Unmaad 2014 Open Quiz at IIM Bangalore - Finals

CONQUISITION 2014
Open Quiz Finals

What’s At Stake!
1st Place – Prizes worth INR 27,000/-
2nd Place – Prizes worth INR 18,000/-
Other finalists – Thunderous round of applause

Format for Finals
1. Written Round – 8 Questions
2. Infinite Pounce – Clockwise – 17+1 Questions
3. Relative round – 8 Questions
4. Infinite Pounce – Anti-clockwise – 17+1 Questions
5. Buzzer / Written Round – 8 Questions
60 Questions overall.

Round One: Written Round
Advertisements and their references
 8 advertisements. 8 questions.
 +10 for getting each answer.
 If you get everything right…. Big round of applause!

Identify the city and the monument in the background.
Video
Q1

An ad for the Californian gubernatorial candidate, Jerry
Brown. Which company’s ad campaign is being
referenced?
Video
Q2

Which Shakespearean play does this Google Plus ad
borrow its script from?
Also, what are the first lines of this speech?
Video
Q3

Two parts to the question.
a. Which organization is this an ad for?
b. What is Irons referencing?
Video
Q4

The directors behind this movie, ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’
threatened to sue a particular company as they felt they
had obviously seen this before they embarked on their
communication.
Which company?
Video
Q5

A rather scary and controversial advertisement played
during the 1964 presidential elections. The penultimate
line is a nod to a poem by W.H. Auden. Name the poem
Video
Q6

Which movie does this ad reference?
Video
Q7

Name the person shown (or) What nickname was given to
the team of victorious all-round gymnastics team she was
part of, which represented the US at Atlanta, 1996?
Video
Q8

Which Shakespearean play does this Google Plus ad
borrow its script from?
Also, what is the first line of this speech?
Video
Q3

As You Like It
“All the world’s a stage…”

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Peter Finch in ‘Network’
Video

Honda – For their ‘Rube Goldberg’ Cog ad

September 1, 1939
The poem was written at the outbreak of the Second
World War

Kerri Strug, who was part of the ‘Magnificent Seven’

AUDIENCE QUESTION
Roberto Schmidt is a Colombian photojournalist for AFP
based in India.
Roughly two months back, he said “I took these photos
totally spontaneously, without thinking about what impact
they might have. We moved about 500 pictures, trying to
portray their true feelings, and this seemingly trivial
image seems to have eclipsed much of this collective
work.”
What incident is he referring to?

Round Two: Infinite Pounce Round
 17+1 questions. Clockwise.
 +10/0 on the bounce; Chennai rules apply (If no team
gets the answer; question goes back to the same team)
 +10/-5 on the pounce
 The one extra question is a follow up on one of the
normal questions. Answers to be only written down for
+10/0

‘Edwards vs. Aguillard’ was a 1987 case in the Supreme
Court of the United States that overturned a particular
Louisiana law as it was seen to be advancing a particular
religion. In this context, Charles Thaxton, editor of a
particular book, was looking around for a term and found it
in a speech by a NASA engineer. Thaxton says, “That's just
what I need. It's a good engineering term. After I first saw it,
it seemed to jibe. When I would go to meetings, I noticed it
was a phrase that would come up from time to time. And I
went back through my old copies of Science magazine and
found the term used occasionally”.
What phrase did he coin/popularize? Which book was he
editing?
Q1

The law prevented schools from teaching creationism.
Hence, as an alternative, Thaxton came up with ‘Intelligent
Design’. The book was ‘Of Pandas and People’.

