Asha 2013 Open Quiz Finals

Asha Open Quiz Final
2013
Harlem Shakers
Govind Krishnamurthi
Balaji Srinivasan
February 24, 2013

Rules
• 4 rounds
• 15 seconds on a direct, immediate response on a pass
• We switch directions at the end of each round from the team that
answered last
• All questions infinite bounce, unless stated
• All questions carry 10 points for the total answer. Partial points at the
discretion of the QM
• No negatives unless stated, so guess away!
• Even if you don’t get points you can get a chocolate for a “good”
answer
• Some are special questions, rules will be explained at that time
• QM’s decision is FINAL!

Written round
5 points per answer
Identify the scientists who sent out these
Valentines day cards 10 days ago 

1. His second wife, Constance Webb, was born in Fresno
and died in San Francisco in 2005. His remarkable series
of more than 200 letters to Webb was published in 1996
as “Special Delivery”. A letter to Constance Webb was
attached to the back of his essay "Dialectical Materialism
and the Fate of Humanity."
He joined Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee Boggs in
founding the Johnson-Forest Tendency, a Trotskyist group
partly named for his pseudonym.
He also wrote a study of Moby Dick - Mariners,
Renegades, and Castaway.
ID this person, and for bonus points, identify a famous
Kipling quote that he adapted and made even more
famous.

• C.L.R. James
• "What do they know of cricket who only
cricket know?“
(Kipling wrote "What do they know of England
who only England know?“)

2. Some of “Cubewanos” range in temperature
from 0.1 to 10 degrees Kelvin and are known as
“dynamically cold”.
One of the Cubewanos is named Varuna.
There two ways of classification of Cubewanos
proposed. In one of the ways, the DES classification,
an object qualifies to be a cubewano if it is not
resonant, if its average Tisserand’s parameter
exceeds 3 and its average eccentricity is less than
0.2.
What are Cubewanos?

Classical Kuiper Belt Objects.

3. His birth has a legend similar to that of Jesus. A star
shone and guided a Muslim mystic to the place of his
birth.
The arrows owned by this figure were each tipped with a
half-ounce of gold - so that, even if they killed their
target, the gold could be sold by the victim's family to
ease their suffering.
Five of his followers were known as the “Panj Piare”
because they had enough faith to go into his tent even
after he emerged with a sword dripping blood after he
invited each of them into his tent.
ID.

4. A novel by Thomas Pynchon, one of the most
acclaimed novels of the 1990s, focusses on the
collaboration between X and Y on something they did
around the time of the American Revolutionary war.
Y first served X as an assistant when they travelled to
Sumatra to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.
However, they were delayed and observed the transit of
Venus from the Cape of Good Hope.
One of the craters in the moon is named after X.
A nickname for the 11 Southern states that formed the
Confederate States of America apparent came from Y.
ID X and Y.

Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon.

Roles played by Christopher Lee

6. Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time
(published in 2009) had the Beatles at 1, 3, 5
(“Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”,
“Revolver”, “Rubber Soul”).
At #4 was Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited".
What was voted #2 greatest album of all time?

7. X was the first type of movie theaters. It
flourished from 1905 to 1915.
Peter Bogdanovich had a much publicized affair
with Cybill Shepherd that started with “The Last
Picture Show”. Once he left his wife for Shepherd,
Columbia refused to cast her in a film that had a
role Bogdanovich had specifically written for her.
The film, that tried to recount the earliest days of
motion picture industry, flopped. Its title was X.
ID X, a word that your kids may recognize
immediately.

8. Milos Forman wanted to make a movie in
1978 about this famous match in Reykjavik. He
met the main players and wanted them to play
themselves in the movie. After a few meetings,
he came to the conclusion that one of the
players’ personality wasn’t compatible with the
rigors of movie-making, and he abandoned the
project.
What was the match and who were the players?

Match of the century, Bobby Fischer v.s. Boris
Spassky, World Championship 1972.

9. This was first editorial cartoon published in
the United States. It was the now iconic image
of a snake that has been cut into parts—each
part representing a section of the British
colonies—with the caption “Join or Die.”
Who designed this cartoon?

