sjq_chennai 2015-16 regional_finals
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Finals
Hyderabad Chennai Madurai
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Choose Team Numbers 1 to 8
The team topping the Prelims get to choose first, the team that placed second gets to choose next and so on.
Rules:
Bounce:The question begins with Team 1, who get to answer it “directly”. If their guess is wrong, the immediate team (clockwise/anti-clockwise - depending on the round) get the question. The question passes till it’s answered correctly by any team on the “bounce” for “+10” points, or till it returns back to the team to which it was a “direct” (no one answers). In the case no one answers the question, the next question goes “direct” to the same team as the previous one.Pounce:Teams can answer out of turn, but with some amount of risk. If you know the FULL answer, raise your hands (saying ‘pounce’) and write it down on the paper given to you. If you have written down all the parts that have been asked for correctly, you get 10 points, else -5. You will not get another crack at the question during Bounce.
Rounds:
❖ Bounce/Pounce 1: Clockwise, starting with team 1 from Q. 1 to Q. 8 ..❖ Special Round 1 .. ❖ Bounce/Pounce 2:
Clockwise, starting with the respective team’s direct it was after the end of Bounce/Pounce 1, from Q. 1 to Q. 4;Anti-clockwise, starting with team 8, from Q. 5 to Q. 8 ..
❖ Special Round 2 ..❖ Bounce/Pounce 3: Anti-Clockwise, starting with the respective team’s
direct it was after the end of Bounce/Pounce 2, from Q. 1 to Q. 8 ..
INFINITE BOUNCE I(Clockwise, starting with team 1 from Q. 1 to Q. 8)
+10 on Bounce. +10/-5 on Pounce.
1. Possible etymologies of..?
● William Marshall● Charlemagne● Frederick Barbarossa, an emperor of the Holy Roman
Empire● St. George● Percival, one of Arthur’s knights● Guinevere, Arthur’s queen● Rhongomyniad, Arthur’s spear
Safety Slide
Answer
The 7 Weasley children
2.
❖Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824–1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a US Senator. He was also the 1st president of the National Rifle Association.
❖Something that he sported and popularized is derived from a corruption of his name. What?
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Answer
Sideburns
3.
In the now-famous papers of 1905, the author used the uppercase V to denote a certain property of a certain entity, a notation pioneered by James Maxwell. However, 2 years later, he switched to a new notation that had gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community.
The new letter stood for a Latin word meaning swiftness; the English word “accelerate” has the same root.
Which entity? Which letter replaced V as the entity’s notation?
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Answer
Lightc (as in E=mc2) being used to denote the speed of light.The Latin word is celeritas
Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Four Rivers Fountain) at the Piazza Navona, Rome, represents four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread. For South America, it is Rio de Plata. Name the other three rivers represented.
4.
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Answer
Danube - EuropeGanges - AsiaNile - Africa
5.❖ One of the French tennis stars known as “The Four
Musketeers,” X was a player known for his tenacity on the court. This attribute earned him the nickname ‘Crocodile.’
❖ His eponymous clothing firm was founded in 1933, and is famous for its polo shirts. Moreover, the company’s logo is a reference to his nickname.
❖ Name the tennis star or the firm.
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Answer
Rene LacosteLacoste
6.● The Danish newspaper Politiken held a competition in honour of Jules
Verne open only to teenaged boys in 1928. The winner would be assisted in a challenge to circumnavigate the globe within 46 days unaccompanied.
● Palle Huld - a 15 year old “fresh-faced, freckled, with a snub nose, a shock of bright red hair and a penchant for plus-fours” boy scout and car showroom clerk did it in 44 days.
● This led to which intrepid, globetrotter soon making his first appearance in a Brussels newspaper called Le Petit Vingtième?
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Answer
TintinHuld’s journey inspired Hergé to create The Adventures of Tintin
The month of January is named after the Roman God of beginnings, transitions, passages and endings - Janus. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. With respect to fact that January’s been named after him, what else is Janus the God of?
7.
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Answer
Doors, doorways, gates.
Jeremiah Denton Jr. served as US Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War.
He was taken a POW for nearly 8 years when a bombing mission led by him in 1965 went awry.
Using a televised press conference in 1966 (which Denton was forced to do), as an opportunity to communicate, he confirmed for the first time to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence that American POWs were being tortured in North Vietnam.
He repeatedly <did something> during the interview, spelling out the word, "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" using _____. He was later awarded the Navy Cross for heroism while a prisoner of war. What did Denton do?
8.
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Answer
He used Morse by blinking his eyes
Audience Question #1
The ‘official’ classification of a certain entity is listed below: ● Super slow - Yellow dot (single or double)● Slow - White / Green dot● Medium - Red dot● Fast - Blue dot
What is being talked about here?
