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Prelims
Hyderabad Chennai Madurai
A Big Shout-Out to our Sponsors, Prof. KK. Anand’s SMART Academy!
Rules:
❖ 1 point per question. Half points wherever applicable.❖ No googling. Switch off your mobiles and keep them in your bag.❖ Last names alone will be accepted. But wrong first names will not
fetch you points.❖ Questions 11-17 are *starred* - they will be used to break ties. If a tie
still persists, sudden death will be followed starting with question 1. ❖ QM’s decision is final.❖ The top 8 teams from the prelims make regional finals.
Update..
Yesterday’s prelims saw a top score of 27/30 (Calicut).Maximum participation was also from Calicut, ~110 teams.
Prof. KK Anand will now speak a few words..
Audience Prizes for every right answer..
1.
In 1791, a theatre owner, James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the English language within twenty-four hours. He then hired a group of urchins and made them write the word all over the city walls. When the city dwellers woke up the next morning, they found that every nook and corner of the city sported a bizarre word whose meaning they did not know. Hence Daly won the bet. What’s the good word?
1.
Quiz
2.
This is Nigel Planter from the CN show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Who is he a parody of?
2.
Harry Potter
3.
❖ This term was coined by journalist Don Hoefler. He used it as the title of a series of articles in the newspaper Electronic News which started with the January, 1971 issue. The term also shares its name with a popular TV show (recent) set in a certain region which is a leading hub and startup ecosystem, after which it is named.
❖ Which term?
3.
4.
In the absence of an anesthetic during times of war in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, a/an X was given to patients to clench between their teeth while being operated upon. This has led to the creation of the phrase “____ the X”.
What phrase?
4.
Bite the Bullet
5.
The first edition of the Cannes Film Festival was originally set to be held in 1939 under the Presidency of Louis Lumière. However, it finally took place only on 20 September 1946.
What postponed it?
5. World War 2
6.
In 1887, U.S. tariff laws imposed a duty on vegetables, not fruits, causing the status of ________ to be a matter of legal importance.
The U.S Supreme Court’s verdict declared that the ______ is a vegetable, citing the popular definition that vegetables are generally served with dinner, not dessert.
FITB.
6.
Tomato
7. Amul’s tribute to who?
7.
Robin Williams
8.
X was written by a Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. It was inspired by a true incident of a schoolgirl Ms. _____ Sawyer whose pet followed her to school. A Mr. John Rolstone, nephew of the school reverend, was highly amused by this, and wrote the first three lines on a paper, later handing that paper over to Ms. Hale, who completed it. What did Hale write?
8. Mary Had a Little Lamb
9.
❖ The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali. It is based on a book written by Ali, Herbert Muhammad and Richard Durham.
❖ The film follows Ali's life from the 1960 Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in their famous "Rumble in the Jungle" fight in 1974.
❖ Who plays Muhammad Ali in the movie?
9. Ali himself!
10.
❖ The first version of this object was seen at an event in San Francisco. It consisted of 8 bands of different colours, each signifying a certain attribute - the topmost pink band denoted sexuality, red for life, etc.
❖ However, with the object becoming popular, its designer was forced to drop the first band, as pink fabric was difficult to obtain. This seven-striped version was further altered in 1979, when the indigo and turquoise stripes were replaced by a single band of royal blue.
❖ What are we talking about?
10. Rainbow/Gay Pride/LGBT flag
*11.Latin for “to flow”Greek for “greenish yellow”Greek for “bad smell” or “stench”Greek for “violet”Greek for “unstable”
How are these related, or what are they called collectively? The collective means “originating in the sea” in Greek.
*11. Halogens
*12.
Johnny Weissmuller was an American competitive swimmer and actor
best known for having one of the best competitive swimming records of
the 20th century.
He played X in 12 movies, something that required partial nudity, and is
by far the best known among all actors who did. His distinctive yell is still
often used in films. What was his role in these 12 movies?
*12. Tarzan
*13.
The ________________ poster was commissioned in 1939 by the Ministry of Information in UK during WW2. It was intended to be used to strengthen morale in the event of a large-scale attack. In 2000, Stuart Manley and his wife Mary found the poster folded at the bottom of a box of old books they purchased at an auction for their bookshop. Not knowing its origins, they had it framed and hung it in the shop, where they began selling prints of it the following year.The “inspirational message” was shared online, sparking a series of memes around the phrase. What phrase?
*13.
Keep Calm and Carry On
*14.
