KQA Canara Union Lone Wolf 2015 - The Finals

THE 33RD KQA CANARA UNION LONE WOLF QUIZ
FINALS

FINALS
• 70 Questions, including special rounds.
• After 34 questions, we’ll say goodbye to
the bottom 8.
• Top 8 compete for the last 36 questions.
• All the best!

ROUND 1
• CLOCKWISE – 14 Questions
• Bounce : +10
• Pounce : +10/-5

Thithi, a film directed by Bangalore’s Raam Reddy, revolves around 3
generations of a Mandya family meeting to commemorate the death
of a family elder.
The film ended a 43 year drought for Kannada films to have won
recognition at a prestigious film festival, often cited to be the oldest
running one since 1946. Name the festival.
Which film, that dealt with similar themes as Thithi, was the last
Kannada film to be recognized at the same festival?
3

Connect - The man on the right would connect to
the overall funda only if we took a joke seriously.
2

Self-referential initials
The H in HM Rangana K B Herath is again
Herath
The B in Benoit B Mandelbroit is Benoit B
Mandelbroit again

In Japan, all phones sold have the feature of the camera
shutter sound hard coded into the phone’s firmware, resulting
in the camera making a sound every time a picture is taken,
even in silent mode.
This has led to a booming industry of apps that try to disable
the camera shutter sound while taking a picture, but with
medium success.
What is the reason phones are sold this way in Japan with the
camera shutter sound always turned up?
3

To alert women when perverts try to take
sneaky upskirt/downblouse images

In 1971, David Lack proposed the naming of the X line that
divided the faunal species of North American origin in the
region from those that were not, in tribute to X’s efforts.
In his book Island Biology, Lack paid tribute to X’s
contributions to biogeography saying “Alfred Russell Wallace
has a line and after all your work, I don’t see why you should
not have one too! I hope you will agree. As you drew attention
to this line, it would be most fitting.“
X went on to win the Leidy Medal of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, only the second scientist to receive it.
Who?
4

Attributed to the monk and scholar Zanabazar in 1686, this
script is derived from Devanagari and the Ranjana alphabet.
A special character of the script is a symbol consisting of fire, the
sun and moon, two triangles, two horizontal and two vertical
rectangles as well as a yin-yang symbol – all of which stand for
progress, wealth and prosperity.
Where has this symbol been incorporated since 1911?
What is the symbol/script called, in reference to the belief that it
materialized itself?
5

Flag of Mongolia
Soyombo from Swayambhu

The well known opening line of this song from a 1965 Hindi film
carries an Urdu lover’s favourite two words “ _____ _____” meaning
beautiful one.
In isolation, the first word is the Arabic term for the Roman
Goddess of beauty and also the planet – Venus, while the second
word translates to forehead, the part of the woman’s face which is
being praised.
Inspite of music director Ravi preferring to work with the likes of
Rafi or Mahendra Kapoor, it was Manna Dey who sang this song,
because the actor on whom it was filmed requested it specifically.
What 2 words, part of a song considered an anthem for the young at
heart?
6

For years, the town of Izmir has been known for its ancient
ruins and the beauty of the Aegean coast.
Of late, numerous manufacturers and trading entities in
rubber & latex based entities has burgeoned in the town with
items such as inflated tyres and balloons, which are
guaranteed to be waterproof.
In addition, one object, made out of rubber, is in heavy
demand, giving Izmir the unofficial title of the “_____ _____
capital of the world”.
What object is this?
And why is Izmir becoming the focus of these products?
7

Life jackets
Izmir is the transit point from where Syrian refugees
are making a leap for Europe across the sea

After annexing the region in 1826 post the Anglo-Burmese
War, the British administered it from Fort William and soon
discovered the potential for tea, timber and rubber here.
As the tea gardens expanded, local planters began venturing
in and came into friction with the natives, thus demanding
expensive punitive expeditions by the British to reduce
revenue losses.
Not wanting to set up outposts, the British came up with a
somewhat lazy sweeping measure, that would obviate any
administrative expenses.
What was the result, that was mandated by a regulation in
1873?
8

While still a school boy in Birmingham, he came across the story of
the orphan boy, raised into slavery, a tragic hero who commits
incest in the dark forests of the Karelia and hurls himself on his
own blade.
Having lost both parents by the age of 12, he felt the tale resonated
with his own status and began working on his own version of it at
Oxford, almost finishing it, save for the all important climax scene.
The orphan’s tale is just one of 50 songs in a larger body of work
containing 22,795 verses, that would help inspire a number of plot
elements in subsequent works.
Who wrote this version of the orphan’s tale?
What was the orphan‘s name (in the tale) ?
9

Handheld disks such as these were once common amidst people of a
certain profession in a European country, and were synonymous
with saving many a life.
In 1955, engineer Hans Hilfiker paid tribute to these disks by
adding a certain component in an iconic design and making it look
exactly like these disks.
Hilfiker explained a certain peculiarity in the functionality of this
component saying “it would bring calm to the viewer in the final
moments and help ensure a planned departure”
In the recent past, a decision to remove this component due to non
replaceable parts has led to a near national outrage.
What component?
What is the peculiarity in its functionality?
10

