K-Circle Weekly Quiz (29.10.16)

K-Circle Weekly Quiz (29.10.16)

By Sri Ram Burgula and Pranav Mihir Kandada

Written Round

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Please exchange sheets

Round 2

• Infinite Pounce +10/ -5

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• A Sporangium is an enclosure in which spores are formed. It is also known as X, which is ‘Sporangium’ with a few alphabets removed and replaced.

• The word X, is famous for being the only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary to do something?

• ID X and what is it famous for?

X : Sporange ; rhymes with ‘orange’

2)• AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United

States. More cases soon emerged, alerting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a CDC task force was formed to monitor the outbreak.

• In the early days, the CDC did not have an official name for the disease. At one point, the CDC coined the phrase "the 4H disease", since the syndrome seemed to affect heroin users, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Xs.

• ID X

Haiti(ans)

3)• X was originally supposed to be in Barcelona. But thinking the

thing would end up looking like an eyesore, the city rejected Y's plans, and he was forced to repitch the project elsewhere.

• Y found a new home for X in the city Z. X was criticized by Z-ians as well, and one especially harsh reviewer referred to the thing as a "metal asparagus”. X was offered for sale as scrap and was spared only because it proved useful to the army. (They found that its height worked nicely as a communications tower.)

• ID X

Eiffel Tower

4)• The first issue of X was published in Cincinnati, on November 1,

1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry. In the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a mail service for travelling entertainers.

• X’s editorial changed focus as technology in a particular field developed. X is now widely associated with publishing news, opinions, and reviews regarding new things in this field.

• ID X, whose "most enduring and influential creation“ is a weekly tabulation which tracks the sales and other data about the most popular things in this field.

Billboard

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• X is a 2014 advocacy documentary film about the changing attitudes in the United States concerning the large system of dams in that country.

• The 9 lettered word X means being condemned to eternal punishment in hell. The movie title cleverly breaks the one word into two smaller words, in context with the theme of the movie.

• Give X.

6)• According to an Australian Public Service

Announcement, what would this ‘person’ named Graham be able to do that ordinary people wouldn’t, and therefore ordinary people should not be reckless, as they are not Graham?

• Graham can fully survive a car crash. • Ordinary Humans and Australians cannot.

7)• The X, is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The

fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. In the 20th century it was the most popular cultivar in Eastern Canada and New England.

• The name became popular in another context during the 80s, with very slight alteration in spelling, when a product was named after it.

• The name of the product and the family of products was later shortened and that is how the products are known today.

•ID X.

Mcintosh (macintosh and mac)

8)

• George Harrison, who died in 2001, spent his final days in LA and was a keen gardener.

• In 2004, a pine tree was planted in his memory in Griffith Park. The sapling grew to be more than 10 feet tall in 2013. Sadly, the tree had to be cut down, leaving the city to mourn what some called rock music’s most ironic dead tree.

• What happened to the tree, that it had to be cut down?

The tree was infested by beetles

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• The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of King Charles II .During the voting, Each side—those voting for and against—appointed a teller who stood on each side of the door through which those Lords who had voted "aye" re-entered the House (the "nays" remained seated). One teller would count them aloud whilst the other teller listened and kept watch in order to know if the other teller was telling the truth.

• The clerk recorded in the minutes of the Lords that the "ayes" had fifty-seven and the "nays" had fifty-five, a total of 112, but the same minutes also state that only 107 Lords had attended that sitting.

• The Bill passed because of one of the tellers did something (when not being noticed by the other) that most of us must have often done in jest. How did the bill pass?

• Lord Grey and Lord Norris were named to be the tellers: Lord Norris, being a man subject to vapours, was not at all times attentive to what he was doing:

• so, a very fat lord coming in, Lord Grey counted him as ten, as a jest at first: but seeing Lord Norris had not observed it, he went on with this misreckoning of ten: so it was reported that they that were for the Bill were in the majority, though indeed it went for the other side: and by this means the Bill passed.

By counting a very fat lord as 10 votes, as a jest.

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• X is a species of wasp named after the very famous X. The reason cited is"Since parasitism by this species causes the host caterpillar to bend and twist its abdomen in various ways, and X is also famous for her belly-dancing, the name seems particularly appropriate."