10. In 1908 Taraknath Das wrote an appeal to this
person, who was renowned not only as a literary
figure but as a moral voice for oppressed people,
urging him to publicize British tyranny in India. The
response was not exactly as Das desired, for he
argued instead that “If the Hindoos have been
enslaved by violence it is because they themselves
have lived by violence, live by violence, and do not
recognize the eternal law of love, inherent in
humanity.” His response is shown in the next slide.
Who?

12. In January this year, Brazilian biologist Andre
Nemesio published a paper in a journal for
zoological taxonomists. He said he named a
species of Brazilian orchid bee Euglossa __X___
in honor of ___Y__ because the bee had tricked
scientists for some time with its similarity to
other species.
ID X and Y.

13. Shown below is a sculpture installation by
Blake Fall-Conroy. The machine's mechanism
and electronics are powered by the hand crank,
and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.
Turning the crank will yield one penny every
4.97 seconds. What is this called?

Minimum wage machine
“Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds,
for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a
person in New York.
This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social
commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the
machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when
realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A
person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two
million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs
than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective
argument for raising the minimum wage.”

14. What is this painting and why is it left
unfinished?

Benjamin West's painting of the delegations at
the Treaty of Paris: John Jay, John Adams,
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William
Temple Franklin. The British delegation refused
to pose, and the painting was never completed.
Treaty of Paris ended the American
Revolutionary War.

15. This is the general plan of what?

Charles Babbage’s Great Calculating Engine

16. The archdiocese of Atlanta (Cathedral of Christ
the King) had a major windfall last year from the
estate of Joseph Mitchell who lived in Atlanta and
died last year.
Joseph, 76, left his house, furniture and $7.5 million
for its building fund. He also bequeathed his
financial assets, including stocks and bonds, to the
archdiocese, totaling between $15-20 million.
This wouldn’t have made news, if not for another
item left to the diocese. What item?

50 percent stake in the trademark and literary
rights to "Gone With the Wind“.
Joseph Mitchell was Margaret Mitchell’s
nephew.

Audience-1: Id this soldier, who became a nation’s
elected leader. He has been in the news recently as his
party failed to win majority in a recent election

Benjamin Netanyahu, PM of Israel

Audience -2 : This castle was the centerpiece of a
WW2 movie. Name the movie.

1. The Oxford Online Dictionary defines this word
as the sudden realization as to have committed a
stupid act. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
defines this as “used to express sudden
recognition of a foolish blunder or ironic turn of
events”. What word?

2. In November of 2012, the music we will play first was
replaced on the Billboard’s Classical Traditional Albums by
the music which we will play second. The album was on
top for 11 consecutive weeks and consists of the tracks
that inspired an author when creating a literary work. The
second album is called Advent at Ephesus and is by The
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles — a group of
singing nuns from Missouri. Now what is the name of the
album it replaced as #1.

3. This word is used to identify a person in a group or
gang who is either used, ignored, and/or stepped on
quite frequently. This word is said to have originated
from the person below. What is the word and the
etymology?

The origin is from Zeppo Marx. Zeppo was forced into the Marx
brothers group, wasn’t necessarily his choice, when his brother
Gummo was drafted into WW1. He was considered the weak
link or the least talented of the group, unfairly, because of his
late arrival into the group. A more appropriate reason could be
that they didn’t make use of his talents well. He performed in 5
films and his roles in the movies were always superfluous.
Hence the term Zeppo became associated with a reluctant
participant who didn’t matter in the larger picture of things, i.e.
at best an extra or an “useless person”.

ID the movie and the actor who plays “Sarge” in this audio clip.

Louis Gossett Jr, Officer and a Gentleman. Won an Oscar for Supporting Role.

5. Something about Superman changed forever with
this issue (1944). What?

In 1944 with the emblem on his chest, the trademarked version of
his symbol appeared. Prior to this all the superman symbols were
not trademarked and was free to use by others.

6. ID and describe the need for this character created by
the US government in the early 1900s. He wore white
trousers, white jacket, had gold teeth, a Panama hat, a big
smile and money in his pocket.