Second hand in the Swiss railway clocks
The second hand completes its revolution in 58.5
seconds then stands still for 1.5 seconds

In chess circles, its usage for the defense d4, c5 was first attributed
to Aaron Reinganum, who in a 19th century manuscript “_____, or
the Gambit defenses in Chess” said that chess helped him get over
his depression and the title of the book referred to his sorrowful
state.
Originally, the Hebrew term means “son of sorrow” and is
mentioned in the Biblical verse “And it came to pass, as her soul
was departing (for she died), that she called his name ___-____ (son
of sorrow)” (Gen. 35:18) referring to Rachel’s death during delivery.
What chess defense, that also shares its name with a city in
Guateng, South Africa?
In the Biblical story, Rachel’s son was renamed as “son who is
fortunate/of my right hand” by his father. What was he renamed to?
11

Ben-oni/Benoni Defense
Benjamin

An adze was an ancient axe type tool with a
curved blade, used by carpenters to shape
wood.
The story goes that if you were wealthy and
could afford to pay for fine furniture, you would
buy finished pieces, including the back and
other unseen areas, such as inside drawers.
However, if you were buying economically, only
the areas that were visible to you would be
finished, indicating incomplete use of the tool.
What phrase/expression came from a
modification of the term for such cheap jobs?
12

Half assed
that came from half adzed

The Cremaster Cycle is an art project, consisting of 5 feature
length films, together with related sculptures and drawings,
made over 8 years and exhibited finally at Guggenheim
Museum, NY in 2002.
The 5 films portray the progress from an ascended or
undifferentiated state, represented by Goodyear Blimps in
Cremaster 1, through the struggle to resist gender definition,
to the inevitable point where gender can no longer be denied in
a fully descended and differentiated state in Cremaster 5.
Take a good look at selected images from this art project and
explain why the name Cremaster to this project?
13

Cremaster is the muscle that controls the
descent of the human testis in males.

This early photographic printing process consists of
mixing ferric ammonium nitrate, tartaric acid and
silver nitrate into a solution for developing photo
negatives.
The resultant images have a dark brown tint, that
reminded photographers of the natural earth pigment
made from soil and peat used by a 17th century
Flemish Baroque painter in his works.
What photographic process, named after the painter?
14

Van Dyke Brown
named for Anthony van Dyck

ROUND 2
• Written Round, 6 Questions
• Answers follow a pattern, but not necessarily in
sequence. No bonus for pattern – just to help you out
• In the case of people’s names/multiple words in the
answer, use first names/first word to link to the pattern
• +10 per correct answer
• Stake for a bonus +5/-5 on every answer if you are
confident

Dated to between 680 AD – 720 AD, the Lindisfarne Gospels
are one of the world’s oldest documents and contain the
Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke & John – the 4 Evangelists.
Each Gospel is preceded by a decorated page called a ______
page, containing a different form of cross, stressing the
different church traditions and their ecumenical relationships.
Historians say that the symbolism of these pages was to
prepare the reader mentally for the prayer to follow, just as
the ______ does.
What were these pages called?
1

What real-life case (need the name of a person) is
this movie based on?
2

Twice a year, the town of Providence, Rhode Island, hosts the
International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art
and Academia.
Stickers at the event advice everyone to “Keep Providence
Eldritch”, while the event begins with something called the
Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast (the title of the article which
provided fodder for this question was Croissants with
Cthulhu).
The name of this conference is an apt tribute to the work of the
author, who pioneered this genre of fiction, while punning on
the name of another conference held annually in San Diego,
California.
What is the conference called?
3

Castel Sant’ Angelo (Castle of the Holy Angel), on the right
bank of the Tiber in Rome, was commissioned between 134-
139 AD as a mausoleum for a Roman Emperor, whose ashes
were placed here along with those of his wife Sabina and son
Lucius Aelius.
For a long time, the building was referred to by a 2 word term
referencing an anatomical feature of the Emperor, later
popularized in Francis Mahony’s Bells of Shandon where the
mausoleum’s tolling bells are compared to those at St. Ann’s
church, Shandon.
Which literary character’s name was possibly inspired from
this building’s nickname?
4

The 2014 Yokohama Triennale’s theme was “Oblivion”, referencing
information that had either been forgotten by human beings or
obliterated by deliberate acts of control by authorities.
For the purpose of the exhibition, a special book called the Moe Nai
Ko To Ba (Only Book in the World) was created that featured
extracts from works by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek, Anna
Akhmatova, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Korean artist Kim Yongik from
Korea – all of whom had been victims of oblivion.
Visitors were allowed to read the book on the days leading up to the
final act of the Triennale, that involved annihilating the Moe Nai
Ko To Ba.
Who was this exhibit of the Triennale dedicated to? (need a person’s
name)
5

Across the world, spiders indulge in a natural migration
phenomenon, that occurs in the months of May and August,
when millions of baby spiders travel through the air using
spiderwebs.
The phenomenon involves spiders seemingly flying across the
sky, but involves a technique called ballooning where they
climb to the top of vegetation, then release a stream of silk
that catches in the wind and carries the spider away.
What is the 2 word term for this phenomenon, also sharing its
name with an Italian favourite called Capellini?
6

