Quizotica 2017 Finals Complete Set

A MINDSPORT presentation :
THE FINALS…..

ROUND STRUCTURE FOR THE
FINALS :
16 QUESTIONS CLOCKWISE WITH
INFINITE BOUNCE AND POUNCE
SPECIAL ROUND – WRITTEN
16 QUESTIONS ANTI-CLOCKWISE
WITH INFINITE BOUNCE AND
POUNCE
SPECIAL THEME ROUND

ROUND OF 16….

Q.1. ID. THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON
OF THIS FAMILY.
ONE CERTAIN BHAGYAKUL KUNDU WAS ORIGINALLY BASED OUT OF A PLACE
CALLED BHAGYAKUL(NEAR DHAKA) IN UNDIVIDED BENGAL. DURING THE 1ST
HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE FAMILY GOT INTO SALT BUSINESS AND SOON
ACQUIRED VAST FORTUNES AND ALSO BECAME ZAMINDARS . THE COLONIAL
BRITISH GOVT. AWARDED THEM THE TITLE OF “ROYCHOWDHURY”.
THEY ALSO FOUNDED ONE OF THE BIGGEST JUTE MILLS, M/S PREM CHAND JUTE
MILLS LTD. THE FAMILY WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SETTING UP THE EAST BENGAL
CLUB IN 1920 AND ALSO THE VIDYASAGAR COLLEGE.
THE MOST FAMOUS DESCENDANT OF THIS FAMILY IS TILL DATE RECOGNISED
AS THE FIRST PERSON OF KOLKATA IN A CERTAIN RESPECT.

AND THE ANSWER IS ……..

PANKAJ ROY

THIS MAN, RENOWNED FOR HIS
OUTSTANDING WASH PAINTINGS, IS ALSO
CREDITED TO HAVE BROUGHT
MADHUBANI PAINTINGS ON CLOTH AND
DESIGNING NEW CHANDERI SAREES.
BUT APART FROM THESE, IN HIS EARLY
TWENTIES, HE WAS GIVEN THE SOLE
RESPONSIBILITY BY HIS GURU, NANDALAL
BOSE, TO DESIGN SOMETHING FOR WHICH
HE HAD TO SHUTTLE A HUNDRED
KILOMETRES A DAY FOR ABOUT A WHOLE
MONTH, BRAVING THE CROWDS, DUST AND
GRIME OF 1940S KOLKATA, TO STUDY LIVE
ANIMALS, THEIR MANNERISMS,
COUNTENANCE, BODY LANGUAGE ETC.
Q.2. NAME THE PERSON AND
WHAT DID HE DESIGN?

DINANATH BHARGAVA & THE
NATIONAL EMBLEM OF INDIA

Q.3. WHICH POPULAR HAIRSTYLE IS
NAMED AFTER THIS 18TH CENTURY FRENCH
WOMAN?
MADAM DE ……….. WAS THE CHIEF MISTRESS, A CLOSE FRIEND AND A CONFIDANT
TO KING LOUIS XV AND ALSO MEMBER OF THE FRENCH COURT. SHE WAS ALSO AN
ARDENT ADMIRER OF FASHION, ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CONTEMPORARY
PHILOSOPHERS INCLUDING VOLTAIRE.
A VERY PARTICULAR KIND OF HAIRSTYLE WORN BY HER WAS POPULARISED
AMONG THE FASHIONABLE WOMEN IN FRANCE IN 18TH CENTURY AND REVIVED IN
19TH CENTURY AND IS STILL IN VOGUE.

POMPADOUR

SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER WAS A LESSER KNOWN
AMERICAN ACTRESS STARTING HER CAREER IN THE
1970S. ON A CERTAIN MARCH EVENING IN 1973, SHE
TOOK EVERYONE BY SURPRISE WHEN SHE CAME UP ON
TO THE STAGE WITH A 15-PAGE-LONG SPEECH. BUT
ONLY BEING ALLOWED FOR A MAXIMUM OF 60 SECONDS
ON STAGE, HER SHORTENED SPEECH READ :
.
“IT’S HARD ENOUGH FOR CHILDREN TO GROW UP IN
THIS WORLD. WHEN INDIAN CHILDREN WATCH
TELEVISION, AND THEY WATCH FILMS, AND WHEN
THEY SEE THEIR RACE DEPICTED AS THEY ARE IN
FILMS, THEIR MINDS BECOME INJURED IN WAYS WE
CAN NEVER KNOW.”
Q.4. JUST THE CONTEXT OF IT
MAKING HER FAMOUS.

