Cult A Way 2012 Quiz : Quarter Life Crisis 2.0

Quarter Life
Crisis 2.0
Final Round

Round 1

Rules

• Differential scoring
Write Brothers
• 1-2 teams answering -> 20 points

1. An artistic protest against the perceived
artificiality. Identify the works.

2. How is this book
better known..?
Who is the author..?

3. Connect

This philosophy is a broadly
inclusive term for related
concepts that living
organisms on a planet will
affect the nature of their
environment in order to
make the environment more
suitable for life.

This set of theories holds that
all organisms on an
extraterrestrial life-giving
planet regulate
the biosphere to the benefit
of the whole

4. Identify them, and their most famous duet.

5.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez‘
Book One Hundred Years
of Solitude depicts a
fictional version of which
massacre which have its
name adopted from a
phrase coined by writer O.
Henry, which is used to
refer to a politically
unstable country,which
again derives its name
from a large company
who did political
manipulations to protect its
interest.

6. This Coat of arms of a German state
inspired something famous. Give the name of
the state and the ―Something‖ which it
inspired

8. What connects these two ladies?

Land Art
 Spiral Jetty

 Double Negative

Life and Adventures of Fanny Hill by Joseph
Cleand

Mukkala Mukkabula

Mano and Swarnalatha

 United Fruit Corporation

 Banana Massacre

Coat of arms of Bavaria which inspired Flag
of Bavaria which in turn inspired BMW logo

 Peter Kropotkin
 Founder of Anarchist Communism

 Katya Budanova

 Lydia Litvyak

 Only 2 female flying aces

1. Id the Speaker and the subject

―Had this act not been done by me, of course it
would have been better for me. But circumstances
were beyond my control. So strong was the impulse of
my mind that I felt that this man should not be
allowed to meet a natural death so that the world
may know that he had to pay the penalty of his life
for his unjust, anti-national and dangerous favoritism
towards a fanatical section of the Society. I decided
to put an end to this matter and to the further
massacre of lakhs of people for no fault of theirs‖

Nadhuram Ghodse Speaking on Gandhi‘s
Assassination

2. Identify X,Y
Story has it that a very learned
Englishman, who apparently thought he
was the living end in understanding the
English language, approached X, the
literary giant, one day. Quite flippantly he
declared, ―X, do you realize that in the
English language there are only two words
beginning with the letters ‗su‘ that receive
the ‗sh‘ sound, sugar and sumac‖ – to
which X replied, ―Y‖.

 G.B Shaw replied ―Sure‖

3. What is his achivement ?
When Kashaba Dadasahib wanted some
financial help for his journey, he received a cold
snub from the then Bombay chief minister
Morarji Desai, asking him to contact them
afterwards. The principal of Kolhapur's Rajaram
college, Mr. Khardekar, who knew Kashaba
from childhood mortgaged his house for a sum
of Rs. 7,000 to pay for his travelling cost. Local
shopkeepers from his village Goleshwar, in
Karad taluka Satara district presented him with
groceries and other items of use to get through
with journey. Kashaba returned a hero but was
forgotten soon and remains a forgotten hero till
date . What was his achievement ?

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadav was the first
Indian to win an individual medal in
olympics in Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
wrestling at the 1952 Games in Helsinki.

X was discovered
serendipitously in 1856 by 18-
year old William Henry 4. What ?
Perkin, who was trying to
synthesize the anti-malaria drug
quinine as a challenge from his
professor, August Wilhelm von
Hofmann. In one of his
attempts, Perkin oxidized
Aniline using Potassium
dichromate. Under these
conditions, the aniline reacted
with toluidine impurities in it to
produce a black solid, a fairly
common result in "failed"
organic syntheses. While trying
to clean out his flask, Perkin
discovered that some
component of the black solid
dissolved in alcohol to give a
purple-colored solution, which
he patented afterwards.

 Mauveine

 1st organic chemical dye

5. Who is the speaker . What is he speaking
about ?
―In the novel it does fit in . But Parliament is a
place of union for all religious groups, and there
this cannot be appropriate. When Bengali
Mussulmans show signs of stubborn fanaticism, we
regard these as intolerable. When we too copy
them and make unreasonable demands, it will be
self-defeating.―
"Bengali Hindus have become agitated over this
matter, but it does not concern only Hindus. Since
there are strong feelings on both sides, a
balanced judgment is essential. In pursuit of our
political aims we want peace, unity and good
will—we do not want the endless tug of war that
comes from supporting the demands of one
fraction over the other.―

 Rabindranath
Tagore Disclaiming Vande
Matharam to be the National Anthem of
India

 The Novel is ―Anantha math‖

He is Sepoy 6. What unique
Khudadad Khan distinction ?
assigned to 129th
Duke of
Connaught's Own
Baluchis, Hollebeke
Sector, Belgium. He
served in the
First Battle of
Ypres, 31 October
1914 for British Indian
Army. What unique
Distinction does he
hold ?

