attributed to this mistake?

• Japan's surrender in WW2
• Lawrence Cosgrave lost an eye in WWI so thanks to the visual impairment
he placed his signature one line below

2
X, an Indian musician endorsed his two friends' idea of creating a company. X
had recently seen an advertisement for a company selling speakers and it ended
with the catchphrase ____ ____ ______.
So he suggested this phrase for their venture's name.
• X and the company?

• Only Much Louder
• Vishal Dadlani

3
• William Topaz _________ was a weaver and an actor. With some delusions of grandeur he
decided on a change of career and even requested Queen Victoria as a patron. She
obviously rejected it but he took this as praise for his work. Despite this he continued his
career in the same field. He died penniless but has a sorta cult following now. Two
questions:
• 1. He has a sobriquet thanks to the 'quality' of his work. What is it?
• 2. He's buried at the Greyfriars cemetery in Edinburgh where someone spotted the name on
the gravestone and named a character after him. So FITB.

• McGonagall
• World’s (Britain’s) Worst Poet

4
• The website's logo depicts a fox, in reference to a phrase attributed to
Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big
thing.”
• Was in the news during the US Elections. Which?

5
• An artist has created this installation at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.
Titled 'F Lotus', the installation features 201 rings in the shape of a
calligraphic F. The installation was created to raise awareness about the
Syrian refugee crisis.
• a. Who is the artist? If you look closely at the image, you will see some clues.
• b. What is the installation made of?

• 1. ? (2014) - 83,871
• 2. Dracula Untold (2014) – 5,687
• 3. The Sum of All fears (2002) – 2,922
• 4. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) - 2,798
• 5. 300: Rise of An Empire (2014) – 2,234
• 6. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) – 1,741
• 7. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – 1,647
• 8. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) – 1,417
• 9. Braveheart (1995) – 1,297
• 10. The Avengers (2012) – 1,019
• What is this a list of (specific)? and what tops the list?
6

• The is a list of most on-screen deaths. On screen is operative word
because otherwise Star Wars and movies where entire planets are destroyed
would count.
• The movie is Guardians of the Galaxy

7
“I vividly remember the day I met X, who was exhibiting his works at ITC Windsor in
November 1980. I was a struggling entrepreneur who had a deep interest in art. (...)
All I could afford was a Rs 200 etching which I proudly bought. I admitted to X that I loved
his canvases but they were beyond my reach. He promptly invited me to his humble studio at
the HAL quarters to view other works and said he would work out payment terms that I could
afford. I therefore became a proud owner of a 3 ft by 3 ft canvas from his Street Urchin series
which occupies pride of place in my office even today."
• Who on whom? Painting shown below.

• Kiran Majumdar Shaw
about Yusuf Arakkal

8
Madhu Jain, in an article says that X is arguably India's first crossover star with
the exception of Sabu Dastagir who played (Y in Hollywood).
X was in the Pierce Brosnan starrer 'The Deceivers' playing a wily nobleman
who is also a practicing thug, a Pakistani businessman in Stephen Frears'
'Sammy & Rosie Get Laid' and also the title character in the adaptation of
Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. (among his other international roles)
• X and Y?

• X - Shashi Kapoor
• Y - Mowgli

9
This is a small hill station and a census town in Nashik district, Maharashtra. Popular
attractions include the Muktidham temple at Nashik Road and the Pandavleni Caves.
It is also the source of the British slang noun '_______ tap', loosely meaning "camp fever", and
referring to the apparent madness of men waiting for ships back to Britain after finishing their
tour of duty. By the 1940s this had been widely shortened to just "________", an adjective
meaning "mad (insane)" or "eccentric".
The blank comes from an Anglicisation of the name of the town. Shares the name with an
establishment(s) in Mumbai and Pune.
• Name the town and the anglicized form

10
In September, while automatically maintaining and updating TLDR North
Korea unexpectedly provided public access to this.
It was revealed that NK had only 28 of these, significantly lower than the
previously estimated 1,000 to 5,500 in 2014.
• What? generic answer.