This company started making its first combine harvesters in
1923. They decided to use the name _______, based on
inspiration from an 1857 work.
_________ is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers'
fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields
where it is not economically profitable to harvest, and in
the broadest sense, it is the act of frugally recovering resources
from low-yield contexts. Thus with the name, the company
evoked a positive connotation in potential customers' minds, of
a brand of harvester that would leave none of the grain behind.
Name the company/Fill in the blank. Whose 1857 work acted
as the inspiration?
Q2

Gleaner Manufacturing Company
The work is ‘The Gleaners’ by Jean Francois Millet

When Francois Hollande took office, he commissioned
Olivier Ciappa to design a new stamp featuring Marianne,
the French symbolism. Ciappa on his part, decided to take
inspiration for Marianne from a Ukrainian who lives in
France as she was granted political asylum. Some would
consider this apt considering normal depictions of
Marianne. (Picture on next slide)
The Ukrainian, in typical style remarked, “All homophobes,
extremists, fascists will have to lick my a** when they
want to send a letter”.
Who is this woman / What is she a member of (one of the
earliest members at that)?
Q3

Inna Shevchenko, member of FEMEN

In the first millennium, this avatar of Vishnu was
considered a symbol of virility. The Chalukya dynasty
adopted the God on its crest and minted coins with His
face. Other dynasties include the Chola and Vijayanagara
Empires where it was part of the royal insignia.
However, after this period, the worship of this avatar
significantly reduced and very few temples of the God is
found in India. The most important temple is in Tirumala
north of the Venkateswara temple.
Identify the avatar. What reason is cited for this decline in
worship? (No part points)
Q4

Varaha avatar
India came under Muslim rule after the 12th century, who
considered the pig/boar and its meat unclean.

As part of the 65 years of NHS, the NHS website carried a
set of stories highlighting pioneering work. One such
person highlighted was Dr. Andrew Deaner. A consultant
cardiologist at Bart's Health NHS Trust, knew he could
help. He says, “I turned to my brother and said, ‘They're
doing CPR. I should go and help’. Something sort of told
me I should go down. A couple of stewards didn't want to
know, but I managed to persuade an older steward that
this is what I do every day and he let me through”
Secondly, Dr. Deaner’s desire to take the patient to the
London Chest Hospital may have been crucial. It was later
confirmed that the patient’s heart had stopped for 78
minutes in total.
Who is the patient?
Q5

Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United Kingdom from 16
to 19 September 2010 was the first state visit by a pope to
the United Kingdom. Prior to this, John Paul II had only
made a pastoral visit and not a state visit.
As part of preparations for this visit, the Church drew up
a list of ‘useful terms’ meant for the staff, police officers,
broadcasters and journalists who may not be Catholics
and are unsure about the Church’s rituals and beliefs.
They did so by ‘using language familiar to their experience
but still emphasizes the reverence of the occasion’.
(Picture on next slide)
Q6

In this comparison, what are the two words missing?

Sanctuary – ‘Stage’ - The area around the altar in a church
is called the ‘sanctuary’
Sacristy – ‘Backstage’ - a room for keeping vestments and
other church furnishings

“The Tale of Tsar Saltan” is an opera in four acts with
the libretto written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on
the poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. In the
opera, Tsar Saltan leaves for war and in the meantime, the
Tsaritsa bears a son, Gvidon. While sending the message
however, the Tsaritsa’s sisters changed the word ‘son’ to
‘beast’ or ‘monster’. The son and mother are ordered to be
put in a barrel and thrown into the sea. Both of them land
at Buyan. Gvidon grows up and one day saves a swan from
a kite. As part of the Swan Bird’s gratitude, the swan helps
Gvidon realize his wish of seeing his father.
How does this happen? / What is the interlude to the next
scene in the Act?
Q7

Flight of the Bumblebee, by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

The name comes from the “Abri de ____ _____” near
the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in
southwestern France, where the first discovery occurred.
The term soon came to be used in a very general sense as
was the case with the far-flung Jebel Qafzeh in Israel. Now,
the term falls outside nomenclature conventions as it has
lost its formal taxonomical status, but it still an important
term within the scientific community as an identifier in
Europe and adjacent areas. Current scientific literature
prefers the term EEMH.
What are we talking about?
Q8

According to folklore, the King of Mahim, Bhim used an
interesting ritual when he was deciding how and who to
assign a difficult task. He would call for a general meeting
at his fort and huge pandals were erected. Select warriors
and bravemen would be asked to participate in the royal
feast. Then the commander in chief announced the king’s
predicament and put forth the challenge. According to this
ritual, whoever volunteered to accept the task would rise
and indulge in something. Afterwards the commander in
chief would declare him a soorma (a gallant man).
This idea has still remained in Bombay lingo. What are we
talking about?
Q9

