1. The Shyam Bhatt Open Quiz
The Finals

2.  6 Rounds
 Round 1 – Topics, Written
Round 2 – Dry, Infinite Bounce
Round 3 – SVVC
Round 4 – Dry, Infinite Bounce
Round 5 – Theme, Written
Round 6 – Differential Scoring, Written

4.  Write Bros
 10 questions
 5 points per question
 Bonus of 10 for getting all 8
 Topic – Famous photographs

5.  "I asked her if she'd like to have a back shot, just to be different"
"She said, 'Yes,' and began to clown around.
'You want it like this?' she asked, posing.
And I said, 'Yeah.‘
"I made only two shots of that pose. It was the second shot that became
famous.“
 Photographer Frank Polowny speaking about his masterpiece featuring
the ideal legs according to hosiery specialists of the era [thigh (18.5") calf
(12"), and ankle (7.5")].
 Just identify the masterpiece.

6.  “I intended this joke for my friends only, not for people who did
not know me. I know who the person is [who betrayed him and
sent the image on to a wider audience]. I've had a discussion
with them, and there's no hard feelings. I don't think this thing
has to do with empathy or the lack of it. The people I intended
it for all said they had a great laugh. That's all”. This is Peter
Guzli, a Hungarian from Budapest speaking about a
photograph he took during a trip to New York in November
1997.
 How do we better known Peter Guzli?

7.  This was the
photographer’s personal
favorite among all snaps
the photographer ever
took.
 Who was the
photographer?

8.  Audrey F. Tomason is one of only two women in the
photograph. She is also the only person in the photograph
under 40 years of age. Reports on her went like this – “Here
were at least half a dozen people with similar profiles in the
immediate vicinity where that photo was taken. The luck of the
camera's gaze means that history will be able to place
Tomason at a decisive moment in war on terrorism, but not her
colleagues”
 Identify the snap. Who was the other woman in the snap?

9.  "In 20-odd years of covering international cricket, this picture means the
most to me. It was taken after what I think is the greatest Test match
turnaround in history, when England defeated Australia at Headingley in
July, 1981. The obvious image would have been an action picture of the
swashbuckling X hitting fours and sixes to all parts of the ground.
However, the quieter moment with him in the dressing room < blanked out
> while reflecting on his momentous achievement is far more poignant. This
is one of the reasons why it has been used extensively in books, magazines
and newspapers“
 This is cricket photographer Adrian Murrell speaking.
 What is he speaking about?

10.  This act got him re-elected and was one of the reasons why
he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
 Who? Where?
 Image in the next slide.

12.  The scene was recreated 2 days after the actual event as a
photographer was not available. However, the censors
noticed that one of the featured guys had a wristwatch on
each arm, indicating that he had been looting. The photo
was therefore edited to removed the watches, and smoke in
the background was darkened to make the picture more
dramatic. The central character in the final image was a guy
named Alyosha Kovalyov.
 What are we talking about?

13.  Still from The Simpsons Episode 16 of Season 6, “Bart vs.
Australia”.
 What is the still based on?
 Image in the next slide.

15.  What specific event inspired the song being recited here?

16.  The cropped portion is the one that all of us are familiar with.
 So, what has been cropped out?

17. EXCHANGE

18.  "I asked her if she'd like to have a back shot, just to be different"
"She said, 'Yes,' and began to clown around.
'You want it like this?' she asked, posing.
And I said, 'Yeah.‘
"I made only two shots of that pose. It was the second shot that became
famous.“
 Photographer Frank Polowny speaking about his masterpiece featuring
the ideal legs according to hosiery specialists of the era [thigh (18.5") calf
(12"), and ankle (7.5")].
 Just identify the masterpiece.

20.  “I intended this joke for my friends only, not for people who did
not know me. I know who the person is [who betrayed him and
sent the image on to a wider audience]. I've had a discussion
with them, and there's no hard feelings. I don't think this thing
has to do with empathy or the lack of it. The people I intended
it for all said they had a great laugh. That's all”. This is Peter
Guzli, a Hungarian from Budapest speaking about a trip to
NewYork in November 1997.
 How do we better known Peter Guzli?