MARLON BRANDO REFUSED TO RECEIVE
HIS “BEST ACTOR OSCAR AWARD” FOR
GODFATHER AS A PROTEST AT THE
TREATMENT OF NATIVE INDIAN
AMERICANS BY THE FILM
AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY AND
LITTLEFEATHER CAME ON BEHALF OF
HIM.

Q.5. NAME THE MUSICAL
GROUP.
………….. WERE AN INDIAN HUSBAND-WIFE MUSICAL GROUP BEST
KNOWN FOR WORK IN THE CHUTNEY MUSIC AND DESI FOLK MUSIC
GENRES. THEY PERFORMED TOGETHER FROM THE 1970S FOR FORTY YEARS
UNTIL THE WIFE DIED IN 2004.
ONE OF THE MOST REMEMBERED CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE WIFE IN
BOLLYWOOD MUSIC IS :

MUSICAL GROUP – BABLA &
KANCHAN
BABLA SHAH WAS THE YOUNGER BROTHER OF
COMPOSER DUO KALYANJI-ANANDJI AND HIS WIFE WAS
KANCHAN DINKERAO MAIL

ERNST HAECKEL (1834-1919) WAS A
GERMAN BIOLOGIST WHO DISCOVERED,
DESCRIBED AND NAMED THOUSANDS OF
NEW SPECIES AND COINED MANY TERMS
IN BIOLOGY INCLUDING ECOLOGY, PHYLUM, STEM
CELL ETC.
ON 20 SEPTEMBER 1914, IN AN ARTICLE IN
INDIANAPOLIS STAR, HAECKEL WROTE : THERE
IS NO DOUBT THAT THE COURSE AND
CHARACTER OF THE FEARED ………. ...WILL
BECOME THE “……….” IN THE FULL SENSE OF THE
WORD” THEREBY COINING A NEW TERM WHICH
WAS OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED IN A 1920 BOOK BY
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHARLES À COURT
REPINGTON.
Q.6. WHAT TERM DID HE COIN?

FIRST WORLD WAR

Q.7. WHICH ISLAND IS THIS?
WHEN EUROPEAN EXPLORERS FIRST VISITED THIS ISLAND, THE MOST
VIVID MEMORIES THEY CARRIED AWAY WERE THOSE OF THE WILD DOGS
THEY HAD MET THERE. CONSEQUENTLY THE ISLANDS WERE NICKNAMED
………….. ISLANDS.
HOWEVER, THE ISLANDS BECAME FAMOUS NOT FOR THE DOGS BUT FOR
THE YELLOW SINGING BIRDS THAT WERE INDIGENOUS TO THEM. THESE
BIRDS BECAME KNOWN AS X. THUS WE HAVE A PARADOXICAL FACT OF A
SMALL BIRD DERIVING ITS NAME FROM THE LATIN FOR A DOG AND
THEREBY ALSO GIVING THE ISLAND ITS NAME.

CANARY ISLANDS
(LATIN FOR A DOG IS “CANIS”)

Q.8. WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT?
THE COMPANY, EASTERN SCALES PRIVATE LIMITED, WAS FOUNDED
IN CALCUTTA IN 1939 BY J.H. SOMERVILLE, AN AUSTRALIAN WHO
HAD MIGRATED TO INDIA LOOKING FOR WORK DURING THE GREAT
DEPRESSION.
ONCE HAD A FLOURISHING BUSINESS, IT HAS NOW SHUT DOWN ITS
FACTORY AND ITS PRODUCTS CAN NOW ONLY BE TRACED IN
CALCUTTA METRO AND ON A SINGLE LINE OF THE BOMBAY METRO.
THE PRODUCTS OF THIS COMPANY EVOKE SOME OF OUR ‘FLASHING’,
‘GLITERRING’ AND ‘COLOURFUL’ CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.

RAILWAY PLATFORMS WEIGHING MACHINES

Q.9. WHAT IS SO UNIQUE ABOUT THIS
PARTICULAR AWARD RECIPIENT IN THE
HISTORY OF INDIAN SPORTS?

B.I. FERNANDEZ, OF CUBA,
RECEIVING DRONACHARYA
AWARD IN 2012
(HE IS THE ONLY FOREIGN NATIONAL TILL DATE TO
HAVE BEEN AWARDED “DRONACHARYA AWARD” ON
SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION
TO INDIAN SPORTS. THIS CUBAN HAD BEEN
ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN BOXING FOR SEVERAL
YEARS. HE ALSO COACHED VIJENDER SINGH AND
MARY KOM WHEN THEY WON OLYMPIC MEDAL
EACH.)

