the kqa february open-finals

QMs: Manjith K and Praveen VR

THE FINALS

• Infinite Pounce +10 /-10• No part points on pounce.• Infinite Bounce

RULES

• A warm-up written round• 22 questions clock-wise• A written round of 6 questions• 22 questions anti-clockwise

THE LAYOUT

When this painting by Yuill Damaso was unveiled in 2010 it caused a lot of controversy where it was exhibited. What

was this painting inspired by? (5pts)

Identify the 9 people in it. (2.5pts each)

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ANSWER

This is a rip-off of Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp”

And it shows a dead Nelson Mandela being dissected by the deceased child activist Nkosi Johnson in front of Jacob Zuma, FW De Klerk, Desmond Tutu, Cyril

Rhamaphosa, Helen Zille, Trevor Manuel and Thabo Mbeki.

These pics are taken from the Vice Magazines’ Women in Fiction issue. They were withdrawn after people protested

that these images were done in bad taste. The photos featured models styled and posed as famous female

writers . Each photo in the spread is captioned with the name of the author and had the fashion credits for what the

model is wearing ("Issa dress, Morgenthal Frederics glasses, Jenni Kayne shoes“. But any information about

these authors' actual works were absent. Shown below are 4 pics from the set. ID them for 5 points each.

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ANSWERS

Sylvia Plath

Virginia Woolf

Dorothy Parker

Iris Chang

CLOCKWISE

He was a provincial watchmaker's son, but rose in French society and became influential in the court of Louis XV as an inventor and music

teacher. At the age of twenty one, he invented an escapement for watches that allowed them to be made substantially more accurate and compact. One of his greatest feats was a watch mounted on a ring, made for Madame de Pompadour, a mistress of Louis XV, this brought nation wide fame. He later became a spy for the king and

started a fictional company, Roderigue Hortalez and Company. It was secretly supported by the French and Spanish crowns and supplied

the American rebels with weapons, munitions, clothes and provisions, all of which would never be paid for. He was also a participant in the early stages of the French Revolution. He is probably best known for his work as a playwright. One of his plays had this famous monologue

in the final act "Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur" ("Without the freedom to criticise, there is no true praise").

Who and What?

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ANSWER

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, he was the author the Figaro plays, Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de

Figaro, and La Mère coupable.

X was in China in 2007, at the first party-approved _____ _______ and ______ convention in Chinese history. X asked an

official that ______ _______ had been disapproved of for a long time and had changed. The man said Chinese were

brilliant at making things if other people brought them the plans. But they did not innovate and they did not invent.

They did not imagine. So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves. And they found that all of them had done something when they

were kids.

Fill up.

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ANSWER

X is Neil Gaiman

And the Chinese found that all the innovators at American companies had read Science Fiction and Fantasy when

they were young.

The idea was pioneered by German architect Albert Speer while planning for the 1936 Summer Olympics. It was supposedly an

extension of Gottfried Semper's views about using "natural" materials. In reality it was a much older concept, even becoming a European-wide Romantic fascination at one point for example, the designs for the Bank of England built in the 19th century produced by Sir John Soane was made in accordance with this theory. Hitler

approved Speer's recommendation that, in order to provide a "bridge to tradition" to future generations, modern materials such as

steel girders and ferroconcrete should be avoided in the construction of monumental party buildings.

Why did Speer advocate the use of stone and other natural materials instead of steel while across the Atlantic, Americans where building

skyscrapers with it?

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ANSWER

According to this school of architecture (Ruinenwert) the buildings materials should be chosen in such a way that it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would

last far longer without any maintenance at all.

He was the first actor to be awarded a knighthood. His troupe performed season after season at the Lyceum

Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In a curious

turn of fate, most people today know of the actor because of his association with his personal assistant whose main

claim to fame during his lifetime was being a personal assistant to the actor. The PA was a part-time writer and in

one of his novels the titular character was based on the actor. The picture of actor is given on the next slide. Please

give names of this actor and his PA.

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ANSWER

Actor was Henry Irving and the PA was Bram Stoker. He modeled Dracula on his boss.

Theodore W Adorno was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's foremost thinkers on aesthetics and

philosophy, as well as one of its preeminent essayists. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture

industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951) and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.

Users of a certain service on the internet is familiar with him since January 2012. How? Also I won't take no for an

answer.