22.  This was the
photographer’s personal
favorite among all snaps
the photographer ever
took.
 Who was the
photographer?

24.  Audrey F. Tomason is one of only two women in the
photograph. She is also the only person in the photograph
under 40 years of age. Reports on her went like this – “Here
were at least half a dozen people with similar profiles in the
immediate vicinity where that photo was taken. The luck of the
camera's gaze means that history will be able to place
Tomason at a decisive moment in war on terrorism, but not her
colleagues”
 Identify the snap. Who was the other woman in the snap?

26.  "In 20-odd years of covering international cricket, this picture means the
most to me. It was taken after what I think is the greatest Test match
turnaround in history, when England defeated Australia at Headingley in
July, 1981. The obvious image would have been an action picture of the
swashbuckling X hitting fours and sixes to all parts of the ground. However,
the quieter moment with him in the dressing room < blanked out > while
reflecting on his momentous achievement is far more poignant. This is one
of the reasons why it has been used extensively in books, magazines and
newspapers“
 This is cricket photographer Adrian Murrell speaking.
 What is he speaking about?

28.  This act got him re-elected and was one of the reasons why
he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
 Who? Where?
 Image in the next slide.

30.  Willy Brandt
 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial

31.  The scene was recreated 2 days after the actual event as a
photographer was not available. However, the censors
noticed that one of the featured guys had a wristwatch on
each arm, indicating that he had been looting. The photo
was therefore edited to removed the watches, and smoke in
the background was darkened to make the picture more
dramatic. The central character in the final image was a guy
named Alyosha Kovalyov.
 What are we talking about?

33.  Still from The Simpsons Episode 16 of Season 6, “Bart vs.
Australia”.
 What is the still based on?
 Image in the next slide.

36.  What specific event inspired the song being recited here?

37.  The 1962 India-China War/ The Battle of Rezang La

38.  The cropped portion is the one that all of us are familiar with.
 So, what has been cropped out?

40.  Dry
 18 questions
 10 points each
 Infinite Bounce

41.  A) The number 19790509, that supposedly referred to May
9, 1979 , the day a businessman named Habib Elghanian was
executed by firing squad in Tehran. The execution was
significant in Jewish history because it resulted in a mass
exodus of Jews out of the Republic.
B) ‘Myrtus’, a sly reference to Queen Esther, the Jewish
queen, who, according to texts written in the 4th century
B.C.E., saved Persian Jews from massacre. Esther’s Hebrew
name was Hadassah, which refers to myrtle.
 Where would one find them together? What did it help
‘establish’?

44.  Three manuscript versions were produced, handpainted in
watercolour in the Japanese characters of katakana and
hiragana and a third version in Arabic numerals. This third
version developed into the International edition, first
published in 1917 by the Kanahara Trading Company.
 Who hand-painted them/What are we talking about?

47.  ‘The Scar’ is the third novel written by China Mieville. The
book was nominated for a number of awards and won the
2003 British Fantasy Award. The book features a floating city
named the Armada, which is comprised of thousands of
ships. The flagship of the Armada is a ship known as The
Morning Walker.
 Why did Mieville name the ship so?

50.  This was one of the exhibits during a 2011 exhibition at the
Knesset commemorating the golden jubilee of an event.
Other items exhibited included keys to a house on Garibaldi
Street in San Fernando, passports, photographs, license
plates a few pairs of gloves etc.
 Why was the original purpose of this particular exhibit?
 Image in the next slide.

54.  Between 1766 and 1769, this admiral-
explorer became the first Frenchman to
circumnavigate the earth, in what was
the first such expedition in the world
with professional naturalists and
geographers aboard. These included Dr.
Philibert Commercon, a noted French
Botanist and Jeanne Bare, the first
woman known to circumnavigate the
globe. The expedition stopped over at
Rio de Janeiro sometime in 1768, where
Commercon did a lot of his work, most
important among them being
classification of a species of thorny,
woody floweing ornamental vines
growing up to 12 metres in height.
 Identify this French admiral in question.

