5. METRO
• Written round of 8 questions, culled from
designs based on metro maps
• 5 points per question
• Bonus of 10 if you get all correct
Quizzinga!
26. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne
2. Google acquisitions
3. Cancer
4. Alice in Wonderland
5. Kabbalah
6. This New Year’s Eve the metro will be up and
running all night.
Quizzinga!
27. 6. One was the Titan god of forethought, and the
other was the god of afterthought. Name both.
Quizzinga!
28. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne
2. Google acquisitions
3. Cancer
4. Alice in Wonderland
5. Kabbalah
6. This New Year’s Eve the metro will be up and
running all night.
7. Prometheus and Epimetheus
Quizzinga!
29. 8. This is X, the third largest in a sense, after Y and
Kinshasa. Name X and Y.
Quizzinga!
30. 1. A – Burgundy B. Champagne
2. Google acquisitions
3. Cancer
4. Alice in Wonderland
5. Kabbalah
6. This New Year’s Eve the metro will be up and
running all night.
7. Prometheus and Epimetheus
8. X – Montreal, Y - Paris
Quizzinga!
37. • Guttenberg’s printing press
• First mass production of brochures, flyers
and so on
Quizzinga!
38. CLOCKWISE
15 Questions
Infinite Bounce: +10 on direct and pass
No negatives
39. 1
This WWII innovation was founded on scientific ground that the
actual color of clouds perceived by a human on the ground
depends on what kind of light gets to them and what they are
floating next to.
Since the actual amount of scattered blue light getting to
clouds is very little and there may be diffraction by water
droplets adding to cloud scattering, the actual color of clouds
shifts towards red or even shades closer of _____, orange or
green.
This made what innovation safer than what people assumed
it would be?
Quizzinga!
42. 2
Lord Byron called them misshapen monuments and supported
their cause in the poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!
Stephen Fry recently endeared himself outside of Britain in
supporting this cause.
What cause?
Quizzinga!
45. 3
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, is said to have first
established formal rules governing qualification for this.
The rules require one to have retired from the Armed
Forces of Commonwealth realms with at least 22 years
service. Traditionally only NCOs from the Army, Royal
Marines and Royal Air Force are eligible, but since 2011,
those from the Royal Navy are also eligible.
In 2007, Moira Cameron became the first woman to be
selected.
Who/what group?
Quizzinga!
48. 4
The picture shows the famed Space Pod, also the
media broadcast box, at the Lord’s cricket ground.
While TV and radio broadcasters traditionally
follow the game through the glass of the Space
Pod, one and only one window has been designed
to open out and actually view the game directly.
What special request was this design feature a
result of?
(Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
51. On the request of the Test Match Special
radio broadcasting team. They wanted their
microphones to pick up sounds from the
game for the benefit of their listeners.
Quizzinga!
52. 5
If this picture is from Tirunelveli, what local favorite are
these people waiting in line for?
Quizzinga!
54. IruttuKadai (Dark Shop) Halwa in Tirunelveli. The
shop used to operate in candle light during the old
days and hence the name.
Quizzinga!
55. 6
Derived from the Latin term “full”, this word connotes a
general meaning of completeness or being absolute.
In religion and politics, it is used as a prefix for councils or
assemblies that are attended by all members.
As business executives or technology enthusiasts, we are
most likely to come across it in relation to portions of a
conference/ seminar that are open to attendance for
everyone.
What word?
Quizzinga!
60. •Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” (video) is based
on Victor Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse (The
King Amuses Himself).
•The play and the opera both ran into heavy
censorship problems since they were
supposedly parodying the ‘sex-capades’ of
King Louis-Phillipe of France.
•To placate the censors, Verdi replaced all
references to the King with a then extinct
noble family, the Gonzagas, from Mantua,
Italy
Quizzinga!
61. 8
Twice a year, in some European capital, this firm organizes
a secret meeting of representatives from various nations.
Over two days, they will debate concepts, organized
roughly around a theme chosen in advance (this time, it’s
“unity”), that they believe will be dominant in the next
Spring/Summer.
The results are published in the firm’s $750 publication
purchased by companies across the fashion designer,
supermarket retail to the floral industry.
