Open Quiz with Recurrent themes of USA/Health/Sports/Non-fiction

THEMED AROUND USA,SPORTS,HEALTH,NON-
FICTION

 1.PHOTO-MEMORY
 2.CLOCKWISE DRY (15 QUESTIONS)
 3.WHAT’S IN A NAME
 4.ANTI-CLOCKWISE DRY (15 QUESTIONS)
 5.LITERALLY
 6.SLOG OVER (10 QUESTIONS)

● 5 questions relating to five famous photographs
that are related to USA
● 5 points per correct answer
● An extra 5 points for getting all 5 correct

● George Trager was the first photographer
on the scene after the said incident took
place, taking photos of the numerous
dead participants. He and his partner
Fred Kuhn would take a series of
portraits of one of the protagonists of the
said incident at their Nebraska studio.
What incident is being talked about that
refers to the name of a hill in South
Dakota?

 "It only worked for Dr. Kogbetliantz because he could never
find anyone to play with him. He had a very astute mind
mathematically. He looked at these strobe units as I kept
drawing them closer to his ears, and he finally came up with
a mathematical computation. He announced as I made the
last adjustments, 'If you bring those lights any closer than
they are now, you’re going to blow my brains out.’”
Yale Joel is here talking about a photograph he took. What
was Dr. Kogbetliantz trying to play?

 15 QUESTIONS
 INFINITE BOUNCE WITH INFINITE POUNCE
 +10/-10 ON POUNCE AND +10 ON BOUNCE
 QM’S DECISION IS FINAL AND BOUNDING
 UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCOREBOARD

 The second smallest capital in USA would surprisingly defeat more
high profile places in an online poll to determine the top spot in the
American version of Monopoly that got updated last year. Just name
the city which has less than 15,000 inhabitants.

 John Steinbeck wrote a travelogue about his trip across USA named
“Travels with Charley”. There was a literary reference and perhaps
a self dig at himself when he would name his accompanying trailer
house Rocinante.
Where would have one come across Rocinante previously, in a piece
of literature that would talk about an outlandish character’s
travails?

 Bill Bryson’s “Made in America” talks about how ,in 1930 , 40 Wall
Street competed with the Chrysler building to be the world’s tallest
building.
What did the architect of the Chrysler building design to ensure that
the Chrysler building got the better of its competitor?
Who currently owns 40 Wall Street?

X spent the first five decades of his life in India before moving to the
states for the rest of his life. He taught philosophy at the University of
Texas for roughly fifteen years. X would die in Austin in 2006.An archive
of his writings(both literary and otherwise) has recently been acquired by
the University. Identify X.

 De La Soul ,the hip-hop group’s latest album, “And The Anonymous
Nobody”, features a track called ‘Unfold’ where the group rap using
dialect from the frontier days of USA. In the track Dave Jolicoeur
takes on the persona of Tumbleweed Baker. A girl in the song calls
him TB which he does not like as it implies that he is a ______.Fill in
the blanks to get the another colloquial synonym of tuberculosis.

 This person was criticized for ‘ambushing’ the then president of the
organization whose policies he had attacked furiously throughout
the rest of the film. This would not be the first or last time that the
filmmaker would use this invasive technique of getting his message
across. Identify him ,the erstwhile president and the organization
which enjoys a lot of support and heavy criticism simultaneously.

 In “Sex at the Movies” Alexander Walker would look at the evolution
of the sex siren on American screens. One of the earliest on screen
vamps was one Thedosia Goodman. Her screen name would be an
anagram of ‘death Arab'; it is generally believed that the name was
created for ‘ these sinisterly emotive associations’.
 What was Thedosia Goodman’s screen name?

According to Oscar Wilde what happens to good Americans
when they die and what happens to bad Americans when
they pass away?

Which book subtitled “Cricket and the National Malaise” would begin
by referring to a quote of a self made snob and cricket sage, ‘Where
the English language is unspoken there is no real cricket, which is to
say that the Americans have never excelled at the game.’
Also identify the snob.

