1. CQC Informals
By Atulaa Krishnamurthy
4th March, 2012

2. Hi!
• 1st year, BA LLB (Hons.), NLSIU Bangalore.
• Former School Co-ordinator of CQC :P
• Will always be a school quizzer at heart.
• This quiz will have 2 LVCs, 1 SVC, and 2 Infinite
Pounce rounds.
• Quizmaster’s decision will be final.
• Guess away.

3. LVC 1
• 13 slides.
• Non exhaustive, but finite.
• Points on respective slides.

4. +35/-30

5. +30/-25

6. +28/-22

7. +25/-20

8. +22/-18

9. +20/-15

10. +18/-12

11. +15/-10

12. +12/-7

13. +10/-5

14. +8/-2

15. +5

16. Answer
Titles based on Shakespearean
works or phrases

17. Infinite Pounce- 1
• +10 for every right answer
• No negatives
• +15/-10 on pounce

18. 1.
This aspect of a certain entity is explained away
through many anecdotes, a few of which are as
follows.
• As immediate replacement for a broken feather
pen
• As a result of being struck by an axe; an injury
which was accepted as a mark of respect for the
weapon
• As a weapon to slash ____ in two, as punishment
for laughing at the entity involved.
What are these explanations for?

19. • Explanations for Ganesha’s broken tusk.

20. 2.
• This cricketer’s middle name is Ignatius. He
played for MCC in10 first class games. At
Lord’s in 1899 , he took 7/61 against
Cambridgeshire and two years later he carried
his bat in an innings against Leceistershire for
32. Shown below is the picture of his statue
standing in his birthplace Edinburgh. Name
the person who could never achieve even a
fraction of the fame in cricket that he
achieved in another field?

22. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.

23. 3
In the mid 19th Century, during a boxing match,
sponges were a common ringside accessory.
When a boxer was too beaten up to continue
fighting, his manager would hand him a sponge
with which to mop up his face and other
injuries. Sponges soon gave way to something
else, and this gave rise to an idiom.
What idiom?

24. “Throwing in the towel”

25. 4. Where and of whom?

27. 5.
Gumnami Baba lived at Ram Bhavan in Faizabad,
Uttar Pradesh, at around 1985. He was popularly
perceived to be an alias for someone else, who was
assumed dead. The Justice Mukherjee Commission
of Inquiry was formed to look into the matter, and it
held that the Baba was not the person people
perceived him to be, for want of clinching evidence.
However, it did not completely deny it either, saying
there was a similarity in the handwriting. Who is
the person who was assumed to be dead?

28. Subhash Chandra Bose

29. 6.
Kaspar Hauser was a German who lived for
around twenty years in the nineteenth century.
He carried a letter in 1828, which said he had to
be educated in the basics of life, including
religion. He is an example of a popular and
fascinating phenomenon which has been oft
repeated in fiction, and has had claims of having
happened in reality. What phenomenon?

30. A feral child, or a wild child

31. 7.
2001- Otis
2002- Tahti
2003- Moses
2004- All in Mondeville
2005- Bruno
2006- Mops
2007- All in Mid Road Gang and Yuki
2008- Lucy
2009- Dug
2010- Boss
2011- ___________? And what is this a list of?

32. Palm Dog Awardees.
The recipient for 2011 was Uggie from The
Artist.

33. 8.
The New Journal of Physics, in an edition
published a year ago, had an article by Dr. David
Quere and Dr. Clanet about a certain event in
1997, which was supposed to have “defied
physics”. The article said that the phenomenon
was perfectly in consonance with the laws of
physics, explaining it, and saying that its “snail
shelled trajectory” helped it, and that it could be
repeated again. What am I talking about?

34. Roberto Carlos’ Free Kick
Not my question, obviously.

35. 9. Connect

36. Rashomon Effect

37. 10.
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a physics professor at NYU,
submitted an article called "Transgressing the
Boundaries: Towards a Transformative
Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity“ to an academic
journal called Social Text. This episode is now referred
to as the Sokal affair. What did Alan Sokal do, that
reflected so badly on the journal?

38. Sokal’s article was a hoax.
The whole thing was an experiment to test the
publication's intellectual rigor and, specifically,
to investigate whether such a journal would
"publish an article liberally salted with nonsense
if it (a) sounded good and (b) flattered the
editors' ideological preconceptions."

39. 11. Connect. Non exhaustive.

40. Countries with more than one capital
Benin, Bolivia, Chile, Cote d’Ivoire, Malaysia,
South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Western Sahara are the countries which
currently have more than one capital.

41. 12.
Initially when X-McConnell sponsored this, it
was commonly known as the X. In 2002, the Y
Group became the title sponsor, but chose to
retain X as part of the title. So this entity is now
known as the YX.
X and Y?