Usage of ‘Supari’ to mean a hit job

This was part of an ad campaign launched by Lacoste as it
wanted to visualize the world of sports in the future. Here,
it attempts to portray how tennis would be played in the
150th year of the founding of the company.
Why did this ad campaign bring Lacoste some bad press in
September 2011?
Video
Q10

Lacoste was founded in 1933, and hence the 150th
anniversary was 2083. This campaign was titled ‘Lacoste
2083’ which led to suspicions of collaboration between
Lacoste and Andres Breivik, the Norwegian mass
murderer who wrote ‘Manifesto 2083’.
This was further aggravated when he turned up in court
wearing Lacoste shirts! 

AUDIENCE QUESTION
Identify the singer

Carl Douglas, of ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ fame

This institution was founded in 1448 by Margaret of
Anjou (the wife of Henry VI), and was refounded in 1465
by Elizabeth Woodville (the wife of Edward IV). As a
result, the full name of the institution should include “….
Of St. Margaret and St. Bernard”
Which institution is this?
How is the founding history reflected in its name?
Q11

Queens’ College, Cambridge
The apostrophe is after the ‘s’ and not after the ‘n’

This word derives from an Old Norse word which was the
name of a hump or swelling on the body. This later
modified into meaning any swollen or rounded item, for
example, a bird's gullet, the seed head of a ripe plant (the
source of the word crop as applied to cereals etc.) or the
rear end of a horse.
When a horse suddenly stops without any warning, two
body parts hit the ground, of which one was the backside.
What phrase, which we probably would have heard in a
sporting context, thus results?
Q12

The painting shown in the next slide is Ludovico Cigoli’s
“Assumption of the Virgin”. The inspiration for certain
details of the painting was Cigoli’s friend.
 Who was Cigoli’s friend?
 Why did this painting cause a controversy with the
Vatican?
Q13

 Cigoli’s friend was Galileo. Access to his telescope
helped Cigoli in drawing the moon with the pock
marked pattern as seen in the painting.
 All depictions of the ascension showed the Virgin Mary
on a pure white moon, a sign of her purity. This painting
was hence seen as insulting the Virgin Mary.

Recently, people have taken to posting pictures of
themselves online imitating someone’s signature action or
some incident. The most famous example of this was
‘Tebowing” where the Twitterverse was full of pictures
showing people posing like Tim Tebow (down on one knee
and fist on the forehead).
In what seems to be a very disturbing trend, two such
instances of the same are shown in the next slide.
Identify both the controversial incidents / people involved.
Q14

 Trayvoning – For Trayvon Martin
 Hernandezing – For Aaron Hernandez

Most of the Nuremberg rallies were held at night, so in order to
create the mystical effect Hitler wanted (“The concluding
meeting in Nuremberg must be exactly as solemnly and
ceremonially performed as a service of the Catholic Church.”) he
created something.
Dr. Robert Santoro says, “Well, it's a very inexpensive way of
creating interest. Hitler is very much aware of German
mythology, his favorite entertainment is German opera,
certainly Wagner and all the mythological stories that go with
Wagner. And certainly anytime you’re looking at mythology and
gods, you're looking skyward. So I don't think it's an accident
that he says to him, ‘Let's create an environment of looking
towards the heavens, and that's what it does.’”
Who is the ‘he’ being talked about and what did ‘he’ create?
Q15

Emporio Caritas is a medium-sized supermarket (around
500 square metres) with automated boxes, trolleys,
shelves and insignia. It benefits families and people in
economic hardship not only residents of a particular city
but also those who are deprived of residence and not have
a permanent residence, subject to authorization.
Apart from donations, what is its other major source of
revenue (which arrives once in a week)?
Q16

The national anthem of Kosovo named ‘Europe’ was composed
by Mendi Mengjiqi, a composer of Albanian descent. An open
contest was held to select a winner and one of the rules stated,
“Texts can be included as well in the application, in any official
language”.
 While the current name of the anthem might also be a mark
of respect to the European Union’s efforts in Kosovo’s
independence struggle, what did Kosovo earlier adopt as its
national anthem to pay respect to the EU?
 The fact that Kosovo consists of a lot of ethnic minorities,
and that the Government doesn’t want to antagonize any one
of them is purpoted to be a reason for a particular property
of the national anthem, by which it gains entry into a unique
list containing 4 entities. What list?
Q17

