2. • Consists of 5 rounds:
• Rounds 1, 3 and 5 are written.
• Round 2 goes clockwise, consisting of 17 questions.
• Round 4 goes anticlockwise, consisting of 17
questions.
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3. • The artist of the following artwork has removed one
letter from famous movie titles and illustrated the results.
• In each case, write the name of the movie thus formed
NOT the original one.
• This is a Written Round.
• 10 Questions in all.
• 3 Examples follow first.
• 5 points for each answer. 50 points in all.
Round 1
43. •This round consists of 17 questions, which pass
clockwise, 1 to n.
•+10 on direct/pass.
•+10/-5 on a pounce.
•Written pounce only.
Round 2
44. • A X is a French liqueur made by the X Monks since 1737, according to the instructions set
out in the secret manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605, which
was said to contain the ‘elixir of long life’.
• The liqueur is composed of distilled alcohol aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers, and
is named after the Monks’ Grande X monastery, the head monastery of the X order,
located in the X Mountain ranges.
• The order of the monks takes its name from these mountains, where its first hermitage
was founded in 1084.
• X is also a colour halfway between yellow and green that was named because of its
resemblance to the green colour of the said liqueurs called green X, introduced in 1764.
Similarly, X yellow is a yellow colour mixed with a small amount of green, named because
of its resemblance to the colour of yellow X (the liqueur), introduced in 1838.
• The word X itself originates from the fact that the Duke of Burgundy leased the
monasteries around 1378.
• Supply X.
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48. • Green Chartreuse (55%) is a naturally green liqueur made from 130
herbs and plants macerated in alcohol and steeped for about 8 hours.
A last maceration of plants gives its colour to the liqueur.
• Yellow Chartreuse (40%), which has a milder and sweeter flavour and
aroma.
• So, the Duke of Burgundy used to give the houses for charter and so,
‘Charter House’ became Chartreuse.
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49. • Connect in terms of how they got created. Non-exhaustive.
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51. • Yesterday (The Beatles): Paul McCartney awoke one night, went from his
bed to a nearby piano, and created the song. He spent months asking
people if they had heard the tune before, believing that he must have
unconsciously plagiarized the tune from someone. Once he determined
that he had indeed come up with it on his own, he started to work on the
lyrics.
• I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction) (The Rolling Stones): Keith Richards came up
with the riff and the words after waking up in the middle of the night and
recording it onto a cassette tape (before falling back to sleep).
• Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience): Hendrix once told an
interviewer that it was based on a dream of his in which he walked under
the sea before a purple haze surrounded him. In another interview, he said
the song came to him in a dream after reading a sci-fi novel.
• Every Breath You Take (The Police): Sting woke up in the middle of the
night with the line “Every breath you take, I’ll be watching you” in his head.
He went to his piano and wrote the song in 30 minutes.
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Came to the composers, as a dream
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• This is a DC Comics supervillain
who is the enemy of Green
Arrow and Batman.
• Kevin Smith, the creator named
him that just because of his love
for that word.
• Name him.
55. • There had been a strange tradition in certain volumes of erotic
literature of the 19th century.
• One of the best examples of this reported tradition include a copy of
the Marquis de Sade book Justine et Juliette, a book first published in
1791.
• But an edition of a book by a certain Mercier de Compiegne went the
full Monty, an extreme example, with the same feature with the
addition of a certain type of protruding on the front cover.
• The ‘artist’ in both the cases is most likely the same person, plying his
trade for an unnamed Dr. V.
• What is so special about these books? (Precise answer needed).
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57. • Medical interns supplied the breasts of deceased female patients to
an English binder of erotica in the 19th century, the protrudings being
nipples, of course.
• Incidentally, the customer of this binder was especially fond of
tattooed human skins. He managed to get hold of a human skin on
which were tattooed two knights from the age of Louis XIII in single
combat, and he ordered a copy of The Three Musketeers bound in it.
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Human Breast skin as cover
58. • Connect these 3 Mohammad Rafi songs, based on how they
were picturised.
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60. • In Ragini, where Kishore Kumar played the hero and had to
sing a classical based song ‘Man Mora Bawra...’, he opted
out and instead asked the music director O. P. Nayyar to have
Rafi sing the song.