EXCHANGE SHEETS,
ANSWERS FOLLOW

Dated to between 680 AD – 720 AD, the Lindisfarne Gospels
are one of the world’s oldest documents and contain the
Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke & John – the 4 Evangelists.
Each Gospel is preceded by a decorated page called a ______
page, containing a different form of cross, stressing the
different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship.
Historians say that the symbolism of these pages was to
prepare the reader mentally for the prayer to follow, just as
the ______ does.
What were these pages called?
1

NecronomiCon
punning on Comic Con

Adrian Mole
from Hadrian’s mole

The 2014 Yokohama Triennale’s theme was “Oblivion”, referencing
information that had either been forgotten by human beings or
obliterated by deliberate acts of control by authorities.
For the purpose of the exhibition, a special book called the Moe Nai
Ko To Ba (Only Book in the World) was created that featured
extracts from works by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek, Anna
Akhmatova, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Korean artist Kim Yongik from
Korea – all of whom had been victims of oblivion.
Visitors were allowed to read the book before the final act of the
Triennale - annihilating the Moe Nai Ko To Ba.
Who was this exhibit of the Triennale dedicated to? (need a person’s
name)
5

ANSWER PATTERN
CARPET PAGES
AARUSHI TALWAR
NECRONOMICON
ADRIAN MOLE
RAY BRADBURY
ANGEL HAIR
C A N A R A

ROUND 3
• ANTI-CLOCKWISE – 14 Questions
• Bounce : +10
• Pounce : +10/-5

In the 1930s, she was spotted at Rio de Janeiro and offered a
contract to perform on Broadway, going on to Hollywood in
1940 and singing for President Roosevelt with her group
Bando de Lua.
In 1943, she appeared as a singer in the musical The Gang’s
All Here, in which a particular song is said to have inspired
artist Dik Browne to create the first version of an
anthropomorphic character, now ubiquitous in supermarkets.
Name the actress/performer.
What resulted from this particular song
sequence?
1

Carmen Miranda
Chiquita Banana sticker logo (1944)

Up until 1975, the Wimbledon tennis championships did not
provide any chairs for players to sit down during breaks
between games.
In fact, players just walked across, took a swig of water (or
perhaps something stronger), wiped themselves with a
towel and moved on to the other side.
In 1975, chairs were introduced at the Wimbledon without
any specific demand from players or playing associations.
Why were chairs introduced at the 1975 Championships?
2

TV Commercial breaks
TV channels wanted to introduce 90 second
commercial breaks during changeovers and it
didn’t make sense for players to keep standing

Researchers analyzed the exact placement of these products in US
supermarket shelves, the design on the product packaging and the
ability of the design to influence choice.
The study found that the average height of these products for other
age groups was 48 inches and the incident angle was almost straight
at .43 degrees, but for the target group, the average height of these
products is around 23 inches with a downward incident angle of 9.67
degrees.
A specific packaging design quirk helped make eye contact, built
trust and eventually influenced a purchase choice in favour of the
brand.
What product category and what was the specific packaging design
quirk, that influenced choice?
3

Children’s cereal boxes
Mascots look downwards to make eye
contact with kids

According to historians, many years after his famous victory, X was
passing a cricket match when he remarked “There grows the stuff
that _____ _____”, a general comment on the British officer class, and
not on where the match was happening.
In 1934, when British cabinet minister Anthony Eden went to meet
Adolf Hitler, the only thing the Fuhrer would talk about was X’s
quote, which by then had been mangled to attribute X’s achievement
to the location of the cricket match.
When WWII broke out, the first thing the Fuhrer wanted was to
bomb the location, since he believed Britain won WWI due to the
strategic skills acquired there.
Name X and what quote is commonly misattributed to him.
4

Arthur Wellesley / Duke of Wellington
“Waterloo was won on the playing fields of
Eton”

The 1943 film “Hangmen Also Die!” is often cited as an example of
X’s largesse, because he helped raise money to smuggle out and
bring a down on his luck Y to America via Finland.
On a walk along the beach, X and Y discussed the assassination of
Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, known as the Hangman, by the
British special forces, as a possible movie idea.
X & Y jointly worked on the script, but were frequently at odds
because of X’s style being more suited to the silver screen while Y’s
style being born out of a more classical background.
Y would eventually not get screenwriting credit, and would go back
to his roots, while X continued in the movie business.
Who were X and Y?
5

X – Fritz Lang, Y – Bertolt Brecht

A measuring tool, it helps bartenders pour precise amounts and
signifies an old measurement roughly equivalent to 1.5 ounces.
As per one theory, the tool got its name from the British Navy,
where each sailors, who got a daily ration of rum or gin,
nicknamed the boatswain’s measuring device after the lowest
sail on the ____mast, the fourth mast on a sailing ship.
Another story connects the term to a nonsensical, made up word
similar to thingumbob/thingummy for an object whose name you
cannot remember.
What is the name for this tool?
6

