A small quiz held at the Blue Mountains School, Ooty

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The Blue Mountains
School Quiz
By:
Devang Mehta

2. Rules
• 10 points per direct question. 5 points per
passed on question
• Clue on request, if no objections.
• 40 questions: 20 clockwise, 20 counterclockwise
• 1 Long Visual Connect
• Quizmaster‟s decision is final

3. Quiz
Clockwise

4. Q1
• Which phrase, made famous by an One
Thousand and One Arabian Nights tale, reflects
the distinguishing feature of a particular seed‟s
pod, which bursts open when it reaches
maturity?
• Incidentally the seed‟s name is also part of this
magical phrase.

5. Answer
• Open Sesame

6. Q2
• X is a masked anarchist who seeks to systematically kill
the leaders of Norsefire, a fascist dictatorship ruling
a dystopian United Kingdom.
• He is well-versed in the arts of
explosives, subterfuge, and computer hacking, and has
a vast literary, cultural and philosophical intellect.
• X is the only survivor of an experiment in which four
dozen prisoners were given injections of a compound
called Batch 5. The compound caused vast cellular
anomalies that eventually killed all of the subjects except
X, who developed advanced
strength, reflexes, endurance and pain tolerance.
• Who is X?

7. Answer
• V from the film V for Vendetta

8. Q3
• This structure is
officially titled, “la
Liberté éclairant le
monde”.
• “JULY IV
MDCCLXXVI” is
inscribed on the left
hand of the structure.
• ID the structure.

9. Answer
• The Statue of Liberty

10. Q4
• The three component crosses that make up the X are as
follows:
o The red St. George's Cross width is 1/5 of the flag's
height with a 1/15 flag height fimbriation
o The white diagonal St. Andrew's Cross width is 1/5 of
the flag's height and the broader white diagonal's
width is 1/10 of the flag's height
o The red diagonal St. Patrick's Cross width is 1/15 of
the flag's height and the narrow white diagonal's width
is 1/30 of the flag's height
• What is X?

11. Answer
The Union Jack

12. Q5
• After the invention of telephones in
1876, Thomas Alva Edison suggested
the word ______ to start a
conversation. What word?

13. • Hello

14. Q6
• Painter, poet, songwriter, rock musician and has
been around since the start of the cold war till date.
His original name is Robert Allen Zimmerman.
• Much of his most celebrated work dates from the
1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler
and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of
social unrest.
• Among his earlier songs, “Blowin‟ in the Wind” and
“The Times They Are a-Changin” became anthems
for the American Civil Rights movement.

15. • Bob Dylan

16. Q7
ID this
fictional
galaxy

18. Q8
• In 57 BC, Julius Caesar, on defeating
the forces of Pontus, sent a curt
dispatch to the Roman Senate
describing his campaign there. What
did it say?

19. • Veni, vidi, vici
• I came, I saw, I conquered

20. Q9
• In which country is this located?

21. • Vatican City.
• The building is St. Peter‟s Basilica

22. Q10
• Whose hat?

24. Q11
• Which sport is played on an oval-
shaped,500 feet (150 m) long and
180 feet (55 m) wide pitch, with a
small central circle approximately 10
feet (3.0 m) in diameter by three
Chasers, two Beaters, one Keeper
and one Seeker?

25. • Quidditch

26. Q12
• The national sport of Bangladesh derives
its name from a Tamil word meaning
“holding of hand”, which is a crucial aspect
of play.
• India has been unbeaten champion in all
versions of the World Cup event of this
sport.
• Which sport is this?

27. • Kabaddi

28. Q13
Put Funda and FITB for 2 bonus points each. (exhaustive)
• The Deer Hunter • The Bridges of Madison
• _________ County
• The French Lieutenant‟s • One True Thing
Woman • Music of the Heart
• _________ • Adaptation
• Silkwood • The Devil wears Prada
• Out of Africa • Doubt
• Ironweed • Julie and Julia
• A Cry in the Dark • _________________
• Postcards from the Edge

29. Meryl Streep‟s 17
Oscar nominations.
FITB:
Sophie‟s Choice
Kramer v Kramer
Iron Lady

30. Q14
• George Orwell describing an idyllic Sunday
afternoon. “The wife is already asleep in the
armchair and the children have been sent out for
a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the
sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose and
open the X. ”
• However if Orwell were alive today he wouldn‟t
get his idyllic Sunday afternoon.
• What is this now infamous newspaper?

31. • News of the World

32. Q15
• X, Y and Z collectively hold the top three
spots for the fastest-ever selling PC
games in all of history. The latest, Z sold
3.3 million copies in a single day.
• Identify the game associated with X, Y and
Z, which though released in 2004, still has
over 11 million players worldwide.

33. • World of Warcraft
o X- The Burning Crusade
o Y- The Wrath of the Lich King
o Z-Cataclysm

34. Q16
• Who and what was the occasion?

35. • Vladimir Putin on being elected to his 3rd term as
President of the Russian Federation

36. Q17
• Klout, tipped as the next big thing in the rapidly evolving
world of social media, is being described by its creators
as "the standard for online and internet influence".
• Using a complicated series of algorithms, the system
adds up a person's tweets, likes, pings, LinkedIn
connections, Google mentions, status updates and other
social media musings. The ripple effect of that online
contribution is used to measure how much influence a
person has online and, by inference, whether they are
worth listening to. X (unfortunately) tops the list with a
score of 100, ahead of Barack Obama with 88, and the
Dalai Lama at 90. X?