• Similarly in Shararat, Rafi sung the hit classical song ‘Ajab hai
Dastaan Teri Hai Zindagi’ picturised on Kishore Kumar and
‘Masiha Banke Bimaronke Chale ho Kahan Karke Jee Bekarar’
from the film Bhagam Bhag.
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Picturised on Kishore Kumar
62. • During the Gallic War (58-50 BC), Caesar's men did not mutiny once, but during the Civil
Wars (49–45 BC) they started to become less dependable, and when they started to
make insubordinate demands, Caesar faced them boldly, and always brought them to
heel again.
• At one time when Caesar’s Tenth Legion was at Rome, they threatening to revolt if they
didn’t get paid, or released from service. But there was no money to pay them and the
nation was in the middle of war. Caesar defied the advice of his friends and took it upon
himself to confront the mutineers in person.
• Though the African war (around 47 BC) was still being hotly fought, he had made up his
mind that he would have disbanded them shamefully, like he did the Ninth Legion, but
what he did was address them with a single word, without needing to go any further.
• The one word hurt the sentiments of the soldiers, and they fell quite immediately, and
the 30,000 all fell quiet and Caesar readily regained their affections.
• What was the one word that Caesar had uttered, which when addressed to any
different group of people, would not hurt sentiments?
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64. • A shout went up: ‘We are your soldiers, Caesar, not civilians!’ and
they clamoured to serve under him in Africa: a demand which he
nevertheless disdained to grant.
• He showed his contempt for the more disaffected soldiers by
withholding a third part of the prize-money and land which had been
set aside for them.
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“Citizens”
65. • People belonging to either of these regions (and more) vouch that their pet
version is the better one.
• One is a hand-held food that was originally designed to be eaten in a closed
mode that makes it handy to eat on the run, the other is a full meal and
will usually require a plate and utensils to eat.
• The first one is traditionally cut in handy triangles like a flat birthday cake,
the second one is cut and served in portions like a casserole.
• The former is famous for its dripping oil, while the latter is drier without
the pools of oil.
• The most important part of the 1st one are limited to a thin layer that cling
to the flat top shape, while in the 2nd one, the same thing can be several
inches of depth.
• What am I talking about? What two regions are these?
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67. • New York Style Pizza vs. Chicago Style Pizza
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Pizzas
68. • This tree, in the Mojave Desert of California was a tourist
attraction for a section of public since 1987.
• The revered landmark tree grew old and died in 2000, but is
still a symbol of reverence for that group.
• It was picked by the ones who are revered, as a symbol of their
American experience.
• The guy who made the tree come to life in the 1986
representation was Anton Corbijn, who travelled with the
subjects for 3 days, trying to find the right spot.
• Put funda.
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72. • In 18th and 19th century England, English Navy recruiters tried to persuade
London pub-goers to join the armed forces by getting them to accept payment
in the form of a King’s shilling. Once they accepted the coin, they were
committed. Rather than leave it to chance, the recruiters would buy the
targeted man a glass of beer, and would drop the shilling into it before giving
him the drink. Once he’d drunk the beer, the shilling was his - and he’d have to
join the navy.
• In order to avoid being duped in this way, the tavern’s pewter tankards were
changed in a certain way, so that if a stranger gave you a drink, you could see
whether there was a shilling in it before you drank. Being in the navy was not
a pleasant way of life, so to reassure your drinking companion that you were
genuine you'd invite him to a certain act.
• What was the change in the glasses and also the phrase which comes out of
this act?
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75. • In their heyday, around 1982, Van Halen, came up with a 53 pages
long contract which included that promoters provide the group with
“herring in sour cream,” four cases of “Schlitz Malt Liquor beer (16
ounce cans),” and a total of eight bottles of wine and liquor and
M&Ms, but no brown ones.
• The clause about the exclusion of brown M&Ms have now become
part of rock folklore.
• Though it was deemed as a tantrum, a rock excess, the outlandish
demand of multimillionaires, the band’s lead singer at the time, David
Lee Roth later revealed the actual reason, which was seen as very
logical.
• What was the reason behind it?