Jigger
from jiggermast/thingamajig

The year 1879 was a momentous year for the then 31 year
old W. G. Grace.
While Grace topped the national batting averages,
cricketing statistics show that for the first time in 10
years, he failed to reach 1000 first class runs in 1879, and
managed 105 wickets - not bad for an amateur but still
fairly low by his standards.
Cricket historians say that this year was a fairly stressful
one for Grace and cite how the records returned to normal
from the next year onwards.
What was the reason for this brief dip in Grace’s numbers
in 1879?
7

Grace finally became Dr. W.G. Grace after 10
years of medical studies
1879 was the final year of his medical studies

An 1886 oil on canvas by French Academic artist Jean-Leon
Gerome, it is one of the earliest modern depictions of X.
The painting is guilty of a minor historical inaccuracy, that might
have first emerged in a 1770 English translation of a historical
work by Plutarch, in which the author originally intended a duffel
bag or a sack of bedclothes, but Langhorne’s translation gave it a
semantic twist.
The painting is said to have further embellished this translation
error, that then influenced the likes of George Bernard Shaw, Cecil
DeMille & Joseph L Mankiewicz.
Who is X(depicted in the painting)?
What was the historical inaccuracy being propagated?
8

Cleopatra (X) emerging out of a carpet
Plutarch actually intended to convey that she was
smuggled into a duffel bag/sack of bedclothes

In 1823, X, a legendary chemist in his own right, had worked with the
German Fredrich Wöhler to analyze a mysterious mineral but their
experiments bore no fruit.
When X’s countryman, Nils Sefström finally cracked the discovery, X
wrote an edda (a poem) to Wöhler, trolling his just miss:
“Long ago in the far north, there lived a Goddess, beautiful and alluring.
One day there came a knock came at her door, but the Goddess thought
“I will let him knock once more”. The second knock failed to come and the
man who had knocked merely walked away. “A-ha”, the Goddess said “It
is that rogue Wöhler. Had he been a little more persistent, I would have
let him in.” A few days later Sefström stepped in, and from this meeting
_____ was born.”
Who was X, considered one of the greats of modern chemistry?
What was discovered by Sefström?
9

Jons Jacob Berzelius
Vanadium
(the Norse goddess was Vanadis)

In 1980, Pat Gorman of Manhattan Design was given a design
commission for a prestigious client.
Inspired by the client’s top of the hour motif, she drew up
sketches and sent them to a manufacturer, who messed it up by
creating a prototype with both legs planted on the ground.
With only one week to go, Gorman asked the manufacturer for
clay and created a prototype herself. She said “I watched a lot of
Fred Astaire movies, and I’ve done a lot of tai chi, and there’s a
thing about balance where if you line up the head, the belly, and
the foot, you can balance in almost any posture. And so I just did
that.”
What was the result of this design commission?
10

In one of the Sherlock stories, “Adventure of the _____ ____”, the
detective is strolling along a Sussex beach when he comes across
a man in his death throes, with thin red lines on his back,
screaming the words “the ____ ____” before his life ebbs out.
After some investigation, Sherlock hurries to the beach and
finds the culprit, exclaiming “Cyanea! Behold the ____ ____”
before they crush the killer with a boulder.
The murderer in the story is the world’s largest jellyfish, a
staggering 8 feet wide, 120 feet long behemoth, so named
because its appearance reminds one of the characteristic
features of a terrestrial creature.
What is this jellyfish called (blanks)?
11

The 1066 Battle of Hastings saw the Normans take over
England, which at the time was a mixture of Anglo-Saxons
and other Viking invaders.
As the conquerors became overlords, the Norman French
became the dominant social class who got access to expensive
food.
On the other hand, most commoners were Old English
speakers, who tended animals.
How did this class/language dichotomy find its way into the
English we speak today?
12

English words for live animals come from German
(Old English) roots while the equivalent term for
the cooked animal’s meat has French roots

The local translation of this particular book, the 20th
volume in a long running series and the only one not to
feature an antagonist, was titled Ding Ding Zai
Zhongguo Xizang.
The translated title was in keeping with a long running
PR campaign to assert supremacy but was eventually
changed to reflect the original English title, when the
publisher protested.
What was the proposed title change, later withdrawn?
13

This word also has an alternate meaning that has come to mean
a “light meal”, that derived not from the bringing together of
food at the table, but from a medieval practice of Benedictine
monks.
Prior to a light repast, the monks would often get together to
hear a reading from the famous book John Cassian’s ________
Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium (Conferences of the
Desert Fathers), hence giving us the term for a light meal.
What word, that is more familiar to us in the context of acts of
bringing together in an orderly fashion?
14

ROUND 4
• CLOCKWISE – 14 Questions
• Bounce : +10
• Pounce : +10/-5

In 1997, David Lynch released the surreal French-
American noir thriller Lost Highway, which appealed to a
narrow section of movie goers but was panned widely and
got a mostly lukewarm reception.
As always, Lynch was undeterred and promoted the film,
using the negative feedback to his advantage.
What specifically are the two reasons that Lynch refers to
in this promotional poster for the movie?
1

Two Thumbs Down from Siskel & Ebert

Real world events unfolding in Nicaragua in the 1980s were the
inspiration for its title, borrowed from the rebel guerilla faction
fighting against the Sandanista Junta.
Various design inspirations directly came from James Cameron’s
Aliens, while the two central characters’ names were inspired from a
combination of the following four actors.
What 1987 release, set in the Galuga archipelago in New Zealand are
we talking about?
2

