KQA College Solo 2013 College finals

KQA Collegiate Solo
Championship
College Finals

Written Round
• Six Al Hirschfeld cartoons
• Ten points per slide
• 15-point bonus for getting all six

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Charlie Chaplin in “Modern Times”

Clockwise
• 10 questions on Infinite Pounce
• +10, 0 on the bounce
• Pounce for +15, -5
• No part points for pounces.

1. A thumb-rule provided (neither exhaustive
nor foolproof) to ease confusion on whether
to use X/Y in a sentence is to replace the X/Y
in the sentence with ‘he/she’ or ‘him/her’ –
the former would mean X should be used, and
Y if the latter.

What?

Whether to use ‘who’ or ‘whom’ in a sentence.

2. On July 31, 1999, some of X’s ashes were carried to the
Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule,
becoming (till date) the only person whose ashes have
been buried on the Moon.

The brass foil wrapping of his memorial capsule is inscribed
with images of Comet Hale–Bopp, the Barringer Crater, and
a quotation from the work Y reading:

And, when he shall die
Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Who, and where is the quotation from?

E.M. Shoemaker, Romeo and Juliet.

3. The folk etymology of X places the origin with
the mythological Greek deity whose role is that of
messenger of the Gods. He is also considered the
inventor of language and speech, an interpreter, a
liar, a thief and a trickster. As Socrates noted, words
have the power to reveal or conceal, thus
promoting the message in an ambiguous way.

The traditional etymology of X is derived from
Greek for ‘translate’, or ‘interpret’, and is of
uncertain origin.

4. An Alford plea/doctrine in US law is a guilty plea in criminal court.

It originated in a 1970 case in North Carolina in which Henry Alford had been
indicted on a charge of first-degree murder. He pleaded guilty to second-
degree murder (being convicted of first-degree murder would’ve
automatically sentenced him to death at that time), and the judge accepted
the plea bargain and sentenced him to thirty years.

"I just pleaded guilty because they said if I didn't, they would gas me for it,"
wrote Alford in one of his appeals.

The Supreme Court held the defendant can enter such a plea "when he
concludes that his interests require a guilty plea and the record strongly
indicates guilt", and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this
possible sentencing.

That is to say, under the Alford plea, the defendant admits that sufficient
evidence exists with which the prosecution could likely convince a judge or
jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

What is the Alford plea?

‘I’m guilty, but I didn’t do it’.

5. The Zogist salute is a military salute
instituted by King Zog I of Albania, which is
now used by civilians in other countries.
The salute is still popular amongst modern day
supporters of Zogu and Albanian monarchists
in general.
How is it better known in India?

6. X retail, also known as Y retail, is a trend of opening
short-term sales spaces. Vacant of LA was the first to
develop the concept.

Vacant wondered whether consumers would line up to
purchase limited products from niche retailers. Once
sold out, the store would be closed until the owner
received more, and would then reopen. This led Vacant
to close the store permanently after the product sold
out, and move to another destination, since consumers
were travelling long distances to purchase items.

The name X is more commonly associated with an
Internet irritant, while Y is either an internet plug-
in/nudity/comic superhero/etc.

X - Pop-up retail.
Y- Flash retail.

7. X is a phrase used to describe leading
professional services firms in the US, particularly
firms that have been in existence for more than a
century, typically referring to banking, law, and
consulting firms, especially those in NYC/Boston.

The phrase derives from laced suede or buckskin
shoes, long popular in the Ivy League colleges,
reflecting a stereotype of firms populated by
white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

8. This 2003 film is a true story
based on the life of Nong Thoom, a
kathoey Muay Thai fighter.

Kathoey is a term of Khmer origin,
and has meanings based both on
(mis)understandings and self-
identification. Related terms
include sao praphet song and phet
thi sam.

In English conversation however, all
these terms are often conflated as
_______, and this expression has
become popular across South East
Asia.

What’s the expression?

9. The phrase ______ ______ _______ _________ is a variant of a DuPont
advertising slogan in use till 1982, which was subsequently replaced with
The miracles of science.

DuPont used the original phrase not to promote particular products, but
to change viewers’ opinions about the role of business in society, and to
address and assuage “unspoken fears of bigness in business”.

The variant was by other products/companies to circumvent IP
infringement, and is now more famous than the original and is used for
commentary on several topics – from the promotion of drugs, to the
praise of chemicals and plastics, and to the sarcastic criticism of the same.

It’s also been adopted into pop culture, being, inter alia, the title of a
Queens of the Stone Age song, Fatboy Slim album, and an upcoming
movie about a pharmacist.

Better Living Through Chemistry, from ‘Better
Things for Better Living... Through Chemistry.’

10. X are a group of animals of the genera Crotalus
and Sistrurus. Both scientific names have musical
connections – while Crotalus derives from Greek,
meaning ‘castanet’, Sistrurus is the Latinized form
of a Greek word that shares its root with the
sistrum, an ancient Egyptian musical instrument.

Rattlesnakes – Sisturus means ‘tail rattler’;
The sistrum is a rattle.

