2016 kqa jan open prelims

2016 January OpenPrelims with Answers

Research ByVenkatesh S

Vivek Karthikeyan

Usual drill…

36 questions, all-written, for teams of 4 or less

*-marked questions to resolve ties

No negatives, please take guesses

1 point per question

8 team finals

Over to the answers…

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The foundation stone for this magnificent structure in Bengaluru was

laid on Nov. 22, 1864 by Lady Grant, wife of Lt-General Sir Hope Grant

and it opened for the public on Nov. 18, 1866. When a more

prominent structure on St Mark’s Road caught fire, people used this

structure for the same purpose till the former was restored.

Built in the architectural style from a particular country and in a

distinct colour, identify this structure that was once termed a “Kirk”

and celebrated Burns’ Night and such festivals in its premises.

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St Andrew’s Church


This is Mohammed Shah’s tomb. In which public space in Delhi,

named after an Afghan dynasty will you find it?


Lodhi Gardens


A cricket story that comes from the 1956 Australian tour of England. The

former England opening batsman Len Hutton was in the press box, as was

Arthur Mailey. During one of the matches, the news came in that Hutton

had been granted a knighthood by the Queen.

Mailey went up to him, shook his hand, and said in a whisper loud enough

for everyone to hear: ‘Congratulations, Sir Leonard. But I hope next time it

is a _____. The last ____ to be knighted was Sir Francis Drake’.

Fill in the blank.


Bowler


Connect these films to a 2007 film


Films based on trailers that featured in Grindhouse

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What connects these countries?

Which country with a 2-word name is the latest to join this

classification?


Islamic Republics

The Gambia


• Laser Range Finder

• Front Camera

• Bumper Mounted Radar

• Aerial for Geo-location

• Ultrasonic sensors on wheels

• Software to interpret road signs

• Advance route mapping

• Programmed for real-life road behaviour

These are some of the technologies that power which breakthrough? Please give a specific answer.


Google Driverless / Self-driving Car


The word for this military ritual first appears in Othello. It derives from

the Flemish term, Kasseren. The term originated in the era when

British Army officers generally bought their commissions; being ____

meant that the amount they had paid was lost, as they could not “sell-

out” afterwards.

One of the most famous examples of this was a French artillery officer

in the 1890s, who was subject to this at the Champs de Mars.

Identify the word, which has a financial connotation.


Cashiering (or any variant)


According to a Fox News article from September 2013, scientists at the

Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms accidentally created an iconic

artefact. Scientists there found a way to make ___ that bounces off of

___. They’re not interested in satisfying various fan groups, but are

more interested in using this knowledge to move towards quantum

computing. What is needed to create this is a power source and

emitter, a crystal, a containment field, and a negatively charged

fissure, and the colour depends on the crystals used.

What are they attempting to create?


Lightsaber


This is an actor playing the role of a lineage of Ninja warriors initially

in the 1980s and then in this 2003 Direct-to-DVD series. In a 2004 film,

the actor reprised a role, which was named after the same Ninja

character, supposedly the 14th in the line. Which actor and character?


Sonny Chiba

Hattori Hanzo


One of the three offices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this LA building was originally built as a TV station. Designed by Claud Beelman, it opened in 1948 as the Don Lee Mutual Broadcasting Building. ABC eventually took it over, and later it was a home for AIDS Project Los Angeles.

The Academy purchased the building in the early 2000s and spent millions restoring it and making it usable as a movie vault, and it today hosts the Academy Film Archive, apart from the 286-seat Linwood Dunn Theatre where numerous public events are presented throughout the year.

Identify the silent-era legend after whom the building is named.


Pickford Centre


A Google Doodle on Dec 26, 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of

which country’s Independence and Unity Day? The centrepiece of the

doodle is the highest mountain in the country, Mount Triglav.


Slovenia


The 2002 Hindi film Dil Vil Pyar Var was directed by Anant

Mahadevan, with music by Babloo Chakravorthy. The soundtrack had

fourteen songs, including tracks like, Ab ke Saawan Mein, Gum Hain

Kisi Ke Pyar Mein, O Hansini and so on.

What was unique about / common to (almost) all the songs in the

film?


Re-arrangements of songs by RD Burman


Aer Lingus (4.1%)

Air Serbia (49%)

Air Seychelles (40%)

Air Berlin (29.21%)

Alitalia (49%)

Darwin Airline (34%)

___ _______(24%)

Virgin Australia (24.2%)

Fill in the blanks and connect (no part points)


Jet Airways; stakes held by Etihad Airways


When the list of greatest men’s singles finals matches at Wimbledon is

tabulated, one of the matches mentioned is the 2001 final between

Ivanisevic and Rafter. Apart from the fact that it was an epic five setter

and played in front of a raucous crowd, with many celebrities in

attendance, what is unique about this match, with respect to

Wimbledon finals in the Open Era?


Only time the finals was held on a Monday


Darshan Patel, in July 2011, before launching his second brand in a category asked

everyone for feedback, "People said it smelt good, the pricing was fine but one

feedback kept surfacing that ‘they get over fast',”.

Armed with this feedback, he went ahead and launched a brand, which in a couple

of years became market leader overtaking brands from behemoths like HUL. Name

the brand / company.

The company that marketed this brand was launched by Darshan Patel after he sold

his stake in a pharma company he had started, where he marketed successful

brands like Krack cream, Itch Guard, Set Wet, Dermicool and Livon.

Name the company he sold his stake in.


Vini Cosmetics / Fogg deodorants

Paras Pharma


Identify the inspiration

for these 1920s styled

dresses, which have

become a rage in the last

five years.