Contra
that took its name from Contrarrevolución
Bill Rizer = Bill Paxton + Paul Reiser
Lance Bean = Lance Henriksen + Michael Biehn

Since atleast 1282, the ritual called the Trial of the Pyx is an
annual examination by an independent jury convened by the
Goldsmiths’ Company of the City of London.
Taking its name from the Greek word “pyxis” for a chest in
which the objects of interest are stored, the ritual takes place
under the supervision of the Queen’s Remembrancer, who with
the help of the jury, delivers the final verdict.
The Trial serves as a plot element in Neal Stephenson’s The
System of the World, where Jack Shaftoe tampers with the
contents of the Pyx, bringing disrepute to Isaac Newton.
What is the Trial of the Pyx all about?
3

A trial of the Master of the Mint to
ascertain if the coins he produces are
within allowable specifications of weight
and composition

South-west of the infamous Bay of Pigs is an uninhabited
island known as Cayo Blanco de Sur, a 15 km long piece of
land, not wider than 500 m.
In 1972, Fidel Castro gifted the island in commemoration of
solidarity, soon after which the island was renamed after the
man in the picture, with a bust of his being installed on the
beach face.
Years later, the island was left out when papers were being
readied for an all important agreement, giving it a unique
place in history.
What is the claim to fame of this island?
4

Last remaining territory of the East German
republic
Ernest Thalmann island was gifted by Castro
to East Germany and was not formally
inducted into unified Germany

Laura de Santillana & Allesandro de Santillana, descendants of the
Venice glassware dynasty designed these sculptures they call “glass
books”, drawing on their experiences in the Czech republic.
The sculptures were inspired directly by 8 similar items of
stationery used by X between 1917-1919 and were crafted to
express deep blue colours when light passes through them.
The original set of 8 items mostly contained aphorisms, alluding to
X’s enduring interest in Judaic studies and musings on the human
condition and were so named to distinguish them from the quarto-
sized items X was using earlier.
Who was X and what items used by X were these sculptures
inspired by?
5

Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks

This racoonish looking critter, native to Japan, eastern
Siberia, China, Vietnam and Korea, is a member of the
Canidae family, along with foxes, coyotes and domestic dogs.
While the animal is interchangeably known by names such as
Finn raccoon, Asiatic raccoon or even faux, there has been an
ongoing campaign to rename it as the “Raccoon dog”.
In 2014, it was ruled in the US that the animal would continue
to be named the Asiatic raccoon, ignoring the petitions made.
What was the reason for the campaign to rename it as the
raccoon dog?
7

To deter animal lovers from purchasing its
fur for clothes

The medieval Christians borrowed this custom from Greek and
Roman society where gods and their sacred spaces were inviolable.
The process of eligibility came with a formal set of rules involving
first meeting an appointed officer of the crown, with additional
specific actions that involved ringing a certain bell, sitting down on
a special tool or using custom made objects (pic) fixed on doors.
Until 1624, such objects were estimated to likely have saved
thousands of lives or avoided lengthy procedures.
What were these objects called OR what was this custom about?
What story, set during the time of Louis XI, uses this concept as a
plot device to temporarily save the life of the heroine?
8

Sanctuary Knockers
Criminals could seek sanctuary in a church
and avoid being prosecuted for crimes
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Movies/plays based on Oliver Sacks essays from An
Anthropologist on Mars
At First Sight & Molly Sweeney based on “To See &
Not to See” while The Music Never Stopped is based
on “The Last Hippie”

In 1418, many decades after the main structure was in place, the
town fathers announced a contest to prevent the winter rains and
the summer sun from wreaking havoc with the head altar.
X’ s design consisting of concentric structures, bound with rings of
stone, iron and wood, like hoops on a barrel, was a clear winner but
the overseers placed a caveat. Being hardheaded merchants and
bankers who believed in competition as a way of ensuring quality
control, they appointed Y, X’s fellow goldsmith & rival, as co-
superintendent to ensure X gets the job right.
X & Y had previously been rivals on a 1401 contest, another
illustrious commission, that Y had won at that time.
Who was X and what commission did he win?
Who was Y and what was the earlier commission which he beat X
to?
10

X – Fillipo Brunelleschi, The Duomo dome
Y – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise
(Bronze doors to the Florence baptistery)

Since 1947, borderland disputes between Croatia and Serbia have
led to claims on the municipalities located along the border of the
two countries.
In the 19th century, these claims were further complicated by
certain actions meant to boost the economic growth of the region
and improve local livelihood but ended up awarding 4 territories of
Croatia to Serbia and 1 territory of Serbia to Croatia.
Croatia refused to accept Gornja Siga, the 1 territory it got, since
acceptance meant that it was ceding 4 territories to Serbia.
How do we better know the territory of Gornja Siga, courtesy the
actions of a certain Vít Jedlička?
What specific action resulted in territories going from one side to
the another?
11

Liberland
The course of the Danube was manually
changed to help riverine transport