 In the previous slide you saw a picture of a best-selling
author and a painter. The author wrote a non fiction
book(which was rare for him) about the artist. The
artist got his name (and the recurrent theme of his
works)from the person who had saved the fallen flag of
the Americans at Fort Moultrie in the American
Revolutionary War.
 Identify the artist as well as the author.

 5 questions about people and non fiction books who share their name with
something related to films and music.
 5 points per correct answer
 An extra 5 points for getting all 5 right.

 Two competing American figure skaters in the 1990s were named after two mass
culture commodities-one after a Beatles song and the other after the plantation in
Gone with the Wind. Name both.
Part points can be gotten for getting their first names. Full points will be given
only on getting the complete names.

 The book shares its
name with an
American film
starring James
Cagney and
Humphrey Bogart.
The first word in the
title would remind
one of the first name
of a current
Argentine male
footballer.

 The critic Mayank Shekhar’s recent book on Indian popular culture is a four word
title named after a traditional Indian childhood game involving numerous
classifications.Just identify the name of the book.

 Two competing American figure skaters in the 1990s were named after two mass
culture commodities-one after a Beatles song and the other after the plantation in
Gone with the Wind. Name both.
Part points can be gotten for getting their first names. Full points will be given only
on getting the complete names.

“I'm dreaming dreams,
I'm scheming schemes,
I'm building castles high.
They're born anew,
Their days are few,
Just like a sweet butterfly.
And as the daylight is dawning,
They come again in the morning.”
 This is the first verse of a popular
American Jazz number, which
debuted in 1918 ,whose album cover
features in the next slide.
 The sporting connection has been in
popular consciousness in the recent
past due to a change.
 What is the title of the song ?

 This gentleman was supposed to play Ronald Reagan in a comedy directed by
Mike Rosolio. But only a couple of days into this announcement, Reagan’s son
tweeted, “________________ is not a joke”, following which this veteran actor
pulled out of the project.
 Identify the actor and what was the controversy all about ?

 Founded in 1754, this entity has been the citadel of conservatism over the years.
The lady in the image was one of its first female members.
 Which two common adjectives, much in sync with its 262 year old heritage and the
patronage received by it since 1834, has been used to name it ?

 In October 2010,The USA apologised in a joint statement by the secretary of state,
Hillary Clinton, and the health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, in which they
described the procedure as "clearly unethical". The picture is of Marta Orellana,
who was a victim of the inhuman episode when she was nine. “They never gave
me a chance to say no” was how she put it in front of the press.
 What was the apology for and what prompted the USA to undertake this mission
in the first place ?

 The following image can be made exhaustive in a certain way by addition of
another two personalities.
 Who are the missing links in this list, one of whom is thought to have shared a
family tie with someone in the image ?

 Fill in the two blanks with
common nouns beginning with
the same letter. What does this
organisation deal with ?

 The following cartoon, titled “Willing substitutes” appeared in the “Punch”
magazine during the second World War and has a satirical take on the roles of Sir
Oswald Mosley and X(on the left), appealing to Y to induct them into the
opposition if they find a player short in their football match against England at
Highbury, that afternoon.
 X, known for his Marxist sympathies was Britain’s ambassador to Soviet Union in
the inter-war years, and is a fairly well-known name in this part of the world.
 Who are X and Y ?

 X is the nanoscale folding of DNA to create non-arbitrary two- and three-
dimensional shapes at the nanoscale. The specificity of the interactions between
complementary base pairs make DNA a useful construction material, through
design of its base sequences.
 What is X ?

 Ajit Wadeker in his autobiography “My cricketing years”, describes this place as-
 “….a small seaside resort, packed with bell bottomed American and Canadian
tourists. It is a delightful place provide one has, like X, the licence to spend at
will..”
 This above reference was made to the 1973 adventures of X in San Monique which
was shot here.
 What is the the venue which hosted India in 1971, in possibly their only first-class
match in this beautiful location and the 1973 film being referred here ?

 Madho Singh represented India in Wrestling at the Rome and Tokyo Olympics (60
and 64). He, till date, holds an unique achievement for which he was honoured by
the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in Amritsar in 2003.
 What is his claim to fame ?