• Murlikant Petkar a jawan of the craftsman rank in the Indian army, is a living hero
of the 1965 war against Pakistan. Wounded in the war due to bullet shots, Petkar
suffered irreversible injuries that forced him to end his career as a soldier.
• In 1972, Heidelberg, Germany, he became the first Indian to achieve what?
11

• First Indian to win a Paralympics medal. Back in 1972 when he set a WR in the 50m
freestyle swimming AND was a finalist in the javelin throw, precision javelin throw
and slalom!

• Watch the trailer of this horror movie called 'Morgan'. What is unique about this
trailer?
12

The trailer is unique because it was made by a computer. Essentially IBM
Watson used AI to create the trailer which is meta because the horror film is about
rogue AI etc.
"To prepare the machine for the task at hand, IBM researchers fed Watson over 100
horror movie trailers cut into separate moments and scenes. The computer then
performed a series of visual, sound and composition analyses to get an idea of the
dynamics of a trailer.
When Watson finished processing Morgan, it isolated 10 scenes totalling six
minutes of video. While a human editor still had to patch the scenes together to tell
a coherent story, IBM’s AI shortened the process down to only 24 hours.
That’s a huge improvement in comparison to the typical timeframe of between 10
to 30 days usually required to complete a trailer.

• Teiyu Goto, an engineer who designed this explains that the the iconic shapes
weren't just arbitrarily picked—they actually mean something.
• “Other companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons.
We wanted something simple to remember, which is why we went with icons or
symbols, and I came up with the <1>,<2>,<3>,<4> combination immediately
afterward. I gave each symbol a meaning and a color. The <1> refers to
viewpoint; I had it represent one's head or direction and made it green. <2>
refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it
pink. The <3> and <4> represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them
red and blue respectively. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had
to reinforce to management that that's what I wanted.”
• What is he talking about?
13

• Buttons on the Play Station
• triangle-circle-X-square

• FISA was the first international sports federation to join the Olympic movement. It
has been on the Olympic program since the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
• The logo is shown below. Which sport is FISA the governing body for?
14

• Razack Sattar, born in 1927 in Bangalore started the ______ House for Men in 1950
as a tailoring shop and fabric selling for men in Bangalore's Commercial street.
(AFAIK the shop still exists with a similar name, as a Raymonds store). Few decades
later he along with his sons Irfan and Rezwan 'pivoted' their business and they're
now raking it in.
• FITB.
15

• The store was called Prestige House for Men. They pivoted to real estate, became
Prestige Developers.

Mary Anning (see pic) born 1799 was an English fossil collector, dealer, and
paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made
in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis
in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.
Her findings contributed to important changes in scientific thinking about
prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
She is immortalized by a short verse written by Terry Sullivan in 1908. Something
that we all have probably heard. What was it?
16

• She inspired the common tongue-twister 'She sells sea-shels by the sea shore'

• The obscure 1993 textbook ‘Teaching With <blank> is a rare and precious
commodity. Created by a speech language pathologist and a learning disabilities
educator, the elementary-level book incorporates <blank> into various lessons like
“The Bug Collector” and “The Christmas Story.”
• Supposedly, only eight libraries in the world have copies. And three of those are in
North Dakota, the state where the book was originally published 23 years ago. Its
rare as it’s pretty much the only example of <blank> being officially licensed.
• What is the blank?

• A special education teacher wrote to Bill
Watterson to tell him that her students found his
characters engaging and asked him to license a
textbook for her and others to use.
• He agreed so “Teaching with Calvin and
Hobbes” entered a limited print run.