Q.10. JUST NAME THE FILM.

JHOOLA (1941)

Q.11.HOW IS THIS DYNASTY
BETTER KNOWN?
THE STORY GOES SUCH THAT ONCE MIR QAMAR-UD-DIN, A COURTIER AT
THE MUGHAL COURT, WENT TO MEET HIS SPIRITUAL GUIDE WHO OFFERED
HIM KULCHAS FOR A MEAL. THE HUNGRY MIR IMMEDIATELY HAD SEVEN.
AFTER HIS MEAL, THE GURU BLESSED MIR AND PROPHESIED THAT ONE DAY
HE WOULD BE KING AND THAT HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD RULE FOR SEVEN
GENERATIONS.
THE PROPHECY SOON CAME TRUE AND THE FOUNDATION OF HIS DYNASTY
WAS LAID. AS A GESTURE OF GRATITUDE, MIR PROUDLY ADOPTED THE
SYMBOL OF KULCHA AS PART OF HIS ROYAL INSIGNIA.

ASAF JAHI DYNASTY
&
NIZAM OF HYDERABAD

Q.12. WHICH PHRASE AM I TALKING
ABOUT?
ON THE VALENTINE’S DAY 1884, THEODORE ROOSEVELT LOST BOTH HIS
FIRST WIFE, ALICE AND HIS MOTHER WITHIN 11 HOURS OF EACH OTHER.
WHILE HIS MOTHER DIED OF TYPHOID, HIS WIFE DIED OF NEPHRITIS OF
KIDNEY.
ROOSEVELT WAS DEVASTATED. HIS DIARY ENTRY OF VALENTINE’S DAY
WAS A BLACK “X” AND BELOW HE WROTE ………………. .
YEARS LATER THE SAME PHRASE (WITH A MINOR VARIATION) WAS USED
BY JAWAHARLAL NEHRU WHILE ADDRESSING THE NATION IN ALL INDIA
RADIO AFTER A FATEFUL INCIDENT.
HIS IMPROMPTU SPEECH, TITLED …………. IS OFTEN CITED AS ONE OF THE
GREAT SPEECHES IN HISTORY.

‘THE LIGHT HAS GONE OUT
OF OUR LIVES…”
ROOSEVELT WROTE IN HIS DIARY –
“THE LIGHT HAS GONE OUT OF MY
LIFE”

Q.13. JUST IDENTIFY THE SINGER.
WITH THE MUSIC SCORED BY TWO OLD FRIENDS OF THE
SINGER, LIAM RYAN AND DEAN HETHERINGTON, HERE GOES
THE TITLE TRACK OF THE ALBUM “RED SKIES”.
THE SONGS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN OVER 16-ODD YEARS, AND
ARE ABOUT HIS PASSION, THE EARTHQUAKES AND A COAL-
MINING ACCIDENT IN HIS COUNTRY AND OTHER MORE
PERSONAL SUBJECTS.

JOHN WRIGHT

Q.14. WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT?
TO HONOUR X ON HIS 75TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY IN 2015, INDIAN BAND
SKA-VENGERS RELEASED AN ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO, FRANK BRAZIL,
WHICH WAS ONE OF HIS ALIASES. X ALSO WORKED AS AN EXTRA IN TWO
ALEXANDER KORDA MOVIES – ELEPHANT BOY (1937) AND THE FOUR
FEATHERS (1939).
INTERESTINGLY, X HAS ALSO BEEN MENTIONED IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S
NOVEL SHALIMAR THE CLOWN. AS THE CHARACTER OF ZAINAB AZAM (IN
THE NOVEL) SAYS : “ FOR EVERY …………. THERE IS A X, AND FOR EVERY
TROTSKY, A MERCADOR AWAITS.” THE ADDRESS 10 CAXTON HALL, LONDON
PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN HIS LIFE.

SHAHEED UDHAM SINGH

Q.15. WHAT TRADITION WAS BORN?
ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1918, GAME FIVE OF THE WORLD SERIES BETWEEN
THE RED SOX AND THE CHICAGO CUBS WAS SCHEDULED AT FENWAY PARK
IN BOSTON. THE START OF THE GAME WAS DELAYED WHEN A DISPUTE
AROSE OVER MONEY MATTERS AND THE PLAYERS REFUSED TO TAKE THE
FIELD. HASTY NEGOTIATIONS TOOK PLACE AS THE FANS, MANY OF WHOM
WERE WAR VETERANS, GREW IMPATIENT.
AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR WHEN THE PLAYERS RELUCTANTLY AGREED TO
PLAY FOR THE SAKE OF THE VETS, THE RED SOX OWNER, ALL OF A
SUDDEN, DID SOMETHING TO PLACATE THE RESTLESS CROWD AND
CHEER UP EVERY ONE.
THUS BORN A NEW TRADITION THAT WENT ON TO PERVADE THE WHOLE
WORLD TILL DATE.

