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End of Daze 2009 Answers
1
• What/who is the subject of the painting ? ( 1 point )
• This is Beowulf and Grendel's Mother by Rockwell Kent
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• If this was the second such one , what was the first one ? ( 1 point )
• This is a still from the 1974 sci-fi flick Zardoz , which was Sean Connery’s second post-James Bond role .
• The first one was the movie The Offence
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• Who’s missing here ? ( 1 point )
• The guys shown here are Kid Rock ( sans his beard ) and Rick Salomon
• The connect – Pamela Anderson’s husbands
• Missing chap – Tommy Lee
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• The other one would be a fresh fruit . What about A + B ? ( 2 points )
• The Caldecott Medal features illustrations from The Diverting Story of John Gilpin ( A ) on one side and Sing a song of Sixpence ( B ) on the other .
• The Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal ( which is the fresh fruit in question ) are the 2 most prestigious awards for children’s Literature in USA
5• This place is named after the one of the most important people involved in the country’s Independence struggle . Name the place / person . ( 1 point )
• Maximo Gomez Park , a.k.a Domino Park , named after Maximo Gomez , Cuba’s military commander in the Cuban war of Independence
6• Obligatory Google Earth question . Just ID the location. ( 1 point )
• Loktak Lake , Manipur , known as the only floating lake in the world
7• The termination of something to do with A , and location B would yield residences . ( 2 points )
• The cover art for Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy was inspired by the ending of Arthur C. Clarke's ( A ) novel Childhood's End . It is a collage of several photographs which were taken at the Giant's Causeway ( B ) , Northern Ireland .
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• What iz thiz ? ( 1 point )
• Lumbar Puncture / Spinal Tap
• An answer framed as ‘This is Spinal Tap’ would be applauded
9• A famous snap . The building in question holds a not-so-earth-shattering record . What ? ( 1 point )
• The building is Torre Latinoamericana , Mexico City .
• It is “the tallest building ever exposed to a huge seismic force” ( the 1957 and 1985 Mexico earthquakes )
• The snap is by Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides when a suicidal woman climbed out on to the ledge of the 27th floor in 1993. A Red Cross worker managed to prevent her from jumping to death
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• Just identify the event . ( 1 point )
• Video file
• The Ramstein Air Show disaster of 1988 ( after which the German band Rammstein is named )
11• Ad for ? ( 1 point )
• Olympic Handcuffs - This is Reporters without borders protesting the lack of press freedom in China during the Beijing olympics
12• This question is a dedication to an event I enjoyed to the fullest ( the event happened in Nov 2009 )
• Connect the owner of the yellow orbit to the bespectacled man. ( 2 points )
• The orbit belongs to 3753 Cruithne , an asteroid known as “Earth’s second moon”
• 3753 Cruithne is a vital plot element in Stephen Baxter’s “Manifold:Time”
• Question dedicated to IIM-Indore’s ‘Klueless 5’
13• A made use of a term X which was earlier used by B to refer to C during the 1940s . A later replaced X with Y .
• Solve for all . ( 3 points )
• A – Music producer Sandy Pearlman• B – Winston Churchill• C – Italy• X – Soft White Underbelly• Y – The band Blue Oyster Cult
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• A and B supposedly inspired X . Solve for A , B and X . ( 2 points )
• A – Betty Paige• B – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s
Daughter”• X – Poison Ivy
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• What would one call his guys if they entered the geriatric category ? ( 1 point )
• Argentinian club Newell’s Old Boys , the chap is their director-coach Isaac Newell
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• Which colourless location ? ( 1 point )
• The Black Hole of Calcutta
17• Connect . ( 3 points )
• Mera jhoota hai japani ( Japanese shoes – A )Yeh patloon inglisthani ( English trousers – B )Sar pe laal topi roosi ( Red Ushanka – C )Phir bhi dil hai hindustani ( Aziz Mirza & SRK - D had a movie by the same name )
The evergreen song from Shree 420
18• Gimme a number ( 1 point )
• This is the Stahl House in Los Angeles , famous as the subject of Julius Shulman’s Case Study House #22
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• What connects ? ( 1 point )
• Internet archiving projects
• A – Johannes Gutenberg – Project Gutenberg• B – J L Runeberg – Project Runeberg
20• A is a screenshot from a famous game . It is based on a real location B . B serves as the end point for a famous race X . The starting point for race X is Y . Y shares its name with the district in which it is situated . C is another town in this district and served as the setting for a famous fictional location Z .