“The Panama Man”. Used by the US government to recruit
citizens of Barbados to work on the Panama Canal project.
They took someone from Barbados and sent him back to
Barbados, dressed as shown, to act as a human billboard in
the recruiting effort for the Panama Canal project.

7. In the southern part of the United States, only a decade after the
American Civil War, this sport was predominantly African-American.
The person shown below won the event when it was held for the first
time in 1875. In fact, all the people he competed against were African
American and he had just one Caucasian opponent. This event is now
considered one of the top three events of the sport. Which event?
Bonus: If you ID the gentleman.

Oliver Lewis, won the first Kentucky Derby in
1875. Riding the colt Aristides, Oliver Lewis
won the Derby with a time of 2 mins 37.75 sec

8. X (person on the left)’s first customer was Henry Lillard (right) a
janitor who worked in the same building , in Davenport Iowa, in 1895.
Lillard had lost his hearing and was deaf for several years due to an
injury. X treated him and apparently Lillard’s hearing came back. What
technique did this treatment originate? Bonus points if you id X.

D.D. Palmer, considered the originator of Chiropractic treatment.
Here is Lillard’s statement:
I was deaf 17 years and I expected to always remain so, for I had
doctored a great deal without any benefit. I had long ago made up my
mind to not take any more ear treatments, for it did me no good. Last
January Dr. Palmer told me that my deafness came from an injury in
my spine. This was new to me; but it is a fact that my back was injured
at the time I went deaf. Dr. Palmer treated me on the spine; in two
treatments I could hear quite well. That was eight months ago. My
hearing remains good. HARVEY LILLARD, 320 W. Eleventh St.,
Davenport, Iowa.

9. Ralph Anspach, shown below (born 1926) is a retired American economics
professor from San Francisco State University. He is a graduate of the University
of Chicago. He created a game Y in part as he had a significant disagreement
with a mainstream game. He thought that the “lessons” (which is described in
the title of this mainstream game) taught by this mainstream game is unethical
and morally wrong. Z, the owner of the mainstream game brought a lawsuit
against Anspach in 1974.
Anspach based his defense on the grounds that the game itself existed in
effectively the public domain before Z purchased it and in 1979, the parties
reached a settlement allowing Anspach to continue marketing his creation. The
game is currently in print, and is produced and distributed worldwide by
University Games. Id, Y and Z.

Anti-Monopoly –Y
Parker Brothers - Z
Instead of real estate and public utilities, "properties" in Anti-Monopoly are
individual businesses that have been brought under single ownership. Players
take the role of federal "case workers" bringing indictments against each
monopolized business in an attempt to return the state of the board to a free
market system.

10. According to his CA driving license (resident of San
Diego) he's 6'8" (without the hat) and weighs 195 lbs.
And his birthday is May 16. His family tree possesses the
gene that results in oversized, bald heads for males. He is
fluent in English and Spanish, has starred in more than
2,200 English- and Spanish-language TV and radio ads
since 1995. According to this person’s workplace, he ran
for president in 1996 and beat out Bill Clinton, Bob Dole
and Dogbert (a popular cartoon character) in a national
independent virtual vote poll. Who?

11. He was born in Cromer, Norfolk, England, being one of three children. He
was sent to Gresham's School boarding school, Holt, Norfolk, from 1956 to
1965, when his father died of cancer. An Innovation Fellowship in his name
aims to foster innovation by supporting talented young Royal College of Art
designers in protecting and commercializing their work. The fellowship was set
up following his UK High Court victory against Qualtex, a company selling
copies of his company spare parts and infringing his company’s design rights.
His products can be found in stores like Frys and are noted for their exceptional
design. Name him.

James Dyson, of Dyson vacuum cleaner and air multiplier fame

12. The name of the “thing” through which an electric train draws its power is named
so due to the resemblance to a mechanical device with two pens used for tracing
images. What is this “thing” called?

Pantograph – one of whose roots is the Greek word for write. The tool allows you to
copy writing.

13. The photo below shows the picture of Paul Winchell the famous ventriloquist
(voice of Tigger for many a year). He however has made an invention with Y (2nd
pic). This invention was gifted to the University of Utah and was improved upon by
Z (3rd pic) to help Barney Clark a Seattle dentist shown in the 4rd and 5th picture.
Identify Y and Z and what was the invention?

