asKQAnce 2012 Middle School Finals

asKQAnce 2012

Middle School Quiz FINALS

Quizmasters:

Rajagopal PS and Venkatesh S

Written Round – 8 questions

Clockwise – 12 questions

Anti-Clockwise – 12 questions

Pounce – 8 questions

Write Here, Write Now!

Written Round 8 visuals

+5 for each, no negatives +10 bonus if you get all right

1. What is being shown?

2. Who is the inventor?

3. What is he famous for?

4. Identify either of these Nobel Peace Prize winners

5. In which famous temple in India will you find these?

6. Who is this a tribute to / where will you find it?

7. Name this game – be very specific

8. Walt Disney after winning the Oscar for which movie?

Submit your sheets Answers follow….

1. What is being shown?

Etch A Sketch

2. Who is the inventor?

JC Bose

3. What is he famous for?

Heart Transplant

4. Identify either of these Nobel Peace Prize winners

Al Gore RK Pachauri

5. In which famous temple in India will you find these?

Jagannath Temple, Puri

6. Who is this a tribute to / where will you find it?

Rahul Dravid Chinnaswamy Stadium - Bangalore

7. Name this game – be very specific

Angry Birds Space

8. Walt Disney after winning the Oscar for which movie?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Scores…

Clockwise

12 questions on Infinite Bounce +10 for direct and pass

No negatives

1

“I came in with _____ _____in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with _____ _____. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘” A few months later, in his 76th year, Mark Twain died. What is he talking about?

ANSWER

Halley’s Comet

2

This word comes from the Greek term for “of first or primary importance”. When it was recognized in the 18th century as a distinct class of molecules, the examples included albumin from egg whites. Early scientists believed that it was the most important nutrient for maintaining the structure of the body. What?

ANSWER

Proteins

3

This is the red panda. Another name for this is claimed to be a direct translation of its Chinese name. What on the internet gets its name thus?

ANSWER

Firefox web browser

4

This is one of the oldest mosques in India (located in Hyderabad) and is called ______ Masjid, since soil from this place was brought to build this. What name?

ANSWER

Mecca (Makkah) Masjid

5

This happened for the first time in 1992 at Kingsmead, Durban for the South Africa vs. India series, and involved this player getting run out. What happened?

ANSWER

Third Umpire decision

Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission,

Having never set eyes on this land he was called to ________

Between two peoples fanatically at odds,

With their different diets and incompatible gods.

'Time,' they had briefed him in London, 'is short. It's too late

For mutual reconciliation or rational debate:

The only solution now lies in separation.

The Viceroy thinks, as you will see from his letter,

That the less you are seen in his company the better,

So we've arranged to provide you with other accommodation.

We can give you four judges, two Moslem and two Hindu,

To consult with, but the final decision must rest with you.‘

Who and what is this poem about?

6

ANSWER

Cyril Radcliffe

Partition of India

This place was originally a large swamp settled by fishermen. In the 14th century it was known as the "sea town" and the East India Company laid a claim for it in 1819. The present day name came about when a visiting prince encountered a strange looking animal, which he mistook for a lion. How do we know this place today?

7

ANSWER

Singapore

• The Cobra • His twin brother, Derek • The Clay Camel • The Brass Monkey • Aleena, the Enchantress Main villains for which famous fictional character?

8

ANSWER

Mandrake, the magician

What is common to all these films?

9

ANSWER

All movies based on novels by Indian authors

This was the first movie of an actor. Name his next 8 movies!

10

ANSWER

Daniel Radcliffe played Harry in the Harry Potter movies

Give one word and connect

11

ANSWER

Chetak

Rana Pratap’s horse, HAL helicopters, Bajaj Chetak scooter

What is common to these comics? Explain

11

ANSWER

Based on real life people – Sunil Gavaskar and Amitabh Bachchan

Scores…

Anti-Clockwise

12 questions on Infinite Bounce +10 for direct and pass

No negatives

1 This is the magazine of the American Vegan Society. The person who started this wanted to link Veganism with the principles of a religion and so, gave the tagline to the magazine. Which word is blanked out from the tagline?

ANSWER

Ahimsa

Who died because of injuries he got at a lathi charge in 1928; what was he protesting?

2

ANSWER

Lala Lajpat Rai, while protesting against the Simon Commission

This symbol is one of the recent entries into the English Dictionary. In many early religious texts, it was linked to the soul. As early as the 15th century, it was commonly used as one of the suits in a deck of playing cards. Its use in modern popular culture, can be traced back to the wildly popular slogan designed by Milton Glaser as a tourism logo in the 1970s. Which symbol and which tourism campaign made it popular?

3

ANSWER

The heart symbol for ‘love’

The person on the left is the son of David and one of the

great kings of Israel. On the right is the Egyptian great

royal queen who was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

In which comic strip would you find their names

together?

4

ANSWER

Solomon and Nefertiti, the dolphins in Phantom

While the five rings in the Olympics logo

was chosen to represent the five continents,

why were these colours chosen?

5

ANSWER

At least one of these colours was on the flag of every country in the world in 1896

The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India started on 10 April 1802 with the measurement of a baseline near Madras. The East India Company thought that this project would take about 5 years but eventually it took more than 60 years! The project among other things, measured the heights of various geographical entities. Who was the leader of this survey through most of the 19th century?

6

ANSWER

Sir George Everest after whom the mountain is named

In 1882-1883, Rabindranath Tagore stayed at _______. According to a story, he went on a boat ride upstream along the river Kali; inspired by what he saw and experienced, Tagore wrote “Prakritir Pratishoota” or 'Nature’s Revenge', a dramatic poem, and his very first play. Which place in Karnataka?

7

ANSWER

Karwar

The deer in ‘Bambi’ as originally written by Austrian author Felix Salten looked like this. It was changed in the Disney movie release. Why was it changed?

8

ANSWER

Roe deer do not inhabit the US, so they changed it into a deer that audiences would identify with

The story is set in a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a little girl, Binya, trades her leopard claw necklace for a pretty, frilly ____ ______. The shopkeeper in the town becomes envious of the _____ and employs a boy to steal it. One day the girl finds her ______ missing. Soon after the shopkeeper gets a similar ______ in red. With this, the centre of attraction shifts from Binya to the shopkeeper. Finally, she gifts it to him. Name this short story made into a feature film and the author

9

ANSWER

The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond

The Batu caves, a limestone complex near Kuala Lumpur contain some remarkable temples from the 1860s. They are the site of the famous Thai Pusam festival. At the base of the caves stands a 43-meter gold statue of ________, the largest in the world. What / who’s statue?

10

ANSWER

Lord Muruga

Why was the village of Haradanahalli in Hassan district in Karnataka, in rapturous celebrations on May 30, 1996?

11

ANSWER

HD Deve Gowda, who hails from there became India’s 14th Prime Minister

12 Spread over 156 acres, it is arguably the largest functioning Hindu temple complex in the world. In the Vaishnava parlance, the term "KOIL" signifies this particular temple. With 7 enclosures and 21 towers, this 236 feet tall gopuram here is the tallest in Asia. Myth has it that the coast of Ceylon can be seen from its top. Which is this place?

ANSWER

Sri Ranganatha Swamy Temple - Srirangam

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