askqance 2012 middle school finals
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asKQAnce 2012
Middle School Quiz FINALS
Quizmasters:
Rajagopal PS and Venkatesh S
Written Round – 8 questions
Clockwise – 12 questions
Anti-Clockwise – 12 questions
Pounce – 8 questions
Write Here, Write Now!
Written Round 8 visuals
+5 for each, no negatives +10 bonus if you get all right
1. What is being shown?
2. Who is the inventor?
3. What is he famous for?
4. Identify either of these Nobel Peace Prize winners
5. In which famous temple in India will you find these?
6. Who is this a tribute to / where will you find it?
7. Name this game – be very specific
8. Walt Disney after winning the Oscar for which movie?
Submit your sheets Answers follow….
1. What is being shown?
Etch A Sketch
2. Who is the inventor?
JC Bose
3. What is he famous for?
Heart Transplant
4. Identify either of these Nobel Peace Prize winners
Al Gore RK Pachauri
5. In which famous temple in India will you find these?
Jagannath Temple, Puri
6. Who is this a tribute to / where will you find it?
Rahul Dravid Chinnaswamy Stadium - Bangalore
7. Name this game – be very specific
Angry Birds Space
8. Walt Disney after winning the Oscar for which movie?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Scores…
Clockwise
12 questions on Infinite Bounce +10 for direct and pass
No negatives
1
“I came in with _____ _____in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with _____ _____. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘” A few months later, in his 76th year, Mark Twain died. What is he talking about?
ANSWER
Halley’s Comet
2
This word comes from the Greek term for “of first or primary importance”. When it was recognized in the 18th century as a distinct class of molecules, the examples included albumin from egg whites. Early scientists believed that it was the most important nutrient for maintaining the structure of the body. What?
ANSWER
Proteins
3
This is the red panda. Another name for this is claimed to be a direct translation of its Chinese name. What on the internet gets its name thus?
ANSWER
Firefox web browser
4
This is one of the oldest mosques in India (located in Hyderabad) and is called ______ Masjid, since soil from this place was brought to build this. What name?
ANSWER
Mecca (Makkah) Masjid
5
This happened for the first time in 1992 at Kingsmead, Durban for the South Africa vs. India series, and involved this player getting run out. What happened?
ANSWER
Third Umpire decision
Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission,
Having never set eyes on this land he was called to ________
Between two peoples fanatically at odds,
With their different diets and incompatible gods.
'Time,' they had briefed him in London, 'is short. It's too late
For mutual reconciliation or rational debate:
The only solution now lies in separation.
The Viceroy thinks, as you will see from his letter,
That the less you are seen in his company the better,
So we've arranged to provide you with other accommodation.
We can give you four judges, two Moslem and two Hindu,
To consult with, but the final decision must rest with you.‘
Who and what is this poem about?
6
ANSWER
Cyril Radcliffe
Partition of India
This place was originally a large swamp settled by fishermen. In the 14th century it was known as the "sea town" and the East India Company laid a claim for it in 1819. The present day name came about when a visiting prince encountered a strange looking animal, which he mistook for a lion. How do we know this place today?
7
ANSWER
Singapore
• The Cobra • His twin brother, Derek • The Clay Camel • The Brass Monkey • Aleena, the Enchantress Main villains for which famous fictional character?
8
ANSWER
Mandrake, the magician
What is common to all these films?
9
ANSWER
All movies based on novels by Indian authors
This was the first movie of an actor. Name his next 8 movies!
10
ANSWER
Daniel Radcliffe played Harry in the Harry Potter movies
Give one word and connect
11
ANSWER
Chetak
Rana Pratap’s horse, HAL helicopters, Bajaj Chetak scooter
What is common to these comics? Explain
11
ANSWER
Based on real life people – Sunil Gavaskar and Amitabh Bachchan
Scores…
Anti-Clockwise
12 questions on Infinite Bounce +10 for direct and pass
No negatives
1 This is the magazine of the American Vegan Society. The person who started this wanted to link Veganism with the principles of a religion and so, gave the tagline to the magazine. Which word is blanked out from the tagline?
ANSWER
Ahimsa
Who died because of injuries he got at a lathi charge in 1928; what was he protesting?
2
ANSWER
Lala Lajpat Rai, while protesting against the Simon Commission
This symbol is one of the recent entries into the English Dictionary. In many early religious texts, it was linked to the soul. As early as the 15th century, it was commonly used as one of the suits in a deck of playing cards. Its use in modern popular culture, can be traced back to the wildly popular slogan designed by Milton Glaser as a tourism logo in the 1970s. Which symbol and which tourism campaign made it popular?
3
ANSWER
The heart symbol for ‘love’
The person on the left is the son of David and one of the
great kings of Israel. On the right is the Egyptian great
royal queen who was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
In which comic strip would you find their names
together?
4
ANSWER
Solomon and Nefertiti, the dolphins in Phantom
While the five rings in the Olympics logo
was chosen to represent the five continents,
why were these colours chosen?
5
ANSWER
At least one of these colours was on the flag of every country in the world in 1896
The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India started on 10 April 1802 with the measurement of a baseline near Madras. The East India Company thought that this project would take about 5 years but eventually it took more than 60 years! The project among other things, measured the heights of various geographical entities. Who was the leader of this survey through most of the 19th century?
6
ANSWER
Sir George Everest after whom the mountain is named
In 1882-1883, Rabindranath Tagore stayed at _______. According to a story, he went on a boat ride upstream along the river Kali; inspired by what he saw and experienced, Tagore wrote “Prakritir Pratishoota” or 'Nature’s Revenge', a dramatic poem, and his very first play. Which place in Karnataka?
7
ANSWER
Karwar
The deer in ‘Bambi’ as originally written by Austrian author Felix Salten looked like this. It was changed in the Disney movie release. Why was it changed?
8
ANSWER
Roe deer do not inhabit the US, so they changed it into a deer that audiences would identify with
The story is set in a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a little girl, Binya, trades her leopard claw necklace for a pretty, frilly ____ ______. The shopkeeper in the town becomes envious of the _____ and employs a boy to steal it. One day the girl finds her ______ missing. Soon after the shopkeeper gets a similar ______ in red. With this, the centre of attraction shifts from Binya to the shopkeeper. Finally, she gifts it to him. Name this short story made into a feature film and the author
9
ANSWER
The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond
The Batu caves, a limestone complex near Kuala Lumpur contain some remarkable temples from the 1860s. They are the site of the famous Thai Pusam festival. At the base of the caves stands a 43-meter gold statue of ________, the largest in the world. What / who’s statue?
10
ANSWER
Lord Muruga
Why was the village of Haradanahalli in Hassan district in Karnataka, in rapturous celebrations on May 30, 1996?
11
ANSWER
HD Deve Gowda, who hails from there became India’s 14th Prime Minister
12 Spread over 156 acres, it is arguably the largest functioning Hindu temple complex in the world. In the Vaishnava parlance, the term "KOIL" signifies this particular temple. With 7 enclosures and 21 towers, this 236 feet tall gopuram here is the tallest in Asia. Myth has it that the coast of Ceylon can be seen from its top. Which is this place?
ANSWER
Sri Ranganatha Swamy Temple - Srirangam
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