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77. TEN
To ensure that the contract was read thoroughly
• The presence of even a single brown M&M in that
bowl, rumour had it, was sufficient legal cause for Van
Halen to peremptorily cancel a scheduled appearance
without advance notice.
78. • This house, here featured in the Life Magazine, was built in the late
1950s, and was (and still is) one of the big draws around the area which
it is housed in.
• A tower and a portion of the front wall was borrowed from an existing
house in the region.
• The house was built as a two-walled exterior facade, and hence it could
be used only for its primary function within a 90-degree span.
• Except for its primary use, it was also used for similar purposes in 1966,
1983, 1986, and in 2002, and has been relocated several times now.
• The house is still in public view, albeit its purpose has changed.
• Where would you have seen this house for the first time?
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The House from Psycho
• The house now form a part of the Universal Studios Tram Tour
in Orlando.
82. • The Cryos International is a Denmark based company, and is the
largest in its domain, it has another branch in the Orlando,
Florida, USA.
• The name of the company is a pointer to the way the company
stores its products.
• Cryos International is the world’s largest __________?
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86. • One of the alternate names for a Proboscis monkey, a species of
monkey that is endemic to the island of Borneo in the south-
eastern Asia, originates from the first half of the 19th century,
when the locals found physical resemblance of the animal to
something quite ubiquitous to the area at the time.
• What did the locals call the Proboscis monkey?
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89. •Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonisers
often had similarly large bellies and noses.
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Monyet belanda (“Dutch monkey”), or orang
belanda (“Dutchman”)
90. • Bill Clinton’s appearance on December 2000
Esquire cover at the tail end of his
administration provoked ire from both sides of
the political spectrum.
• Accompanying an extensive profile of the
President in his waning weeks in office, the
cover shot (the result of an 8-minute session in
a cramped hotel bedroom in Princeton, NJ) by
Platon Antoniou, was intended to evoke
something.
Instead it came to be seen as fraught with
sexual significance following the scandal with
White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• What was it intended to evoke?
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93. • On 1 April 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported in its Travel
section on a new trend in tourism called “shapecation” — visiting
places because of their significant contours.
• The example provided was of Durak Aprel, an obscure
archipelago off the Siberian coast, now a popular holiday
destination because of its resemblance to something from the
world of International Politics.
• But it was all an April Fool’s joke, the “Birthmark Islands” for that
year (Durak Aprel is the literal translation into Russian of “April
fool”).
• Where did they find the source of the Durak Aprel from?
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97. • To accommodate the flow of people in and out of it, it was essential for the
architects to get the number of pillars down to half, because the space was
at a premium with only 1200 acres of land to build this structure on.
• To do this, they invented something called ‘the pod’, which was built on top
of each megacolumn. These were stretched out laterally to create 24
individual arches. This meant that the load could be transferred out and
onto the megacolumn, allowing engineers to hold up the entire 15000 ton
roof without the compromise for open spaces.
• The pillars act together to create a giant truss, and as one enormous frame.
These pillars were then decorated with fractal designs, which gave an
aesthetic look to the whole thing and a kaleidoscopic effect referencing the
peacock.
• For what was this created?
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101. •In 1992, his brother Tom had a pop/rock band
called The Rels, for which he did most of the
artwork of the band’s releases, using the name
Fang Wampire.
•This is one of the rarest artworks of him.
•Who is the artist of these album covers?
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106. • What follows are 9 images of imaginary homes which seem to
resemble the artistic style of a specific artists in each case.
• Identify the artist in each case.
• +5 for each correct answer.
• A bonus of 5 points for all correct.
• 50 points at stake.
Round 3
136. •This round consists of 18 questions, which pass
anticlockwise, n to 1.
•+10 on direct/pass.
•+10/-5 on a pounce.
•Written pounce only.
Round 4
137. • Last July, The University of Michigan’s Mobility Transformation
Center created a 32-acre false metropolis by the name of ‘Mcity’,
which had several miles of 2-, 3-, and 4-lane roads, complete
with intersections, traffic signals, and signs.
• Also facades of buildings were been built, like an elaborate film
set.
• The place garnered the interest of many companies, who were
looking at this place as somewhere they could refine the most
advanced technologies with no possible risk to the public.