 He is the 1st Indian to win the ―Victoria
Cross‖ which is the highest military award
in England

7. In a family of
storytellers, there was one
tale never told ... "Call this
story fiction if you want, but
you must tell it because it is
true, and at its heart is that
murder of forty years ago
which people in India still
remember ... "
The Death of Mr. Love, a
novel inspired by a true
story where the victim
became a villain and the
killer became a hero, offers
a rare and fascinating
insight into the psychosexual
undercurrents of Indian life.
What is the Book all about..?

 Prem
Ahuja Murder by Naval
Commander Nanavati , The last time
when a Jury trial happened in India

8. And thus the child was named….
“Obliged to find an apartment of their own, my
parents searched the neighborhood and chose
one within walking distance of the park.
Showing them out after they had viewed it, the
landlady said: "And you'll be glad to know I
don't take Jews." Her mistake made clear to
her, the anti-Semitic landlady was
renounced, and another apartment found. But
her blunder left its mark. Back on the street my
mother made a vow. Her unborn baby would
have a label proclaiming his race to the world.
He would be called __________________”

9. FITB
No Exit is a Play by Jean-Paul Sartre is a depiction of
the afterlife in which three deceased characters are
punished by being locked into a room together for
eternity, and is the source of Sartre's most famous
quotation______ ___ ____ _____

On the face of it ____ _____ ____ ____ looks deeply
misanthropic, but actually Sartre was making an
observation about the tendency of human beings to
lack self-knowledge. We tend to project our worst
fears, and our most deeply disliked personal
characteristics, onto other people, rather than look
inside and face them within ourselves. Thus, when
we look at other people we often see the worst of
what is in our own personality.

 ―Hellis Other People‖ (L'enfer, c'est les
autres,)

10. Identify X
In 1901 Frank Hornby, a clerk from
Liverpool, England, invented and patented
a new toy called "Mechanics Made Easy"
that was based on the principles of
mechanical engineering .
The parts for Hornby's new construction kit
were initially supplied by outside
manufacturers, but as demand began to
exceed supply, Hornby set up his own
factory in Duke Street, Liverpool. As the
construction kits gained in popularity they
soon became known as X

11. What is this ―X‖ which ―Smells‖. ;)
X is a thickening/gelling agent generally
mixed with gasoline or a similar fuel for use in
military operations—primarily as an anti-
personnel weapon. The term X is from what
was originally thought to be its composition:
Sodium Palmitate. As it turned out, the
Sodium Palmitate used to make the first X had
an additional substance in it. However, the
name was kept because it was well into the
development process when this was
discovered.

 Napalm

 ―Love the smell of Napalm in the Morning‖
:P

The Invisible College started as
a group of approximately 12 12.
scientists, meeting at a variety
of locations, including the
houses of their members and
Gresham College. Some
Members were John
Wilkins, Jonathan
Goddard, Robert
Hooke, Christopher
Wren, William Petty & Robert
Boyle. The group discussed the
"new science", as promoted
by Francis Bacon in his New
Atlantis, from approx. 1645
onwards. It initially had no rules
or methods, and the primary
goals were to organize and
view experiments and
communicate their discoveries
to each other. By What name
Do we know the invisible
college now ?

 The Royal Society of London

 St Basil‘s Church at the Red Square

 ―We are all Khalid Said‖ the FB page
which triggered the Egyptian revolution
and which thus lead to Hosni Mubarak
losing his power

15. The head of the Deathhead moth in the famous
Poster of the ‗silence of the lambs‘ was replaced by
X-a painting by Y. What is X and Y..?

In Voluptas Mors by Salvador
Dali

 1st Barath Ratna Recipients
C Rajagopalachari
 Dr. S Radhakrishnan
 C V Raman

 Lana Turner and Johnny Stompannato a
scene from LA Confidential

 Lana turners Daughter Cheryl Crane Killed
Stompannato in an attempt to save her from
domestic violence and court ruled it as a
justifiable homicide

 Need Lana turner‘s Daughter and
Stompannato Murder for Points

1. Which Part of the human body..?
The phrase cupid‘s bow is common in
literature, often used related to the human
body part X as in Shakespeare's "Venus and
Adonis":

“For pity now she can no more detain him;
The poor fool prays her that he may depart:
She is resolv'd no longer to restrain him, Bids
him farewell, and look well to her heart,
The which, by Cupid's bow she doth protest.”