 1957 : Mohun Bagan versus Rajasthan in CFL
 1959 : India versus Australia 2nd test match at Eden Gardens
 The debut of which two pair of men make these matches significant footnotes in
local cultural history ?

 This is an illustration(next slide) by Alex Bennet, who selected over 500 incidents
over the last 150 years and included them in this graphic design on the history of
football.
 In this magnified view, depicting a popular Milk Marketing Board Advert from
1980s we can spot a couple of young boys with one telling the other that X had told
him that if he didn't drink milk, he would only be good enough to play
for__________ _________. The other fan then said “__________ ________, who are
they?" with the response being "Exactly”.
 This was rumoured that the advert originally intended for the phrase to use
Tottenham Hotspur instead of ______________ ____________however Tottenham
objected so __________ __________were chosen instead as they were a non-League
team at the time and were seen to be a more obscure team.
 Identify X and and FITB with an obscure name .

 What did this surly Hungarian,
accuse his colleagues of not doing in
between, performing autopsy and
delivering babies and hence termed
them as “murderers”?
 Also, who is he ?

 The Battles- ____________________________ is the name given to this album
cover(image next slide) designed by graphic artist Roana Gratitude.
 It is dedicated to some of the athletes who have used the podium of their success
to highlight causes greater than their own personal victory.
 What is the inspired sub title of this album which is same as a 1986 Emmy Award
winning TV movie featuring one of the athletes featured in the album cover, as
narrator ?

 Michael De Bakey was a pioneering Cardio-thoracic surgeon who was invited to
perform a bypass surgery which would effectively turn out to be life saving for the
patient. This event in 1996, was a landmark in some ways considering that of all
people, an American could operate upon this high profile patient . His survival,
would go on to alter the course of history, in a way, that had he not survived, he
would not have had the opportunity to go deep into the bureaucracy and select his
successor .
 Who was the patient ?

 The “gentleman” in the sub-title of
this book refers to Gilbert Blane, a
Scottish physician who instituted
health reforms in the Royal Navy.
 Who are the “surgeon” and the
“mariner” ?
 Also, what is the name of the book ?

 The following images are from the short stories “Rodney Stone” and “The Croxley
Master” by an author, which has a particular sport as their central theme.
 These stories never gained the dizzy heights of popularity unlike some of his other
works, where the author has made yet another reference to the same sport
featured in the previous works.
 What is the reference we are concerned with and who is the author of the
following books ?

 Kalaupapa is a small island in Hawaii whose occupants were struck with the so
called “living death”. Beginning in 1866, and lasting for 80 years, some 8000
people were ripped from their home, families and relocated to Kalaupapa, never to
be seen again. For families, they were considered to be dead, as a funeral would be
held even when the person was still living.
 A similar plot point appears in a novella where the young protagonist, while
working as a volunteer for distribution of food among the marooned in the floods
of Tista in the early1960s, comes across a village by the banks of it, where all the
inhabitants were ostracised by the society, suffering from a supposedly “incurable”
disease. This experience would leave a lasting impression in his mind and he
would remember those scenes in later life when he himself became disabled.
 What disease and also which is the novel ?

 “Bhootayan” is a Bengali anthology of short stories on the multi-faceted, evergreen
sportsman “Bhuto-da” who represents Krishnanagar Collegiate School in both
football and cricket. In the inter-war years of 1940s, when domestic inter-college
championships were put on hold, a team from Krishnanagar Collegiate school
make a trip down south, to play a friendly against a contemporary college team.
 The author in reality was an alumnus of these two educational institutions and
thus could vividly illustrate the cricket match which was played at the
picturesque, Oval.
 Who is the author and which opposition did “Bhuto-da” take on, in this story
titled, “Operation Pontoon Bridge” ?