37. • Justin Bieber

38. Q18
This country has something unique about its
national flag. The red in the flag stands for courage,
and is also color of the rhododendron, the national
flower. The flag's blue border signifies peace. The
curved moon on the flag is a symbol of the peaceful
and calm nature of the people, while the sun
represents the aggressiveness.
Which country’s flag and why is it unique?

39. Nepal's flag is the only national flag in the world that is
not rectangular in shape.

40. Q19
Four countries in Asia have only 4 letters in
their name.
Give me any two for 5 points and all
4 for 10 points

41. Iran
Iraq
Oman
Laos

42. Q20
• One of the most famous comets, it
returns every 75 to 76 years and will
return in 2061. Which one?

43. • Halley‟s Comet

44. LVC
Long Visual Connect
Exhaustive, Specific

45. +70/-35

46. +60/-30

47. +50/-25

48. +40/-20

49. +30/-15

50. +20/-10

51. +10/-0

52. • These are the New 7 Wonders of the World
• Chichen Itza- Mexico
• Petra- Jordan
• Christ the Redeemer- Brazil
• Machu Picchu- Peru
• The Great Wall of China
• The Colosseum- Italy
• The Taj Mahal- India

53. Quiz
Counterclockwise

54. Q21
This is called a
Three-fingered salute
used by all members of
the Scouts organization.
The same term is used for
something else in the
world of computers.
What?

55. • Control+Alt+Del

56. Q22
• Brothers Adi and Rudolph Dassler founded
the „Dassler Brothers Shoe Company‟ in
1924. In 1948 however, they split their
business. Rudolph Dassler founded
„Puma‟, his brother also founded a
sportswear company that is still a major
player on the international market. What is
the name of the company his brother
founded?

57. • Adidas, (Adi Dassler)

58. Q23
• The game was developed primarily by
Namco employee Toru Iwatani. After
receiving inspiration from a pizza with
one slice missing, game designer Iwatani
spent approximately seventeen months on
a game that revolved around eating.
Which famous computer game?

59. • Pacman

60. Q24
• Douglas Engelbart received
patent US3541541 on November
17, 1970 for an "X-Y Position
Indicator for a Display System".
How do we commonly know this
patent as?

61. • The Computer Mouse

62. Q25
• Urbanization has resulted in a major
reduction in numbers of which meat-
eating creature, essential in the
disposal of dead people of Parsi
faith?

63. • The Vulture
• Parsis dispose of their dead by feeding them to vultures

64. Q26
• When Sachin Tendulkar signed a deal for Rs
100 crore for 5 years in 2001, who did he
overtake to become India‟s then highest-
earning sportsperson?

65. • Vishwanathan Anand

66. Q27
• Name the place blanked out on the map below:
• This place was in the news recently

67. • Fukushima, the site of the fairly recent
nuclear disaster

68. Q28
Google celebrated his 183rd birthday with a special "tilting“
Google doodle. Featuring an ocean scene viewed through
the portholes of a submarine, iPad and iPhone users could
watch the water level move in any direction they wished,
when they tilted the device, and thereby get to see different
views of marine life.
Which French author, who pioneered the science
fiction genre, was the subject of this innovative
design?

69. • Jules Verne

70. Q29
What Middle Eastern flag was designed by putting
together the Tallit, a prayer shawl, and the Star of
David?

71. The flag of Israel

72. Q30
• Were he alive in 2006, the American
astronomer Clyde Tombaugh would have
been disappointed as his discovery was
'dwarfed'.
• What did he discover in 1930?

73. • Pluto
• Pluto was demoted to the status of dwarf
planet in 2006.

74. Q31
• ID the two gentlemen in the second frame

75. • Thompson and Thomson from Tintin

76. Connect Q32

77. • Popeye

78. Connect Q33

79. • Indian Nobel Laureates

80. Q34
• Tripoli is the capital of which African
country, which is currently in great
turmoil?

81. • Libya

82. Q35
• Gregory, Cassegrain, Schmidt-
Cassegrain, Huygens, Galileo and Hubble
are all types of what optical instrument?

83. • The Telescope

84. Q36
• If Jack Napier is the Joker, O.C.
Cobblepot is the Penguin, and Harvey
Dent is Two Face, who is Dr Pamela
Isley?

85. • Poison Ivy

86. Q37
• Ralegan Siddhi is a village in Ahmednagar
District, Maharashtra state. Since 1975, the
village has carried out programs like tree
planting, terracing to reduce soil erosion and
digging canals to retain rainwater.
• They also have bans on all bad habits in the
village.
• Why has this village been in the news in the last
year?

87. • Anna Hazare

88. Q38
• First ever winners of World Championship in
which sport?

89. • Rubik‟s Cube Solving

90. Q39
• According to a study by global brands
agency Millward Brown released in
May 2011, which company overtook
Google as the world's most valuable
brand?

91. • Apple

92. Q40
• Her name was Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. In
1929, she came to India to begin her work
among India‟s poorest and sick people. She
founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata in
1950 and also won the Nobel peace prize in
1979. How do we better know her as?

93. • Mother Teresa