JUdgement, the General Quizof AFSU Sanskriti 2015

In Gotham by Gaslight, a DC Elseworldspublication, a Victorian-era Batman fights

against Jack the Ripper. The story shows Bruce Wayne to be studying in Vienna where he

strikes a friendship with X.

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Who is X?

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“...the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of

the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished

the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for

canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono.”

--- Y in his memoir.ID the "departed fanatic" and Y.

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A.S. Knowland's "______" reads:"So that the swastika and the eagle

Might spring from the blood-red-soil,Bombs were sown into the earth at _____,

Whose only havest was a calculated slaughter."John Edgell Rickword's “To the Wife of Any Non-Intervention

Statesman” reads:Euzkadi’s supply the ore minesTo feed the Nazi dogs of war:

_____’s thermite rain perspireIn doom on Oxford’s dreaming spires

Already Hull and Cardiff blaze,And Paul’s Rocks gray dome to the blast

Or air-torpedoes screaming past."What event is being described? How was it immortalised?

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The bombing of Guernica

Dibakar Banerjee's reply to criticism about something he did not depict in Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! despite

taking great pains to recreate war-time Calcutta: “American GIs, Japanese air raids made it [the film] all the

more exciting...It started in late 1942 but by the time it blew in the face of the country it was late 1943. That’s when they realised that the disaster of this nature was happening. My story ends in early 1943. It is not part of

the story but there are few hints for those who really know Calcutta. That way the independence struggle is

also not part of it. I am not making a historical.”What did he not show?

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The Bengal Famine

In the time of the early Church, Christians would make this hand-gesture in order to invoke the power

associated with the Christian cross for protection, when faced with evil. Moreover, Christians, when

persecuted by the Romans, used this gesture, along with the Ichthys ("Jesus fish"), in order to recognize

one another and assemble for worship.In 16th century England, people continued to make this

gesture or make the sign of the cross in order to ward off evil, as well as when people coughed or sneezed.

This gesture also gives rise to a popular phrase.What is the gesture/phrase?

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"We're into the politics of people, we're not into politics. Like you talk about Northern Ireland, '_____ _____ _____,'

people sort of think, 'Oh, that time when 13 Catholics were shot by British soldiers'; that's not what the song is about. That's an incident, the most famous incident in Northern Ireland and it's the strongest way of saying, 'How long? How long do we have to put up with this?' I don't care

who's who – Catholics, Protestants, whatever. You know people are dying every single day through bitterness and

hate, and we're saying why? What's the point?"Drummer of X about their song Y.

ID X. Fill in the blanks to give Y.

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What is happening?

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In many languages including English, X is a common name for Y as a whole. Strictly speaking, X is only the central-

western region of the country comprising two of the twelve provinces, and thus linguistically similar to use

of Russia for the (former) Soviet Union, and England for the United Kingdom.

The use is sometimes discouraged. For example, the "X" entry in the style guide of The Guardian and The

Observer newspapers states: "Do not use X when you mean Y (of which it is a region), with the exception of

the football team, which is conventionally known as X".What are X and Y?

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To convert the discovery of X into music, PiotrTraczyk mapped points in histograms to a

chromatic scale, and then used logarithms to squeeze the frequency range into something suitable for a guitar. The resulting "song" is performed by two guitars, where one plays

the gamma-gamma run and the other the 4-lepton riff (pictures in next slide).

Video

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Barbara Millicent Roberts is the daughter of George and Margaret Roberts from the town of Willows,

Wisconsin. She attended Willows High School and the Manhattan International High School in New York City.

She owns over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She also owns a wide

range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers, and jeeps. She also holds a pilot's license, and operates commercial airliners in addition to serving as

a flight attendant.

How do we better know Barbara Millicent Roberts?

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This is a description from Book VIII of Bocaccio'sDecameron:

"...there was a mountain all of grated ________ ______, whereon abode folk who did nothing

but make maccaroni and ravioli."

What was the mountain made of?

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X is a mixture of creamed fish, or meat, sometimes combined with breadcrumbs, with a light egg binding. It is usually poached.

The X gesture is usually performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the

opposite hand. Although it is usually done with the hand at shoulder level, there are several variations (e.g. elbow or wrist

level). The gesture is interpreted as an inverted Nazi salute.Since the elongated fishballs of the dish resemble suppositories, the

gesture according to its creator Dieudonné evokes English insults “up yours” and “up your arse”.

What is X?

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X studied physics and mathematics at Imperial College London, graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree and ARCS in physics with Upper Second-Class Honours. From 1970 to

1974, he studied for a PhD degree at Imperial College, studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the

velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System. X appeared on the 700th episode of The Sky at Night hosted

by Sir Patrick Moore. Astronomer Martin Rees who was departing the panel, told X, who was joining it, "I don't

know a scientist who looks as much like Isaac Newton as you do".