57.  Excerpt from a FinancialTimes article dated 8 Jan, 2012:
“The Mei Moses has beaten the S&P 500 in six of the last 10 years, with an
average annual return of 7.8 per cent compared with 2.7 per cent for the
benchmark US index. The Mei Moses tracks the prices at which individual
_______ ___ _____ sell over time using repeat sales data, in a methodology
similar to the S&P Case-Shiller property index”
 The article quotes Michael Moses, creator of the index : “_____ prices are
not correlated to sudden swings in stock markets but their prices tend to
match changes in wealth creation and destruction. I’m not surprised by this
growth as we are not seeing the wealth damage of 2008-09”.
 Either FITB or tell me what the Mei Moses Index analyses.

60.  “There was a pause after the stock-broker's clerk had concluded his
surprising experience. Then Sherlock Holmes cocked his eye at me, leaning
back on the cushions with a pleased and yet critical face, like a connoisseur
who has just taken his first sip of a _______ ________”.
 Excerpt from The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk. The blanked out
part is a reference to something that has resulted in successful vintages.
The 1811, 1826, 1839, 1845, 1852, 1858, 1861, 1985 & 1989 vintages have
all been attributed to such an event with the 1811 event and the vintage
being the most famous and sought after. The 1811 Chateau d'Yquem,
even went on to receive a perfect 100-point wine rating by famous wine
critic Robert Parker at a 1996 tasting over one hundred and eighty five
years after it was bottled.
 Just FITB and identify the 1811 event.

62. Winemakers have attributed successful vintages and ideal
weather conditions to the appearance of comets

63.  Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming (1 April 1859 –
14 June 1923) was the first director of what would become
the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6. In
this role he was particularly successful in building a post-
imperial British intelligence service. One of the discoveries
by SIS prompted him to say , "Every man (is) his own
stylo/stylus" , which was later adopted by the SIS agents as
an unofficial motto .
 What was this discovery ?

66. • The powerful 20-beam infrared neodymium glass laser built
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1977 for the
study of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and long-scale-
length laser-plasma interactions takes its name from a
mythological character X due to the laser's multi-beamed
structure. It was the world’s most powerful laser system of its
time and could compress fusion fuel to about the density of
lead. This laser system in turn was the inspiration for a
similar device (and its name) in a cult movie Y. The movie is
the only one to feature the Lawrence Livermore lab as a
shooting location.
• X andY please.
• Image in the next slide.

70.  X and Indira Gandhi were close friends and met for the first
time during the Jawaharlal Nehru Lecture in Delhi in 1969.
During an interview with noted Pakistani author Anwar Dil, X
spoke thus about X’s poetry skills and friendship with Indira :
“I don’t know, I don’t call it poetry. And if you say I’m a poet,
that’s all right, but I can’t say that I’m a poet. I am not inspired
by myself. I can’t write a poem to myself. I have thoughts,
some of which are worth communicating to others. In 1981, I
wrote Cosmic Plurality, with illustration. I gave it to my friend
Indira Gandhi”
 Who is X? Picture of the illustration presented to Indira
Gandhi on the next slide.

74.  One of the larger members of its ilk,this 2.99 meters high by 3.62
meters long ‘object’ required no less than an Airbus Beluga (as it
would not fit inside a usual 747 cargo plane) to transport it from its
original location in Paris to Tokyo for an exhibition marking the
France-Japan year in 1998-99. It had to be transported in a vertical
position inside a special pressurized container provided with
isothermal protection and an antivibration device. To mark the
event and associate itself with France-Japan Year, Airbus Industrie
even reproduced the ‘object’ on the flanks of the Beluga.
 Just identify the ‘object’ that was transported.
 Image in the next slide.

79.  A lookout in Nyeri, Kenya for the King's African Rifles was
burned down by the African guerillas during the Mau Mau
rebellion in 1954. It was built in 1932 by Major Eric
Sherbrooke Walker, for his wife (who liked such structures) as
an adjunct facility to the Outspan Hotel.
 The developments at this location on the night of Feb 5-6,
1952, after a state dinner hosted by Chief Justice Horace
Hearne, prompted the gentleman pictured to say something.
What?
 Image in the next slide.

