5. • Wikipedia describes this principle as applicable to an
endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number
of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a
successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one
where every possible deficiency has been avoided.
Jared Diamond coined a name for this principle by
making a literary allusion in the title of chapter 9 of
his award-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel. There
he used this principle to illustrate why so few wild
animals have been successfully domesticated
throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a
great number of factors can render a species
undomesticable. What is the name of the principle?
6.
7. • “Anna Karenina” principle, alluding to its opening lines
• “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family
is unhappy in its own way”
8. • Who is the designer of this range of furniture and is
said to have remarked “chairs are architecture, sofas
are bourgeois”?
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12. This scene has been painted several times over –
most famously by Delacroix. What is it depicting?
13.
14. • John Milton dictating Paradise Lost to his daughters
15. • Keith ______ and Greg _____ met at Fillmore West in San
Francisco and on working together, found their styles to be
compatible and complementary. They were looking for a drummer
when, well, I‟ll let Greg finish it:
• “J used to come and watch King Crimson,” Greg said, “When Keith
and I got together we went looking for a drummer. The first
person I talked to was Mitch Mitchell because J‟s band had just
broken up ….. Mitch was available at the time, and he said maybe
we should get J together. He‟ll be finished with……, and we can
get together and maybe the four of us should play. I said, „fair
enough,‟ and that‟s how we left it.”
• “A couple of days later,” he continues, “we got a call from Roger
Stigwood (Bee Gees and Cream manager), who said „Look, I‟ve got
the perfect drummer for you. A guy called Carl ______.‟ We
played together, it was instantaneously obvious that the
chemistry was right. That was the band we were looking for. And
so that was it really. We made a decision on the spot. A short
while after J was found dead in an apartment in London. The
press got a hold of the story that we might jam with J, and
speculated that the group would be called “Help”. But, alas, it was
just a rumor.” What was the band? Who was J?
18. Only two men have performed this athletic feat in this
venue. The first was Lord Burghley in 1927 and nobody else
is said to have done it until Sam Dobin in 2007. What feat?
19.
20. • Beating the “clock” in the Trinity Great Court Run
• Starting at the first gong of the clock at noon and
completing the run around the quadrangle before the
final gong.
21. What is being described here?
• 1 Blessings and the first cup of wine
• 2 Wash hands
• 3 Appetizer
• 4 Breaking of the middle matzah
• 5 Relating the Exodus
• 6 Ritual washing of hands
• 7 Blessings over the Matzah
• 8 Bitter herbs
• 9 Sandwich
• 10 The meal
• 11 Eating of the afikoman
• 12 Grace after Meals
• 13 Songs of praise
• 14 Nirtzah
24. • From the collection “Songs of experience”, it is a
sister poem to “The Lamb” from the “Songs of
innocence”. The choice of “y” in the spelling of the title
was already archaic when the poem was written. The
poet used “i” in his other works suggesting perhaps
that the choice of “y” was for effect and to make the
point that the title is a metaphor. Name the poem and
the poet.
29. • The hymn Jerusalem
• The hymn is the poem "And did those feet in ancient time"
by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem
(whose protagonist is John Milton) set to Parry‟s music.
• Emerson Lake and Palmer recorded a version of the hymn for
their album Brain surgery. It was banned on radio in the UK as it
was thought to be degrading “an anthem of England”.
• The line from the poem "Bring me my Chariot of fire!" inspired
the name of the movie. The Trinity Great Court Run is one of its
most famous scenes (although picturised in Eton not Cambridge
and inaccurate).
• The Passover Seder ends with the cry "L'shanah haba'ah
b'Yerushalayim! - Next year in Jerusalem!" Jews in Israel, and
especially those in Jerusalem, recite instead "L'shanah haba'ah
b'Yerushalayim hab'nuyah! - Next year in the rebuilt Jerusalem!“.
Rebuilding a new Jerusalem in England was the theme of the
poem.
30. Who is the bearded gentleman in the lower left
panel?