Raqui San Isidro is a football club that finished second in the
Preferente, a localized Canary Islands league that comprises
the fifth level league in the football pyramid.
The club had debts worth €300,000 that had no chance of
being offset by game revenue, until recently when they became
the recipient of €450,000, that will be used to buy property to
be leased and improve the club’s strength.
The club is also drawing interest from players, who believe
that it has the right facilities to help them help them make
the jump to the big league.
What activity made Raqui the beneficiary of this payment?
What specific FIFA rule is responsible for these sort of
payments?
12

Pedro Rodriguez transfer from Barcelona to
Chelsea
FIFA’s “training and solidarity” program mandates
sharing of transfer money with clubs where the
player trained until he was 17

An unconfirmed appearance of such a creature was reported in
1864 and dubbed the Mcfarlane variety.
In 2006, a hunter from Idaho shot such an animal in the North
West territories without confirmation on its genome.
In 2010, an Inuvialuit hunter on Victoria Island came across a
similar creature and had its DNA tested, conclusively proving
that this was no longer a hypothetical case.
Explain what these animals are.
Why are sightings of such animals expected to become more
common?
13

Grolar /Prizzly/Pizzly Bears
As the Arctic ice is melting, grizzlies and polar
bears are finding ways to meet and mate

One set of historians ascribe this bizarre fashion rule to
Americans in the 1930s, who changed their clothing when they
decamped from their city digs to warmer climes for months at
a time and then switched back to their original clothing on
returning in the fall.
By the 1950s, the rule served old-money elites as a form of
control against the upwardly mobile, also functioning as an
unsaid rite of passage into civilized society.
Notable dissenters included Coco Chanel, who really did not
care for these rules, while Patty Hearst was not so lucky in
Serial Mom, being murdered for breaking this rule.
What rule, conveniently coincident with something that marks
the end of summer?
14

No whites (accept no white shoes) after
Labour Day until Memorial Day

ROUND 5 – PUNKING EXPRESS
• Written Round, 8 Questions
• Phrases/Names that are word plays/bad puns on well
known phrases/terms/names/movies etc
• +5 per correct answer
• +10 if you get all correct

On May 6, 2006, the British cabinet was reshuffled following a
series of Labour losses in local elections.
Casualties included Charles Clarke who lost his home
secretary position, John Prescott was relieved of his
departmental responsibilities, Jack Straw was no longer
foreign secretary while Geoff Hoons was chucked out of the
cabinet.
The Daily Mirror punned on these activities, referring to the
man in charge effecting these changes in response to a horrific
performance and a 1999 movie that is considered a pioneer of
a new genre.
What was the punning phrase?
1

The original phrase was coined by Mathew Arnold in his
1866 poem Thyrsis, where he described the view from Boars
Hill.
“And that _____ ____ her _______ ____,
She needs not June for beauty’s heightening”
A counterpart inversion phrase, which is a near spoonerism,
was coined for the city of Cambridge in Frederic Raphael’s
TV drama The Glittering Prizes referring to the hard work it
took to achieve one’s goals at this location.
What phrase?
2

FRWG.com was a site born midway through the 2009 NHL
season, when ice hockey fan Sergei Miledin combined his
passion for the game, writing, heritage to create this site.
Considered a fan favourite site for player interviews and game
analyses, it focuses on players from the Soviet bloc in the
NHL, their lives and the stories behind the games.
True to Sergei’s literary/movie tastes, the site puns on the title
of a 1957 book, the 5th in a series, and a corresponding 1963
film version.
What is the expansion of the site’s name?
3

A former English rugby league
footballer in the 1980s, 90s and
early 2000s, Martin Offiah was
born to Nigerian parents and
began playing rugby league with
the Middlesex Sevens, before
representing the England Lions.
What nickname did he get,
referring to his legendary speed
and running ability?
4

Released in 1974, it is an erotic spoof
of Universal Pictures’ first of 3 serials
from the 1930s featuring the same
character.
The storyline is intentionally similar
to the original serial with the planet
Porno being the setting for the
characters with names such as Dale
Ardor, Emperor Wang the Perverted,
scientist Dr. Flexi Jerkoff, the
seductive Amora.
Who is the film’s title character?
5

Born Jan Ludvik Hoch, Robert Maxwell had a classic rags-to-
riches story, as he took over the Daily Mirror, rose to become a
Labour MP and also a football club owner.
There was never a lack of controversy as the Private Eye
magazine accused him of paying cash for peerages (lordships),
for which he sued them and launched a spoof mag called Not
Private Eye!
When he died, it was found that he had embezzled his own
employees’ pension funds to prop up a crumbling media empire.
What nickname (2 words), referring to his financial instability,
was Maxwell given, also ascribed to a more illustrious
sportsperson from his country of origin?
6

In 2008, British comedian John Cleese said that he thought
Barack Obama was a brilliant man and if he were to get the
Democratic nomination, Cleese would be more than happy to
offer his services as a speechwriter for Obama.
The possibilities of this announcement were not lost on pun-
writers who came up with headlines such as “Full Monty for
Obama?” to describe the situation.
One particularly punny headline evoked a famous Monty
Python sketch and raised the possibilities of Cleese in a
fictitious government department, offering such speech
writing services.
What was the headline?
7