82. “For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl
climbed into a tree one day a Princess and after having what
she described as her most thrilling experience she climbed
down from the tree next day a Queen — God bless her”
- Jim Corbett

84.  Excerpt from the 1886 book pictured:
“In calling me by the strange name of ‘________ ,’ I wonder if
my dear departed parents received a glimpse of the future life
of their child in a camera, speaking to them of her life of
loneliness," mused _________, "for truly I am alone...”
 FITB. Why would this book go on to become famous,
indirectly, approximately 6 decades later?
 Image in the next slide.

88.  The New York City Mayor James J. Walker likened a 1926
event featuring a NYC-ian to Moses parting the Red
Sea, Caesar crossing the Rubicon and Washington crossing
the Delaware. The person who involved was a 3-time
Olympic medallist, winning a Gold and 2 Bronze Medals at
the 1924 Olympics.
 Who and what?

91.  The Council of the EU has a rotary presidency system, whereby the
governments of member countries exchange leadership every 6 months.
It is customary for the presiding country to place an exhibit in the Justus
Lipsius building in Brussels (where the CEU is HQed).
 Pictured is controversial Czech sculptor David Cerny’s ‘Entropa’ unveiled
in Jan 2009 to mark the occasion of Czech Republic’s presidency of the
CEU. It is an unassembled model kit containing pieces in the shapes of
the 27 member states of the EU with a distinctive theme for each state.
a. Which state does the empty panel on the top left stand for?
b. Close-up of another panel is also shown. Which nation does it
represent and what are those 3 little pieces?

95. a. UK – Because of its Euroscepticism and relative isolation
from the European mainland.
b. Portugal and its former colonies – Brazil, Angola and
Mozambique.

96. Why did this gesture land him in trouble?

98.  Paul Gascoigne celebrating by imitating a flute for Rangers
against Celtic in 1998.
 The flute is a protestant symbol, which did not sit well the
the Catholic Celtic fans. The flute represented the Protestant
Orange Institution in Scotland and Ireland and Catholics
were strictly banned from becoming members.
 The flute was also a loyalist symbol, bringing the IRA (Celtic
are pro-IRA) and their death threats into picture.

99.  Connect.

101.  Chico – Because he was a "Chicken-chaser" (woman-chaser).
 Harpo – He played the harp in most of his films.
 Zeppo – Most widely accepted theory being that it was
derived from the Zeppelin (as said by Groucho).
 Gummo – He wore gum-soled shoes, which meant no-one
could hear him sneaking into a room.
 Groucho – Groucho himself insisted that he was named for
the character Groucho the Monk in the comic strip Knocko
the Monk.

102.  Steve Dorner, after working on a new email program for a
year, was finally ready to release it for free to the Internet
community in 1988. The working name was UIUCMail, which
Dorner realized was a tongue twister. Then he remembered a
short story written by X. The story features a woman who
decides to live at the post office where she works rather than
put up with her family at home any longer. Dorner was
processing so much email at the time that he felt like he lived
at the post office, and his program used a "post office"
protocol to fetch mail. He saw a metaphorical connection
and named the program after the author.
 What did he name the program?

105.  Short Video-Visual connect
 6 questions
 Answers to be written down
 5 points for individual answers
 +25/+20/+15 for 1-2/3-4/5-6
 Uniform negative of -5 throughout for getting the
connect wrong

108.  Usually a couples dance which is traditionally accompanied by guitars
and/or hand-clapping, it is very popular in Spain, Portugal and their
colonies. The name of the dance is used as a synonym for a fight due to
its extravagant features. Featured is a famous Portuguese variant
practised in Ribatejo, Portugal.
 Just identify.

112. EXCHANGE

117.  Usually a couples dance which is traditionally accompanied by guitars
and/or hand-clapping, it is very popular in Spain, Portugal and their
colonies. The name of the dance is used as a synonym for a fight due to
its extravagant features. Featured is a famous Portuguese variant
practised in Ribatejo, Portugal.
 Just identify.