Mood Indigo General Quiz 2012 Semi Final 2

Conundrums mood indigo 2012
omniscience
the general quiz
semi-final 2

conducted by
j. ramanand

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Background
The second semi final
conducted at Conundrums,
Mood Indigo, Dec 2012

Eight Teams


format
1. split personality (2)
2. passing (12)
3. pseudo-Q: set 1 (3)
1st Qualifier chosen
4. reverse passing (8)
2nd Qualifier chosen
6. reverse passing (4)
3rd & 4th Qualifiers


tie-breaker policy
R ules
total of written rounds
split personality
pseudo-Q
1,2,3


split
personality
the answer is the name of a person
open to all teams
written
+10/no negatives
2 questions


one


Martin Freeman who has played Arthur Dent, Rembrandt,
Dr. Watson, and Bilbo Baggins on screen


two


Alexander von Humboldt

The Peru current is also named Humboldt
current
Map of his naturalistic expedition
A book about the work of Gauss and him
The Humboldt Penguin


in passing
A→H
10 points each
modified infinite rebounds
12 questions


Administratively, France is arranged in the
following hierarchy:

Regions
___________
Arrondissements
Cantons
Communes

What's the missing word?


Departments


UltraTech Cement is a part of the Aditya Birla
group and has been associated with sports
by sponsoring the likes of Rajasthan Royals
and Deccan Chargers. In 2007, which World
Cup winning squad was it the principal
sponsor of?


The one shown in Chak De India!


These chappies are members of the
Lady Margaret Boat Club of St.
John's College, Cambridge,
established in the early 19th
century. What term in the world of
fashion comes from the colours of
this club?


Blazers because of the bright red colour of
the jackets.


This is a scene from “Mantoiyat”, a 2012
performance to commemorate writer Sadat Hasan
Manto's birth centenary. What art form are they
performing this in?


Dastangoi


He is so fond of Australia (“the only truly young country in
the world[...] There is freshness and potential about
Australia)” that he wrote a book called “Why I Want to be
King of Australia”. He says he even sent a copy to Prince
Philip who said he was delighted by the idea!

Of course, the main idea was to get Australians thinking
differently about their life and future in the new
millennium. “Should they become a republic? Why not a
monarchy?”

Which European is this?


Whose first ever address to Parliament was
to a joint setting of both houses, where he
successfully defended his client, Justice
Ramaswamy, in Parliament's only attempt
to impeach a judge?


Kapil Sibal


Whose logo?


Archaeological Survey of India


A silent short film
from 1968. What
entertainment
company would
get its name from
this?


Steven Spielberg (who
made this movie) would
name his production
house after it.


The mobile mapping GIS Software belonging
to the JT Maps GIS Software family named
after this Raja. Who and why?


Raja Todarmal, who is said to have been the
first person to systematically map out
Mughal India.


This is Vincent Cassel from the film “Ocean's
Twelve”. What is he practicising?

(video removed)


Capoeira


This verb comes from a Latin word that means “to
change”. In modern English, it has two principal
meanings.

The most prominent one comes from the US, and
is a shortened form of a type of ticket. This is
because you could change your daily tickets into a
season pass.

What verb?


Commute


In an interview to Doordarshan, Rishi Kapoor
recounted that he was away on shooting when
Manmohan Desai called him (over a very bad line)
to offer him a role in “Amar Akbar Anthony”. Rishi
Kapoor misunderstood the offer and initially
refused.

Why?


He thought his role was to play Emperor
Akbar (he thought it was a historical
featuring the likes of Mark Anthony etc.) and
didn't want to be unfavourably compared
with his grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor.


Pseudo-Q! 5 2 6

... ... ...
A 3x3 magic square
... ... ...

Each cell is associated with an answer that has a
number in it
e.g.: Octopus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,...

We'll start with the top row, left to right

Scoring: +10/-5


Each character in Braille consists of raised
dots in a rectangular cell. What is the
maximum number of dots in a cell?


Six


What singular phrase, known to us from
literature, is the motto of Switzerland?


“One for all and All for one”


Which grammatical work has about 4000
sutras in eight chapters?


Panini’s Ashtadhyayi


First Qualifier

Round 2 (6 questions)

Passing H → A


France: Villepinte
Canada: Cote-de-Liesse
UK : Slough
Chile: Santiago
Israel: Yehud
US: ?


Scranton. The location of the paper firm
in “The Office” in the various versions.