• For what purpose was this city being built? Specific answer
needed.
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141. • This engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist
and scientific illustrator is the source of a sort of a
misconception.
• The illustration is seen as the source of naming of a certain
member of the animal family, though in reality it rarely does the
activity to justify its name.
• What am I talking about?
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144. • Is also called ‘Goliath bird-eating spider’; the practice of calling
theraphosids (tarantula family) “bird-eating” derives from this
early 18th-century copper engraving by Merian that shows one
eating a hummingbird though in reality it only rarely preys on
adult birds.
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Goliath Birdeater
145. • In 2002, Gillette introduced the Vector razor in India. It had a plastic
push bar that slid down to unclog the razor. The bar was added because
Indian men have thicker hair and a higher hair density than their
American counterparts. Adding to that, they often shave less frequently
than American men, so they wind up shaving longer beards.
• Gillette, which is based in Boston, wanted to test the product among
Indian consumers and had Indian students at nearby Massachusetts
Institute of Technology test the razor.
• The results pleased them a lot.
• But when Gillette launched the razor in India, the reaction was different.
Executives were baffled about why the razor flopped.
• Why did the razor flop?
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147. • People using cup or mug for shaving instead of
running water which resulted in clogged razors.
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148. • The full stop in this logo was discarded for stylistic and
legibility reasons in the 1950s.
• The logo was redesigned and the text in this new logo
was slanted. All this, because the period made it look like
the company’s name had a “Di:”.
• After having been used intermittently in previous logos,
followed by some debate, the period was removed
permanently.
• What company is this?
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151. • The origin of this strange practice is believed to be from medieval
France, though the origins of this convention remain obscure.
• It is possible that clock faces were used in the activity, and for each
achievement the hand moved a quarter in favour of the achiever. When
the hand reach the 12O’Clock mark, the activity moved on to the next
phase.
• But because of the two partakers in the activity reaching the 12O’Clock
mark simultaneously would be a problem, the 3rd and the subsequent
movements were reduced to only one-sixth of the total rotation.
• This ensured a just encounter.
• What practice are we talking of?
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154. • After Juventus couldn’t beat F.C. BATE in a Champions
League game at home in late 2008, Goal.com published a
risqué headline.
• What was this rather stimulating headline?
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157. • The Hydrangea macrophylla is widely cultivated in many parts of
the world as it has the ability to grow in many climates, and is
also used in a variety of processes worldwide.
• But the curious thing about the flowers of this plant are that they
can bloom to be blue, red, pink, light purple, or dark purple.
• What factor is responsible for such a contrast in the visual
aspect of the flowering plant?
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160. • An acidic soil will usually produce flower colour closer to blue,
whereas an alkaline soil will produce flowers more pink.
• This is caused by a colour change of the flower pigments in the
presence of aluminium ions which can be taken up into
hyperaccumulating plants.
• (A hyperaccumulator is a plant capable of growing in soils with very
high concentrations of metals, absorbing these metals through their
roots, and concentrating extremely high levels of metals in their
tissues.)
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pH of the soil
161. • Overall it weighs about 4.5kg, and the best quality leather hide is
used. In most cases cowhide is used, but the use of kangaroo is
prevalent as well. These are usually between 1.2 and 1.4 millimetres
thick.
• The whole ‘system’ is aerodynamically made, with slightly bigger
perforations behind than on the front, so that there is a positive
airflow.
• There is also a prominent aerodynamic hump, which contains some
200-300 millilitres of fluid, which serves an important purpose in the
event, but it cannot have much more volume than that, because it
may hamper the overall performance of the participants.
• What do I speak of?
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163. • There is an airbag system inside too! The stretch areas on the suit are
really important because when the airbag is deployed it usually
inflates to about 4-5 centimetres. That means the suit has to expand
to accommodate that, because the airbag doesn't come out of the
suit.
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Moto GP Suits
164. • There have been only 4 waverings to the famous norm in all of the
corporation’s history:
After the September 11 attacks (black)
April 28, 2008 Earth Day (green)
September 19, 2011 (metallic silver)
December 31, 2012 (silver)
• What norm by which corporation?
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• This is a special type of vial used in the Victorian era.