2006’s winner was Sand Dollar, while 2009 was Mimosa.
What firm and what title is the winner awarded?
Quizzinga!
64. 9
In television, this term is applied alternately with the terms
‘safe harbor’ or ‘adult time’ denoting the time period
during which programs with adult content can air.
Similar to the term’s original usage in the USA or Britain as
‘the geographical feature dividing two drainage areas’, this
term in television refers to the dividing line where content
for families crosses over to content for adults.
What term?
Quizzinga!
67. 10
In 1950, a curious notice turned up in the New Yorker
summarized below:
“The University of California Berkeley’s scientists have
discovered elements 97 and 98 in the Periodic Table and
christened them berkelium and californium respectively.
These names indicate a lack of foresight because the
scientists could have given these names to elements 99 and
100. Instead they have forever last the chance to
immortalize the table with some sequence such as
universitium (97), ofium (98), californium (99), berkelium
(100).”
Not to be outwitted, what did Glenn Seaborg and Albert
Ghiroso of UCB give as their reason for naming elements
97 and 98?
Quizzinga!
69. Seaborg/Ghiroso said that their choice was pre-
emptive genius to sidestep the appalling
possibility that had they named 97 and 98
“universitium” and “ofium”, University of New
York scientists might have followed up with the
discovery of 99 and 100 naming them “newium”
and “yorkium”
Quizzinga!
70. 11
It was born in 1914, when the War Office handed a
commission to adapt the outfits worn by officers for
modern use. After the war, it became popular with
civilians.
The waterproofed material used to make them was also
used synonymously with the item itself. In the height of
the cold war it became associated with spooks. Paul Simon
sings in America:
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
She said the man in the _________ ____ was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Two parts – Name the item, and fill in the blanks.
Quizzinga!
73. 12
At first glance, these paintings present a flat black surface. But
longer viewing reveals more than one shade of black and an
underlying geometric structure. These are by the artist Ad
Reinhardt. When his black paintings were first exhibited at
MoMA, in 1963, their reductive imagery and stark palette
shocked visitors, prompting Museum membership cancellations
in protest.
Eleven years ago, in the eyes of Art Spiegelman these inspired
something else. His creation was printed in a fifth, black ink, on
a field of black made up of the standard four colour printing
inks, and the image was in keeping with the gloominess of the
times.
What? (Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
77. 13
X is a German manufacturer of premium appliances
(ovens, freezers, washers, rotary ironers, wine storage
units…). Since its inception in 1889, X has been a
family-owned and family-run business based in
Gütersloh, Germany.
To promote its association with the food industry, X started
something for Asia, following the long-standing example
set by Clermont-Ferrand, France based Y.
What are X and Y?
Quizzinga!
82. •The French name for the day lily, a flower that
blooms only during the day, also refers to a
prostitute whose trade is conducted in daytime
Quizzinga!
83. 15
This album cover (initial
drawing shown here) was styled
like a stacking record player
with a clock face, pizza, film-
reel can and a tyre piled
beneath a glace cherry-decked
cake. The cake itself was made
by a famous British cook and TV
presenter, who is also UK's
best-selling cookery author,
with more than 21 million
copies sold.
What are we talking about?
Name the cook.
Quizzinga!
90. AUDIENCE
The footwear shown is a type of athletic shoe with
a canvas upper and rubber sole, developed
originally by the Liverpool Rubber Company.
The shoes acquired their popular nickname when
the colored horizontal band joining the upper to
the sole resembled markings on a ship’s hull and
also indicated the line above which the wearer of
the shoe could get wet.
What nickname?
93. QUIZZINGA!
Choose a question for another team
•If they get it right: +10 to them, - 5 to you
•If they get it wrong, take a shot for (+10,-5)
•If neither gets it right, other teams write:
(+5,0)
94. MENSA QUOTIENT CINEMA PARADISO
GREEN DEBATES DARK CONTINENT
SORRY, CAN’T RIDE! TURKISH DELIGHTS
TO ERR IS HUMAN THAI GRAB!
95. MENSA QUOTIENT
This IQ exam dates back to World War II when the
government used it to select pilots for training.