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ANSWER

Prof. Eric Jarosinski who writes the popular Twitter feed @NeinQuarterly uses Adorno's pic as his DP

He was born to a Saudi Arabian father and Kuwaiti mother and is one of the most influential Indian theatre directors and Drama teachers in 20th-century Indian theatre. He also remained the Director of National School of Drama for 15 years. As the director of the National School of

Drama (NSD),his fundamental contribution was to devise a methodology of theatre training which has continued after him, and to create a body of actors and directors which transformed the notion of

theatre at the grassroots level.

He was associated with training many well-known film and theatre actors and directors including Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Manohar

Singh and Rohini Hattangadi.

When he directed “Andha Yug” by Dharamvir Bharati a play set in the last day of Mahabharata war for NSD in 1964, it became a national

theatrical event. Who is this?

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ANSWER

Ebrahim Alkazi

Zui quan is a category of techniques, forms and fighting philosophy. The postures are created by momentum and weight of the body, and imitation is generally through

staggering and certain type of fluidity in the movements. Even though the style seems irregular and off balance it

takes the utmost balance to be successful. It is considered to be among the most difficult wushu styles to learn due to

the need for powerful joints and fingers. Swaying and falling are used to throw off opponents. When the opponent

thinks the boxer is vulnerable he is usually well balanced and ready to strike. The waist movements trick opponents into attacking, sometimes even falling over. Falls can be

used to avoid attacks but also to pin attackers to the ground while vital points are targeted. What technique is

this?

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ANSWER

The earthquake bomb, or seismic bomb, was a concept that was invented by an British aeronautical engineer early in World War II and subsequently developed and used during the war against

strategic targets in Europe. The idea was to make a ten-ton bomb that would explode some 130 ft (40 m) underground (see pic). To achieve this, the bomb would have had to be dropped from 40,000 feet (12 km). The RAF had no aircraft at the time

capable of carrying a ten-ton bomb load aloft, let alone lifting it to such a height. He also designed a six-engine aeroplane for the task, called the "Victory Bomber", but he was not taken seriously by the military hierarchy of the day. He then took a different line in developing a means to hamper Germany's industry. What was

this other means?

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ANSWER

The engineer was Barnes Willis and the other bomb he designed was the Bouncing Bomb used by the Dam Busters

Excerpts from an interview to Columbia Records at on September 12, 2003.

"I thought “I’ll just go to Columbia with this new album and I won’t say a word about it because I know they won’t like it”. “ When asked why,

he listed these reasons.

• "You’ve got all originals on this same album.• You can’t dance to it.• You want a painting on the cover.• We’ve never done that before. We just can’t present this album as

you like it and as you’ve written it."

Which album?

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ANSWER

The album was Time Out. the person interviewed was Dave Brubeck.

It was the first major success for it's author, turning him from an unknown writer into a celebrated author practically

overnight. Napoleon Bonaparte considered it one of the great works of European literature. He thought so highly of it that he wrote a soliloquy in the same style in his youth and carried the

book with him on his campaigning to Egypt.

After this novel appeared in 1774, a generation of privileged young men began to dress in yellow trousers and blue jackets, as their troubled hero was described. It is often said that the book also inspired a wave of "activities" across Europe and

even now when such "activities" happen in clusters it is sometimes called the _______ Effect after the hero, but there is no hard evidence linking these "activities" to that novel. Which

novel?

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ANSWER

Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther

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The word X did not appear in Websters New World Dictionary as late as 1957; we only find the older form Y which meant doing arithmetic using Arabic numerals. By

the time of Renaissance, the origin of the word was in doubt and early linguists attempted to guess its derivation by making combinations which meant "painful numbers". Some people speculated that it was named after a king of

Castile. But later it was correctly attributed to a native of a region which is located in the Amu River basin just south of

the Aral Sea. What is X?

ANSWER

Algorithm, it comes from the famous Persian text book author Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Musa al Khwarizmi

literally, Father of Abdullah, Mohammed, son of Moses, native of Khwarizm

It is an oblong pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with icing (see pic). The name comes

from French for 'flash of lightning', so named because it is eaten in a flash. In 1971 Cadbury introduced a product of

the same name in India , after it acquired Pascall, an English confectionery firm that devised this delicious

formula in the 1960s. What word?