Long Visual Connect
• 11 slides, in chronological order
• Points: 21-x, where x is the number of the
slide you crack the theme on
• -5 for a wrong guess
• Maximiser of +2 per slide after the theme is
announced.

Non-individual Time People Of The
Year

Anticlockwise Round
• 10 questions on Infinite Pounce
• +10, 0 on the bounce
• Pounce for +15, -5
• No part points for pounces.

Shown here are the tallest pyramidal structures in the world. The tallest, no. 18, started
construction in 1987 and is still not completed today. It has also been called “The World’s
Ugliest Building” by Forbes Magazine. Name it.

The Ryugyeong Hotel, Pyongyang

The Reuleaux Triangle is a circular-triangular shape that is seen in many places – the rotor of a
Wankel rotary engine, the shapes of various coins around the world, and so on. Which bone in
the human body is also this shape?

• Musicvid
• Identify the musician. What song is this a
parody of?

• Weird Al Yankovic
• Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”

• In 1984, this future Nobel Prize winner attempted to
publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers,
to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to
have their works in print.
• The novels were declined by her UK publisher, but was
later accepted by another English publisher, Michael
Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a
Good Neighbour was published in England and the US
in 1983, and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984,
both as written by Jane Somers. They were later
published under her own name. Identify her.

• Collaudio
• This is a song called “Crucify Your Mind”, from
a 1970 album entitled “Cold Fact”. Identify the
singer. Why has he been in the news recently?

Sixto Rodriguez, the subject of the
Oscar-nominated documentary
Searching For Sugar Man.

Canada – Fred Wah Netherlands – Anne New Zealand – Ian Wedde
Vegter
USA – Natasha
Trethewey UK - ?

• Carol Ann Duffey – these are the poets
laureate of their respective countries.

• The mathematical relationship used in the X system
assumes that a team's scoring rate accelerates
throughout the team's innings – slowly at first, but
more rapidly during the final ten to fifteen overs (the
"slog overs"). Y's relationship is more empirical than
X‘s, and assumes that the scoring rate is faster during
the first fifteen to twenty overs during fielding
restrictions, decelerates during the middle overs when
most teams try to consolidate their innings, and then
accelerates again for the slog overs. In this way, Y tries
to improve upon X’s notion of the "typical innings". Y’s
system also takes higher run rates after stoppages in
play into account. ID X and Y.

• X - Duckworth-Lewis system
• Y – Jayadevan system or VJD method

• The earliest concept of an __________ _________can be
traced to an idea by Herbert A. Gilbert, who patented his
device in 1963. This device heated the solution containing
the active ingredient, and produced steam. In 1967, Gilbert
was approached by several companies interested in
manufacturing it, but it was never commercialized.
• Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist, is widely credited with the
invention of the modern __________ _________ In 2000,
he came up with the idea of using a piezoelectric
ultrasound-emitting element to vaporize a pressurized jet
of liquid diluted in a propylene glycol solution. He also
proposed placing it in a disposable plastic cartridge which
serves as a liquid reservoir.
• These inventions are the basis of what?

Still from the September 15 2012 episode of Saturday Night Live. ID the actor-comedian on
the left, and the US athlete he is imitating (who was in the news at the time).

• Seth MacFarlane
• Ryan Lochte

• The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or
science fiction genre that involves the discovery
of a new world out of time, place, or both. It was
highly popular in the late Victorian era, with such
works as Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would
Be King, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World,
Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Land That Time
Forgot, A. Merritt's The Moon Pool, and H. P.
Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Which
book, published in 1885 and adapted to film at
least 6 times, is considered the first in the Lost
World genre?

King Solomon’s Mines, by H. Rider Haggard

Differential scoring
• Five questions
• +15 if 1 or 2 get it right
• +10 if 3, 4 or 5 get it right
• +5 if 6, 7 or 8 get it right
• -5 for wrong guesses.

1. This gesture (often with thumb in) is more
often seen in the company Udupa keeps, but
is also an oft used/abused expression in
American Sign Language – what does it mean
in ASL?

2. What is this meme called/why was it the
rage in China in November?

Shootering – For the first time, the Chinese
Navy successfully landed a plane on its aircraft
carrier Liaoning using an arresting cable.

Shooters are those responsible for launching
the aircraft.

3. Born Chester Arthur Burnett, he
was nicknamed Big Foot Chester
and Bull Cow in his early years, but
later acquired another animal-
based nickname.

His grandfather would often tell him
stories about the ______ in that
part of the country and warn him
that if he misbehaved, they’d ‘get
him’, and subsequently acquired the
nickname from the story.

Who?

4. To X is an act of deep
respect, as depicted in
the pic.

Initially meant to show
the highest reverence,
the practice has now
much reduced, but the
word X is still used in the
English language, to
mean being obsequious.

5. In the last few months, a few sources used the movie X (Ridley Scott, 1991)
to describe the fiscal cliff negotiations.

“Some people, left, center, and right, believe careening over the cliff would be
an affirmative good, a willful act of liberation, a step that is necessary to
rationalize our tax code. I've dubbed these folks the X Caucus. And I count
myself a member.”

Later though, the movie X was used as shorthand by (mostly) Republicans for
those who would rather happily drive off the (fiscal) cliff than resolve it.

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