• Solve for A – C and X – Z . ( 3 points )
• A – Gran Turismo HD / GT 5 Prologue• B – Kleine Scheidegg• C – The Lauterbrunnen Valley• X – Jungfrau Marathon• Y – Interlaken• Z – Rivendell from “The Lord of the Rings”
21• Identify and connect . ( 3 points )
• A – Iron Fist• B – 650 ml Beer Bottle colloquially known as
‘Bomber’• C – Elton John’s Sacrifice• D – Eugene Delacroix’s ‘The Barque of Dante’ based on Inferno
The connect – MOTORHEAD ALBUMS
22• What is happening in A ? Connect the grand-dad of the chap portrayed in A and the most famous resident of B to something which came next in line to a venture by C . ( 3 points )
• A – Sarpedon , Bellerophon’s grandson being carried away by Sleep and Death
• B – Mount Chimera in Lycia , believed to be the home of the Chimera myth
• C – Brian De Palma
The venture in question is Mission Impossible . In MI-2 , Bellerophon is the
antidote to the Chimera virus
23
• The game please . ( 1 point )
• Muggle Quidditch
24
• Identify the track . Connect the track to the gentlemen in pic . ( 2 points )
Video file
• “Cancion Del Mariachi” from Desperado• Laxmikant-Pyarelal
The track inspired the song “Thak Thank” from the Malayalam film ‘Poonilamazha’ ,
Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s only malayalam venture
25
• What ? Where ? ( 1 point )
• The Michael Schumacher Island , the first developed island in Dubai’s 'The World'
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• A is an area of global importance . B was originally named after someone who was intimately associated with A . C based one of his most important works on B . This work of C was brought to life on the silver screen by D . To complete the connect , E shares part of his name with D and belongs to the general area A .
• Solve for A , B , C , D and E . ( 3 points )
• A – The Florida Everglades• B – SS Exodus ( original name SS President Warfield )
• C – Leon Uris• D – Otto Preminger• E – John Otto of Limp Bizkit
27• The pictures shown here depict a strategy in the treatment of X . This process is supposed to have given rise to Y . Id X and Y.
• X – Dracunculiasis caused by Guineaworm • Y – The rod of Asclepius , the symbol of medicine
28
• What are we looking at ? What used to be here earlier ? ( 1 point )
• Johannesburg Railway Station ; Old Wanderers used to be here
29
• What caused the deluge ? ( 1 point )
• Bouncing Bombs were used by Britain in 1943 in Operation Chastise on German dams . The Mohne and Eder dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley .
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• What is being shown here ? ( 1 point )
• Maradona’s Hand of God goal
31• a. ) A is the parliament building of a country and was designed by B . B is famous in India for a creation X. C is yet another of B’s accomplishments and is dedicated to the world of art. C houses a very famous work Y by painter Z . This work Y was , however , inspired/copied from an engraving by famous printmaker D . Solve for A-D and X-Z ( 4 points )
• b. ) Identify infestation E , poet F and infection G . Connect them with Y . ( 3 points )
• A – Parliament Building of Bangladesh• B – Louis Kahn• C – Kimbell Museum of art• D – Martin Schongauer• E – Claviceps Purpurea• F – John Dryden• G – Herpes Zoster• X – IIM , Ahmedabad• Y – The Torment of St. Anthony• Z - Michelangelo
• Ingestion of Ergot alkaloids produced by Claviceps Pupurea cause Ergotism
• John Dryden died from Erysipelas• Herpes Zoster
Ergotism , Erysipelas and H.Zoster are all known as St.Anthony’s Fire as monks of the
Order of St. Anthony who were particularly successful at treating them
32
• Identify the song and the lady . Connect the song to the man in the pic . ( 2 points )
Video file
• The Jewel Song, l'air des bijoux, from Faust being performed by Joan Sutherland
• The man in the pic is King Ottokar II of Bohemia
• The Jewel Song is Bianca Castafiore’s signature aria and she makes her first appearance in King Ottokar’s Sceptre
33• Statues in memory of the same person , first one in Ireland and the second one in the US of A . Just identify . [Question inspired by the movie Hitch which this quizmaster was watching at the time of setting this particular question ] ( 1 point )
• Annie Moore , the first immigrant to USA to pass through the Ellis Island facility
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• Connect A , B , C and D . Then , connect this connect to E . ( 2 points )
• Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow• John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy• Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five• Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
• All contenders for The Great American Novel
• Philip Roth ( E ) has a book named Great American Novel
35• Connect A ( when in his underworld avtar ) , B , C and D ( 2 points ).