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ANSWER

Eclair

As a science, seismology is relatively young. Its beginning is attributed to the 1750 Lisbon earthquake. A series of circumstances and interests involved these people in the development of this new science from its inception. This interest, certainly, was consonant with their tradition in science dating from the 16th century, which developed out of their work in colleges and universities. The character of seismology as a public service to mitigate the destructive effects of earthquakes was another influential factor. Especially in undeveloped countries, they were in many instances the first to install seismographic stations and to carry out seismicity and seismic risk studies. They installed and maintained at least 38 seismographic stations world wide. Most of these stations were founded before 1920, and many ceased operation in the 1960's and 1970's. Because of this seismology has been called a ______ science. Who are these people?

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ANSWER

The Jesuits

A guitar player responding to what his favorite colors are. Read and Fill in the blanks.

"After I apprenticed as an upholsterer for a few years, I opened my own shop, Third Man Upholstery. Everything was yellow, black and white. All

my power tools were yellow and black. I had a yellow van. I ran my business like a cartoon. I was making out bills in crayon and writing

poetry inside people's furniture. I didn't care if I made any money. I was so happy to pull up in front of someone's house wearing a yellow-and-black uniform, with a yellow clipboard. But the ____ _____' colors were

always red, white and black. It came from peppermint candy. I also think they are the most powerful color combination of all time, from a Coca-Cola can to a Nazi banner. Those colors strike chords with people. In

Japan, they are honorable colors. When you see a bride in a white gown, you immediately see innocence in that. Red is anger and passion. It is

also sexual. And black is the absence of all that.“

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ANSWER

The White Stripes and that was Jack White

Emile Zola called it the greatest work of it's artist, the one in which he realizes the dream of all painters: to place

figures of natural grandeur in a landscape. One interpretation of the work is that it depicts the rampant

prostitution that occurred in the Bois de Boulogne, a large park at the western outskirts of Paris, at the time. This prostitution was common knowledge in Paris, but was

considered a taboo subject unsuitable for a painting. The Bois de Boulogne is to this day known as a pick-up place for

prostitutes and illicit sexual activity after dark, just as it had been in the 19th century. Which painting?

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ANSWER

Manet’s Le dejeuner Sur l’herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass)

The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba is a medieval Islamic mosque that was converted into a Catholic Christian

cathedral in the Spanish city of Córdoba, Andalusia. The main hall of the mosque was used for a variety of purposes. It served as a central Prayer hall for personal devotion, the five daily Muslim prayers and the special Friday prayers. What was the seemingly countless array of these iconic

pillars supposed to represent?

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ANSWER

The rows of palm trees in the oases depict the homeland from where the Moors came to Spain

What is this video paying tribute to?

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ANSWER

It is a video of a song by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós.

The video is also a direct allusion to J. D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye". In the novel, character Holden

Caulfield says "I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look

where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the

catcher in the rye and all."

Cinder Lake lies just south of Sunset Crater, northeast of Flagstaff Arizona. The pic shows a series of carefully timed and very precisely located explosions which was carried out there in 1967. In the first round alone, this required 312.5 pounds of dynamite and 13,492 pounds of fertilizer mixed with fuel oil. At the end of a four-day period of controlled

explosions they created a field which was designed to duplicate at a 1:1 scale a very specific location. What?

(looking for a very specific answer here)

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ANSWER

The future Apollo 11 landing site on the moon, in a region called the Mare Tranquillitatis. The pic on the left is Cinder

Lake and the right the landing site

Also known as S/L Livingstone the boat was built of riveted sheet iron in 1912 in the United Kingdom for service in

Africa on the Victoria Nile and Lake Albert. Even though there were many boats like it, the distinguishing feature of

this boat was it's vertical boiler. She was used by the British East Africa Railway from 1912 to 1968 to shuttle cargo and passengers across Lake Albert .In 1950 she played a major part in a movie where the movie was filmed in those parts

of the world. The boat was found in Cairo, Egypt in the 1970s and was purchased and shipped to USA. The boats

new home port is an island off Florida and it's name is derived from Spanish for "long small -island". Interestingly the boat and it’s current home port are the names of two films made by a director starring the same hero. ID both.