33. • In the 19th century, workers in certain Cuban
factories would sacrifice a portion of their salary to
hire a "lector" to regale them in the factory. A famous
French novelist‟s work was so popular among the
workers that they wrote to the author in 1870 asking
permission to name their product after the novel's
hero. The author let them run with the idea. What was
the product?
37. • The video clip was that of the game-winning home run
by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson
off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the 3rd
and decisive playoff game at the Polo Grounds to win
the National League pennant in 1951.
38. • Shot heard round the world
• The first image is that of the “Concord Minute Man”. Built in
commemoration of the centenary of the first successful armed
resistance to British forces. Inscribed on the pedestal is the opening
stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 Concord Hymn with the
immortal words, "Shot heard 'round the world.“
• The second image is the arrest of Gavrilo Principe after he shot
Archduke Franz Ferdinand – an incident also labelled as a “Shot heard
„round the world”.
• The phrase was also applied to the game-winning home run by New
York Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson off Brooklyn
Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the 3rd and decisive playoff game
at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant in 1951.
• An article recapping the game in the New York Daily News was
accompanied by the headline, "The Shot Heard 'Round the Baseball
World". The phrase quickly spread to other media, and soon became a
widely-recognized slogan for Thomson's homer.
39. What is the decision that was studied in this paper?
40.
41. • The decision was whether to kick a field goal, punt or
go for it on 4th down in the NFL.
42. • Photographer Yaniv "Nev" Schulman lived with his brother Ariel
in New York City. Abby Pierce, an eight-year-old child
prodigy artist in rural Ishpeming, Michigan, sent Nev a painting of
one of his photos. They became Facebook friends, which
broadened to include Abby's family: including Abby's mother
Angela and her attractive older half-sister Megan, who lives in
Gladstone, Michigan. For a documentary, Ariel and Daniela Torrico
filmed Nev as he began an online relationship with Megan. After
Nev‟s suspicions are raised, they travelled to Michigan to meet
Megan and discover that it was really Angela who had been posing
as Megan with an alternate Facebook account and mobile phone.
• That day they talk to Angela‟s husband Vince who among other
things tells them the following story (related partially here):
• They used to transport live cod in giant vats on ships from Alaska
to China. But by the time the codfish got to China their flesh
would become mushy and tasteless.
• So what was done as a solution to this problem?
43.
44. • The fishermen put catfish in the vats with the cod to
keep them active by chasing them, and thus ensured
the quality of the fish.
• Vince talked of how there are people in everyone's
lives who keep us active, always on our toes and always
thinking. It is implied that he believes Angela to be
such a person. Hence the name of the movie Catfish.
46. • This “piece of art” is an animated night sky that is also a live
representation of the world‟s stock markets, with each star
representing a traded company. Fed by massive streams of live
financial information, the stars glimmer and pulse, immediately
flickering brighter whenever their stock is traded anywhere in the
world. It is called _____ _______ Stock market planetarium as a
pun on a Nobel prize winning innovation. FITB.
47.
48. • Black Shoals (pun on Black-Scholes options pricing
formula)
49. • This is the schematic of this
scientist‟s most famous
experiment. He initially did not
understand the magnitude of his
discovery. "It‟s of no use
whatsoever," he once told a
student. "This is just an
experiment that proves Maestro
Maxwell was right,…”. But the
world did and a unit was named
after him. While he identified as
a Lutheran, his father grew up as
a Jew and so the Nazis wanted to
denigrate him. One Nazi
functionary attempted to
overturn the use of his name as a
unit. He suggested to the
Physical Society of Berlin that
instead they use the name of his
teacher instead, which would
cleverly maintain the same
abbreviation of the unit for the
benefit of foreign colleagues.
Who was the scientist?
52. Fill in the blanked out names – (Red, White and Blue)
53.
54. • White – Cantor
• Red – Hilbert
• Blue - Poincare
55. • According to a 1997 Physics Today article, she did not share the Nobel chemistry prize
because of "a mixture of disciplinary bias, political obtuseness, ignorance and haste".
The award went to her former collaborator who actually performed the experiments.