Who was X?

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Dr. Brian May of Queen

X was introduced as a soldier in World War II with an Assyrian heritage, even though his name indicates an

Armenian background because of the "ian" suffix.The exotic name X was chosen by Y to emphasize his

protagonist's detachment from the mainstream military culture. X's name is described as being "an

odious, alien, distasteful name, that just did not inspire confidence." As to the origins of the name itself, Y

admitted in later years that the name 'X' was derived from the name of one of his Air Force buddies, Francis

Yohannan – an Assyrian.ID X and Y.

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At the event, Neil Leifer was only one out of two photographers with colour films in his camera. He was quite aware of X's speed and

tremendous mobility. So, in order not to miss any action anywhere, Leifer used 5 cameras in total. He set up one fully

loaded camera on each side plus an overhead camera high above the action. Each camera had a remote cord that he could push to snap thousands of photos at a time regardless of where he was standing. Leifer kept running from side to side during the whole

duration of the event shooting non-stop. It was only later back in his hotel room reviewing what he had just shot that he realized he

had a masterpiece on his hands.Connect the above description with the Mark Knopfler song.

Explanation is required.

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The song is “Song for Sonny Liston”

When X tragically passed away midway through the production of Y, Universal Studios hired Peter

Jackson's WETA Digital to make a CGI replica of X.

The majority of X’s unfinished scenes were completed using his brothers Caleb and Cody as

doubles. When combined with CGI, carefully chosen camera angles and the right lighting, they

are the spitting image of X.

Who is X? What is Y?

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Paul Walker

The Miliarium Aureum (Classical Latin: golden milestone) was a monument, probably of gilded bronze, erected by the Emperor Caesar Augustus near the temple of

Saturn in the central Forum of Ancient Rome.The main hypotheses about the inscription on it are:

1. Nothing, except for the name and title of the Emperor;2. The names of the most important cities of Italy and of

the Empire in 20 BC;3. The names of the roads out of Rome and the men of

praetorian rank Augustus had made Curatores Viarumto see to the upkeep of them.

What is said to have originated from this monument?

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Scientists decided to use "street-wanderers" for the experiment as they believed they were already partly

adapted to hunger and cold. On the eve of the experiment, one of the scientists took X

home to play with his children. In his book Dr. Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote, "I wanted to do something nice for her:

She had so little time left to live."Oleg Gazenko, another scientist wrote: "We treat them like

babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it... We did not

learn enough from this mission to justify the death."What was the experiment about? Who was X?

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What literary work inspired this song by The Cure?

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The origin of the name X is disputed. One of the earliest mentions in print of the term X dates back to a Time

magazine article in 1934. Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking Y for it as early as 1932. Another claimed origin is that the Y's Executive Secretary, Margaret

Herrick, first saw it in 1931 and claimed that it reminded her of her "Uncle X". Columnist Sidney

Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, "Employees have affectionately

dubbed their famous ____, X".

Put funda.

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Why are the Academy Awards called

Short Visual Connect

5 slides, beginning at +25Reducing by 5/slide, negatives marked.

EXTREMELY inexhaustive. Just the most popular/most heard of.

+25/-15

+20/-10

+15/-10

+10/-5

+5

Places which give their names to dog breeds

Alsace, France- AlsatianLabrador, Canada- Labrador Retriever

Chihuahua, Mexico- ChihuahuaDenmark- Great Dane

Lhasa, Tibet- Lhasa Apso; Pomerania, Prussia- Pomeranian; Beijing, China- Pekingese

In a recent podcast, the show’s creator has hit out at fans trying to replicate an iconic scene, saying that the residents of the house do not deserve

such harassment.“There’s nothing funny or original or cool about

________ ______ __ this lady’s roof.” He emphatically states.

Jonathan Banks adds a threat for such people in character, saying “If I catch you doing it, I will hunt you down” in his signature low growl.

What were these people trying to replicate?

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Blade, Chuck, Flank, Flap, Hanger, Ranch, Skirt

Connect with a single word, that can be added after each of these terms.

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• Map of a part of?

• What is the blanked out place known as?

• This was a plan that was never realized. What do we have instead of the portion demarcated in blue?

• What was built on the Apollo Bunderarea?

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S is an old Australian and New Zealand term for nomadic, temporary workers who would travel from farm to farm looking for odd,

menial and harvesting jobs.

The term comes from the bedroll they carried around with them.

Give me the term, which would also explain why these people would be really popular with

today’s kids.