 Enfield Tennis Academy corresponds to Denmark, ruled by James (King Hamlet)
and Avril (Queen Gertrude). When James dies, he is replaced by Charles
(Claudius), the uncle of Avril's gifted son Hal (Prince Hamlet).
 Which post- modern, encyclopaedic work by whom that centres around this
fictional junior tennis academy and a nearby substance abuse recovery centre ?
 Which work of non-fiction by the same author celebrates the other-worldly genius
of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty dissection of Tracy Austin's memoir;
considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the
threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his
own career as a "near-great" junior player and binds them all together ?

 X ,a Nobel laureate was quoted saying this, regarding the name of his book which
was a play on the term used for “a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which
there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.”
 Who is X, and what is the name of the book which might remind you of a Joseph
Heller novel of 1961 ?

 “I am just old enough to remember an era when it was quite normal, quite
acceptable, to field a team in which there were one or two players who had
butterfingers and needed to be hidden at fine leg or third man, or in which senior
players with creaky joints would be earmarked for the slips; when it was more or
less accepted that while younger men might dive to stop a ball or race to cut off a
boundary, such spectacular exertions were not really expected of established
players.
 After 1952 the relaxed, anything goes attitude towards fielding began to change
visibly – certainly in South Africa, but also in the rest of the world..”

 Joe would often fall asleep inadvertently during daytime and snore away, unaware
of his surroundings. Which condition, gets its name from the origins of this obese
character ?
 Who, served as an inspiration behind William Treolar’s decision to establish this
particular institution ?

 In the First World War, X was well-placed to supply desperately-needed medical
information to the armed forces, in the form of _____________War Primers. These
covered topics such as Wounds of War, Surgery of the Head, Abdominal Injuries,
Gunshot Injuries, as well as a guide for the stretcher-bearer.
 They were in many a way a precursor to the hand-written notes taken during the
ward rounds of two doctors, Tony Hope and Murray Longmore, that was published
in 1985 and has been voted as one of the four most influential books written on
Medicine by the British Medical Association.
 Dipankar Dey, in Hemlock Society was shown reading this book in a particular
sequence.
 What is X and what book was Mr. Dey reading ?

 This Biography takes its name from
two seminal contributions of this
physician.
 The first word refers to his efforts at
Broadwalk Street with able help of
local residents and the second refers
to his role as an obstetrician during
two deliveries in 1853 and 1859,
respectively.
 What is the complete title and who is
he ?

 In 1948, X scored a brilliant 243 playing for ‘MCC’ against the local Planter’s Club
and helped his side to end a 10 year old streak of failures against this particular
opposition.
 Some 35 years later, X attributed his heroics to the fact, that he was playing with
a bat, which had been used by Y to score a smashing 202* against Middlesex in
three hours at Hove in July 1900.
 Who are X and Y ?

 10 QUESTIONS
 INFINITE BOUNCE WITH INFINITE POUNCE
 +10/-10 ON POUNCE AND +10 ON BOUNCE
 QM’S DECISION IS FINAL AND BOUNDING
 UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCOREBOARD

 “Comrade __________ and I met only once. Afterwards he wrote me many letters.
But I was busy, and I wrote him only one letter and do not even know if he ever
received it. I am deeply grieved over his death. Now we are all commemorating him,
which shows how profoundly his spirit inspires everyone”
 The above is an excerpt from someone’s selected works dated December 21, 1939.
 The Comrade had this to say to the practicing physicians:
 ‘Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price
of jewels. ... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and
purify our profession of rapacious individualism ... Let us say to the people not '
How much have you got?' but ' How best can we serve you?'
 FITB and identify the person writing this obituary.

 Between the years 1954 and 1968, Abbott Laboratories of Illinois sent out 240,000
postcards every couple of weeks to doctors, nurses, and health facilities all over
the world. They manufactured, stamped, and postmarked over 170 unique
postcards from 165 different towns in 85 countries.
 The pictures on the cards displayed local scenes portraying the place, culture, or
people of the particular country it was mailed from. The entertaining message on
the back was written in a friendly tone, and never forgot to plug their prized
product—an intravenous anesthetic by the name of Pentothal.
 The name of these postcards were derived from a simple salutation used
universally to most of its recipients.
 What name and also, what is the alternative name for pentothal, which was made
popular in movies and TV shows during the spy era ? (picture next slide)

 Butterfly
 Elephant
 Two humans
 Animal skin
 Bat
 Animal hide
 Human heads
 Four-legged animal
 Caterpillars
 The list on the left, is an
interpretation according to the
quizmaster.
 What, essentially did I do ?