Consisting of 50 multiple choice questions to be answered
in 12 minutes, the test was coopted by coach Tim Landry
to help him build his dream team.
While doing well in the game itself has nothing to do with
effectiveness on the test, there is speculation that low
scores on the test give owners a chance to bail out on a
high salary player.
What test and for which game is it used as a mandatory
scouting measure?
Quizzinga!
100. All movies/films based on the annual
journey “The Way of St. James/El Camino
Santiago” undertaken by pilgrims to the site
where St. James’ bones are interred
BACK
Quizzinga!
101. GREEN DEBATES
In 1988, a member of a family owned hardwood logging
factory authored a book published by the National Oak
Flooring Manufacturers’ Association.
Offering a logging friendly perspective to an
anthropomorphic tree known as the Guardbark, the book
convinced the tree that logging was indeed environmental
friendly and was efficient as a result of re-seeding of the
ground.
What was the publication of this book a reaction to?
Quizzinga!
103. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – the logger friendly
book paralleled a conversation between the
Once-ler and the Lorax
BACK
Quizzinga!
104. DARK CONTINENT
A city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, it was first captured
by the forces of King Agaja and then colonized by the
Portugese, English, Dutch and French to protect their
slaving interests.
The town came into public consciousness as the setting of
a 1980 novel loosely based on the life of Brazilian slave
trader Francisco Felix de Sousa, which was later adapted
into Cobra Verde by Herzog starring Klinski.
Name either the town or the 1980 novel.
Quizzinga!
107. SORRY, CAN’T RIDE
This original attraction opened at Disneyland in 1955 and
has been a children’s favorite, containing 16 vehicles, all
shaped similarly, connected to a rotating hub.
One of the most famous stories associated with a ride
involved Harry Truman, who visited the park in 1957 and
tried many other rides, but politely declined testing this
ride.
What ride and why did Truman decline?
(Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
110. Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Truman declined because the elephant was
a Republican symbol
BACK
Quizzinga!
111. TURKISH DELIGHTS
Despite some claims that this word came from Swahili, the
origins point to the Turkish/Persian region, where it was
used originally for an open sided summer house, many of
which survive in Istanbul as well as Greece.
The word was taken to the Western Hemisphere and has
now come to be used in the retail and information/enquiry
related domains.
What word?
(Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
115. TO ERR IS HUMAN
After his ISP was ordered to block access to Pirate Bay, a
UK blogger found that he received the “403 Forbidden
error” which implied that Pirate Bay – not the government
– was denying him access.
The blogger found that both the 403 and 404 error codes
would not fully explain the case when the government was
preventing a connection.
A Slashdot commenter IonOtter suggested something as a
tribute to this issue.
What?
Quizzinga!
117. Error code 451 in honor of Ray Bradbury’s
“Farenheit 451” about government
censorship
BACK
Quizzinga!
118. THAI GRAB
The confluence of the Mekong river with the Rukak river
is a popular tourist spot where visitors get to see across
the river into Laos and Myanmar.
The Thai tourism department uses what evocative
term, popular until the early half of the 21st century, to
promote this tourist spot?
(Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
123. AUDIENCE
This Thai word with local roots literally meaning “five
colors” is used to refer to a kind of painted porcelain with
repetitive decorative forms, usually geometric or flower-
based.
The designs are usually in many more than 5 colors and
include flora, plant, and flame designs as well as cultural
symbols like The Garuda and the emblem of Thai kings.
What word, which is much familiar in another
context, to folks in Chennai and Bangalore?
(Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
127. AUDIENCE
The book gives a chemist’s perspective on this
crowd puller that draws millions of visitors to
view it every year.
The author led a team of 24 researchers in
analyzing the subject of the book and backed up
his conclusions with microscopy, chemical
analysis and scientific arguments.
What was being analyzed?
(larger picture follows)
134. •Melting glaciers are composed of fresh
water. The ocean has a higher percentage
of salt.
•When the two bodies of water come
together, they have different densities and
therefore makes it more difficult to mix.
Quizzinga!