Y- Henry Heimlich – shown here demonstrating his maneuver
Z- Robert Jarvik – Scientist at University of Utah. Jarvik -7 the first artificial heart.

14. What is being described below and what is its/his/her name?

Ba of Tutankhamun – Ba is the soul or that part of a person that can travel, after the death
of the person.

15. The majority of the land for farming in 19th century Ireland
was held by absentee landowners. One such owner, the Earl of
Erne hired X, whose caricature is represented below, to oversee his
estates. Shortly after X took over a series of bad harvests led the
farmers to form the Land League (Union to protect farmers). The
Land League petitioned X for a reduction of rent of the land and X
refused. The League retaliated by refusing to have any commerce
or communication with X. Id X.

Charles Cunningham Boycott, from whom the term
boycott is derived.

16. They were well off men who were the main fighters on the street
during the French Revolution. They were named from a type of
perfume that they wore. Their attire was top—boots with thick
soles, knee—breeches, a dress—coat with long tails, and a high stiff
collar, and carried a thick cudgel. What was their name and how did
they refer to their cudgel?

Muscadins (wearing a musk perfume) of Paris
and their cudgel was called “Constitution”.

Audience-3: This picture became a meme recently. What
is happening in this picture?

Basque athlete Iván Fernández Anaya allowing
Abel Mutai to win the race. Abel Mutai had
stopped thinking that he had crossed the finish
line.

Audience 4: Id this actor and the movie

Written Round
5 points for each correct answer

Identify the Google doodles (who it is dedicated
to).

2. What is being described here?
“The walls are pale violet. The floor is of red tiles.
The wood of the bed and chairs is the yellow of fresh butter,
the sheets and pillows very light greenish-citron.
The coverlet scarlet. The window green.
The toilet table orange, the basin blue.
The doors lilac.
And that is all--there is nothing in this room with its closed
shutters.
The broad lines of the furniture again must express inviolable
rest. Portraits on the walls, and a mirror and a towel and some
clothes.
The frame--as there is no white in the picture--will be white.
This by way of revenge for the enforced rest I was obliged to
take. “

Van Gogh describing “Bedroom in Arles” in a
letter to his brother.

3. Yucca brevifolia, native to southwestern North
America, has a top heavy branch system. This
shape reminded Mormon settlers of a biblical
story and led to a common name for the plant.
What?

4. “In the Skin of a Lion” was a 1987 novel that
dealt with the lives of immigrants who contributed
to building Toronto in the early 1900s.
Some of the characters in the novel like Caravaggio
and Hana reappeared in the next novel written by
the same author in 1992. The next novel, in part a
sequel, turned out to be more famous.
ID the author and his subsequent novel.

Michael Ondaatje, “The English Patient”

5. This TV series, consisting of ten one-hour
films, deals with the Ten Commandments and
how modern characters deal with one or more
ethical issues. It is widely acclaimed to be one of
the best works in TV yet.
Stanley Kubrick wrote an admiring foreword to
the published screen-play in 1991.
Identify the TV series and its director.

“The Decalogue” by Krzysztof Kieslowski.

6. A modern theory attributes this to the "Little Ice Age”
(1645 -1715) associated with unusually low solar activity
of the Maunder Minimum, when Europe suffered long
winters and cool summers which caused trees to grow
slowly and uniformly.
Research into wood density is also used to explain this.
A Swiss researcher has discovered that two species of
fungi (Physisporinus vitreus and Xylaria longipes) could
have caused this.
Some research points to wood preservatives used in
those days.
Theories trying to explain what?

The sound of the Stradivarius violins.

7. The “Wicked Bible” was printed in 1631, by
Robert Barker and Martin Lucas. It was meant to be
a reprint of the King James Bible. About a year later,
the printers were summoned by King Charles I and
fined £300 and had their printing license revoked.
Most of the copies were collected and burnt, and
very few copies are left today.
In 2010, a copy of the “Wicked Bible” was put up on
sale for $90,000.
Why did this Bible gain such a reputation?

It has a misprint and missed the word “not”.

8. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were close friends as
they worked together in the early years of free America, but
became bitter enemies during John Adams’ presidency.
Jefferson won a hard-fought campaign and succeeded Adams
as the President of the United States.
They finally reconciled after Jefferson retired from Presidency,
in 1811. It continued till their last days.
Adams and Jefferson contributed to an interesting nugget in
American history, as recalled by “President Josiah Bartlett”
(Martin Sheen in The West Wing). Bartlett obsesses and
reflects over this trivia as a White House Fourth of July
ceremony nears.
What?

On July 4 1826, Jefferson and Adams died within
five hours of each other.
At the age of 90, Adams lay on his deathbed
while the country celebrated Independence Day.
His last words were Thomas Jefferson still
survives. He was mistaken: Jefferson had died
five hours earlier at Monticello, Virginia, at the
age of 82.

9. The Doolough Tragedy took place during the
Great Irish Potato Famine, in 1849.
Two officials who were supposed to inspect people
and provide relief in Louisbergh, didn’t do their job
and asked people to show up at another place 12
km from there the next day morning.
The fatiguing journey in extreme weather took its
toll. Several people, including women and children,
died on the way.
A monument now stands in Doolough Valley that
has this inscription: “How can men feel themselves
honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings?”
Whose quote is this?

10. This British writer wrote “The Atrocity Exhibition”, a
collection of stories, in 1970.
The novel proved to be controversial and was the subject
of an obscenity trial. The publisher was forced to destroy
the entire print run before it was distributed. This is
probably not surprising, considering some of the chapter
titles in the novel: “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race”, “Why I
Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” and “Plan for the
Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy”.
The novel however brought him reputation as a literary
writer.
Identify this author, whose works have been adapted in
films by David Cronenberg and Steven Spielberg.

11. In Philippines, a political debate has centered
around the “wang-wang” privilege or “wang-wang”
mindset.
The current President, Benigno Aquino, created a
no wang-wang policy in his inaugural address itself.
The original policy was created by President
Ferdinand Marcos in 1973.
“Wang-wang lifestyle” and mindset have become
common terms in Philippines.
What does “wang-wang” mean?

• Wang-wang is Tagalog slang for the sirens on
the roof of government cars used by top
officials of the land.
• Wang-wang privilege regulates the use of
sirens to only the top-ranking officials in the
government.
• Despite having the privilege of using wangwang, President Aquino vowed not to use
wang-wang, even if it means being stuck in
traffic and being late every now and then.

12. One of Google Ocean's features is the Marie Tharp
Historical Map.
Marie Tharp's research had led to a revolutionary discovery:
there was a rift valley running down the center of the Atlantic
Ocean.
The existence of such a rift was incontrovertible proof of
continental drift -- a hypothesis that was so unpopular in the
United States at the time that belief in it was considered a
form of scientific heresy.
Many scientists remained unconvinced of the rift's existence
until the 1959 International Oceanographic Congress in New
York, where X screened a film of the rift valley he collected
while crossing the Atlantic to attend the conference.
ID X, a famous naval officer, explorer, researcher, film maker
and conservationist.

13. ID the hidden faces. 5 points per person. There is a common theme in all these photos.

Don Cheadle
Russell Crowe
Al Pacino
Sandra Bullock

Michael Sheen
Will Smith
Morgan Freeman
Ben Affleck
Tom Hanks
Jesse Eisenberg

14. When Niners Quarterback Alex Smith got
replaced by Colin Kaepernick this season, Mike
Florio of NBC said that Smith could be the next
Wally Pipp. The comparison gained credence as
the season went on. What was the Wally Pipp
reference about?

Wally Pipp, a first baseman, played for the
Yankees. One day he had a headache and was
asked to take the day off. His replacement, Lou
Gehrig, played 2130 consecutive games, and
Pipp never played for Yankees again.

15. Video from the show “I’ve Got A Secret”: ID the
secret. The show is from around 1950-51.

16. This clip, from Woody Allen's film "Love and
Death", is noted for what?

The dialogues refer to several Novels/Short stories by
Dostoevsky.
Father: Remember that nice boy next door, Raskolnikov?
Boris: Yeah.
Father: He killed two ladies.
Boris: What a nasty story.
Father: Bobok told it to me. He heard it from one of the
Karamazov brothers.
Boris: He must have been possessed.
Father: Well, he was a raw youth.
Boris: Raw youth, he was an idiot!
Father: He acted assaulted and injured.
Boris: I heard he was a gambler.
Father: You know, he could be your double!
Boris: Really, how “novel”.