42. X- Booker, Y- Man

43. SVC
• 7 Slides
• Non exhaustive, finite.
• Points on respective slides.

44. +20/-15

45. +17/-12

46. +15/-10

47. +12/-8

48. +10/-5

49. +7/-2

50. +5

51. English words derived from Tamil.

52. Infinite Pounce II
• Same rules as the last round.

53. 13.
The nomenclature of this novel has more than one
explanation according to fans. The titular character
in his childhood was said to have nearly drowned in
a river, but was saved by a mysterious
woman, believed to be the spirit of the river. The
epithet that arose after this incident is said to be
the reason behind the novel. Another explanation is
that the title of the novel refers to the author
himself, as many instances in the work are inspired
by real life occurrences in his life. Name the novel.

54. Ponniyin Selvan.
Meaning ‘The Son of Ponni’. The mysterious
woman is said to be Kaveri/Ponni (a tributary of
the river). Kalki Krishnamurthy’s father, a
munsif, was called Ponni Iyer by those who
knew him.

55. 14.
This was a popular riddle in the early 19th
century, whose answer is so well known today
that it is no longer asked as a riddle, but taught
to children as a rhyme. There are theories that
the title character of the rhyme is slang for a
drink of brandy, and that it refers to King Richard
III of England. However, the title character is
mostly commonly portrayed as a/an ____, which
is mentioned nowhere in the rhyme, but is in
fact the answer to the riddle.

56. Humpty Dumpty

57. 15.
• In mid-2010, San Francisco- based X hired Davis Elen
Advertising to plan their marketing campaign. As part
of this, the firm stuck fake $25,000 bills advertising X’s
product ‘Y: Las Vegas’ on the sidewalks of San
Francisco. This “guerilla marketing” attempt drew flak
from the city attorney’s office, who deemed it an
‘illegal and actionable marketing technique’. The
advertising company, however, took full responsibility
for the campaign, and X’s online popularity remained
intact.
• X and Y?

58. X- Zynga, Y- Mafia Wars

59. 16.
When this film released in 1972, numerous real
life acts of violence in Britain were attributed to
it by perpetrators and their lawyers. Thus the
film’s director asked the production house to
withdraw the film from the country, and it was
not shown in Britain legally for the next 27 years,
until the director’s death. After his death, it came
to light that in addition to the negative publicity,
the director’s family had received death threats
following its release.
Name the film and its director.

60. Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange

61. 17.
X was an electrical engineer from IIT-Madras, he
first worked for the civil aviation department of
The GoI, before working with Bharat Electronics
Limited, Bangalore as General Manager
(Research and Development). During this stint,
he was instrumental in the development of
Electronic Voting Machines in the country. He is
well known and respected in another field
altogether. X?

62. Sujatha Rangarajan

63. 18. Connect

64. These are the only five people to win acting
Oscars for non-English speaking roles.

65. 19.
This author has written over 30 plays, 4
screenplays, numerous short story, Punch
articles and poem collections before one
particular work of his in a different genre
altogether, overshadowed the rest of his oeuvre.
Its roaring success was resented not only by
him, but by the person who served as
inspiration for this work as well. His later works
were panned, as one critic mentioned, his lead
characters were merely ‘_____ grown up’.

66. AA Milne. The work was ‘Winnie the
Pooh’.

67. 20.
Kamini Kaushal is an Indian actress who won the
Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1955 for her
role in Biraj Bahu. She is said to have made
another contribution to the world of Hindi
cinema. What is this contribution?

68. She is said to have posed for the Filmfare
statuette, first designed by N.G. Phansare along
with ToI’s Walter Langhammer.

69. 21. Connect

70. These are tactics against a hostile takeover of
one company by another. Will explain.

71. 22.
The name of this band stems from a conversation
among its band members where they said that a
supergroup containing themselves would go down
like a ‘____ balloon’, a British idiom for disastrous
results. The first word of the idiom dropped a letter
to avoid mispronunciation, and the second word
was changed to a synonym for a large balloon. Its
members felt the name struck the right balance
between ‘heavy and light, combustibility and grace’.
Name the band.

72. Led Zeppelin

73. 23.
The caduceus is the staff of the Roman God
Mercury, the messenger of the Gods and the
protector of merchants, gamblers, liars and thieves.
Consequently, it has connotations involving
commerce, negotiation and money-making. It is
also used as a symbol representing printing, as an
offshoot of Mercury’s skills in writing and
eloquence. However, today the symbol is most
recognized in another field, mistaken for another
ancient symbol, the rod of Asclepius. Which field do
we associate the caduceus with today?

75. The symbol for medicine

76. 24.

77. The White Man’s Burden

78. LVC 2
• Same rules as last time.
• 12 slides.
• Non exhaustive.

79. +35/-30

80. +30/-25

81. +26/-22

82. +24/-20

83. +22/-18

84. +20/-15

85. +18/-12

86. +15/-10

87. +12/-7

88. +10/-5

89. +7/-3

90. +5

91. These are all movies of the ‘found footage’
genre, where is film is presented as being
true, pieced together from purportedly
discovered film and video recordings.