• ID X

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12)

This is the Iron Man version of the famous Mr. Potato Head toy. Pun on the alter ego of Iron Man, and tell me what this toy’s alter ego is called.

Tony starch

Maro Charitra

Minimal posters of Ulaganayagan’s movies

• 10 movies• +5 for each correct answer• +10 bonus

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Please exchange the sheets

Answers1. Avvai Shanmughi 2. Dasavathaaram3. Apoorva Sagodharargal* 4. Vishwaroopam5. Hey Ram6. Guna7. Pushpak*8. Thevar Magan*9. Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu10. Nayagan

Pounce and Bounce

• 13 Questions• Infinite Pounce (not the Chennai one)• +10 on direct/pass• +10/-5 on pounce

1. Who is her very famous son?• Maye Haldeman (maiden name), born 1948, has been a model for 50 years

appearing on the covers of magazines including Time. New York Post asserted her self-earned fame declaring she is "A star in her own right".

• As a young woman, Maye a was finalist in the 1969 Miss South Africa beauty competition. In 1970, she married Errol an engineer she met in high school. In 1979 she divorced Errol and their sons ____ and Kimbal decided to live with her and moved to Canada.

• She has appeared on boxes of Special K cereal; in Revlon ads; a Beyoncé video; she appeared nude on the cover of Time magazine for a health issue;

and starred in advertisement campaigns for Target and Virgin America. In 2015, she was signed by IMG Models.

• Inspite of being a successful model, most of us know her as the mother of ____ ____. When asked about it she said, “I was famous until ____ became famous,”. (pic)

Answer is

Elon Musk

2. • Daily Mirror called it “The kiss of Death”• Some other news publications termed it “kiss of

freedom” and Amul of course had their own cheeky take on the whole controversy

• What 1993 incident which caused a huge outrage among the Islamic fundamentalists were they reporting?

Answer is

Shabana Azmi kissing Mandela

3. • Pita Nikolas Taufatofua made waves on social media during

the opening ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics when he led his country into the arena shirtless and covered in oil. However, while many seemed to be under the impression that Taufatofua looked that way for the audience’s benefit, his shiny appearance actually had cultural significance.

• The taekwondo athlete took to Facebook to explain what body oil means to his people

“Coconut oil is an integral part of indigenous Oceanian body adornment,” he wrote. “Typically performers apply copious amounts of coconut oils on their body as a celebration of the symmetry of the human body as well as a mark of ancestral identity.”• Which country was Taufatofua representing?

Answer is

Tonga

4. Name the delicacy• Earlier this year during the ‘race’ for naming the latest

version of Android, one particular Indian delicacy made it to the list of top competitors and was the favourite at one point.

• This sweet is a rice-based fritter fried in ghee. The name is derived from the words ____ meaning "ghee" and _____ meaning "pancake”.

• It is typically made of rice flour, jaggery, ghee-fried coconut (pieces or grated), ghee, cardamom and milk.

• It is a very popular sweet in Kerala and is served as an offering in many traditional Saint Thomas Christian (Syrian Christian) churches and Hindu temples.

Answer is

Neyyappam

5. Who?• His grandfather had migrated from central Gujarat in the

early years of the 20th century to Kenya during the British Raj. His father was born in Kenya, and had established himself in Nairobi as a successful entrepreneur, running a business on spare parts.

• Identify this person who has Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, and went on to do an M. Phil from Oxford University in 1986, and a PhD from Yale University in 1990

• He currently lives with his mother in Mumbai and is said to have declined a job offer in Shanghai to be with her.

Answer is

Urjit Patel

6. What was the term given to such hiding places?

• When Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558, there were several plots designed to remove her and severe measures were taken to punish the conspirators. The measures put in force shortly after Elizabeth's accession became much harsher after the Rising of the North and the Babington Plot in particular, the utmost severity of the law being enforced against ___(x)___. “___(x)___ Hunters" were tasked to collect information and locate them

• In order to protect these people from the “pursuivants” many great houses had a ‘__(x)__ ____’.