135. 2
He was an American writer, and a long-time
contributor to The New Yorker and a co-author of the
widely-used language style guide, X, which in the vein
of books such as Wren-Martin, is commonly known
just by the names of the authors.
In the late 1930s, he turned his hand to children's
fiction on behalf of a niece. His first children's book, Y
was published in 1945. Talking about how he got the
idea he says, "...many years ago I went to bed one
night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I
dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a
mouse.”
Name X (or the authors) and Y.
Quizzinga!
138. 3
Four Armenian brothers, the Sarkies from
Julfa, leased a 10-room bungalow and in
1887, renamed it. The owner of the property was
an Arab who later improved it. The Japanese
occupation ran it down, but it was renovated, and
later declared a National Monument in 1987. We
know it better perhaps through a Ngiam Tong Boon
creation that combines fresh Sarawak pineapple
juice and a liqueur, Cherry Heering.
Two parts – which place, and what did Boon
create?
Quizzinga!
141. 4
They are called 'three-inch golden lilies' or
san-tsun-gin-lian, and as a connoisseur puts it, the
owner moved ‘like a tender young willow shoot in a
spring breeze.’ They were meant to induce a feeling
of protectiveness in the onlooker. Many also found
them erotic.
What is being described?
Quizzinga!
144. 5
It was approximately 200 miles long, and stretched from
Switzerland to the vicinity of the Belgian frontier near
Montmédy. The manner in which it was overcome was a
huge shock to those who made it.
Kasparov referred to it during the Anand-Gelfand match,
when he saw drawn games loaded with theory, artificial
tension and a conscious effort to stay away from trouble as
the characteristic features (of the match).
What?
Quizzinga!
149. • The Sarus Crane is called Antigone, after
the daughter of Oedipus who hung herself
• The reference is to the bare skin of the
head and neck on the Crane
Quizzinga!
150. 7
The brand Christy, at one point used to make these for Queen
Victoria. This year, they made 99,500 of these, of which 6000
were earmarked for specific use over a
2-week period.
The colors change every year; this year, the ones given to
males have letters in a color called “buttermilk”, while the
ones given to women have raspberry, purple and buttermilk
colors.
Given that an Indian company owns Christy since 2006, these
will finally be available in India only from next year.
What?
Quizzinga!
153. 8
In 1981, TV presenter Kieran Prendiville on a popular BBC TV
show was trying to explain the indestructible quality of
Compact Discs, by using a Bee Gees CD.
What did he do, which became a major marketing /
positioning statement for CDs?
Which show did this happen on – an iconic BBC show that
introduced to the British, technologies such as
ATM, Breathalyser, digital watch and vacuum cleaner among
others?
Quizzinga!
156. 9
In 1939, François E. Matthes introduced this term into
scientific literature to describe a period mainly around the
17th century where there was increased activity around
glacial advances round the world and a general drop in
temperatures.
Today, scientists believe that this period with its colder
winters and cooler summers, produced slower tree growth,
which in turn led to denser wood.
What did Matthes call this period?
Scientists attribute this climatic change as the reason for the
efficacy of what item from this time period?
Quizzinga!
159. 10
Though this person’s name meant “without sorrow”, his most
famous act came from sorrow. The name by which he called
himself later means “The beloved of the Gods, who brings
joy”
Jawaharlal Nehru paid tribute to this person, in possibly three
ways – two official and one personal.
Who and what did Nehru do?
Quizzinga!
161. • Ashoka
• The Ashoka’s Lion Capital as the symbol of
India; Ashoka’s chakra on the Indian flag
• Nehru also named his daughter Indira
Priyadarshini, (possibly) after Ashoka’s
other name, Devanamapriya Priyadarshi
Quizzinga!
162. 11
One of the most iconic ad campaigns in the US, it was for a
product of the Morton Company. The graphic clearly
portrayed the product’s flowing ability; their famous
registered slogan came about when took an old proverb and
removed the negativity in it!
Also, the Morton Company is credited as the first to introduce
a product variant as an express result of the request of the US
government to deal with the soil conditions in the Great
Lakes and in the Pacific Northwest.
Name the character, the slogan and what did they
introduce? (Image on next slide)
Quizzinga!