1. Id (each 5 points) and connect. It is a non-exhaustive list

Pithecanthropus, cro-magnon, abominable snowman, pickled herring, baboon, sea
gherkin, anthracite

2. Id the cars (each 5 points. Need the model name) and
connect

All automobiles whose names meant something unsavory in the
markets that they were selling. They had to change the name and
reintroduce or remove it totally because of bad sales.
1. Chevy Nova in Latin America, the automotive giant was
perplexed. Until, that is, someone pointed out that ‘Nova’
means ‘It doesn’t go’ in Spanish.
2. Mitsubishi Pajero sport utility that caused embarrassment in
Spain, where ‘pajero’ is slang for ‘masturbator’.
3. Toyota’s Fiera car proved controversial in Puerto Rico, where
‘fiera’ translates to ‘ugly old woman’.
4. Rolls-Royce’s ‘Silver Animal Droppings’ car, when sold in
Germany. To the English speaking world it bears the more
romantic name ‘Silver Mist’. Renamed RR – Shadow
5. Ford ‘Pinto’ car flopped. Then they discovered that in Brazilian
Portuguese slang, ‘pinto’ means ‘small penis’.

3. Connect: Exhaustive list. 5 pts for each name.
Name

Domain

Emblem

Epic Poetry

Writing Tablet

History or Heroic Poetry

Scrolls

Love Poetry

Cithara

Music

Aulos

Tragedy

Tragic Mask

Hymns or sacred poetry

Veil

Songs and dance

Lyre

Comedy

Comic Mask

Astronomy

Globe and Compass

Connect - 9 Muses – Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne
Name of the Muse

Domain

Emblem

Calliope

Epic poetry

Writing tablet

Clio

History

Scrolls

Love poetry

Cithara (an ancient Greek
musical instrument in the
lyre family)

Euterpe

Song and Elegiac poetry

Aulos (an ancient Greek
musical instrument like a
flute)

Melpomene

Tragedy

Tragic mask

Polyhymnia

Hymns

Veil

Terpsichore

Dance

Lyre

Thalia

Comedy

Comic mask

Urania

Astronomy

Globe and compass

Erato

4. Pakistan allocated an area in Balochistan to the Saudi Emirati,
where they could go X hunting every year. The foreign office of
Pakistan, due to the dwindling X population, fixed a quota of
maximum number of X that could be hunted every year. This was
unacceptable to the Saudis who then imposed the oil embargo to
force Pakistan to remove this quota. The embargo was lifted due
to a compromise offered by the Pakistanis. Id X and connect this
compromise to the 2nd picture.

X- Houbara Bustard. The compromise was that Pakistan allocated
land where the Bustard’s could be reared for hunting. The Saudis
also built an airstrip on this allocated land to bring the Emirati to
Balochistan. This is the Shamsi airbase from where the US
launches drone attacks into Pakistan.
Source: Rachel Maddow’s discussion on CSPAN about her book.

5. SVC-1 20/-15: This Rose Bowl was played between the Oregon
State Beavers and the Duke Daredevils. OSU won 20 – 16 over
the highly favored Daredevils. What was different about this
particular Rose Bowl?

SVC-2 +15/-10: A group of young men gained national media
attention when, brandishing hunting rifles for dramatic effect, they
stopped traffic on U.S. Route 99, and handed out copies of a
Proclamation of Independence, stating that the state of Jefferson
was in "patriotic rebellion against the states of X and Y" and would
continue to "secede every Thursday until further notice”. Id X and Y.

SVC-3 +10/-5 Two parts to this question. What is the name of the
aircraft? Which company made this aircraft (their current logo is
supposed to reflect their heritage as an aircraft maker).

“The Attack on the US at Pear Harbor”

5. SVC-1 20/-15: This Rose Bowl was played between the Oregon State Beavers and the
Duke Daredevils. OSU won 20 – 16 over the highly favored Daredevils. What was
different about this particular Rose Bowl?