• A most common story of the times is that this vial, had a specially
designed stopper, which would allow any liquid stored in it to
evaporate through it, though it took time.
• What salty liquid was stored in this? And what did the end of the
liquid in the vial bring an end to?
169. • A most common story of Victorian times is that mourners
would shed their tears into a lachrymatory such as this, that
used a special stopper. When the tears had finally
evaporated, the mourning period would be complete.
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Vial to store tears in, after someone’s funeral
170. • Gattaca is a 1997 Sci-Fi film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma
Thurman and Jude Law.
• The film shows a glimpse of a future society driven by the
belief of improving the genetic quality of human population,
where potential children are conceived through genetic
manipulation to ensure they possess the best hereditary
traits of their parents.
The naming of the film's title is based on the same precinct.
• What is the funda behind the naming of the film?
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172. • The film’s title is based on the first letters of guanine,
adenine, thymine and cytosine, the four nucleobases of
DNA.
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173. • The founder of the company Blinde, Richard Walker, had to
tender against large companies such as Ray-Ban and Arnette in
the last part of the last century to bag a very important deal for
his company.
• He set himself apart by scratch-designing pairs of glasses which
have now become iconic in their own right.
• When his tender was successful, Walker was flown into Sydney
where he spent the duration of the event making custom-
designing sunglasses in the back of an Oxford Street optometrist.
• What was this assignment?
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176. • A particular band’s logo wasn’t an issue until around 1980 in
Germany.
• But fearing a political backlash, the band decided to modify its logo
prior to a September 1980 tour of West Germany.
• The band’s German-issued albums and marketing materials have
used this modified logo.
• Which band?
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179. • According to a leading authority on the author, his illustrator
took inspiration for his illustration of an unpleasant and ugly
character from this Quentin Matsys painting (1513), which is
based on Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (Austria), who had the
reputation of being the ugliest woman who ever existed.
• Or Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, whose
attempts to control her daughter led to her exclusion from
her adult daughter's life, which would explain the
antagonism between this character and the titular character.
• Which character from which book?
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183. • The village of Drvengrad is in Serbia, about 200km southwest of Belgrade.
This village was created for a 2004 project, and the streets in the village
bear the names of various individuals that the creator holds in high
esteem: Tesla, Che Guevara, Maradona, Federico Fellini, Novak Đoković and
Ivo Andrić, after whom the main street is named. For this he was the 2005
recipient of the Philippe Rotthier European Architecture award.
• According to him:
I lost my city during [Sarajevo] the war. That is why I wished to build my
own village. It bears a German name: ________. I will organize seminars
there, for people who want to learn how to make ______, concerts,
ceramics, painting. It is the place where I will live and where some people
will be able to come from time to time. There will be of course some other
inhabitants who will work. I dream of an open place with cultural diversity
which sets up against globalization.
• Who is the creator? Also name the 2004 project.
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185. • The village is located near Mokra Gora and
Višegrad, best known for Ivo Andrić's Nobel-
winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina.
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Emir Kusturica and Life is a Miracle
186. • One suggestion is that the phrase originates from the
concept of such a door, which is designed in such a fashion
that the top part remains open, while the bottom part is
closed, and is named after the country it was common in, in
the 17th century.
• It is thought that terms like this one came about largely due
to the rivalry and enmity between the English and the
country in question, in the 17th century.
• What phrase am I talking about which reflects splitting of
an item, like the door in question?
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190. • The imperial amazon parrot, also known as the sisserou
parrot, is found specifically within the 90 km2 of the
mountainous rainforest near the Morne Diablotins and the
Morne Trois Pitons National Park.
• This parrot, endemic to an island nation, is an endangered
species with a population of only 250–350 individuals.
• A related species, the Jaco or red-necked parrot, is also a
endemic to this island. Both birds are rare and protected by
the government.
• The sisserou is the national bird of which country?
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195. • Written round.
• There will be 5 questions in this round.
• All questions are connected in a way, which you have to
crack on your own. But no points for cracking the
theme. It will only serve to help you.
• +10 for each correct answer.
• A total of 50 points up for grabs.
Rules of Round 5:
196. • Which drink is so called because its flavor is so strong that it
is served by the half-glass?