166. 12
This cricketer held the world record for the highest test
score from 1903 to 1930, having scored 287* on debut at
the SCG (this remains the highest score by a debutant in
Test Cricket till today).
When this book was first published in 1909, it was assumed
that the author based his hero on this player.
The author maintained that this early work was his best and
that “the book to him still captured the 'ring of a ball on a
cricket bat, the green of the pitch, the white of the flannels,
the cheers of the crowd”.
Name the cricketer, the author and the novel
(Image of cricketer on next slide)
Quizzinga!
169. • RE ‘Tip’ Forster
• PG Wodehouse’s Mike
Quizzinga!
170. 13
One of the earliest references to this comes from the 14th century
bestseller, The Voyage and Travel of Sir John Madeville “In that country
and by all Inde be great plenty of _____, that is a manner of a long
serpent, as I have said before. And in the night they dwell in the water,
and on the day upon the land, in rocks and in caves. And they eat no
meat in all the winter, but they lie as in a dream, as do the serpents.
These serpents slay men, and they _______; and when they eat they
move the over jaw, and not the nether jaw, and they have no tongue”
Recent research has shown that there is no sentimentality involved;
rather, it is a protection against potential debris from the thrashing of
the prey, or a mere stimulation of glands caused by the movement of
biting.
What falsity is being described?
Quizzinga!
173. 14
The pastry shown is called a Pfannkuchen or Ballen.
Occasionally, the name of the city is added before its
name.
Len Deighton in his 1983 book, promulgated a myth
claiming that 20 years back, a famous person had
blundered by referring to this dish rather than his
identity.
Name the book and what is the myth?
(Images of pastry and book on next slide)
Quizzinga!
176. • Berlin Game
• The myth was that JFK’s famous “Ich Bin
Ein Berliner” speech was wrong –
something that linguists have subsequently
debunked
Quizzinga!
177. 15
In English, the word initially just meant “tax”.
The phrase was first used in reference to municipal
tax levies. Each person in a town would be obligated
to pay a share of the ____ (tax), which was called
their “lot”. In some areas, you also were not allowed
to vote unless you paid your lot of the ____. Those
who didn’t pay, such as the poor or those wealthy
individuals that could get out of it, were then getting
out of paying taxes.
What phrase?
Quizzinga!
181. BUZZ, WRITE, Wait
8 Letters on a grid
Answers may START or END with the
letter
Buzz for +10/-10, written
Pounce for +7/-7 written
Wait and answer for +4, no negatives on
Infinite Bounce
188. •Igor Stravinsky – the painting was by
Nicholas Roerich for the set of The Rite of
Spring
BACK
Quizzinga!
189. H
From the world of Harry Potter, what’s
missing from this list of Spells?
1. Transfiguration
2. Charm
3. Jinx
4. Curse
5. Counter Spell
6. Healing Spell
7. ? - Consistently affects the object in a negative
manner; has a connotation of dark magic, but more
so than a jinx. Major inconvenience to the target.
Quizzinga!
192. A
In Greek mythology, Dionysus, the god of
intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden
named _______, who refused his affections. She
prayed to the gods to remain chaste, a prayer
which the goddess Artemis answered, transforming
her into a white stone. Humbled by her desire to
remain chaste, Dionysus poured wine over the
stone as an offering, dyeing the crystals purple.
Who / what?
Quizzinga!
212. TIEBREAKER
This suffix can be found in prominent city names in
Austria, South Africa, UK and the US, and means a
fort or fortified settlement from Germanic roots.
Fortified places were often towns or cities which
made the term synonymous with both forts and
cities. So, the town in Austria, for e.g. means “Salt
City”
Name it
Quizzinga!
214. • “Burg” – as in Salzburg, Pittsburg,
Johannesburg
Quizzinga!
Hinweis der Redaktion
a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who decides to spend her days as a prostitute while her husband is at work. The title is the French name of the daylily (literally: "daylight beauty"), a flower that blooms only during the day, but also refers to a prostitute whose trade is conducted in daytime. The film was directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel, based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel.
Let it bleed by Rolling Stones; Delia Smith
The Elements of Style; Strunk and White; Stuart Little