Also known as Heavy Metal Army,
this album featured songs recorded
in Kosei Nenkin Hall in Nagoya in
May, 1981 and was vocalist Paul di
Anno’s last stint with the band.
The band decide that the album
title would pay tribute to a more
legendary 1972 double live album
from a fellow band they looked up
to.
What title did they choose for this
1981 album? (exact answer needed
for full points)
8

EXCHANGE
SHEETS
ANSWERS FOLLOW

City of Perspiring Dreams
as a play on City of Dreaming Spires

Released in 1974, it is an erotic spoof
of Universal Pictures’ first of 3 serials
from the 1930s featuring the same
character.
The storyline is intentionally similar
to the original serial with the planet
Porno being the setting for the
characters with names such as Dale
Ardor, Emperor Wang the Perverted,
scientist Dr. Flexi Jerkoff, the
seductive Amora and so on.
Who is the film’s title character?
5

Maiden Japan
play on Deep Purple’s Made In Japan

ROUND 6
• ANTI-CLOCKWISE – 14 Questions
• Bounce : +10
• Pounce : +10/-5

The official website of the Boston Red Sox reports the seating
capacity of Fenway Park as follows:
Seating Capacity (Night): 37,673
Seating Capacity (Day): 37,221
Essentially, the park allows seating for 452 fewer fans during
day games as opposed to night games.
Why are fewer seats available for day games? (there is no
hidden reserved seating for VIPs or any such thing going on)
1

During day games, the center field seats right above the
batter’s eye or sightscreen are not up for sale because
batters get distracted by fans
Interestingly, during day-night games, the seats are sold but fans are
provided T-shirts to match the colour of the batter’s eye

Before Instagram came, there was the _____ glass – an 18th century
artist’s accessory consisting of a small, tinted convex mirror.
Devised as a tool for landscape artists, the individual would turn
his/her back to the scenery and hold the glass aloft to observe a
vista over one’s shoulder, with the convex glass reducing the
scenery into a tiny snapshot with lighter tones – easy to be
reproduced on canvas.
The glass was named after a 17th century French artist, who
painted mostly in Rome but was well known for his picturesque
landscapes and softer tones.
What artist/object, popular among British landscape tourists?
2

Claude glass
named after Claude Lorrain

Until the late 1990s, the only flag to fly on Buckingham Palace was
the Royal Standard representing the reigning Sovereign, and only
when the Sovereign was in residence.
If the Sovereign passed away, the flag of the next most senior
member of the Royal Family would be raised, until a new Sovereign
came to power and their Royal Standard was in place.
This tradition changed once when the Queen was in Balmoral
Castle and opinion mandated flying the Union Flag; since then
whenever the Queen is not in residence the Union Flag flies over
Buckingham
What was the reason for petitioning the Queen to fly the Union
Flag?
Why was the Royal Standard not flown in this case?
3

Princess Diana’s death
The Royal Standard does not fly at half-mast, only the
Union Jack can

His twitter bio reads “I’m 150,000,110 years old (give or take a few
million) and I would have weighed about 20 tonnes in my heyday.
Now not so much.”
He arrived at London in 1905, packed in 36 crates, as a gift from
Andrew Carnegie to Edward VII, who requested a copy after seeing
drawings. Soon, other institutions in Europe & Latin America
wanted copies and he became the most displayed of his kind in the
world.
Discovered on July 4th, 1899 in the badlands of Wyoming, the
touring party originally proposed to name him “Star Spangled
______” but named him as a contraction of a genus that took its
name from the twin chevron bones in the tail.
Who?
4

Dippy the Diplodocus
The original fossil is at Carnegie Museums, Pittsburgh
while the famous plaster cast is at the Natural History
Museum, London

In 1994, when Teburo Tito came to power as the President of
Kiribati, he was urged to keep up a promise he had made during
his campaign to clear up a long standing problem for residents.
He promptly made an announcement on January 1, 1995 that put
the uninhabited Caroline Island in the Kiribati chain, in the
limelight and led to strong protests by Tonga and New Zealand.
To further emphasize the decision and squash conflicting claims,
Caroline Island was renamed and a delegation of I-Kiribatis was
scheduled to travel to the island in the near future..
What was the announcement made by Teburo Tito?
What was Caroline Island’s claim to fame OR alternately what was
it renamed?
5

Changed the Time zone so that all of Kiribati came west
of the International Date Line
Caroline Island was renamed Millenium Island, since it
would be the first to see the new millenium

A left handed batsman who excelled against spin, John Guy played
12 Tests for New Zealand, before settling down to run a sports store
and then move into the bat industry for Newberry.
His most famous creation originated in England, when Guy
observed what was called a “dry knot” – a darker, weaker section of
willow and asked John Newberry, the master craftsman, if he could
shave it off to improve the possibility of stronger hits.
When Newberry asked what Guy would like to call the new design,
he felt it should be named after a legendary king’s famous
accessory.
What was the new design called?
Who brought it to fame on a 1983 afternoon at the MCG?
6