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African Queen and Key Largo

Along with paintings like these pics (next slide) the design team took inspiration from New York City's Art Deco

buildings, John Wayne's gunslinger gait, T-series Russian tank and the Land Rover. The aim was to make something

which was "conscious of the heritage, but not a pastiche or an homage or a greatest hits of everything". The end result

was something which prompted such lavish praise from William Gibson "ravishing display of intelligent, often

wonderfully witty visual design, every frame alive with coherent language, in the service of what is at heart a

children's story... A baroque that doesn't curdle, that never fetishizes itself." What?

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ANSWER

Identify the comic strip/What was getting outlined here?

Also what did I blank? (5 points each)

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ANSWER

What is now known as the Bechdel test was introduced in Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. The Bechdel Test which asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something

other than a man.

The blanked out movie is Alien

This princely state was ruled continuously by one dynasty from AD 590 to 1947. It is said that no other dynasty in India has a chronology of 184 generations starting from ancient times. The

describe themselves as Chandravanshi Kshatriyas and believe that they have descended from

Pandavas themselves. The 180th king ascended the throne in 1850 and at the time of coronation

itself, deviating from the custom of declaring sons as princes, the King declared his brother next in

line. As result of this decision, the prince who might have been the King a generation later had

to pursue an alternative profession. What dynasty and therefore who was this prince who became a

legend in his profession?

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ANSWER

The Dev Burmans of Tripura. And S. D. Burman

Earlier this month, Guildhall square in Portsmouth saw some 40 descendants of a person converge to basically

dishonor his death wish. He had written, "I conjure to my friends on no account to make me the subject of any

monument, memorial or testimonial whatsoever." The relatives have taken the view that this request was

designed to prevent the kind of garish toga-wearing funeral monuments popular in Victorian times and does not preclude a tribute made 144 years after his death.

So Britain's foremost portrait sculptor Martin Jennings was roped in to do the job. Jennings had made a name for

himself by sculpting statues of people like Walter Betjeman and Philip Larkin. Who was this man who probably didn’t want birds to poop on his head even if it was a statue's?

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ANSWER

This is the Dickens’ statue, the only one in Britain.

WRITTEN ROUNDLITERATURE ON STAMPS

Differential scoring.

If 4 or more teams get a question right, each team gets 5 points.

If 2 or 3 teams get a question right, each team gets 10 points.

If only one team gets the question right, they get 15 points.

1.

The third version of this structure (see image on next slide) was opened in the late 1990s. Stamps

were released to commemorate the occasion. Which structure?

2.

Characters from a book series honoured on stamps. Name the series.

3.

Identify the person.

4.

Identify the male character. Also, name the Premier League footballer who gets his nickname from this character.

5.

Id the author riding on his creation, as depicted on this

Israeli stamp.

6.

The Burundi stamps pay tribute to an author, based on whose short stories, the two movies illustrated here were made.

Name the author.

Exchange Sheets!

ANSWERS -WRITTEN ROUND

1.

The third version of this structure (see image on next slide) was opened in the late 1990s. Stamps

were released to commemorate the occasion. Which structure?

Answer…

The Globe theater from Shakespeare’s days. The stamps shown here reflect the two earlier buildings of the theater.

2.

Characters from a book series honoured on stamps. Name the series.

Answer…

Discworld.

3.

Identify the person.

Answer…

A laptop with a dragon tattoo..

Stieg Larsson.

4.

Identify the male character. Also, name the Premier League footballer who gets his nickname from this character.

Answer…

The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) created by Roald Dahl.

Per Mertesacker.

5.

Id the author riding on his creation, as depicted on this

Israeli stamp.

Answer…

H G Wells on his Time Machine.

6.

The Burundi stamps pay tribute to an author, based on whose short stories, the two movies illustrated here were made.

Name the author.

Answer…

Ray Bradbury.The movies are based on “The beast from 20000

fathoms” and “The Illustrated Man”.

ANTI-CLOCKWISE ROUND

Shown here are a few paintings by Walter Sickert (1860-1942), an artist regarded by some as the

greatest British painter between Turner and Bacon. In 2002, the American novelist Patricia

Cornwell purchased some 32 of his paintings at a cost of over  £2 million. Art enthusiasts have claimed that Cornwell destroyed one of the

paintings. Cornwell has denied this.

What exactly is Patricia Cornwell's interest in the artist? (see pics on the next two slides)

1.