• This program for startups was launched in 2010. Its goal was to reduce
the country’s dependence on commodities by becoming Latin America’s
innovation and technology hub. It has caught the eye of global techies,
who have nicknamed its capital Santiago as ‘X’
• Y is the name given to an area with a high concentration of high-tech
industries in the coastal plain in Israel. The area covers much of the
country, although especially high concentrations of hi-tech industry can
be found in the area around Tel Aviv. The second half of Y is the
Arabic word for a valley or dry river bed, also commonly used in
colloquial Hebrew.
• X and Y are puns on the same source. Give both.
18

• X - Chilean Valley
• Y - Silicon Wadi

• In the late 80s/early 90s, Charles Band formed Full Moon Features, which would
become the dominant force in direct-to-VHS schlock for the next decade.
• A series of bad junk bond investments lead a particular company scrambling to
stay afloat. In desperation, their Entertainment Group offshoot began a fire sale
of film rights to some of their most popular characters.
• Charles Band managed to get their hands on the rights to one character and
planned a filmic version starring studio fixture Jeffrey Combs (pic). However,
before production could be finished, Band allowed the option on the rights to
expire. Instead of ditching the project all together, Band decided to merely
change a few names and details and release the film but changed the name of the
character to “Mordrid”.
• The film was released in 1992. Which character / what was the original film?
19

• This is _____ Pozzi, a famous pornstar & TV actress
who’s a household name in Italy (she also ran for
parliament in ’92).
• Her first name prompted something PG rated be
changed to "Oceania" in Italy recently. What?
20

• This is Moana Pozzi. Disney changed the title
of their latest movie because of her fame.

•Round 2 - Written Round
• Music albums reimagined as book covers. All clues in the pictures.
• +10 every right answer
• No negatives
• Bonus 10 for getting all right

3. Album that is the soundtrack of a 1984 movie

• Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
• (Robert Zimmerman is his real name)

• Album that is the soundtrack of a 1984 movie

• Prince - Purple Rain
• Prince full name is Prince Rogers Nelson

Round 3 - Anti-clockwise
• 20 questions on Infinite pounce
• No limits on number of pounce
• +10 on direct/pass/pounce
• -10 on incorrect pounce

1
What was criticized by Robert F. Kennedy thus. "It does not include the beauty
of our poetry, the strength of our marriages or the joy of our children's play. It
measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning,
neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. In short it measures
everything except that which makes life worthwhile"

2
In two different (unrelated) films, Kay Kay Menon's character utters the same
phrase as his/his clan's motto, each during the course of a lengthy tirade. In
one film its mentioned right at the start of the movie, in another during the
climax. What phrase? Name the two movies

• Veer Bhoghya Vasundhara – motto of the Rajputana Rifles
• Gulaal & Shaurya

3
When recording their 1975 album, this band found themselves stuck for material and
inspiration. Deciding to take a break from recording, the band members went to watch
Mel Brooks's movie The Young Frankenstein. Returning to the studio, they were
laughing about the scene where Doctor Frankenstein meets Igor for the first time. In
the scene Igor tells Frankenstein," _____ ____ ____." Frankenstein thinks Igor is
showing him the way. But what Igor actually meant was that Frankenstein should walk
as he himself walked i.e. limping.
Fill in the blanks with a phrase that ended up becoming the title of one of the band's
greatest hits that also brought them back from obscurity in the mid '80s

4
What old Bangalore slang meaning sub standard, rickety etc is
attributed to Indian Airlines practice of using their early fleet of
aircrafts well beyond their “best by” dates leading to frequent
malfunctions and breakdowns?

• Dakota – IA owned a large fleet of Douglas Dakota planes

5
This work, known as The Age of Bronze, by Rodin,
when first displayed at an exhibition attracted
criticism on account of its near perfect anatomy. It
was alleged that the sculptor achieved it by casting
over a living model. What change did this bring
about in Rodin's later works which today is seen as a
trademark of his sculpture?

• Deliberate anatomical imperfections - His statues would have huge palms
and feet, as well as elongated arms that would sometimes reach all the way up
to the knees.