2. What are the more popular
names ..?
The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde
Airfield by the German Luftwaffe during the
Second World War. During initial
development it was known by the
codename "Cherry Stone". The first of the
so-called Vergeltungswaffen series
designed for terror bombing of London, the
V-1 was fired from "ski" launch sites along
the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch
coasts.

3. Thomas Ady's ―A
candle in the dark”
(1656) contains one
of the earliest
mentions of ―_____
______‖ which is the
origin of the word
hoax..

4. Who is this forgotten name in the field of
nursing..?
The British Government decided to permit women to
travel to the war affected area during the Crimean
war, but X was not included in the party of 38 nurses
chosen by Florence Nightingale. Instead, she borrowed
money to make the 4,000-mile (about 6500 km) journey
by herself. She distinguished herself treating battlefield
wounded, often nursing wounded soldiers from both
sides while under fire. When the conflict ended in 1856
she found herself stranded and almost destitute, and
was only saved from adversity by friends from the
Crimean War who organised a benefit concert. In later
years, she expressed a desire to work in India after the
Indian Rebellion of 1857, but was unable to raise the
necessary funds.

5. Who or What?
Believed to be a stowaway on a U.S. military
transport near the end of World War II, the X
came to Guam and nearly eliminated the
native bird population of an island. X is
relatively harmless to human beings. Studies
have suggested a high density of X on
Guam, although residents rarely see them.

6. Who..?
His doctoral thesis on the teleportation of
matter through extremely dense elements
was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-
Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum
Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear
Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long
Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked
Source Array. WHO ?

 Clue is Atomic Decay

 Gordon Freeman : Hero of Half Life

7. FITB
In Protestant Christianity, ―_____ _____”refers
to a "spiritual rebirth" (regeneration) of the
human soul or spirit, contrasted with the
physical birth everyone experiences. The
origin of the term ―______ ____" is the New
Testament: "Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell
you, no one can see the kingdom of God
without being ‗____ ____‘"It is a term
associated with salvation in Christianity.
Individuals who profess to be ____ ______
often state that they have a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ

 1857: The First War of Indian
Independence
 British made these in memory of those
died in the war

9. Id the book. Clue is the dog

Papillon is the French word for butterfly Dog is the Pappilon tony
spaniel with a Butterfly face.

10. Identify the series..?
_____ ________is a series of animated short subjects, 75
in total, produced by Walt Disney Productions from
1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at
Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los
Angeles. Unlike the Mickey Mouse series, to which it is
a sister series, _____ ________ did not usually feature
continuing characters (an exception being the
characters in The Three Little Pigs which had three
sequels) and as such were unique in their own way.
Donald Duck got his start in a ____ _____cartoon (The
Wise Little Hen, 1934), and Pluto's first appearance
without Mickey Mouse was also in a ____ ______
cartoon (Just Dogs, 1932). Characters such as Donald
Duck were separated from the ________ ______ group
to have their own cartoon series.

11. Why was there a controversy triggered
by these magazine covers?

 The ‗Devil Horn‘ covers

12. X and Y..?
X is the guardian to
Shiva temples. Y is its
popular name.

 Purushamrigam
 Indian Sphinx

13. Auctioned object from 2007. Why
did it make headlines?

The window from where Lee Harvey Oswald
shot JFK

_______ _____ _______is a protest
movement that began
September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti 14. FITB
Park, located in New York City's
______ ______. The protests are
against social and economic
inequality, greed, corruption and
the undue influence of
corporations on government—
particularly from the financial
services sector. To effect change
______ _______ _____uses "direct
action" instead of petitioning
authorities. Their slogan, We are
the 99%, addresses the growing
income inequality and wealth
distribution in the U.S. between the
wealthiest 1% and the rest of the
population. _______ ______ ____
was initiated by the Canadian
activist group Adbusters and has
led to ____ _____ ____ around the
world.

 Occupy Wall Street Movement by
Adbusters

15. Who is the Speaker ? What is he
speaking about ?

―I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am
the only man in the country not allowed to
give his name to his own children.‖

 Speaker is His Excellency Prince Philip
Duke of Edinburgh, Consort to Queen
Elizabeth II who said like this when his
surname Mountbatten was not allowed to
be used by their children by the Queen
Mother Elizabeth and they continued
with Windsor as the surname

 AfterQueen mother‘s death Queen
Elizabeth revised this and their Children
started using Mountbatten as surname
unofficially though

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