Beren was a famous human hero who lived during the First Age in Middle Earth. He fell in love with Lúthien, an Elf who gave up her immortality to able to follow him after his death.
The names Beren and Lúthien are present on the epitaphs of which couple, who are also buried together?
*14.
JRR Tolkien and his wife Edith Bratt
This is the album cover of Pink Floyd’s Division Bell.
What inspired its design?
*15.
*15.
Moai (or)Easter Island Heads
*16.
According to the Jewish dietary law or kashrut, followers of the religion are not permitted to consume the meat of hares, camels and pigs. Food items that are permissible for Jews are called ______ food, from a Hebrew word meaning “fit.”
Which word, analogous to the Islamic concept of “halal” food?
*16.
Kosher
*17.
Which character from Indian mythology is the Brahmini kite (Haliastur indus) supposed to remind you of?
*17. Garuda
18.
❖ The X theory states that blacks are the superior race of human beings, with supernatural abilities because of the presence of larger quantities of X - a natural polymer and organic semiconductor. They also think of whites as albino mutants.
❖ Scientists all over the world consider this theory to be pseudoscience.
❖ What is this weird theory called?
18. Melanin Theory
Melanin is the primary determinant of skin color.
19.
❖ A possible origin for the common name of the Eunectes genus is the Tamil "yaanaikondran", meaning "elephant killer", or "yaanaikkonda", meaning "having killed an elephant". Local names include the Spanish term "matatoro," meaning "bull killer," and the Native American terms sucuri and "yakumama." In spite of this, it is unclear how this name originated so far from the snake's native habitat - which some say is possibly due to its vague similarity to its Asian counterparts.
❖ What am I talking about?
19. Anaconda
20.
The name ‘Elsa’ has re-entered the list of 500 most popular baby names in the USA (#286) after almost a century.
What is this effect being called?
20. Frozen Effect
21.
Taking Michelangelo's well-documented expertise in human anatomy as their starting point, several hypotheses have been put forward about the meaning of The Creation of Adam. Dr. Meshberger noted that the background figures and shapes portrayed behind the figure of God appeared to be an anatomically accurate picture of what? <bigger image follows>
21.
The Human Brain
22.
The name of this instrument means ‘wood sound’ in Greek. Name it.
22.
23.
The English _______ came from Portuguese monção, ultimately from the Arabic word for ‘season’ (موسم).
Which word, which is applied to winds that reverse direction seasonally?
23. Monsoon
24.
"The Calcutta Chromosome" is a sci-fi novel by Amitav Ghosh, loosely centred on the life of X, an Indian-born British scientist who won the 1902 Nobel for Medicine. The novel explores allegations that X exploited Bengali workers while researching the cause of a tropical disease.
August 20 is observed as World Mosquito Day, in honour of his work. ID X and the disease.
24. Sir Ronald Ross, Malaria
The word means a group of musicians, actors, or dancers who perform together. It is derived from the Latin roots ‘in’ and ‘simul’ which mean in and at the same time respectively. The word is now used along with the word ‘cast’ to describe movies with a star-studded cast. What’s the good word?
25.
25. Ensemble
26.
Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel parodies post-independence Indian politics, with comparisons to the Mahabharata. Figures from history and characters from the Mahabharata can be directly correlated to characters in the book or to more general allegories. If Bhishma represents Gandhi, who’s represented by Amba/Shikhandi?
26. Nathuram Godse
27.
What is the single-word (6 letter) title of this painting by Damien Hirst?
27. Mickey
28.
According to the members of this band, the reason they came up with such a ‘vague’ name is that the moniker is actually an anagram from the letters of different words. They’ve also made a point of keeping those original words a band secret, which has lasted for the four years since they got together, and been in the limelight since 2011.
As the guesses from the public started pouring, Wayne Sermon, the guitarist mentioned that his favourite guess was ‘God Is In The Manger’, though that is not the actual set of words.
ID the band.
28.
Imagine Dragons
29.
A certain writer was named after the first man to reach both the North and South Poles.
Name both (a) the writer, and (b) the explorer.
29.
Writer - Roald DahlExplorer - Roald Amundsen
30.
Inside Out director Pete Docter said that each emotion in the movie is based on a shape - Joy is based on a star, Sadness is a teardrop, Anger is a fire brick, Fear is a raw nerve. What vegetable, which puts off most of us, is ‘Disgust’ based on?
<the green coloured character>
30. Broccoli
Tie-Breaker
31.
i) What are they called collectively?
ii) What is the name of the album of which this is the iconic cover?
31. The Beatles, Abbey Road