If he was retreating, he has a choice of one in
Mashobra near Simla that was taken from
the Raja of Koti or one at Bolarum that was
taken from the Nizam of Hyderabad.

But if he wasn't, where would you usually
find him?


Rashtrapati Bhavan; these are the President
of India's two Presidential Retreats.


He has a famously large collection of books of over 30, 000
books, which he keeps in two different places. Who?

Umberto Eco. His “Name of the Rose”
features a library as an important
setting.


The Central Board of Film Certification in India
classifies films into the following categories:

U: Universal
UA: Universal but with parental guidance for
under-12s
A: Adults only

and S.

What does S indicate?


For a specialised class of people (could be by
profession for instance)


This is Teinopalpus imperialis, an
endangered species of butterfly
found in North India.

Connect this with a group of
people that includes Raja Ravi
Varma, M K Gandhi, Pandita
Ramabai, and Francis
Younghusband.


Kaiser-i-Hind (the nickname for this butterfly)
Recipients of the medal.


The actor Jeremy Irons co-hosted the 1991
Tony Awards for theatre along with Julie
Andrews. During this ceremony, he caused a
stir by being the first person to wear what
accessory?


The Red Ribbon for AIDS awareness


Pseudo-Q!
Middle Row (3 questions)

Second qualifier chosen after this

Answers after 3 questions

six all for one ashtadhyayi

... ... ...

... ... ...


By what name does the Greek historian
Ptolemy refer to the islands of Bombay in his
works?


Heptanesia


The first movement of which symphony,
dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz and Count
Razumovsky, begins with four notes that
most of you would have heard of?


Beethoven’s Fifth


Identify


Three Colours Trilogy


Second Qualifier

Passing Round resumes (6
questions)


This part of India, which is also associated
with some androphages, is said to have got
its name from the Kurmavatar of Lord
Vishnu.

Which place?


Kumaon

androphage == man-eaters


This person wrote a piece titled “The Dynamics of a Parti-cle”
as a reaction to the defeat of William Gladstone from Oxford
in the 1865 General Elections. This contains various definitions
and postulates such as:

A COUPLE consists of a moving particle, raised to the degree M.A., and
combined with what is technically called a "better half." The following are
the principal characteristics of a Couple :
(1) It may be easily transferred from point to point.
(2) Whatever force of translation was possessed by the uncombined
particle (and this is often considerable), is wholly lost when the Couple
is formed.
(3) The two forces constituting the Couple habitually act in opposite
directions.

Who was the author?


Lewis Carroll


Dr. Harry Edwards,
then a sociologist at
San Jose University,
came up with the idea
that this gold
medallist would also
be associated with.

Who is he, and how
did he contribute to
Edwards' idea?


Bob Beamon, who pulled up his black socks in a show of
solidarity with the two Black Power athletes Tommie
Smith and John Carlos who had been expelled the
previous day of the 1968 Mexico Olympics (and look at
their exposed socks).


You must be familiar with the term 'magnum
opus'. “Opus” is a Latin word meaning “work”.

In Latin, what is the plural of “opus”?


Opera


“Saptapadi” is a Bengali film from 1961 starring the
superhit pair of Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen.
The film features an “Othello” sequence where
the duo are playing Othello and Desdemona on
stage.

The voices for this sequence were given by two
other actors, who came from a rich Shakespearean
tradition – both have also won National Film
Awards for acting.

Who are these two?


Jennifer Kendall Kapoor and Utpal Dutt. They
were members of Shakespearana, the
travelling troupe founded by Kendall's
father.


Here are 6 out of 9. What are the remaining three?

Guam +
Northern
Mariana
Islands
+ Aleutian


Time Zones in the US.

The ones shown: Atlantic, Alaskan, Samoan,
Hawaiian-Aleutian, Pacific, Chamorro

The remaining three: Eastern, Pacific,
Mountain


Pseudo-Q!
Bottom Row (3 questions)

Last 3 questions for the quiz

Answers after 3 questions


heptanesia beethoven's 5th tricolor

... ... ...


What ends thus:

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I
have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that
I go to than I have ever known."


A Tale of Two Cities


Which part of Hong Kong, home to a
significant number of its residents, gets its
name from “nine dragons”?


Kowloon


John Landy was the second to achieve this
feat, also in 1954.

No woman has done it yet; Svetlana
Masterkova is the closest.

What feat?


Sub-four minute mile performance


6 1 8

Full grid behind this
heptanesia beethoven's 5th tricolor
7 Click to see 3
5

tale of two cities kowloon four minute mile
2 9 4


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