• A – Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan a.k.a Badshah Khan , so his underworld avtar could be called Badshah Bhai
• B – Bade ( Miyan ) Chhote ( Miyan )• C – Wet Cat / Bheegi Billi• D – The Beatles , inspiration for Betel Nuts
Characters on the 9XM channel
36• Which Indian could one associate with the ( not exhaustive ) list below ? ( 1 point )
• Yahya AJJ Jammeh• Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.• Fred Astaire• Mae West
All were Kentucky ColonelsOnly Indian to get the title – Dr. Rajkumar
37• Connect to one of the quizmasters setting this quiz . ( 1 point )
Walt Whitman and Naomi Shemer
Walt Whitman wrote Oh Captain , My Captain after Abraham Lincoln's assassination . Naomi Shemer translated the poem into Hebrew, and dedicated it to the former Israeli prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin after his murder
38
• It gets its name as a combination of A + B . What ? ( 2 points )
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Antigua from Santa Maria La Antigua ( A ) cathedral and Barbuda means ‘bearded’ ( B )
39
• What do these bridges connect ? ( 1 point )
• Bridge of the Americas ( A )• The Centennial Bridge ( B )
The only non-swinging bridges connecting North and South Americas
40
• Which phenomenon is being depicted here ? It certainly doesnt happen here in the North-East . ( 1 point )
• Naga Fireballs in the Mekong River
41• What served as the inspiration for the following ? ( 1 point )
• The internet shock site goatse.cx
• Visit wiki page for details . Cant post pics from the same here
42• A , B , C and D did something with the help of E and one more person . What ? ( 2 points )
• The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged naval military experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia,, sometime around October 28, 1943, in which the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible (i.e.cloaked)to human observers for a brief period of time. That is also referred to sometimes as Project Rainbow.
• In "Green Fire" (1998), a collaborative novella , the science fiction writers Robert A. Heinlein( A ) , Isaac Asimov ( B ) , Grace Hopper ( C ) and L. Sprague De Camp ( D ) along with take part in the Philadelphia Experiment, with the assistance of the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl ( E ) and Nikola Tesla.
43• Am looking for the flower , and yeah it has nothing to do with Harry Potter . ( 1 point )
• This is the Lupin
44. A famous final view of things.
The famous final view I was referring to was this:Kevin Spacey narrating the last lines in American Beauty:
Lester Burnham: I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.
PS: Jane from Tarzan movies and Carolyn Wozniaki
45. First of a kind!
Sam ‘n’ Henry, the first Sitcom
46. Identify the most famous thing named after this fellow. The second most famous thing is shown here.
John Harvard and Harvard University
47. Find a Mexican connection.
Sombrero (Tampa Bay stadium and Galaxy M104 nickname)
48. Watchmen? You might say so.
Britton Hadden and Henry Luce, the founders of TIME, and hence watchmen of a kind
49
• Id the structure , Id the bird , Id the chaps and connect them ( 3 points )
• The structure – Sutter’s Mill , CA , the place where the California Gold Rush started
• The bird – The Long-billed Curlew , a.k.a The Candlestick Bird
• The chaps – Gene Ha & Alan Moore
The connect – 49ers
Term used to describe the gold prospectors that came to California during the gold rush
San Francisco 49ers play at theCandlestick Park
Ha & Moore have a graphic novel titled Top 10: The Forty-Niners
And this was question no. 49
50
• For whom ? ( 1 point )
• For Mir Hussein Moussavi
• Green Movement refers to a series of actions after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, in which protesters demand removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from office.
51. A singular connect
The connection is Words: song by Tony Rich, bythe BeeGees and is the name of Sartre’s auto-Biography.
52. Much-reviled? Unfairly, I Think.
The Big Dipper, the Stilt and Carrot-top from Chairman of the Boards are all nicknamesof legendary cager Wilt Chamberlain
53. For Your Eyes Only.
Dr. Paul Hawkins who invented Hawk-Eye
54. Too indoorsy, and too late. Id.
Jim Beatty who ran the first indoor sub-4 minute mile
55• A hairy tree in a very cold place . ( 1 point )
• Arctic Downy Birch or Betula pubescens tortuosa found only in Iceland
• Pubescens = Hairy
56. Identify royalty at right.
Willard Harris a.k.a Lord Relator
57. Doctor Who?
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, convict in the Lockerbie bombing, who was released on compassionate grounds recently
58. Name his famous 1984 replacement.
The Larry O Brien trophy for the NBAChampionships replaced the Walter A. Brown (pictured) Trophy in 1984.