Answer…

Patricia Cornwell is a crime novelist. She believes that Walter Sickert is Jack the

Ripper.Many of his paintings featured murder

scenes which had striking similarities with the ripper’s work. Cornwell allegedly

ripped apart a canvas to obtain Sickert’s DNA to corroborate her claim.

In 1967, the organizers of a performance in Cincinnati approached a man named J Paul

Barnett to help out with the logistics. He had worked as a state trooper in his youth and

had also been a teacher for a while. For about 80 years, the arrangement had been

considered too difficult to get right. But Paul Barnett succeeded. He later helped with

performances all over the world, recreating the arrangement that had originally been

intended. What exactly was Paul Barnett, the first

person to set up ?

2.

Answer…

Cannons in Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”.A total of 16 cannon shots were written into the original score. The composer

never got to see it performed the way he had envisioned. He had planned to use an electric switch panel to fire the cannons outside the opera house to achieve the

precision the musical score required. This was implemented only in 1967.

The pic on the next slide shows a monument. An ancient ban forbid members of a particular community from walking underneath this arch. For close to 2000 years, this ban was in force. In the late 1940s, some members of the community decided that a recent event had lifted the ban, and walked underneath it. But it was not formally announced. In 1997, around the 50th anniversary of the walk, a ceremony was held to announce the formal lifting of the ban. People walked underneath it again.

A) Identify the structure.

B) What event lifted the ban?

3.

Answer…

The Arch of Titus in Rome.The monument commemorated the Roman victory in Judaea and the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. The Jews of Rome were forbidden from walking

underneath the symbol of their slavery. In 1948, when the state of Israel was

formed, the community broke the ban, since their nation was reborn.

The last known specimen of this bird belonged to Count Frederik Christian Raben. He had obtained a specimen for his taxidermy collection from Iceland in 1821. About 150 years later, the director of the Icelandic Natural History Museum bought it in an auction and brought it back to Iceland, flying it in a reserved seat in a flight. Incidentally, the bird’s name was also the nickname of the Field Marshall shown in the next pic. Identify both.

(pics on the next two slides)

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Answer…

Auk (or The Great Auk).

Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of India, was nicknamed “The Auk”.

The results of the study was announced on April 12, 1955 at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly and Company paid $250,000 to broadcast the event. Americans turned on their radios to hear the details, department stores set up loudspeakers, and judges suspended trials so that everyone in the courtroom could hear. Europeans listened on the Voice of America. One account of the event:

"The presentation was numbing, but the results were clear ... Inside the auditorium, Americans tearfully and joyfully embraced the results. By the time Thomas Francis stepped down from the podium, church bells were ringing across the country, factories were observing moments of silence, synagogues and churches were holding prayer meetings, and parents and teachers were weeping”.

"It was as if the war had ended", one observer noted.

April 12th almost became a national holiday as people took the rest of the day off, honked horns and gave thanks.

What was announced?

5.

Answer…

The study confirming that field tests of the Polio

vaccine were successful.

Until then, there were, on average, about 45,000 polio

cases a year in the US alone.

What is satirized in the image on the next slide? A NY Times report described it as:

“At 9:30 o’clock 21 elephants, 7 camels, and 10 dromedaries issued from the ferry at the foot of

Courtlandt-Street. . . . The other elephants shuffled along, raising their trunks and snorting as every

train went by.“Who was responsible for this stunt?

6.

Answer…

When the Brooklyn Bridge was opened, there was huge public skepticism about the safety of the

world’s longest suspension bridge. P T Barnum, the circus showman, offered to demonstrate the strength of the bridge by

walking 21 elephants across it. The stunt gave his circus a lot of publicity, but also helped to

establish public trust in the bridge’s safety.

In 1809, Napoleon I of France arrived at Schönbrunn Palace to play X. According to an eyewitness report, X saluted Napoleon prior to the start of the match. The details of the match have been published over the years in numerous accounts, many of them contradictory.

As per one version, X sat at a cabinet, and Napoleon sat at a separate chess table. Napoleon's table was in a roped-off area and he was not allowed to cross into X's area, with Mälzel crossing back and forth to make each player's move and allowing a clear view for the spectators. When Napoleon attempted an illegal move, X responded by correcting him. When he repeated the illegal move twice, X knocked all the pieces off the board with a sweep of the arm.