• A ‘__(x)__ ____’ is the term given to a hiding place built for a ‘__(x)__’ so that their presence could be concealed when searches were made of the building. They were cunningly concealed in walls, under floors, behind wainscoting and other locations and were often successful in concealing their occupant. __(x)__ _____ were built in fireplaces, attics and staircases and were largely constructed between the 1550s and 1605.

Answer is

Priest’s Hole

7.• ____ ____ ___________, Inc. is a chain of theme restaurants

founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in Piccadilly, London.

• In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain.

• In 2007, it was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and is currently headquartered in Orlando, FL. As of December 2015, there were 191 outlets in 59 countries, including 157 cafes, 22 hotels, and 11 casinos

• In August 2016, it has been reported that the NFL will announce the Miami Dolphins' stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida will be renamed ____ ____ Stadium

Answer is

Hard Rock

8. Who made a special appearance on Jimmy Kimmel with the trailer of the movie ‘HANKS’?

Answer is

Captain Chesley Sully

9.

“I used to come out for a couple of years after I made it… to get over my PTSD I would work through my own trauma, because it was traumatic. I would just sit in that boat alone for hours, just working through, and I would shake. My hands would shake.”• Identify the speaker and the subject of the topic

discussed in the above paragraph (this happened around 42 years ago and would also remind us of Tolkien’s LOTR in someway).

Answer is

Spielberg on making Jaws

10. What?

• ____ ______ is a deodorant, originally sold by Mennen. It was first released in early 1991, and with heavy advertising campaigns, it had soon "established a market niche" with teen girls.

• Acquired by Colgate-Palmolive in 1992, this brand was said to be the most popular product of its kind, and was the favorite of nearly 1/4 of all teenage girls.

• Those of us who haven’t used this deodorant know it due to something that was released in September, 1991.

Answer is

Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Sales were boosted by the band Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," a song inspired by Kathleen Hanna (then lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill) writing "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" on Kurt Cobain's wall (because Tobi Vail, Hanna's band mate and Kurt's then-girlfriend, wore Teen Spirit).

11. Who?• He went to the St. Peters school in Panchgani and is described an

“introvert” and a “prodigy” by his childhood friends.• When asked about his nickname ‘Bucky’, his friend Farang Irani

recalls, “He was nicknamed ‘Bucky’, because of his buck teeth. He was very conscious of his protruding teeth. He used to keep trying to cover them with his upper lip, and when he laughed he had the habit of covering his mouth with his hand. Later on in life he grew a moustache, probably to try and cover his teeth. When we first started calling him Bucky, I remember he started calling himself ______ to try and divert us. But the name Bucky stuck – at least as long as he was in school.”

• He was also very fond of cycling and we used to cycle from Panchgani to Mahableshwar and back – about 20 km – just for fun.

• After Panchgani, he went to school in Zanzibar for a couple of years. And then there was a revolution in Zanzibar, and his family migrated.

Answer is

Freddie Mercury

12. Give X, Y and Z.

• After an unsuccessful attempt at stand-up comedy in the mid 70s, this actor started working as a member of the Production Crew at public television station in Pittsburgh. Later, he left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts.

• Once he got actual gig he had to register with the SAG and subsequently found out that both variations of his name (longer-shorter first names) were taken. One was an actor (Y) and son of a legendary star and the other was an acclaimed talk show host.

• So, he decided to use a stage name to satisfy SAG rules and hence changed his to ________ ______ (X).

• It’s been widely reported that he chose the new surname because he came across _____ ______’s (Z) name (who had acted in three Academy Award-winning films by then) in the newspaper and liked the sound of it. But a few years ago he downplayed the connection and admitted that if he had his way, he’d go by his given name.

Answer is

• X- Michael Keaton• Y- Michael Douglas• Z- Diane Keaton

13.

• In 1938, Chevrolet released models of the Master and Master Deluxe (with an additional ‘Sports’ model), which are considered timeless by collectors.

• Along with the sedans they released a bunch of trucks made for domestic use.

• Look at the images of one such model and tell me how was it made famous in this part of the world.

Answer is

NTR’s ‘Chaitanya Ratham’

“New Zealand: Australia’s Australia”

-John Oliver

Written Round• Every question has a New Zealand connect• 12 Questions• +10 for each right answer• Bonus points (+10) if you get all right

1. Id this European city and tell me which place in the South Island is named after it.

2. Identify this space aeronautics pioneer.

• This medal awarded by Royal Society of NZ is named after William Hayward "Bill" ________ ONZ KBE, a New Zealand-born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 22 years, retiring in 1976.

