The Blue Mountains School Quiz

By:Devang Mehta

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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

QuizClockwise

• 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.

Q1

• Open Sesame

Answer

• 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?

Q2

• V from the film V for Vendetta

Answer

• 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.

Q3

• The Statue of Liberty

Answer

• 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 fimbriationo 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?

Q4

The Union Jack

Answer

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

Q5

• Hello

• 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.

Q6

• Bob Dylan

ID this fictional galaxy

Q7

• 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?

Q8

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

• In which country is this located?

Q9

• Vatican City. • The building is St. Peter’s Basilica

• Whose hat?

Q10

• 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?

Q11

• Quidditch

• 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?

Q12

• Kabaddi

Put Funda and FITB for 2 bonus points each. (exhaustive)

• The Deer Hunter• _________• The French Lieutenant’s

Woman• _________• Silkwood• Out of Africa• Ironweed• A Cry in the Dark• Postcards from the Edge

• The Bridges of Madison County

• One True Thing• Music of the Heart• Adaptation• The Devil wears Prada• Doubt• Julie and Julia• _________________

Q13

Meryl Streep’s 17 Oscar nominations.

FITB:Sophie’s ChoiceKramer v KramerIron Lady

• 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?

Q14

• News of the World

• 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.

Q15

• World of Warcrafto X- The Burning Crusadeo Y- The Wrath of the Lich Kingo Z-Cataclysm

• Who and what was the occasion?

Q16

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

• 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?

Q17

• Justin Bieber

This country has something unique about itsnational flag. The red in the flag stands for courage,and is also color of the rhododendron, the nationalflower. The flag's blue border signifies peace. Thecurved moon on the flag is a symbol of the peacefuland calm nature of the people, while the sunrepresents the aggressiveness.Which country’s flag and why is it unique?

Q18

Nepal's flag is the only national flag in the world that isnot rectangular in shape.

Four countries in Asia have only 4 letters intheir name.

Give me any two for 5 points and all4 for 10 points

Q19

IranIraqOmanLaos

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

Q20

• Halley’s Comet

LVCLong Visual Connect

Exhaustive, Specific

+70/-35

+60/-30

+50/-25

+40/-20

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/-0

• 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

QuizCounterclockwise

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

Q21

• Control+Alt+Del

• 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?

Q22

• Adidas, (Adi Dassler)

• 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?

Q23

• Pacman

• 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?

Q24

• The Computer Mouse

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

Q25

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

• 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?

Q26

• Vishwanathan Anand

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

Q27

• Fukushima, the site of the fairly recent nuclear disaster

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 sciencefiction genre, was the subject of this innovativedesign?

Q28

• Jules Verne

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

Q29

The flag of Israel

• 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?

Q30

• Pluto• Pluto was demoted to the status of dwarf

planet in 2006.

• ID the two gentlemen in the second frame

Q31

• Thompson and Thomson from Tintin

Connect Q32

• Popeye

Connect Q33

• Indian Nobel Laureates

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

Q34

• Libya

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

Q35

• The Telescope

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

Q36

• Poison Ivy

• 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?

Q37

• Anna Hazare

• First ever winners of World Championship in which sport?

Q38

• Rubik’s Cube Solving

• 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?

Q39

• Apple

• 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?

Q40

• Mother Teresa