Until the 20th century, even within Europe, there were huge
variations in this ranging from 377 Hz to 567 Hz, causing a lot of
confusion.
Difficulties arose in the 19th century when development in
manufacturing technologies and larger spaces actually caused an
increase in these values, leading to protests by certain people.
In 1859, the French government passed a law taking the interests of
the protesting individuals into account and standardized the number
to 435 Hz, that became the practice for a while before Britain set out
its own standard at 439 Hz, citing temperature variations as an
excuse.
What were these the standards being proposed for?
Who were the protesting parties in 1859, who brought about this
standardization?
7

Concert pitch
the A above middle C is set to this frequency for all
instruments
Singers/vocalists
Protested since vocals were suffering at higher pitches

There are various types of these
• The Arab or Bahraini variant is marked by a circular pattern that
is smooth but often tends to get loose and may get tossed off.
• The Dutch variety is made from a single piece of leather, has an
inverted V opening, is a tighter fit but may tend to irritate the
user at times.
• The Indian, Pakistani or Amritsari variety is not blocked but is
often useful only a subset of users
• The British variety comes with plumes, often indicating an
achievement
• Other variants include the Kazakh and the Khan varieties.
What are all these?
What purpose do they serve for the user?
8

Hoods put on trained falcons
To calm the bird by controlling what it can
see or cannot see

On February 7, 1794, British warships HMS Fortitude and HMS
Juno attacked these fortifications at _____ point in Corsica, but
suffered damage because these structures were virtually
impenetrable.
Part of a larger Genoese defense system from the 15th century,
these towers were built at strategic points along the Italian coast to
guard coastal villages against foreign invaders.
In the 19th century, the UK embarked on a large scale program to
construct such towers to guard their Empire’s coastlines, followed
by the French and Americans, until modern weaponry progressed
to the point that these structures were no longer impregnable.
What were these towers called, a corruption of the place name
where they were first encountered by the British?
9

Martello Towers
from Mortella point, Corsica

In 1936, Y rediscovered a concept, first stated by X in 1643 and
summarized his findings in a poem titled “The Kiss Precise”, first
published in Nature.
Name X, a well known mathematician and Y, who we know better in
the field of nuclear physics and isotopes.
10
For pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
This not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from
without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally.
Four circles to the kissing come.
The smaller are the benter.
The bend is just the inverse of
The distance form the center.
Though their intrigue left Euclid
dumb
There's now no need for rule of
thumb.
Since zero bend's a dead straight line
And concave bends have minus sign,
The sum of the squares of all four
bends
Is half the square of their sum.

Descartes
Frederick Soddy
After whom Soddy circles are named

Short ribs are a popular cut of beef, sourced from the rib and
plate primals and a highly priced menu item, due to the cost of
the cut as well as the effort needed to cook them right.
A typical dish will have 6-8 bones on each rack, with a layer of
meat about 2cm – 5 cm thick along the length of the rack.
The appearance of the beef cut (and consequently the dish on
one’s plate) is reminiscent of a incident in Genesis 28:10-19
where X dreamt of the inherited land of his people and the
prospects of heaven.
What is the nickname for the dish?
11

In 2009, on the celebration of the 250th anniversary of a release, an
organization based out of Coxwold, UK mounted an exhibition
called The Black Page.
73 artists, composers and writers were asked to create their own
interpretations of the black page using a sheet of A4 paper and the
number “73”.
A description of this page reads “In a work filled with memorable
oddities, the most memorable oddity is this page, that marks the
death of Parson Yorick, a laughter-loving innocent. It is almost as if
the author tries to say everything at once – and therefore can say
nothing at all.”
What was the exhibition paying tribute to?
12

Question Credit: Rajeev Chakravarthi
Mary Babnik Brown was a Colorado resident who saw a 1943
advertisement from the US government asking for women with
atleast 22 inches long hair, that had not been treated with
chemicals or irons.
Prior to this, the Army Air Forces had tried several alternates,
including black widow spider webbing, but found it unsuitable due
to temperature variations; only untreated blonde hair worked.
In 1944, Mary donated her hair for what she was told was
meteorological instrumentation, refused compensation citing it was
her duty but was eventually left traumatized with her hair loss.
How was her hair used, helping in improving US success in WWII?
13

As crosshairs on the Norden bombsights on
the B-24, B-29 and B-17 airplanes

What follow are a few murals by Sasi Edavarad, serving
as artistic interpretations of a literary form’s translations
in A K Ramanujan’s book “Speaking of Siva”.
What literary form is being artistically represented here?
Each of these literary forms often ended with what the
tradition calls an ankitha nama (pen name/signature),
which was not the author/composer’s name but still helped
the reader identify immediately who the author was.
What is the ankitha?
14

Like an elephant lost from his
herd
Suddenly captured,
Remembering his mountains , his
Vindhyas,
I remember..
O lord white as jasmine
show me
A wilderness grew in the
sky.
In that wilderness a hunter.
In the hunter’s hands A
deer.
The hunter will not die
till the beast is killed.
Awareness is not easy,
Looking for your light I went
out:
it was like the sudden dawn
Of a million million suns,
A ganglion of lightnings
For my wonder.
O Lord of Caves, If you are
light,

Vachanas
The ankitha was the preferred name by
which the author addressed Lord Siva
Allama Prabhu – Guheswara (Lord of Caves)
Basavanna – Kudalsangama deva (Lord of Koodal Sangama)

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