She could not collaborate on them as she had to flee the country. But she and her
nephew were able to propose the theory that explained the observations of the
experiment. In her nephew‟s words,
• “...We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot. ...and gradually the idea
took shape... explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus is like a liquid drop; such a drop
might elongate and divide itself... We knew there were strong forces that would
resist, ..just as surface tension. But nuclei differed from ordinary drops. At this point
we both sat down on a tree trunk and started to calculate on scraps of paper. ...might
indeed be a very wobbly, unstable drop, ready to divide itself... But, ...when the two
drops separated they would be driven apart by electrical repulsion, about 200 MeV in
all. Fortunately _________ remembered how to compute the masses of nuclei... and
worked out that the two nuclei formed... would be lighter by about one-fifth the mass
of a proton. Now whenever mass disappears energy is created, according to --------------
, and... the mass was just equivalent to 200 MeV; it all fitted!”
• Who?
• The part marked ------------ connects the answer to the Theme and is hence blanked
out.
56.
57. • Lise Meitner, collaborator of Otto Hahn and aunt of
Otto Robert Frisch.
60. • Theme: Einstein‟s Annus Mirabilis papers in the year 1906.The
papers were on Brownian motion, Photoelectric effect, Special
theory of relativity and Mass-energy equivalence (E=mc^2)
• The Black-Scholes options pricing formula assumes that stock
prices follow a geometric Brownian motion.
• In 1887, Heinrich Hertz first observed the photoelectric effect
• Some argue Poincare and Lorentz came up with the special theory
of relativity first. Poincaré had described a synchronization
procedure for clocks at rest relative to each other in 1900 and
1904. So two events, which are simultaneous in one frame of
reference, are not simultaneous in another frame. It is very
similar to the one later proposed by Einstein. However, Poincaré
distinguished between "local" or "apparent" time of moving
clocks, and the "true" time of resting clocks in the ether.
• Lise Meitner acknowledges that she was able to explain the
fission of the Uranium nucleus by using E=mc^2. (the part blanked
out in Question 4).
61. • Venkatakrishna Mudaliar (also referred to as
Chinnaswami) was a Dubash (translator and
interpreter) of the East India Company and was invited
often to Fort St George. Chinnaswami would often take
the two sons of a musician he patronized (Ramaswami)
to Fort St. George, to listen to what is known as „airs‟-
Western Music played by Irish men in the British
band. The bands played simple Celtic marching tunes,
lilting melodies, easy on the drums and bagpipes and
flutes. It is widely conjectured that 2 significant
things resulted from this. What?
62.
63. • The 2 sons were Muthuswami and Baluswami Dikshitar.
• The two things that resulted were
• Muthuswami Dikshitar‟s famous Nottuswaras (from
"note swaras"), a set of 39 compositions in Carnatic
classical music. These were mostly simple melodies
inspired by Scots and Irish tunes.
• Baluswami Diskhitar took a fancy to the violin played
by the bandmembers and is said to have introduced
the violin to Carnatic music.
64. • In about 617–18 A.D., the Chalukya king Pulakesin II
invaded the Pallava kingdom defeating the
king Mahendravarman I. The Pallavas long wished to avenge
the humiliation. In 630, Mahendravarman I was succeeded
his son Narasimhavarman I . When attacked by the
Chalukyas, Narasimhavarman I met and defeated them in
three separate encounters close to the Pallava capital
Kanchi, forcing them to retreat.The Pallavas, then, took the
offensive and pursued the fleeing Chalukya forces deep into
their territory. In 642, a formidable Pallava force
under the general Paranjothi was sent by Narasimhavarman
I to capture the capital of the Chalukyas. Paranjothi
succeeded, Pulakesin II was killed and his capital taken over
by the Pallavas. According to the historian, Nilakanta
Sastry, Paranjothi brought something back which was never
seen before in the Pallava kingdom. What?
65.
66. • During the dawn of war, Paranjothi worshipped
a Ganesha sculpture on the walls of Vatapi (the capital
of the Chalukyas) fort. On the return from the
victorious battlefield, he took the statue of Ganesha
to his birthplace Tiruchenkattankudi to be worshipped
as Vatapi Ganapathi (as in the Dikshitar Kirthana).