 Ode to joy, the anthem of the European Union
 The anthem has no lyrics, putting it in the same list as
Spain, San Marino and Herzgovina.
FOLLOW UP
Because Kosovo doesn’t have a FIFA sanctioned football
team, the football association of the country have decided
to opt out of the race to get a particular player to
represent their country. Other countries in the fray
include England, Belgium, Albania, Croatia and Serbia.
Which football player are we talking about?

Round Three: Relative Round
 8 questions.
 Underlying theme is present but no points for getting
the connect
 Scoring pattern:
 If 1, 2 or 3 teams get it right - +10
 If 4,5 or 6 teams get it right - +7
 If 7 or 8 teams get it right - +4

In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach designed
a precursor of the modern petrol (gasoline) engine which
they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the
first internal combustion motorcycle and, in the next year,
to a stagecoach, and a boat.
What did he call the engine, as a result of its resemblance
to something?
Q1

Watch the video.
What movie does JLaw say she was referencing?
Q2

Which parable do
the following paintings
depict?
Q3

This artefact, given by Sir Herbert Baker in 1926, stands at
a height of 1.63 meters.
During the blitz, it got entangled in the steel cable of a
barrage balloon protecting the place and hence it got
wrenched from its perch.
It has now been permanently moved.
What are we talking about?
Q4

Anthony Burgess states that this was inspired from
advertising billboards for a company called “Bennett's”,
current during World War II.
The original posters showed J. M. Bennett himself; a
kindly looking old man offering guidance with the phrase
“Let me be your father” attached.
After Bennett's death, his son took over the company, and
the posters were replaced with pictures of the son, who
looked imposing and stern in contrast to his father's
kindly demeanor. What are we talking about?
Q5

________ is a circuit board meant to be an extension of the
mainboard, or occasionally of another card. They often
have plugs, sockets, pins, connectors, or other
attachments for other boards, which is what differentiates
them from standard expansion boards.
These usually fit on top of and parallel to the board,
separated by spacers or standoffs, and are therefore
sometimes called “mezzanine cards” due to being stacked
like the mezzanine of a theatre.
Q6

What epithet was used by the Financial Times to describe
these companies collectively?
 China National Petroleum Corporation (China)
 Gazprom (Russia)
 National Iranian Oil Company (Iran)
 Petrobras (Brazil)
 PDVSA (Venezuela)
 Petronas (Malaysia)
 Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
Q7

Published in 1927, this was a polemical book by the
American author Katherine Mayo. In her book, Mayo
attacked society, religion and culture of the country of
India by pointing to the treatment of India's women,
the untouchables and so on.
In 1952, someone decided to make a film challenging this
book and hence decided to use the name of the book for
his movie. However, in 1955, Information and
Broadcasting became suspicious that it would glorify the
book and hence demanded that they review the script.
This issue was cleared later on.
Who is the person in question and name the book/movie?
Q8

 Grandfather Clock Engine
 First Wives Club

 Return of the Prodigal Son

 Old Father Time

 Old Father Time
 Big Brother in 1984

 Old Father Time
 Daughterboard (attached to the Motherboard)

 Old Father Time
 The New Seven Sisters

 Old Father Time
 Mother India

Answers
 Old Father Time
 Mother India
Hence, the Relative Round.

AUDIENCE QUESTION
Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha is a
manufacturing federation located in the Bengeri area of
the city of Hubli. Their major customers are mainly
politicians or people from politics. On certain days,
however, the customers reach out from far and wide.
What is their chief product?