6
• This particular gag
from Community is
a reference to a
famous movie
scene. What scene?
(movie will do)

• Norman Stansfield (Gary
Oldman) from Leon

7
• World famous sushi chef Jiro Ono, also the subject of the documentary "Jiro
Dreams of Sushi", has two sons both of whom have followed in their
father's footsteps. While the elder son works with his father and would take
over the business after Jiro's time, younger son Takashi, having no such
luxury, has opened his own sushi restaurant which, like father's place, is
Michelin starred.
• The son's restaurant though is an exact mirror image of his father's joint. For
what practical purpose did he have it built this way?

• The son is right handed while the father is a lefty. Hence the mirror image.

8
• What was introduced/built not out of concern for the privacy of the subject
or to keep his/her identity a secret, but to prevent the acts of solicitation
from the other person involved in this two person interaction?

9
• "Old doctors believed in a "wandering womb" that would move around
inside you and do awful things by blocking arteries, pinching nerves or
putting pressure on organs. This was thought to cause everything from
headaches, to mood swings, to sudden death.
So your womb causing you to get all weird and sick was given a medical
name". What name?
• Would help to know what the medical term for womb removal procedure is.

10
The 2001 Pontiac Aztek from GM has been described variously as one of the worst
automobiles ever produced, or even as one of the worst inventions of all time.
But it has seen a resurgence in popularity and public interest in the late 2000s and early
2010s, so much so that a particular car, though wrecked and undrivable, was put up for
auction and sold for a handsome sum in 2013, after its utility ended.
• What was the reason for its popularity? OR what was the claim to fame of the
auctioned car?

11
• From an excerpt of a yet to be released book called Anarchy, published in the guardian.
• “Hounded by envious (British) parliamentary colleagues and widely reviled for corruption,
he committed suicide in 1774 by slitting his own throat with a paperknife...
He was buried in secret, on a frosty November night, in an unmarked vault in the Shropshire
village of Morton Say. Many years ago, workmen digging up the parquet floor came across
his bones, and after some discussion it was decided to quietly put them to rest again where
they lay. Here they remain, marked today by a small, discreet wall plaque inscribed:
“PRIMUS IN INDIS.”
• Who is being spoken about? Who is the author of the book?

• Sir Robert Clive
• William Dalrymple

12
• It descends from military marching
drummers who carried a snare drum on a
sling hung from one shoulder, with the drum
resting at an angle. This allowed the drummer
to play and march without banging his knees
or thighs into the drum.
• Because of this awkward position, what
convention came about in the world of
drumming that to this day is followed even
though there is no requirement to do so?

• The traditional grip used by
drummers. Underhand grip for
the left hand and overhand grip
for the right hand

13
• The world’s earliest recorded industrial espionage was carried out by one
Robert Fortune, a 19th century Scottish spy, who was employed by a
multinational corporation to gather a highly prized information from a
country whose interior was forbidden to foreigners. Thus, Fortune donned a
disguise, learnt the local language over the course of several trips and posed
as an official from a faraway province within the country in order to fulfill his
mission.
• What prized information was being sought whose unintended beneficiary
turned out to be India?

• Making/growing tea from China.

14
• X’s unique tribute to
the departed Y. X and
Y?

• Mallika Sarabhai, Mrinalini Sarabhai

15
The idiom __X___ ___Y___ meaning to ingratiate oneself by flattery has an
interesting etymology.
The first word, X, means to brush or groom a horse, not the spicy broth.
The second word was originally Fauvel, the name of a horse in a satirical French
medieval poem, Roman de Fauve, from the early 1300s. The French word fauvel from
which the horse was named meant "fallow" or "chestnut-coloured. Fauvel, the equine
hero of the poem, was a cunning rascal, the sort of character that might be influenced
by flattery.
• What’s the phrase?

16
Delhi Press is one of the leading magazine publishers of India, with 36 magazines in
10 languages, including names like Grihshobha, Woman's Era, Sarita, Saras
Salil and Champak. Through these, Delhi Press reaches out to more than 35 million
readers.
The press started its business, however, by launching a magazine in 1940 whose initial
run ended in 1988. In 2009 this magazine was revived and continues to circulate till
date, albeit to a very smaller audience compared to the publication’s other titles.
By the editor’s own admission, this niche magazine is more an editorial success than
commercial success which is taken care of by their more popular offerings
• Name this magazine

17
• Whose cameo in X-Men
comics from 1979 that
found itself trending
again recently?