Napoleon was reportedly amused, and then played a real game, completing nineteen moves before tipping over his king in surrender.

Identify the player X.

7.

Answer…

“The Turk”, a chess playing mechanical automaton.

From 1770 to 1854, various owners displayed it as an automaton capable of playing chess against humans. It toured Europe, playing several well known personalities. In reality, it was controlled by a human chess master sitting inside it.

In 1966, George Harrison arrived in India with his wife to meet Pandit Ravishankar. He bought a Sitar and started taking lessons from the Indian maestro.

This event is said to have caused a boom in a particular type of business in India. Which?

8.

Answer…

House boats/ Shikaras in Dal Lake.Harrison and Ravi Shankar had their music

sessions in a house boat in Srinagar to escape the crowd of fans.

In 1968, Lamborghini introduced a car called the "Islero". Although it wasn’t very successful, the name is very famous. The inspiration for the name arises from a tragic event in August, 1947. The incident sent a nation into mourning, but also immortalized the name.What incident?

9.

Answer…

Lamborghini cars are named after bulls or bullfighting terms.

Islero was the bull that killed Manolete, the

matador regarded as the greatest of them all.

This photo of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival evoked comparisons with a masterpiece from 1434. The color of the dress and the pregnancy were picked up by the gossip site “perezhilton.com”, which published a comparison. Which artwork?

(one more pic on next slide)

10.

Answer…

“The Arnolfini Portrait” by Jan van Eyck.

In Charles Dickens's last completed novel "Our Mutual Friend", there is a scene where Mrs. and Mr. Boffin try to adopt a child from an illiterate lady named Mrs. Betty Higden, who has several orphaned children under her care. Mrs. Higden introduces one of the kids (named Sloppy) to the Boffins.

"I aint, you must know,” said Betty, “much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn’t think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. ___ ____ ___ ____ ____ ___ ___."

The last sentence meant to convey that, when Sloppy read the newspaper to the illiterate Mrs. Higden, he enlivened the performance by speaking each of the voices quoted in the newspaper articles in distinctive voices or accents.

Which classic of the 20th century had this strange sentence as its working title? (Points for giving just the working title also). The work featured a variety of voices and the title is pretty apt.

11.

Answer…

T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” was originally titled “He Do The Police in Different Voices”.

The Dickens character Sloppy had the habit of reading out Police statements from the newspaper in different voices.

The 1906 Atlantic City train wreck occurred in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday October 28, 1906. A West Jersey and Seashore Railroad electric train fell off a draw bridge, drowning 53 people. A man named Ivy Lee convinced Pennsylvania Railroad, the parent company, to act before any rumors of the accident started spreading.

What first, did this incident result in?

12.

Answer…

The first press release.Ivy Lee created a public statement about the accident, and presented it to journalists at the location of the incident. The New York Times newspaper printed the press release word-for-word on Oct. 30, 1906.

Shown here is the traditional flag of Sicily. It features the triskelion or three bent legs, the head of Medusa and three wheat ears.The flag is bisected diagonally into regions colored red and yellow, red representing the municipality of Palermo, yellow representing ____ , which in medieval times was an agricultural city of renown. Palermo and ____ were the first two cities to found a confederation against the Angevin rule of Charles I in the 13th century.

Identify the agricultural city represented by the yellow colour.

13.

Answer…

Corleone.

The original photo was published in the 1940s, but most people thought that the ladies were just models. They were nicknamed “Refrigerator ladies” who were posing to make it look good (much like the refrigerator advertisements).In 1985, a lady named Kathy Kleiman chanced upon their photo and tracked them down. Who were these ladies? (pics on next slide)

14.

Answer…

ENIAC programmers.Six women had programmed the original

ENIAC computer during WWII. Their ballistics program used hundreds of wires

and 3000 switches to calculate firing tables and ballistic trajectories.

The tower shown here is located in Recife, Brazil, it is the only one preserved in its original form. In the 1920's and 1930's structures like these were built in many countries. They were used to reduce the number of men needed to manage a process. They came in different heights, the one at Cardington completed in 1926, was an eight sided steel girder structure, 200 feet high. The tallest one ever designed was soon converted for use as a television and radio transmitter tower. What were these things used for?

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ANSWER

That was a Zeppelin Mooring Tower.

The tallest one was at the Empire State Building.