Only Rose Bowl played outside CA. Played in Durham, NC. Pearl Harbor was attacked on
Dec 7, 1941. The government did not want to take the risk of another attack on a
highly visible target such as the Rose Bowl (which was to take place on Jan 1, 1942).
Hence the event was moved to Durham.

SVC-2 +15/-10: A group of young men gained national media attention when, brandishing
hunting rifles for dramatic effect, they stopped traffic on U.S. Route 99, and handed out
copies of a Proclamation of Independence, stating that the state of Jefferson was in
"patriotic rebellion against the states of X and Y" and would continue to "secede every
Thursday until further notice”. Id X and Y.

X – California, Y- Oregon.
Pearl Harbor happened and the country focused on the war effort. So they gave up their
effort to secede from California and Oregon at that time.

SVC-3 +10/-5 Two parts to this question. What is the name of the aircraft? Which
company made this aircraft (their current logo is supposed to reflect their heritage as an
aircraft maker).

Zero made by Mitsubishi (translated as 3 Diamonds). The diamonds are positioned to
reflect the shape of a propeller.

6. SVC-1 +20/-15
The first documented ancestors of these were imported
from Khorasan, Persia into Italy in 1620 by Pietro della Valle,
and from Angora (now Ankara), Turkey into France by
Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc at around the same time.
The Khorasan ones were grey while those from Angora
were white. What are talking about?

SVC-2 +15/-10
In 1964, this attire was featured in the Vogue magazine, and
immediately began gaining worldwide popularity.
Celebrities from talk show host Johnny Carson to football
star Joe Namath wore them and performer Sammy Davis Jr.
was reported to own two hundred of them. It was made
out of a wide variety of materials besides plain cotton and
wool, including brocade, vinyl, and sharkskin. What?

SVC -3 +10/-5 What is the contribution of this hotel to popular
culture?

SVC-2 +15/-10
In 1964, this attire was featured in the Vogue magazine, and immediately began gaining
worldwide popularity. Celebrities from talk show host Johnny Carson to football star Joe
Namath wore them and performer Sammy Davis Jr. was reported to own two hundred of
them. It was made out of a wide variety of materials besides plain cotton and wool, including
brocade, vinyl, and sharkskin. What?

SVC -3 +10/-5 What is the contribution of this hotel to popular culture

SVC -3 +10/-5 What is the contribution of this hotel to popular culture.

Answer: The bar in this hotel was popular with James Bond
author Ian Fleming and is said to be the inspiration for the classic
line, 'shaken, not stirred'.

The connect is Ernst Stavro Blofeld

6. LVC -1 +25/-20 : He described/discovered “something” in
1944. Though he was pretty much unappreciated for his
work during his lifetime, interest in his work surged in the
1980s. He was a medical officer in WW2 and served the
Axis.

LVC -1 +20/-15: In 1866 he wrote "Observations on the
Ethnic Classification of Idiots“. People were very surprised
that he chose to work in the field that he did as the field
was despised. Who?

LVC -1 +15/-10 He first described/discovered “something” in 1906.
was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria on 14 June 1864. He died of heart
failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Poland.

LVC -1 +10/-5 Id: was born to a Quaker family in Pentonville, St. James
Parish, Middlesex in 1798. Like many other Quakers was concerned
both with the abolition of slavery and the reduction of the impact of
western colonization on indigenous peoples around the world. He
stood aside from the Anti-Slavery Society of the 1820s and 1830s,
however; the Society took a different line on emancipation and
colonization in Africa. It refused in the early 1830s to publish his
views. He discovered/described “something” in 1832.

LVC -1 +5/-2: A former first baseman, he died in 1941 just
two years after retirement.

Eponymous Diseases

Hans Asperger

John Langdon
Down

Alois
Alzheimer

Thomas
Hodgkin

Lou Gehrig

LVC +25/-20 (NOT EXHAUSTIVE) (On the left) He was born in Brignoles, Provence, (or in Italy,
at Nocera, where he spent a part of his early life), the second son of Charles of Anjou "the
Lame" and Maria Arpad of Hungary, daughter of the King Stephen V of Hungary. His father
was appointed King of Naples, by Pope Clement IV, the former secretary to Louis IX of
France.
(On the right): He was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of
Jesus according to the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. His story first
appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James.