• Pierre Trudeau, father of Justin Trudeau.
• Renewed interest on account of the latter’s
debut in marvel’s Civil War II

18
Hanikarak Bapu, a song from the to-be-released movie
Dangal, is sung by two boys, Sarwar and Sartaz Khan,
from Jodhpur, Rajasthan who go by the name of _____
Boys.
This name is partly a reference to a 90s Dutch Eurodance
group that was quite popular in India, and partly a
reference to the caste the boys belong to.
• Name the duo.

• Manga Boys from Venga Boys and Manganiyar caste

• On Oct. 25, New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced its acquisition of the very first
generation of this: 176 rudimentary icons designed by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita in
1999.
• Created for Japanese national telecom company NTT DoCoMo, each single-color graphic
fits within 12 x 12 pixels. The company gave its original set to MoMA’s digital collection,
with license to reproduce the images.
• These are “humble masterpieces of design” which “planted the seeds for the explosive
growth of a new visual language,” said MoMA collection specialist Paul Galloway in a
statement.
• What?
19

• Nike is embarking on a mission dubbed Breaking2. After more than two years of
research, preparation and testing, —Eliud Kipchoge, Lelisa Desisa, and Zersenay
Tadese —have officially started their Nike-backed build-up towards this goal which
will be attempted sometime in 2017.
• What is this mission all about? Something that has never been done in history. (be
specific)
20

• Breaking the two-hour barrier for a marathon. The current world record
is 2:02:57, set by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya in 2014.

Round 4 - Written round
• 5 questions
• +10 each for right answer
• No Negatives
• Bonus 10 points if all 5 cracked correctly

1
Temples in this Indian state do not follow the
template seen in any other part of the country.
Most temples here feature a dome on an
octagonal base mostly associated with Islamic
places of worship
Almost all the temples also have a deepastambha
(lamptower) that resembles European baroque
architecture style.
• What Indian state.

2
Built in the year 1814 in Dehradun, UP, the
Kalinga Memorial is one of the very few war
memorials erected by the victor honouring the
vanquished.
Ever since then, the vanquished has also been
an important part of the victor’s army.
Name the two sides that fought the battle.

3
• Whose residence in Yadavgiri, Mysore, resurrected recently from a state of
neglect and converted into a memorial? (pics next slide)
• The semicircular shaped rooms with plenty of windows, allowed the owner
to peer through in all directions looking at people, which was a favourite
pastime of his and also helped him draw inspiration for his works

4
This is the Harlem Hospital whose front wall
features a blown up version of a part of a famous
series of murals by Vertis Hayes originally drawn
in 1937. Among other things, the mural tries to
encourage African Americans to take up jobs that
don't just involve physical exertion, but involve
“mind, body, soul” etc thus ensuring that their
work is enjoyable
• What’s the title of the mural that was used as
the name of a famous 2006 biopic as well?

5
• James _______ ,(1765 – 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist who was known for
his eclectic research work. He studied subjects ranging from coffee making to manufacture
of brass, the chemistry of human tears, snake venom and other natural occurrences. He
would publish twenty-seven papers in his lifetime.
• He left most of his wealth to his nephew. However when the nephew died childless in 1835,
the estate passed, as per James's will, to the government of another country, to found at its
capital, “an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men”- not
surprising, perhaps, given his own interest in various subjects and fields. But for many years
the government struggled with bringing to life his vague mandate.
• What did the government eventually set up?

• Goa – Temple architecture here has imbibed European features on account
of the Portuguese rule, and Islamic elements due to the reign of Adil Shah
before Portuguese.

• Gurkhas and the British Army

• Smithsonian of the Smithsonian Museums fame

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