 The book's title refers to a man who
probably had a genetic disorder that
made his hands much more flexible
than an average person's. "He could
unfurl and stretch his fingers
impossibly far," Mr. Kean writes, "his
skin seemingly about to rip apart.
His finger joints themselves were
also freakishly flexible”.
 If the above paragraph gives the
rational explanation for this man’s
supreme talent, what is the more
mythical one? Also, who is he ?

 The gentleman on your right is an
Obstetrician by profession. He
started writing columns in women-
centric magazines like Femina, Flair
and Trend in the 1970s. However, his
most famous role was as a weekly
columnist of the “Mumbai Mirror”
beginning in 2004, the year he
turned 80.
 Who is he and what portmanteau
sobriquet has he earned over the
years with his unparalleled wittiness
?

 A researcher at X had previously published his work, leading to loss of trade
secrets and hence the company had put a blanket ban on all publication efforts by
their employees.
 Y had to plead with the authorities that the paper which he proposed to publish
was an absolutely philosophical and mathematical assertion and would have no
dealings with the secret workings of the X factories.
 The authorities gave in, but added the rather practical rider that he was better off
publishing them under a pseudonym in order to avoid conflicts with other staff
member with publication ambition.
 Identify X,Y and what pseudonym did he choose ? (pictures next slide)

 Asperger syndrome - High-functioning autism
 Beck–Ibrahim disease - Congenital cutaneous candidiasis
 Clara cell - "Club cell“
 Hallervorden– Spatz disease - Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
 Reiter's syndrome - Reactive arthritis
 Wegener's granulomatosis - Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
 The above non-exhaustive list was a part of a scholarly publication by R.C.
Strouss and M. Edelman in 2007 and they suggested the eponyms be replaced
with the more scientific sounding names for these respective disease or entities.
Why ?

 Astigmatism induces unidirectional elongation in the perception of objects. For
example, a cylindrical lens which is used to treat astigmatism, will cause an
ellipse to be seen as a circle. Similarly viewing one of ___________through a
cylindrical lens in proper orientation and power, eliminates the distortions.
 However, this theory has been refuted by the American College of Ophthalmology
in a peer- reviewed scholarly article, establishing the alternative theory of
________________being simply stylistic and an influence of Byzantine and
Mannerist eras.
 What is being talked about ?

 In 1902, nineteen Indian villagers in Punjab died of tetanus. An inquiry
commission indicted X, and he was relieved of his position and returned to
England. The report was unofficially known as the "Little ____________
__________", as a reminder of X’s origins and a contemporary event in a different
country.
 In July 1907, a letter published in “The Times” called the case against X
“distinctly disproven” and this letter was signed by Ronald Ross and a few other
luminaries from the world of Medicine.
 The Lister Institute reinvestigated the claim and overruled the verdict: it was
discovered that an assistant used a dirty bottle cap without sterilizing it.
 Who is X and FITB to complete the unofficial name for the scandal ?

 DEBANJAN BOSE
 CHANDRAKANT NAIR
 MEDICAL COLLEGE QUIZ CLUB
 ELECTRICIAN BABUDA & CARETAKER BABLUDA
 SCORE-KEEPER
 AUDIENCE( IF ANY ) AND…….

 Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis or Vincent’s Angina is a common, non-
contagious infection of the gums with sudden onset, characterised by bad breath
and difficulty to swallow.
 A medical condition caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to damp, unsanitary,
and cold conditions, a type of Immersion Foot Syndrome.
 A condition called “Five Day fever” transmitted by lice and noted sufferers being
J.R.R Tolkien, A.A. Milne and C.S. Lewis.
 How can you connect the above three conditions with a “depression shared by a
particular group of people” ?

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