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In Japanese martial arts, ‘zanshin’ is what is known as the state of total awareness and

not, as a character on a popular TV show has mistakenly claimed, what is actually a

freshwater eel.

Put funda.

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Some people believe it is no coincidence that these two authors were born within two months of each other in Prague. This is probably because they both died young,

roughly within a year of each other, with their (arguably) most famous works, also published (or at

least ended) posthumously within a year of each other in 1923 and 1924, dealing with the aftermath of the

First World War in one way or another.It is perhaps appropriate, given the world views we find in

these books, that one died of consumption in 1924 while the other died of obesity-related heart failure in 1923. Identify both authors and the books in question.

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Sativa is Latin for “cultivated”

Indica is Latin for “Indian”

And “Ruderalis” is Latin for “[of the] rubble”

These are the three main varieties of?

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The world for this natural formation comes from the Greek, “to drip.”

The word for this other natural formation comes from the Greek, “to drop.”

What are the formations?

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____ is a genus of ferns containing 19 species.One of the graduate students on the group that discovered this

new genus, Fay-Wei Li, noticed that the common characteristic of such ferns was that they had guanine-

adenine-guanine-adenine base pairs in their DNAKathleen Pryer, research team leader, claimed that they listened

to enormously empowering music while working, the kind that worked for “disenfranchised people … LGBT, ethnic groups, women—and scientists who study odd ferns!”

The team also noticed that the ferns had the ability to self fertilize and hence had fluid definitions of gender.

Name the genus.

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This Olympian had brought in a Gold Medal

for the United States back in 1976. Who is

she?

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This book was originally serialized in the Arabic daily Al-Ahram, where it met with severe opposition, causing its

inevitable ban.The whole book was eventually printed in Lebanon in

1967.A revival of interest in the work after his Nobel Prize

caused the Blind Sheikh Oram-Abdel Rahman tohcondemn it, a chain of events leading to the author

being stabbed, non-fatally, by two extremists outside his home.

Which work?

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Shortly after its release, the originality of the song was questioned on the Dan Gaffney Morning Show on Delaware based news/talk radio station WGMD 92.7 FM. Two of the station's hosts, Dan Gaffney

and Jared Morris, alleged that X had plagiarized Y’s 1993 hit "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

Listen to the beginning of “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” to identify the controversial song, X and Y.

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Who is this intrepid 14-year old?

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The quote, consistently misattributed especially after the ‘speaker’s’ death, was actually penned down by two much-

lesser-known ad-men, creative director Robert Siltanen, and Lee Chow for one of TBWA/Chiat/Day’s biggest clients.

Truth be told, while the ‘speaker’ thought the concept for the larger (but grammatically incorrect) campaign was brilliant, he absolutely hated the words that became ‘his’ quote, but finally changed his mind. He then voiced it over for the TV ad, but his version was never found until after his death,

perhaps adding fuel to the rumours of it being ‘his’ quote.What was the two-word larger campaign titled?

Which quote? Who is the person this is misattributed to?

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The Diomede Islands are somewhat unusual in several ways. Other than the fact that the two islands

which are only 3.5 km from each other are parts of two different countries, people on Big Diomede technically have the power to see into the past

while those on Little Diomede can potentially see into the future.

Why is this so? Which countries are the two Diomedes a part of (specify which island is whose)?

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What is this Maori

woman’s beautiful, plumed

cloak made of?

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In his book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas, celebrated photographer

describes something as follows:"Six hours and twenty-eight throws later, the result satisfied my striving for perfection. (…) My assistants and I were wet, dirty, and near

complete exhaustion—only the cats still looked like new".

What exactly was he describing?

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I have Google Mapped a place

that is unquestionably and absolutely one of a kind in

the world. Which place?

Why is it unique?

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It was developed by Dow Chemical Company in 1966.40 symbols were drawn up by Dow artists, and all of the symbols

investigated had to meet a number of criteria:

(i) striking in form in order to draw immediate attention; (ii) unique and unambiguous, in order not to be confused with symbols used for other purposes; (iii) quickly recognizable and easily recalled;(iv) easily stenciled; (v) symmetrical, in order to appear identical from all angles of approach; and (vi) acceptable to groups of varying ethnic backgrounds.

According to Charles Baldwin who contributed to its development:“We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless, so

we could educate people as to what it means.”

What is being talked about?

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One of the earliest of this particular kind of video was "The Spirit of Christmas" which surfaced in 1995. A particularly well-known early example

was "All your base are belong to us", based on a poorly translated video game, which was first

distributed as a GIF animation and became popular in the year 2000. These videos often

contain humorous content and include televised comedy sketches, but sometimes eyewitness events are also subject to the phenomenon.

What phenomenon is this?

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