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Answer
Squash Balls
Audience Question #2
❖ 1st audio section - spoken greeting in English from then- Secretary General of the UN, Kurt Waldheim.
❖ 2nd audio section - spoken greetings in 55 languages including ancient languages like Sumerian, Akkadian, Quechua, etc. and Chinese alterations like Mandarin, Pekingese etc. and also languages like Esperanto.
❖ 3rd audio section - the "sounds of Earth" that include laughter, heartbeat, footsteps, trains, volcanoes, earthquakes, dogs, trains wind, etc.
❖ It also contained a soundtrack from each country.
❖ What are these the contents of?
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Answer
Golden VoyagerRecord
Scores?
SPECIAL ROUND I11 Google Doodles.
+5/0
1. Character.
2. Scientist.
3. Painter and painting.
4. This is the Spasskaya Tower. Which iconic monument is it a part of?
5. Director.
6. Four word phrase.
7. Sportsperson.
8. Illustrator.
9. Sculpture.
10. Author/Book.
11. Artist.
Re-Run
please exchange sheets.
answers.
1. Character.
1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Scientist.
2. Julius Richard Petri
3. Painter and painting.
3. Van Gogh - Starry Night
4. This is the Spasskaya Tower. Which iconic monument is it a part of?
4. Kremlin.
5. Director.
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Four word phrase.
6. ‘I Have A Dream’
7. Sportsperson.
7. Ayrton Senna.
8. Illustrator.
8. Anant Pai
9. Sculpture.
9. David by Michelangelo
10. Author/Book.
10. Douglas AdamsHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
11. Artist.
11. John Lennon
Scores?
Audience questions.
1. Adventurer.
Amelia Earhart
2. Structure.
Eiffel Tower
3. Children’s author.
Dr. Seuss
INFINITE BOUNCE II(Clockwise, starting with the respective team’s direct it was after the end of
Bounce/Pounce 1, from Q. 1 to Q. 4)
+10 on Bounce. +10/-5 on Pounce.
1.
❖ ‘The Gates of Hell’ is a sculpture group by X, depicting a scene from the Italian poet Y’s epic poem. A seated figure, deep in thought, seen at the centre is often thought to be Y, though this interpretation is disputed.
❖ Several individual figures from the sculpture group went on to become works of art by their own right, the most famous of them all being the thoughtful figure.
❖ ID X and Y.
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Answer
X - Auguste RodinY - Dante Alighieri
The central figure became ‘The Thinker’
❖ The Perils of Penelope Pitstop❖ The Jetsons❖ Jonny Quest❖ Yogi Bear❖ The Smurfs❖ Super Friends
❖ SWAT Kats❖ I Am Weasel❖ Cow and Chicken❖ Cave Kids❖ The Addams Family❖ Fantastic Four
2.
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Answer
Hanna-Barbera Productions
3.
These are mnemonics to help us remember what.
When mites crawl up, they pull their tights down.(&)
X has the letter c for ceiling while Y has the letter g for ground
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Answer
The difference between Stalactites and Stalagmites
4.
X is the botanical name of a genus of South African flowering plants.
Give X or a South African collective which takes its name from X.
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Answer
ProteaSouth African cricket and rugby teams
5.
❖ The upcoming book X was written before the author’s only published novel Y. However, her editors rejected X, suggesting that she would be better off exploring her protagonist’s childhood in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. And thus Y was written, going on to win a Pulitzer and become a classic of American literature.
❖ The movie adaptation of Y is widely considered to be one of the greatest ever made, with the protagonist’s father being voted #1 Hero in the AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains list.
❖ ID X and Y.
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Answer
X - Go Set a WatchmanY - To Kill a Mockingbird
6.❖ Unveiled in 1904 as a celebration
of the peaceful resolution of the border dispute between Argentina and Chile, this is named X of the Andes. It is located about 4000m above mean sea level on the border between the 2 countries.
❖ With which larger, more famous monument in a neighbouring country does it share its name?
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Answer
Christ the Redeemer
7.
❖ X attempted the direct combination of hydrogen and nitrogen at 200 atm and 600°C in presence of metallic iron. The mixture of gases was then forced into a steel apparatus, where it was heated by a platinum spiral. However, a terrific explosion occurred, nearly killing an assistant. And thus it was left for Y to succeed where several other noted French chemists had failed.
❖ This incident is somewhat ironic, since we know X for a principle of chemical equilibrium which is commonly seen in the context of the reaction between hydrogen and nitrogen named after Y. ID both.
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Answer
X - Le ChatelierY - Fritz Haber
8.
Which phrase is said to have originated from a Native American tradition which involved two warring tribes disposing their ________ under the roots of a white pine, after coming to a peaceful agreement?