59. Prime place for pirouetting.
Sundance Square, Forth Worth, Texas.
Named after you know who.
60. Her most infamous liaison?
Swedish politician Mona Sahlin, infamous for Her “Toblerone Affair”
61. What famous name-change occurred when the proprietors moved from A to B?
When the royal family of Bikaner moved from their old palace, named Chintamani, to theLalgarh Palace, the old fort was named JunagarhMeaning Old Fort.
62. Camouflaged? Nope.
The Hidden Fortress sequence from A New Hope featuring Darth Vader (David Prowse)
63. How did National Geographic famously describe him? Name him as well.
Harold “Doc” Edgerton who NatGeo described as “The ManWho Stopped Time”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Eugene_Edgerton
He is responsible for iconic images such as these:
64. Dude on left was the partial inspiration for modern day classic on right. Name both.
Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry partially inspired theMovie “Wings of Desire”
65. The last answer will lead you to this one’s. But explain, or no points.
Viv “The King” Richards, Clipper, Dodge Caravan and a radio operator (who are called Sparkies)
Sports teams based in LA
66. A marvelous pussy, no?
Mephisto from Marvel comics andMephistopheles from Cats
Mephisto or Mephistopheles is one of the chiefdemons of European literary tradition.
67. What head-buster connects these three?
Descartes, Maxwell and Laplace are all Demons,as in thought experiments
In thought experiments philosophers occasionally imagine entities with special abilities in order to pose tough intellectualchallenges or to highlight apparent paradoxes
68. Id this dude from far, far away.
Boleji Badejo who played the alien in Alien
69. Christmas people.
Rafael Nadal and Miguel Angel Nadal.
Nadal means Christmas in Catalan.
69 . ( Again , sorry , the question numbers got mixed up ). Who are we taking potshots at?
Plato
70. Heisenberg’s Head?
Goliath’s head from Verocchio’s David.
Historians are unsure where the head belongsin the original statue.
http://www.high.org/david/understanding.html
71. Not a name, but a scale.
The Modular. The dude is Le Corbusier.
72. Name the “un-necessarily homoerotic” video of a 1982 song that is shown here. Please take the other visual as a rather pathetic clue.
Allentown by Billy Joel.
It debuted in the album Nylon Curtain, which Was the clue
73. Identify this famous Mason.
Jim O’Neill, who first proposed the term BRIC
Mason = bricklayer
74. Identify these men for all seasons.
Robert Shaw and Peter Benchley on the sets of Jaws. Shaw earlier played Henry VIII in The ManFor All Seasons.
75. What 1974 act is the owner of this famed male gay art gallery known for?
Robert Opel, the streaker during the Oscar Ceremony in 1974 who prompted David Niven’sfamous comment
76 HIDDEN THEME
• The links to the hidden theme were the question numbers which form the Fibonacci Sequence
• So , the links are question numbers – 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 and 55
1 – Beowulf – There is a band named Beowülf2 – Zardoz derives from Wizard of Oz . Mägo de Oz is a
famous Spanish folk metal band3 – Tommy Lee is a member of Mötley Crüe5 – Maximo Park . The band Maxïmo Park is named after the
park8 - Spı al Tapn̈�13 - Blue Öyster Cult21 – Motörhead34 – Roth’s ‘Great American Novel’ is based on The Epic of
Gilgamesh . Japanese band Girugämesh , again , is named after Gilgamesh
55 – Birch translates to Bjork in Iceland . So , singer Björk
HIDDEN THEME
Bands / Singers using the METAL UMLAUT ( Rock Dots )
in their names
77. Theme 1 ( Q No. 59-62)
Fortresses/fortifications
• Sundance Square in Fort Worth• Toblerone Affair• Junagarh Fort• The Hidden Fortress Sequence
78.Theme 2 ( Q No. 64-67)
Angels & Demons
• Wings of Desire was remade into City of Angels
(and the story is full of angels, anyway)• Los Angeles means City of Angels• Mephisto is a Demon• Demon (Thought Experiment)
79. Theme 3 ( Q No. 69-72)
Leonardo da Vinci
- modeled for Plato in Raphaels’ famous School of Athens- Is the David in David- Modular was adapted from his works- Allentown, Pennsylvania (on which the song is based) has a sister city in Italy, which is, Vinci.
80. Super-ThemeFortresses/Fortifications
Angels, DemonsLeonardo da Vinci
Novels by Dan Brown
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