• The motif of Ganesha is believed to have not existed in
the Pallava kingdom (and most of Tamil Nadu) until
then.
69. • Names of hip-hop artistes
• Tupac Shakur from Tupac Amaru II (lead a rebellion
of indigenous people in Peru)
• Wu-Tang Clan from the movie “Shaolin and Wu-Tang”
• Africa Bambaataa after the Zulu
chief Bhambatha, who led an armed rebellion against
unfair economic practices in early 20th century South
Africa.
• Snoop Dogg (Lion) from Snoopy
70. • It is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. It is
famous for being the major marketplace for coffee
from the 15th century until the 17th century. It is
commonly believed that, after the month and a half of
Marco Polo's turbulent journey, his party were forced
to go ashore at Ṣūr (modern-day Tyre, Lebanon) to
resupply their stocks, because the captain, William
Maurice, had provided insufficient room for food
storage. In the marketplace there, Polo found a
Yemenite salesman who had brought coffee beans from
this town, purchased some and ultimately returned
with them to Europe. What is the name of the city?
71.
72. • Mocha. The Mocha bean gets its name from this and is
also called Sanani or Mocha Sanani beans, meaning
afrom Sana'a. Mocha served as Sana‟a‟s port city.
75. • “The Original 9” – the nine women tennis players who
rebelled against the USLTA for the unfair prize money
at events. They formed their own league and competed
in the Virginia Slims circuit.
76. • The more common theory for the origin of the name of this
product is that it is derived from a topical preparation
made from Enhydris chinensis used by Chinese laborers to
treat joint pain. One source, Dr. William S. Haubrich in his
book Medical Meanings (1997, American College of
Physicians) claims that the name came from the Eastern
United States. The Native Americans of New York and
Pennsylvania region would rub cuts and scrapes with the
petroleum collected from seeps that occurred naturally in
the area. The preparation was named after these tribes and
a mis-pronounciation resulted in its eventual name. The
most famous seller of this product was Clark Stanley. His
product was tested by the United States government in
1917. The government sued the manufacturer for
misbranding and misrepresenting its product and eventually
banned it.
78. • Snake Oil. Enhydris chinensis is Chinese water snake.
• The other etymology is that it was a mispronounciation
of Seneca Oil, Seneca being the tribe.
79. • "It is a strange marriage we have at _________...I am
an Indian Muslim, _____ is a German Jew, and _____
is a Protestant American. Someone once described us
as a three-headed god. Maybe they should have called
us a three-headed monster!“ Who are the 3 people?
82. Written round
• 6 questions
• Lines from Shakespeare
• Just FITB
• A very obvious theme – very general
83. • RICHARD
• Now is the _________________
• Made glorious summer by this son of York,
• And all the clouds that loured upon our house
• In the deep bosom of the ocean buried
84. • Henry V
• Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we ________________;
85. •
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip _______________;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
86. • QUEEN ELIZABETH
• Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
• The king, on his own royal disposition,
• And not provoked by any suitor else,
• Aiming belike at your interior hatred
• That in your outward actions shows itself
• Against my children, brothers, and myself,
• Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground.
•
RICHARD
• I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad
• That wrens make prey ______________ not perch.
• Since every jack became a gentleman,
• There‟s many a gentle person made a jack
87. • ______________. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is
the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the
duke‟s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis
a knavish piece of work, but what o' that? Your
majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not.
Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.
88. • SEYTON
• The queen, my lord, is dead.
MACBETH
• She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of _________________,
Signifying nothing.
90. • RICHARD
• Now is the _________________
• Made glorious summer by this son of York,
• And all the clouds that loured upon our house
• In the deep bosom of the ocean buried
91. • RICHARD
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• Made glorious summer by this son of York,
• And all the clouds that loured upon our house
• In the deep bosom of the ocean buried
92. • Henry V
• Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we ________________;
93. • Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
94. • Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip _______________;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
95. • Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
96. • QUEEN ELIZABETH
• Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
• The king, on his own royal disposition,
• And not provoked by any suitor else,
• Aiming belike at your interior hatred
• That in your outward actions shows itself
• Against my children, brothers, and myself,
• Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground.