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197. • Which sporting
franchise originated
from Minneapolis,
Minnesota and took
the state’s nickname?
• The name of the
franchise was stuck to,
even after the
relocation in the
1960/61 season.
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198. • According to folklore, in 1670, in Cologne, Germany, the
choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral, wished to remedy the noise
caused by children in his church during the Living Crèche
tradition of Christmas Eve, and so he asked a local sweet maker
to help him.
• In order to justify the practice of giving sweets to children during
worship services, he made a certain alteration which would help
children remember the shepherds who visited the infant Jesus.
• In addition, he used the white colour of the sweets to teach
children about the Christian belief in the sinless life of Jesus.
• What did he end up creating?
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199. • There are a few possible origins of this idiom, with one saying it came
about as a corruption of a French phrase with had similar ‘mathematical’
undertones.
• But had that been the case, the idiom’s meaning would’ve pointed at a risk
implied instead of ‘a state of confusion and disorder, or of disagreement
between parties’ it now means.
• A more worthy tale is of the medieval livery companies that were
established in London, going by the names The Worshipful Company of
Merchant Taylors (Tailors) and The Worshipful Company of Skinners (Fur
Traders).
• The precedence of the companies was set in 1515, but these two
companies disputed their positions, and a compromise was agreed by
which they exchange the 2 positions each year at Easter, though a Chaucer
quotation proves this origin story wrong.
• What’s the good phrase?
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200. • What you will see in the following images is a stadium that opened in
2000 to house the Houston Astros of the Major League Baseball
(MLB).
• The largest entrance to the park is inside what was once Houston’s
Union Station, and the left-field side of the stadium features a railway
as a homage to the site’s history. The train moves along a track on top
of the length of the exterior wall beyond left field whenever an Astros
player hits a home run, and/or the Astros win a game.
• The engine’s coal car is filled with giant oranges in reference to the
most famous product of a company, which bought the naming rights
to the ballpark, after Enron went bankrupt in 2002.
• What company?
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205. • Which sporting
franchise originated
from Minneapolis,
Minnesota and took
the state’s nickname?
• The name of the
franchise was stuck to,
even after the
relocation in the
1960/61 season.
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207. • According to folklore, in 1670, in Cologne, Germany, the
choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral, wished to remedy the noise
caused by children in his church during the Living Crèche
tradition of Christmas Eve, and so he asked a local sweet maker
to help him.
• In order to justify the practice of giving sweets to children during
worship services, he made a certain alteration which would help
children remember the shepherds who visited the infant Jesus.
• In addition, he used the white colour of the sweets to teach
children about the Christian belief in the sinless life of Jesus.
• What did he end up creating?
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209. • There are a few possible origins of this idiom, with one saying it came
about as a corruption of a French phrase with had similar ‘mathematical’
undertones.
• But had that been the case, the idiom’s meaning would’ve pointed at a risk
implied instead of ‘a state of confusion and disorder, or of disagreement
between parties’ it now means.
• A more worthy tale is of the medieval livery companies that were
established in London, going by the names The Worshipful Company of
Merchant Taylors (Tailors) and The Worshipful Company of Skinners (Fur
Traders).
• The precedence of the companies was set in 1515, but these two
companies disputed their positions, and a compromise was agreed by
which they exchange the 2 positions each year at Easter, though a Chaucer
quotation proves this origin story wrong.
• What’s the good phrase?
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211. • What you will see in the following images is a stadium that opened in
2000 to house the Houston Astros of the Major League Baseball
(MLB).
• The largest entrance to the park is inside what was once Houston’s
Union Station, and the left-field side of the stadium features a railway
as a homage to the site’s history. The train moves along a track on top
of the length of the exterior wall beyond left field whenever an Astros
player hits a home run, and/or the Astros win a game.
• The engine’s coal car is filled with giant oranges in reference to the
most famous product of a company, which bought the naming rights
to the ballpark, after Enron went bankrupt in 2002.
• What company?
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214. • The theme of course was that these are all alliterative
answers:
Cutting Chai
Los Angeles Lakers (L.A. Lakers)
Candy Canes
At Sixes and Sevens
Minute Maid
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