Downton Abbey


Identify the lady celebrated in this

stamp who achieved a first for her

country in 2013.


Alice Munro


This infamous surname is a topographic name for someone who lived

on a plateau; it comes from a Middle High German word for ‘plateau’

+ the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant from a place near St. Gallen,

Switzerland, a promontory of the Alps and a wide elevated plateau.

Who is the most (in)famous person with this surname, who held a

role as head of press and information of the Swiss State Association

for Physical Education in the 1960s?


Sepp Blatter

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______ and ______ was a documentary nominated for an Emmy for

for Outstanding Sports Documentary in 2012. It plays out a famous

rivalry that lasted only 14 matches. After being defeated in the

fourteenth match one of the two rivals never played another major.

The other guy, a prodigy from Douglaston, Queens, didn’t win a major

after he turned 25.

Name the documentary. (blank lengths not indicative)


Fire and Ice

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The Latin spelling of the name of this month is the same as in English.

It shares its roots with two other words. One of them originally stood

for a punishment in which one in every ten men would be killed, with

the present day meaning ‘to kill in large numbers. The second one

originally meant ‘a chief of ten men’ but stands for a senior college

administrator in present times.

What is the month, and give the two words. (0.5 pts for any two)


December

Decimate

Dean


This type of hat originally came from a part of an Alpine region in

western Europe that is now part of Austria and Italy. It carries a brush

made of the tail of the chamois goat. What is the hat called?


Tyrolean HatFrom Tyrol / Tirol


This season, Jamie Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record of scoring

in ten consecutive Premier League games by scoring in eleven—the

last one, rather fittingly, against Manchester United.

Which Irishman holds the record in the top rung of English football,

scoring in twelve consecutive games in the 1931–32 season?


Sheffield United’s Jimmy Dunne scored in 12 straight games

in 1931-32


These are door-less, conveyor-belt-style elevators that are largely

extinct, except in some places in Eastern Europe where enthusiasts

have kept them running.

They get their name from The Lord’s Prayer, presumably because they

look like a rosary with the beads moving, or from the fact that one has

to pray for safety when getting on or off it! What are they called?


Paternosters


It has been achieved only twelve times—by Sir Barton in 1919

(although at the time the term did not exist), Gallant Fox in 1930,

Omaha in 1935, Assault in 1946, and Affirmed in 1978, with a few

others in between.

In 2015, American Pharoah (sic) completed the dozen as it stands

today. What did he do?


Win the Triple CrownWinning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont


These are three paintings of Simonetta Vespucci, a distant relative of

the namesake explorer. The first one is by Piero di Cosimo. How do we

know this lady who died very young, due to TB at the age of 22?


The model for Venus in Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus


This process or the thought behind it is not new. The word used for it

comes from the Greek word for ‘twig,’ referring to the act of cutting

twigs—a method that has been widely used in agriculture for

centuries, where new growth is spawned without the need for a seed.

What is this that we are familiar with from another branch of

science, where the application is in a fashion analogous to the one in

farming?


Clone / CloningThe term ‘cloning’ originates from the Greek word clonos, meaning 'twig';

clonizo is the verb 'to cut twigs'


A 1995 adaptation of which work?


Richard III


Give a word for both of these,

and a person who travels to a warmer place during winter.


Snowbird


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Use the pictures nominally and figure out a zoological connection.


The giraffes at Mysore ZooHoney and Henry first came from Germany. They begot Krishnaraja, Narasimha,

Chamaraja and Yuvaraja. Lakshmi is Krishnaraja’s daughter.


Mystery continues to surround what happened to it the second time.

The first time when it happened, a Brazilian, Abrain Tebel, is said to

have remarked, ‘It would never happen in Brazil’. Sadly his faith in his

fellow countrymen was misplaced. The perpetrators of the second

instance also made away with the Equitativa and the Jarrito de Oro.

What are we referring to?


The 1983 theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy


Who, reading the

script for which

movie—a rather

appropriate

image, because

he would go on

to spend most of

his screen time in

little more than a

loin cloth?


Charlton Heston

Planet of the Apes


Building these is akin to designing an ice-cube tray. A _____ shouldn’t

exceed the dimensional limit of 965 feet in length and 106 feet in

width. There is a third factor too—a limit of 39.5 feet draught-wise to

account for the Bridge of the Americas at Balboa.

Fill in the blank.


PanamaxThese are dimensions for midsize cargo ships

that are able to fit in the Panama Canal


This is fan art by an artist Viktor Hertz

where he has reimagined songs as

pictograms. Who is this particular

poster a tribute to?


Johnny Cash


These are valleys formed by glacial erosion. Mountain glaciers carve

out bowl-shaped areas, which may get filled with water over time. The

Scots call these ‘corries’. The other word for these formations (through

French) comes from the fact that they are evocative of ancient arenas.

What is the good word that we usually come across as part of the

name of one of the world’s largest theatrical production outfits?


CirqueFrom the Roman Circus


The two people seen here came together in 1989, to film a movie

based on a book by the person on the left. The book involved

survivors of a 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica.

Book, Author and Actor? (0.5 pts for any two)


Oliver Sacks

Awakenings

Robin Williams


According to the results of a recent study revealed by National Geographic,

a bunch of Physics students have used stress calculation to assess the

durability of this thing. The result will significantly upset the dynamics of

many a tiny-tot’s belief in fantasy.

The study explains that, when standing, the force acting downward is

assumed to be evenly shared between the protagonist’s feet, but, if the

person was walking or running, that downward force is pushing entirely on

one foot at a time.

What is supposed to have given way?


Cinderella’s Glass Heels Would Have Shattered

FINALS in a Few Min…