•
RICHARD
• I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad
• That wrens make prey ______________ not perch.
• Since every jack became a gentleman,
• There‟s many a gentle person made a jack
97. • QUEEN ELIZABETH
• Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
• The king, on his own royal disposition,
• And not provoked by any suitor else,
• Aiming belike at your interior hatred
• That in your outward actions shows itself
• Against my children, brothers, and myself,
• Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground.
•
RICHARD
• I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad
• That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
• Since every jack became a gentleman,
• There‟s many a gentle person made a jack
98. • ______________. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is
the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the
duke‟s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis
a knavish piece of work, but what o' that? Your
majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not.
Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.
99. Hamlet
• Mousetrap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the
image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the
duke‟s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis
a knavish piece of work, but what o' that? Your
majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not.
Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.
• The previous line asked what the name of the play is.
100. • SEYTON
• The queen, my lord, is dead.
MACBETH
• She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of _________________,
Signifying nothing.
101. • SEYTON
• The queen, my lord, is dead.
MACBETH
• She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
103. This word is commonly used in the sense of “a
manouver, strategem or ploy”. It has its origins in an Italian
expression meaning “to put forward a leg to trip someone”.
Its current usage came about as follows.
Pedro Damaino, a portugese pharmacist wrote one of the
first books on a subject titled Questo libro e da imparare
giocare a scachi et de li partiti, published in Rome, Italy, in
1512. A Spanish priest who was an expert on the
subject, and later became the bishop in Segura, visited
Rome in 1560. He came across the book, disliked it and
decided to write a better one. Thus resulted Libro de la
invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez. He felt that
the Italian expression he encountered on the visit to Rome
would be appropriate for something new that he introduced
in Chapter 2 of the book. It spread from the subject to
common usage subsequently. What is the good word?
104.
105. • Gambit – from gambetto. The priest was Ruy Lopez.
The King‟s gambit was introduced in Chapter 2.
106. • Wester cwm/Valley of Silence
• Lhotse face
• Yellow band
• Geneva Spur
• The South Col
• The Balcony
• __________
• Cornice Traverse
• __________ - Fill in this blank
• __________
107.
108. • Hillary Step. These are milestones/landmarks on the
way to the summit of the Everest. The other missing
ones are the South Summit and the Summit.
• Western cwm Lhotse face
109. Yellow band
Geneva spur
South Col
Balcony
Cornice Traverse
111. • The BBC television series Sherlock is a modern day
crime drama which imagines how Sherlock Holmes
would solve crimes in the modern world. Often, the
plots would weave in elements of and references to Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle‟s original stories. The last episode
of Season 2 features the epic final clash between
Holmes and Moriarty. In that episode, Holmes
recovers a lost painting by J. M. W. Turner. Which
painting?
114. • "You know how I deal with enemies, Why does a
Neapolitan interfere in a quarrel between two
Sicilians? If you wish me to consider you as a friend I
owe you a service which I shall pay on demand. A man
like yourself must know how much more profitable it is
to have a friend who, instead of calling on you for help,
takes care of his own affairs and stands ever ready to
help you in some future time of trouble. If you do not
wish my friendship, so be it. But then I must tell you
that the climate in this city is damp, unhealthy for
Neapolitans, and you are advised never to visit it."
• Who sent this message to whom after the latter made
an attempt on his life?
115.
116. • Don Vito Corleone to Al Capone in Puzo‟s Godfather
118. • Few people know the true meaning of the song or the
words beyond the chorus and the first stanza. Robert
Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots
Musical Museum with the remark, "The following
song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has
never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took
it down from an old man.“ The current practice is due
to Guy Lombardo and his band who first played it in
1929 at a dance at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. It
caught on so much so that Life magazine once
commented, “If Lombardo failed to play it, Americans
would not believe that the _________.” What song
and practice?