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Answer
Burying the hatchet
Scores?
Audience Question..
❖ "Imagine a room full of physicists. Suddenly Einstein enters and attempts to cross the room, but the star-struck physicists cluster around him and impede his movements, effectively increasing his mass. Now imagine that I enter the room. As a lowly grad student, nobody wants to interact with me, so I pass through the physicists relatively unimpeded—no effective mass for me! Lastly, imagine that somebody whispers a rumour, causing the physicists to cluster together excitedly on their own."
❖ This is a simplistic explanation for the mechanism behind a 1964 theory which was recently confirmed.
❖ What was the theory about?
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Answer
The Higgs Boson and the Higgs field
SPECIAL ROUND II7 Sloths - drawn by Hector van Rensberg - pop culture.
+10 for every right answer.No negatives, feel free to guess.
Example
Q. Actor?
Robert Downey Jr.
1. Movie.
2. TV show.
3. Movie.
4. Characters.
5. Person.
6. Meme.
7. Movie.
Re-Run
Please exchange sheets.
1. Movie.
1. Star Wars
2. TV show.
2. Game of Thrones
3. Movie.
3. The Fault in Our Stars
4. Characters.
4. Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody
5. Person.
5. Taylor Swift
6. Meme.
6. That Escalated Quickly
7. Movie.
7. Birdman
Scores?
Audience questions.
characters.
neomorpheus
trinity
Character.
Albus Dumbledore.
INFINITE BOUNCE III(Anti-Clockwise, starting with the respective team’s direct it was after the end of
Bounce/Pounce 2, from Q. 1 to Q. 8)
+10 on Bounce. +10/-5 on Pounce.
1.
Charango is a stringed instrument popular in the Andean regions of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. While the modern charango is made of wood, traditionally, it was fashioned out of the shell on the back of a particular animal.
Which creature whose name has its origins in Spanish?
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Answer
Armadillo
2.
❖ The original FIFA World Cup trophy called Victory, renamed in 1946 as the Jules Rimet trophy, depicted her carrying a decagonal cup. She has also been seen on the obverse face of the Olympic medals, carrying a palm frond in her right hand and a winner’s laurel crown in her left.
❖ Who is she?
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Answer
Nike - the Greek goddess of victory
3.
❖ In palaeontology, an _____ taxon is one that has been misidentified as having reemerged after a period of presumed extinction whereas in fact, it is only a lookalike of the original taxon. The term was coined in a 1993 research paper by D.H. Erwin and M.L. Droser, in which the authors stated thus:
❖ "Rather than continue the biblical tradition favored by Jablonski (for Lazarus taxa), we prefer a more topical approach and suggest that such taxa should be known as _____ taxa, in recognition of the many _____ impersonators who have appeared since the death of The King."
❖ FITB.
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Answer
Elvis
4.
Some depictions of Lord Ganesha as Ekadanta show him holding a hatchet, a lotus and a ball of sweets in three of his hands. a) What is he holding in the fourth hand? b) What is he supposed to have created with it?
Scores?
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Answer
His broken tuskThe Mahabharata
When he had nothing to write The Mahabharata with (and had to keep up with the pace at which Rishi Veda Vyasa was reciting it to him), he broke his tusk off and started writing with it.
5. Connect
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Answer
Beagle
Odie from GarfieldDarwin voyaged on the HMS BeagleSnoopy from Peanuts
6.
❖ Which city’s name has been blanked out in this PETA campaign poster?
❖ Which festival is this, held annually from 12:00, 6 July, to midnight 14 July? It is probably the most internationally renowned fiesta in Spain.
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Answer
1. Pamplona, Spain2. San Fermín
Scores?
7.
Who created this?
What was it used to record, or what did it prove?
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Answer
J.C. BoseIt records the movement of plants - was used to prove parallelism between plant and animal tissue.
8.
On the left (next slide) is a person from 1st century, BC. He is associated with a historical event, the date of which is indicated by the image on the right.
What did he do around mid-1st century BC?
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Answer
This is Marcus Brutus. He assassinated Julius Caesar.The date was the Ides of March (March 15), 44 B.C.
Scores?
TIE BREAKERS
1.
❖ The first one was the song of the Cuculus canorus, a species notorious for its tendency to destroy the contents of its host’s shelter.
❖ The second was Bombyx mori, an insect whose secretions are extracted by dunking it in boiling water.
❖ What is the third one?
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Answer
Career of Evil
The next Cormoran Strike novel by Robert Galbraith Preceded by The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm
2.
FITB
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Answer
St. Elmo’s Fire
Thank you for attending!
Congratulations to the winners and the runners-up!
See you in January, during Shaastra 2016!
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