Round Four: Infinite Pounce Round
 17+1 questions. Anti-clockwise.
 +10/0 on the bounce; Chennai rules apply (If no team
gets the answer; question goes back to the same team)
 +10/-5 on the pounce
 The one extra question is a follow up on one of the
normal questions. Answers to be only written down for
+10/0

In 1827, Jean-Baptiste Lapostolle founded a modest distillery
which soon acquired a reputation for fine fruit liqueurs. The
business really took off under his son-in-law, Louis Alexandre
_____, as he ventured to blend Cognac (which he had obtained
from a journey there) and orange. After having succeeded, he
called the product Curacao ____.
He personally promoted the liqueur in France and César Ritz as
a friend, he introduced the liqueur at the Savoy. It was Ritz who
gave it the name that we now it by.
Ritz departed from the fashion of the time (from the newspaper
to what one called their friend) and named it, thus bestowing a
noble status. What name did Ritz give the liqueur?
Q18

Formerly an overseer for Oakland Plantation, where LSUA
stands today, he established himself as a planter. A certain
transaction in 1843 was reversed in 1852, when he
decided to build a house (shown in the next slide).
His name is still part of the vernacular in the surrounding
areas of Louisiana where his farm once stood. If you’re
misbehaving, or acting out of line, they’d say ‘Don’t be an
______’, which is a bit synonymous with, ‘Don’t be a prick.’”
Who is this person? (Last name is acceptable)
Q19

Edwin Epps, the person who bought Solomon Northup as
a slave, and thus forms the basis for ‘12 Years a Slave’.

Jacob Bernoulli died in 1705. For his tombstone, Bernoulli
chose the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet
the same, I rise again”) and a certain figure for his
gravestone. The gravestone executed however was
different.
Jacques Bernoulli wrote that the figure may be used as a
symbol, either of fortitude and constancy in adversity, or
of the human body, which after all its changes, even after
death, will be restored to its exact and perfect self.
What was the mistake? (Picture on next slide)
Q20

Bernoulli wanted a logarithmic spiral. However the
tombstone carries an Archimedean spiral.

As part of a course, Elaine Treharne had to go through and
understand all possible imagined adaptations from the oral
rendition to the Heaney translation, Zemeckis film and,
particularly, R. D. Fulk’s edition. She ultimately used Fulk’s
edition for her project of 14,000 characters. because it is
lexically similar to Old English. Following are some excerpts:
1. “Scyld shuffled off, but not before ring-giving. Out on the
sea in a gold-laden vessel, he bore love&praise, hope for
hereafter”
1. “The coastguard was curious as the Geat-troop climbed
cliffward, “Hey! Where’d you come from? And who’s that
well-armed one there?””
Q21

Two part question
 What work is being talked about?
 What is the project about?

Beowulf
The project is to compress Beowulf into 100 tweets

Gladys Heldman is best known for founding World Tennis
magazine in 1953. She worked with female tennis players to
create a separate women's circuit in 1970. Female players felt
they were being denied the financial rewards of the men's
game. With backing from Philip Morris, the first participants in
the circuit, known as the ‘Houston Nine’, played the first _______
______ Circuit tournament in Houston in late 1970. The players
accepted $1 contracts from Heldman.
Fill in the blanks.
Also, if Peaches Bartkowicz, Rosie Casals, Judy Dalton, Kristy
Pigeon, Nancy Richey, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Julie Heldman, Kerry
Melville are 8 of the ‘Houston Nine’, who is the ninth one?
Q22

Virginia Slims tournament, which later merged with the
USTA
The last one was Billie Jean King

Shown in the next slide is a 2013 meeting of two people in
Bangalore who became famous for their work 3 decades
ago. The one on the right, then 42 years old was already
well-known having been nominated to join Magnum. The
other, then 29 years old, was working as a freelancer and
in Sultanpur, on his way to Amethi to cover the election
campaign. When the news broke, both of them caught the
same flight.
Both of their most famous works were extremely similar,
yet, the younger one won the accolade for that year. Both
of them tried to find the identity of their subject but failed.
Name the two people and the work/subject in question.
Q23

Raghu Rai and Pablo Bartholomew, who covered the
Bhopal Gas Tragedy and are known for this.