120. • “Auld Lang Syne”. The practice of singing it at the
stroke of midnight on New Year‟s.
121. • Posters at the online message board “Sons of Sam
Horn” used to call the old version “the Toilet”, perhaps
due to the prevailing smell or their disgust towards its
“inhabitants”. Even though the dimensions of the new
version are identical to the old one, due to an
increased occurrence of “big flies”, they have renamed
it “the bidet”. What are we talking about?
122.
123. • Yankee Stadium. “Sons of Sam Horn” is a famous
message board of Red Sox fans. A big fly is a nickname
for a home run.
124. • In 2006, the hip-hop group “Three 6 mafia” won the
Oscar for Best song in 2006 for their song “It‟s hard
out there for a pimp”. Later on in the show, the host
Jon Stewart quipped "For those of you keeping score
at home, ________ , zero; Three 6 Mafia, one.“ FITB?
131. • The song “New York New York”. by Liza Minnelli
• Frank Sinatra recorded a cover of this song
• Traditionally the second song after “Auld Lang Syne”
at Times Square after midnight
• Yankee Stadium plays the song at the end of games. In
true Yankee fashion they used to play Frank Sinatra‟s
cover version after a win and Minnelli‟s version after a
loss, until Minnelli told them to stop.
• The song was the signature number in Martin
Scorcese‟s musical drama of the same name.
132. • In 1934, the New York Times reported that he was
working on a “Death Beam” capable of knocking 10,000
enemy airplanes out of the sky. He hoped to fund a
prototypical defensive weapon in the interest of world
peace, but his appeals to J.P. Morgan Jr. and British
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went nowhere. He
did, however, receive a $25,000 check from the Soviet
Union, but the project languished. Who?
137. • Scalp hair suddenly turning white especially under
extreme stress
• The pictures are that of Sir Thomas More, dated
1527, and he reflecting in his prison cell awaiting his
execution – his hair has turned grey.
• Queen Marie Antoinette‟s hair allegedly turned white
the night before her last walk to the guillotine during
the French Revolution
139. • William MagearTweed widely
known as "Boss" Tweed – was an
American politician most notable
for being the "boss“ of the
Democratic Party political machine
that played a major role in the
politics of 19th century New York
City and State. He was convicted
and sentenced to prison for
political corruption. When Tweed
attempted to escape justice in
December 1875 by fleeing to Cuba
and from there to Spain, officials
in Vigo, Spain, were able to
identify and apprehend him. They
thought he had kidnapped two
children. How did that come
about?
140.
141. They came upon a Thomas Nast cartoon – in fact this one
142. • This was a nickname given by Republicans to members
of a vocal group of Democrats located in the Northern
United States of the Union who opposed the American
Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with
the Confederates. Republicans started using the
nickname in the same sense that it was applied to
Vernita Green. The Peace Democrats accepted the
label, reinterpreting it to mean the likeness of Liberty,
which they cut from pennies and proudly wore as
badges. What nickname?
145. • Every year it is changed to add another level of depth.
The first one just had the subject next to the mantel.
After the first anniversary it was replaced by one
which contained the first one in the background. The
original was then auctioned off at a charity event and
currently hangs at a Sticky Fingers restaurant. The 3-
deep one resided for some time at the National
Portrait Gallery "right between the bathrooms near
the 'America's Presidents' exhibit“. The current
version is 7-deep and features crew-cuts and awards.
What am I talking about?
153. • David Ross Locke aka Petroleum
Vesuvius Nasby
• American satirist during and after
the civil war. The NyTimes‟ civil war
blog, Disunion, calls him
• “The Stephen Colbert of the Civil
War”. His methods were identical.
He used to write letters under his
pseudonym Nasby often with poor
spelling and grammar, pretending to
be a Copperhead with no courage
who is against the civil war and
reconstruction. A sophisticated
work of ironic fiction, his letters
were consciously intended to rally
support for the Union cause. Nast
illustrated many of these letters.