• He was given the IEEE Edison Medal in 1972, Japan Prize in 1994, Magellanic Premiumin 1966 and the National Medal of Science in 1975 (awarded by President Gerald Ford).

• He is also one of the very few non-politicians to appear on the cover of TIME magazine twice.

3. Only five independent countries have the Union Jack in their national flags. UK, Australia and New Zealand

are three of them. Name the other two.• a)• \\

b)

4. FITB

The highlighted piece land (red) is a peninsular region in The North Island.

It is called the __________ Peninsula, named after HMS__________, a ship of the BritishRoyal Navy, which stopped on the east coast of India at

the __________ Harbour in 1820 to purchase kauri spars.

5. What did the Royal family ‘snub’?

• In January 2008, when the whole nation was in mourning, they were shocked to hear that no member of the Royal family will be visiting New Zealand to give their condolences.

• The New Zealand Herald, their biggest-selling newspaper, broke the news with the headline, "Royal family snubs ___ __”

• Many New Zealanders were outraged and the paper said this will push the country towards becoming a Republic.

6. Name this ice-cream flavour.• _____ _____ is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand, consisting

of plain vanilla with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee. • The original recipe until around 1980 consisted of solid toffee,

but in a marketing change Tip-Top decided to use small balls of honeycomb toffee instead.

• It is the New Zealand term for honeycomb toffee and also a slang term for ice cream sold by street vendors.

• The Encyclopedia Of Food says the term originated from the Italian phrase oh che poco - "oh how little". Alternative possible derivations include other similar-sounding Italian phrases: for example ecco un poco - "here is a (little) piece".

• In India, you might know this term due to a company called Drums Food International.

7.

• According to Maori mythology he fished up the North Island, made the sun slow down and stole fire from the gods.

• In a yet-to-be released Disney movie, his depiction as an obese man has upset people from the Pacific Islands.

• Name the movie, the character and the person who voiced it.

8. Id this method of cooking

• _____ is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven. This method is still used for special occasions.

• To "lay a _____" or "put down a _____" involves digging a pit in the ground, heating stones in the pit with a large fire, placing baskets of food on top of the stones, and covering everything with earth for several hours before uncovering (or lifting) the ______.

• Another name sometimes used is umu. (pic)

9. FITB• This biscuit was first known as the Soldiers’ Biscuit. It is a sweet biscuit,

popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup and baking soda.

• It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation. Today, they are manufactured commercially for retail sale.

• Because of their military connection these biscuits are often used as a fundraising item for their respective army officers and veterans.

• The term _____ is protected under Australian law and cannot be used in Australia without permission from the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Likewise similar restrictions on naming are enshrined in New Zealand. There is a general exemption granted for _____ biscuits, as long as these biscuits remain basically true to the original recipe and are both referred to and sold as _____ biscuits and never as cookies.

10.Id this amazing athlete.• She is a Korean-born NewZealand professional golfer who

became the youngest player of either sex to be ranked No. 1 in professional golf.

• At the Rio Olympics she won the silver medal.• On 23 April 2014, one day before her 17th birthday, she was

named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people

11. a) Identify this person who probably the most

famous New Zealander of the 20th century.

b) Whose autobiography is this?

12. Who were this group of people?

• In the late 20th century a group people commissioned Harrington’s Breweries to make authentic looking beer which smelled and tasted like alcohol, to give them a real feel and create an atmosphere.

• So Harrington Breweries produced “Sobering Thought”.

Please exchange your sheets

1. Id this European city and tell me which place in the South Island is named after it.

Edinburgh Dunedin

• The Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland, through a company called the Otago Association, founded Dunedin at the head of Otago Harbour in 1848 as the principal town of its special settlement.

• The name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

2. Identify this space aeronautics pioneer.

• This medal awarded by Royal Society of NZ is named after William Hayward "Bill" ________ ONZ KBE, a New Zealand-born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 22 years, retiring in 1976.