Dr. Rush’s bilious pills (although technically, should have
been called ‘anti-bilious’ pills), invented by Dr. Benjamin
Rush had copious amounts of calomel, which was the
wonder drug of the age. In large doses, it guaranteed the
restoration of one’s bile balance and in small doses, it was
effective against the most dreaded “social disease” of the
age, syphilis. These pills formed an important part of the
medical kit of a group of people on their journey from
Camp Wood, St. Louis to Fort Clatsop, Oregon.
Which group of people is this? Also, these pills are now
proving to be helpful in tracing the journey taken by this
group. How? (Recipe shown in next slide might help)
Q24

 The Corps of Discovery, which included Lewis and Clark
 These pills functioned as laxatives. Hence, historians
are now following a trail of mercury to map their
journey.

Bog-wood, also known as ‘abonos’ is a material from trees
that have been buried in peat bogs and preserved
from decay by the acidic and anaerobic bog conditions. It
is an ideal material for the manufacturing of a particular
item because of a high percentage of minerals, reaching up
to 12%, which makes it especially resistant to burning.
Additionally, the thousand-year long washing erased all
traces of tannin, resin and similar ingredients.
However, it is hard to carve, some parts can be supple
while others extremely hard, the percentage of hidden
flaws in material is huge, which all may cause cracks.
Hence, only a few people use ‘abonos’ to make this item.
Q25

 What item are we talking about?
 How does the thousand year washing make ‘abonos’
ideal to manufacture that item?

It is used to make pipes for smoking (resistant to burning)
Washing over thousand years, makes the wood taste-
neutral which makes tobacco smoking better.

The sequence of actions as illustrated by this proverb does
not intuitively make sense to most people. In fact, it is
when the order of actions mentioned are reversed that
people seem to find the proverb logical. However, by
treating ‘and’ to mean ‘simultaneously’ rather than
‘chronologically’, one can derive the desired meaning and
in this case, the order of actions wouldn’t matter.
A certain person’s mother however, taught him the
supposedly correct way (i.e. the intuitive order), and it
was this idiosyncrasy that showed up later in his
manifesto (shown in the next slide), which was spotted by
the FBI, which ultimately resulted in his arrest.
Q26

 What proverb are we talking about?
 Which person was caught in this unique way?
The relevant part of the manifesto reads:
“To relieve the pressure on nature it is not
necessary to create a special kind of social system, it is
only necessary to get rid of industrial society. Granted, this
will not solve all problems. Industrial society has already
done tremendous damage to nature and it will take a very
long time for the scars to heal. Besides, even pre-industrial
societies can do significant damage to nature.
Nevertheless, getting rid of industrial society will
accomplish a great deal…….”
“…..As for the negative consequences of
eliminating industrial society -- well, ____________________. To
gain one thing you have to sacrifice another.”

 “To have your cake and eat it too”
 Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber

Gordon Brown, on his first visit to President Barack
Obama in the White House in March 2009, gave the
President a gift of a pen holder made from the wood of
‘HMS Gannet’, reflecting her role in Victorian anti-
slavery efforts.
This automatically led to parallels being drawn to another
gifting incident in 1880 which involved Rutherford. B.
Hayes.
Why?
Q27

The sister ship of HMS Gannet is HMS Resolute, from
which the Resolute Desk was made and given to
Rutherford Hayes by Queen Victoria as a gift.

In computer science, this refers to the tendency to
unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous
to human behaviors. In its specific form, it refers only to
“the susceptibility of people to read far more
understanding than is warranted into strings of symbols
— especially words — strung together by computers”.An
example of the specific form involves an automated teller
machine which displays the words "THANK YOU" at the
end of a transaction. A (very) casual observer might think
that the machine is actually expressing gratitude;
however, the machine is only printing a preprogrammed
string of symbols.
This is named after a Joseph Wiezenbaum creation, which
in turn is named for a fictional character. Name both.
Q28

 ELIZA, the chatterbot
 Eliza Doolittle, from Pygmalion

Explain the connection between these elements. As a result,
how are they opposite of the element in the next slide?
Q29

These are examples of ‘rebracketing’ or ‘juncture loss’
A nadder – Became ‘an adder’
A noumpere – Became ‘an umpire’
A nauger – Became ‘an auger’
A noumble Pie – Became ‘an umble pie’
The reptile underwent rebracketing, the other way around
An ewte – Became ‘a newt’

Where is the logo taken from?
“To be a pillar biter” refers to
being a hypocrite. Denotes a
person who throws
themselves at the pillar in an
ecstasy of devotion, making a
dramatic display of his/her
faith instead of sitting
properly in the pews like
everybody else
Q30

Netherlandish Proverbs, by Pieter Bruehgel the Elder

AUDIENCE QUESTION
What are these people parodying?