157. • A word of French origin, it‟s literal
translation is a plume, such as is
worn on a hat or a helmet, but the
reference is to King Henry IV of
France. A beloved king he was
famed for wearing a striking white
plume in his helmet and for his war
cry: "Follow my white plume!“. The
epitome of these qualities and the
virtuosness of these qualities were
established in Rostand's depiction
of Cyrano de Bergerac, in his play
of that name. The protagonist‟s
last words were "yet there is
something still that will always be
mine, and when I go to God's
presence, there I will doff it and
sweep the heavenly pavement with
a gesture: something I'll take
unstained out of this world... my
_______.“ What‟s the word?
162. • Anamorphosis. An object is depicted in distorted
perspective, so that the viewer has to take special
action, like looking from a specific angle, to see the
“correct” image.
• Hans Holbein‟s The Ambassadors.
163. • In January 1914, John Jasper (played by Frederick T.
Harry) stood trial for murder in London. G. K.
Chesterton was the judge while George Bernard
Shaw was the foreman of the jury, made up of other
authors. J. Cuming Walters while Cecil Chesterton
acted for the defense. The jury returned a verdict
of manslaughter. Whose murder?
164.
165. • Edwin Drood. They were trying to find a resolution to
Dickens‟ unfinished novel the “The mystery of Edwin
Drood”.
167. Connect the 2 pictures to something that might
have been on the roof of the third
168.
169. • Theories about what Humpty-Dumpty is supposed to
represent
• Richard III
• Tortoise Siege engine used unsuccessfully to approach
the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester
in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English
Civil War
• Canon on the roof of the church of St Mary-at-the-
Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648 at
Colchester
170. The song is by Grateful Dead. It is about a tragedy.
Which one?
• The song played was West LA Fadeaway
173. • In 1889 owners of this institution requested that John
Philip Sousa, the leader of the United States Marine
Corps Band, compose this piece for an awards
ceremony. The following dance became strongly
associated with the song that it acquired the same
name. What?
176. • This practice was promoted by a New York Times
columnist who resorted to it at every opportunity.
• The New York magazine suggested that his aim in
doing so was "rehabilitating ______ by relentlessly
tarring his successors with the same rhetorical brush –
diminished guilt by association.” The columnist himself
later admitted to author Eric Alterman that, as
Alterman puts it, "psychologically, he may have been
seeking to minimize the relative importance of the
crimes committed by his former boss with this
silliness.” What practice?
177.
178. • The practice of suffixing “-gate” to every scandal to
make it seem comparable to Watergate
• The columnist was William Safire who used to be
Nixon‟s speechwriter.
181. • Bob Woodward of the Washington Post
• The title “All the president‟s men” was inspired by the
line in Humpty Dumpty ("All the king's horses and all
the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"),
an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a
quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn
Warren novel All the King's Men.
• His only non-political book was about John Belushi
182. • The person making the cameo in the following clip fro Iron Man 2
was acknowledged by the director of the movie to have been an
inspiration for the title character. He is prominently missing in
the picture. Who is he and what phrase has been blanked out?
185. • These insects are named after the type of food that
they eat. They roll the food into balls and use them for
food storage as a way to attract a mate. An ancient
civilization thought that they were only male in
gender, and reproduced by depositing semen into their
ball of food. A new-born was seen to emerge from this
ball. The supposed self-creation of this resembles that
of a god who creates himself out of nothing.
• Plutarch: ”The race of ______ has no female, but all
the males eject their sperm into a round pellet of
material which they roll up by pushing it from the
opposite side, just as the sun seems to turn the
heavens in the direction opposite to its own
course, which is from west to east”. Name them.
188. • The second leg of this final football match took place
between Germany and Greece at the the packed
Olympic Stadium in Munich. The Germans were
favorites. Beckenbauer was a surprise inclusion in their
team. The German no.5 was booked (3rd time in 4
games). With just over a minute left the Greeks
scored a goal. The Germans disputed it. One of their
substitutes claimed that it was off-side. The replay
confirmed his claim. But the result stood. Who scored
the winning goal?