LVC +20/-15 Accounts place her in the 3rd century. There is no reference to her in the
authentic early Christian writings, nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology.
Her name can be traced to the 7th century, and veneration of her was common, especially in
the East, from the 9th century. Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was
removed from the liturgical calendar of the Roman rite in 1969 in Pope Paul VI's motu
proprio Mysterii Paschalis.

7. LVC +15/-10 Born in Galilee, he collected taxes from the “Hebrews” for Herod Antipas.

LVC +10/-5 She founded the Order of Poor Ladies. She is shown saving a child from a wolf.

LVC +5/-2 He founded the Order of St. Clare for women and though he was never ordained
to priesthood, he is one the most venerated.

Connect: Names of CA counties named after Saints

St. Mathew
(Mateo)
San Mateo
County

St. Claire
Santa Clara
County

St. Francis of
Assisi
San Francisco
County

St. Barbara
Santa Barbara
County

Saint Louis the
Bishop
St. Louis
Obispo
County

Saint
Joachim
San
Joaquin
County

8. SAC -1 +20/-15 ID the movie whose, John Barry composed, theme
will play now.

Connect: Unfinished works of the artists, which were
posthumously completed

9. CR11532: the State of California vs. Janice Barton. The
jury found Ms. Burton guilty of murdering her invalid
Aunt Amanda and sentenced her to death. What was
special about this case (one of three)?

The one of 3 cases that Perry Mason lost (at least temporarily). During her confirmation,
Sonia Sotomayor said that Perry Mason was her inspiration to become a public
prosecutor. Al Franken while interviewing her, said something to the effect that in that
series that the prosecutor lost all cases against Mason except one (this one.. The case of
the deadly verdict). However there were 2 more cases where Mason lost, temporarily,
The Case of the Witless Witness and The Case of the Terrified Typist.

10. When the Italians were digging among the ruins of ancient
Rome, they found strange paintings on the walls of some of the
rooms. These paintings were of human and animal forms mixed
with those of strange fruits and flowers. Examples of such art are
shown below. What are these types of paintings called?

Grotesque - from the same Latin root as "Grotto",
meaning a small cave or hollow.

11. What is being described below? This is a rule that was initiated
for the 2nd quarter in 2012 in this particular establishment.

Rules to prevent market crashes at the NYSE

12. The first light switch was invented in 1884. The dominant design since then
continues to be the "up" or "down" toggle switch. In North America, the "up"
position switches the appliance to "on," whereas in other countries such as the
UK, the reverse is true. However in country X, most of the switches are
positioned sideways. Id X and why?

X- Japan. To prevent the switch from inadvertently being turned on or off by falling
objects during an earthquake.

13. Wilberforce, known only by his first name,
was the name of this civil servant and the one
with longest tenure, served Edward Heath, Harold
Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.
Who are we talking about? Under what title?

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. They are
resident cats of 10 Downing St. The incumbent
now is Larry.

14. The song shown below is from a 1971 film
adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same
name, with music composed by Jerry Bock, lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick, and screenplay by Joseph Stein.
Which movie?

Fiddler on the Roof. Song: To life To Life L’chaim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvr8AjT0aD0&feature=player_detailpage

15. X’s roots are in Greek and literally translated would mean
“covered writing”. It is a field of embedding messages to images
and other data so that messages are completely covered up in
the data. The first such usage was in 440 BC, where slaves were
used to transfer such messages. Id X and what was the
mechanism used on the most trusted slaves?

Steganography. The heads of the most trusted slaves
were shaven and tattooed. When the hair grew back
the message disappeared. Why they just didn’t tell
these trusted slaves to keep a secret is not known 

16. Listen to this song. The artist featured this song,
from a 1946 movie, plays a very important role in
another movie. ID the movie and the other movie/story
where this movie plays an important role.

The music is from the movie Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth, that Andy Dufresne
and Red are watching when Andy asks for the Rita Hayworth poster.

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