• He was given the IEEE Edison Medal in 1972, Japan Prize in 1994, Magellanic Premiumin 1966 and the National Medal of Science in 1975 (awarded by President Gerald Ford).

• He is also one of the very few non-politicians to appear on the cover of TIME magazine twice.

Pickering Medal• In 2009 to mark the International Year of Astronomy, William

Hayward Pickering was selected along with cosmologist Beatrice Tinsley to have their names bestowed on peaks in the Kepler Mountains of New Zealand's Fiordland National Park.

• In December 2010 the New Zealand Geographic Board officially gazetted Mount Pickering as an official New Zealand place name.

• Three roads in New Zealand have been named after Pickering, namely: Sir William Pickering Drive in the Canterbury Technology Park in Christchurch; Pickering Crescent in Hamilton; and William Pickering Drive in Auckland.

3. Only five independent countries have the Union Jack in their national flags. UK, Australia and New Zealand

are three of them. Name the other two.• a)• \\

b)

Tuvalu and Fiji

4. FITB

The highlighted piece land (red) is a peninsular region in The North Island.

It is called the __________ Peninsula, named after HMS__________, a ship of the BritishRoyal Navy, which stopped on the east coast of India at

the __________ Harbour in 1820 to purchase kauri spars.

5. What did the Royal family ‘snub’?

• In January 2008, when the whole nation was in mourning, they were shocked to hear that no member of the Royal family will be visiting New Zealand to give their condolences.

• The New Zealand Herald, their biggest-selling newspaper, broke the news with the headline, "Royal family snubs ___ __”

• Many New Zealanders were outraged and the paper said this will push the country towards becoming a Republic.

Sir Edmund Hillary’s state funeral

6. Name this ice-cream flavour.• _____ _____ is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand, consisting

of plain vanilla with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee. • The original recipe until around 1980 consisted of solid toffee,

but in a marketing change Tip-Top decided to use small balls of honeycomb toffee instead.

• It is the New Zealand term for honeycomb toffee and also a slang term for ice cream sold by street vendors.

• The Encyclopedia Of Food says the term originated from the Italian phrase oh che poco - "oh how little". Alternative possible derivations include other similar-sounding Italian phrases: for example ecco un poco - "here is a (little) piece".

• In India, you might know this term due to a company called Drums Food International.

Hokey Pokey

7.

• According to Maori mythology he fished up the North Island, made the sun slow down and stole fire from the gods.

• In a yet-to-be released Disney movie, his depiction as an obese man has upset people from the Pacific Islands.

• Name the movie, the character and the person who voiced it.

• Maui• Moana• Dwayne Johnson

8. Id this method of cooking

• _____ is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven. This method is still used for special occasions.

• To "lay a _____" or "put down a _____" involves digging a pit in the ground, heating stones in the pit with a large fire, placing baskets of food on top of the stones, and covering everything with earth for several hours before uncovering (or lifting) the ______.

• Another name sometimes used is umu. (pic)

Hangi

9. FITB• This biscuit was first known as the Soldiers’ Biscuit. It is a sweet biscuit,

popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup and baking soda.

• It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation. Today, they are manufactured commercially for retail sale.

• Because of their military connection these biscuits are often used as a fundraising item for their respective army officers and veterans.

• The term _____ is protected under Australian law and cannot be used in Australia without permission from the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Likewise similar restrictions on naming are enshrined in New Zealand. There is a general exemption granted for _____ biscuits, as long as these biscuits remain basically true to the original recipe and are both referred to and sold as _____ biscuits and never as cookies.

Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

10.Id this amazing athlete.• She is a Korean-born NewZealand professional golfer who

became the youngest player of either sex to be ranked No. 1 in professional golf.

• At the Rio Olympics she won the silver medal.• On 23 April 2014, one day before her 17th birthday, she was

named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people

Lydia Ko

11. a) Identify this person who probably the most

famous New Zealander of the 20th century.

b) Whose autobiography is this?

a) Lord Ernest Rutherfordb) Sir Richard Hadlee

12. Who were this group of people?

• In the late 20th century a group people commissioned Harrington’s Breweries to make authentic looking beer which smelled and tasted like alcohol, to give them a real feel and create an atmosphere.

• So Harrington Breweries produced “Sobering Thought”.