They created special packing case which could minimize vibration and ensure that it would never come into contact with another surface. To increase security the case had to be small enough to be easily carried by two men but impossible to be carried by only one. Moreover, the case had to be unsinkable in the event it had to be thrown overboard into the sea. They also had the French flag painted on it, to show that it was French property, because they worried that without the markings, maritime law concerning the salvage rights of property retrieved outside territorial waters might allow the it to be wrenched from the possession of France. After reaching the destination they also insisted on a bank vault with an independent air-conditioning system and in the case of a labor strike or loss of electricity, it would need to be connected to a hospital or the Pentagon. What did the case carry?

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This was how Mona Lisa was shipped to the USA in 1962

In the end seventy-nine of these (pic) were built for the French National Railway SNCF, last of them remaining in regular use until 1960's.The engines were derated to produce only about 200 HP, but even in this form they provided excellent performance. One of the railcars took a world average speed record of 122 mph (196 km/h) for 43.9 miles (70.7 km). The railcar turned an earlier project from an economic failure into a commercial success. The earlier project's intended customers where the Kings of Europe but none was eventually sold to them , the company even refused to sell one to King Zog of Albania, claiming that "the man's table manners are beyond belief!" Which car?

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Bugatti Royale

It is a Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed long sword and takes its name from Gaelic for "great sword". The two-handed version was a large sword used in the late Medieval and early modern periods. It was used in the constant clan warfare and border fights with the English from circa 1400 to 1700. The largest one on record is a sword measuring 7 feet 6 inches (2.24 m) and weighing 23 pounds (10 kg).

This name was chosen for an invention which was developed as a response to the massed Chinese attacks during the Korean War. It shoots a pattern of metal balls into the kill zone like a shotgun and is characterized by the message "Front Toward Enemy" on one side of its casing. What?

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The Claymore Mine, the name was chosen by it’s inventor Norman McLeod

It is an ambiguous figure in which the brain switches between animals. The earliest known version is an unattributed drawing from the 23 October 1892 issue of Fliegende Blätter, a German humor magazine. The image was made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein, who included it in his Philosophical Investigations as a means of describing two different ways of seeing. Interestingly, children tested on Easter Sunday are more likely to see the figure as a Y, whereas when tested on a Sunday in October, they tend to see it as a X. In the Hindus, An Alternative History, Wendy Doniger uses this figure to drive home a few points. What figure are we talking about? Also for brownie points explain how the ambiguity arises.

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The Duck-Rabbit Illusion

It belongs to a very old family of instruments. These type of instruments have been of particular importance in Chinese

and Mesoamerican cultures. Its earliest use in Europe dates back to the 19th century in Budrio, a town near Bologna, Italy, where Giuseppe Donati transformed it from a toy,

which only played a few notes, into a more comprehensive instrument. The word for it in the Bolognese dialect of the

Italian language means "little goose." In 1998 it was featured in a videogame attracting a marked increase in interest and a dramatic rise in sales. Listen to the audio

and Id the instrument and theme.

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The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time

This type of shirt also known as lumberjack shirt was first made in 1924 by an Oregon based company. It was made popular in southern California in the early 1960s by surfers. It was used as an easy warm after surf pull-on, and ideal for evening beach parties. A certain American band were named after this shirt before taking on their more obvious name, and wore the shirts for gigs, copying the South Bay surfer style becoming popular in 1960-61. The group can be seen in Pendleton’s on the cover of their "The Best of" album. What shirt? Which Band?

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The Pendletons and The Beach Boys

Vinzenz Brinkmann is classical archaeologist who has created full-scale plaster or marble copies of Greek statues using the same mineral derived substances used by the ancients. He has used minerals like malachite, azurite, arsenic compounds, cinnabar, burned bone and vine. Brinkmann is trying to disprove a long held view, including those of the pioneering archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

The classical view holds that a distinctive aspect of the Greek statues was intentional - chosen so that the beauty of the structure was emphasized. Brinkmann disagrees with this and believes that this aspect is the result of oxidation, dirt and mistakes made during the restoration of the sculptures. For centuries, antiquarians who envisioned the statues in Brinkmann's fashion were dismissed as eccentrics, and their challenges went ignored. What is Brinkmann trying to prove?

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That statues of ancient Greece were colored and their color got withered and disappeared over time

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