Inaugurated in 2011, this tournament established by the
English Premier League is meant for the U-12 youth academies
of the clubs taking part. The tournament will be played
annually at least until 2014.
Last year (2013), the teams involved were Manchester City,
Arsenal, FC Schalke, Borussia Monchengladbach, Paris Saint
Germain, Valenciennes FC, Club Brugge and RSC Anderlecht.
The venue for this tournament is the Belgian city of Leper, but,
the city’s French name is commonly used in English, deriving
from a time when only French was used for communication in
Belgium. Name the tournament and the venue.
Q31

Christmas Truce tournament, played in Ypres every
December. 2014 will be the centenary of the Ypres football
match.

One of the eleven districts in the Bukhara Province of
Uzbekistan, this district lends its name to something
native to Central Asia, and are renowned for their ability
to forage and thrive under extremely harsh living
conditions, as evidenced by its raising in large numbers
in Namibia, whereas, in Russia, a Persian variant thrives.
Unfortunately, around 4,000,000 babies are killed every
year because the high quality product is obtained only
from the fetal or the baby versions.
Which two products (one Central Asian and the other
Russian) attribute their origins to this?
Q32

The origin for this American jazz slang is the movement of
a conductor’s hands as he/she represents a four beat
rhythm. It was used to refer to a person who failed to
appreciate the medium, more broadly someone who was
out of date or out of touch. Counterculture movements
that started in the 1940s used it to refer to someone who
clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided,
or ‘in the box’ ways of thinking. It traversed all fields as it
was used to contest the more conservative national,
political, religious, philosophical, musical, and social
trends.
This explains the last word of which five-word taunt?
Q33

In 1903 Wyrley was the scene of the "Great Wyrley
Outrages", a series of slashings of horses, cows and sheep.
In October a local solicitor and son of the parson was tried
and convicted for the eighth attack, on a pit pony, and
sentenced to seven years with hard labor. His family had
been the victims of a long-running campaign of
untraceable abusive letters and anonymous harassment in
1888 and 1892-5. Further letters in 1903 alleged he was
partially responsible for the outrages and caused the
police suspicion to focus on him.
Who was accused of the crime? Who, after persuasion
took up the case of proving his innocence. (A theatre
version of the novel that is based on this incident is shown
on the next slide)
Q34

George Edalji and Arthur Conan Doyle. The theatre
adaptation was based on the novel, ‘Arthur and George’
FOLLOW UP
The novel, ‘Arthur and George’ (2005), along with
‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ (1984) and ‘England, England’ (1998)
were three failed entries for the Man Booker Prize for a
particular author.
He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym
Dan Kavanagh (his late wife's surname)
Who is the author and which book in 2011 helped him
win the Man Booker Prize (finally)?

AUDIENCE QUESTION
According to Merriam Webster, “There is a bit of a ______
over the etymology of _______. Some etymologists think the
word is onomatopoeic in origin, but others believe it
comes from the Hebrew phrase “bārūkh habbā’,”.
Etymologists have connected the French derivation to
worshippers whose knowledge of Hebrew was limited
used to distort the phrase.”
Thus, once out of the synagogue, the word first meant “a
noisy confusion of sound” -- a sense that was later
extended to refer to any tumultuous situation.
Which word is this?

Round Five: Buzzer / Written Round
 8 questions.
 +5/-5 on the buzzer
 5 points per question.

Acknowledgments
Hindu ‘Lit For Life’ – For sponsoring the event
Pranav Ramanathan
Sudharshan Karthik V
Omkar Kamalapur
Siddharth Pai
iQ, the Quizzing, Lits and Debating Club of IIM Bangalore

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