PLAYING NATIONAL
ANTHEM BEFORE A MATCH
THE RED SOX OWNER HAD THE BAND PLAY “THE
STAR SPANGLED BANNER”. ALTHOUGH IT WASN’T
OFFICIALLY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM YET, BUT IT
WAS ALREADY CONSIDERED SO BY MANY PEOPLE.

Q.16. GIVE ME THE FAMOUS FIRST
LINE.
MARY ANNING, A RATHER UNKNOWN GIRL OF 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND,
EARNED HER LIVING BY DIGGING UP FOSSILS OF SEA CREATURES AND
SELLING THEM ON THE SHORES. IN 1811 SHE AND HER BROTHER
UNEARTHED THE SKULL OF A 4-FT LONG SKULL OF “ICHTHYOSAUR” AND A
COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER THEY DUG OUT THE WHOLE SKELETON.
HER FINDINGS CHANGED THE FACE OF SCIENCE IN A WAY THAT CHARLES
DICKENS WROTE A TRIBUTE TO HER. BUT SHE WAS MADE IMMORTAL BY
TERRY SULLIVAN WHO WROTE A 4-LINE POEM ON HER LIFE. THE FIRST
LINE IS STILL CONSIDERED THE MOST FAMOUS IN A PARTICULAR GENRE,
TAKEN SOMETIME AS A WORD GAME AND HAVING AMUSEMENT VALUE.

SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON
THE SEA SHORE
“SHE SELLS SEASHELLS ON THE SEASHORE
THE SHELLS SHE SELLS ARE SEASHELLS, I’M SURE
SO IF SHE SELLS SEASHELLS ON THE SEASHORE
THEN I’M SURE SHE SELLS SEASHORE SHELLS.”

AND THE SCORES ARE ……..

A SPECIAL ROUND….

SPECIAL WRITTEN ROUND
RULES :
5 FILM POSTERS.
RELATED QUESTIONS
MINIMUM ASSISTIVE CLUES.
+5 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
NO NEGATIVES
A FULL HOUSE ENSURES +10

Q.1. IDENTIFY THE
NATIONAL AWARD WINNING
FILM.
Clue:

Q.2. INSPIRED FROM THE POSTER OF
WHICH HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC?
Clue:

Q.3. ALONG WITH BERTOLT BRECHT,
WHICH FAMOUS GUJRATI FOLK ARTIST IS
THIS LANDMARK GUJRATI FILM
DEDICATED TO?
Clue:
He is credited with the
origin of the traditional
folk theatre form.

Q.4. CROPPED PART OF WHICH
CLASSIC BENGALI MOVIE POSTER?
Clue:
Director’s only
venture in this genre.

Q.5. WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF THIS
FILM WHICH IS THE FIRST INDIAN
SHORT FILM TO BE NOMINATED FOR
OSCARS?
Clue:

AND THE ANSWERS ARE ……..

ANSWER: 1
This 1977 Telegu film
directed by Mrinal Sen is
based on Munsi
Premchand’s story “Kafan”
and won the National Film
Award for Best Feature
Film in Telugu for that
year.

ANSWER: 2

ANSWER: 3
ASAIT THAKUR

ANSWER: 4

ANSWER: 5

ANOTHER ROUND OF 16….

Q.17. HOW IS IT BETTER KNOWN?
ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN
INSTANCES OF A SIGNAL POST
INFLUENCING WORLD EVENTS

THE ZIMMERMANN
TELEGRAM

Q.18. IDENTIFY THE MOVIE

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Q.19. WHO USED THIS
PSEUDONYM?
CHARLES MORIN WAS A PAINTER OF THE IMPRESSIONIST
LANDSCAPES. MANY OF HIS PAINTINGS ARE ON SHOW AT
CHARTWELL AND ALSO AT SEVERAL PRIVATE GALLERIES.
WELL, MORIN'S ENTRY INTO PAINTING WAS A GETAWAY FROM
DEPRESSION AFTER HE RESIGNED FROM HIS POST AS "THE
FIRST LORD OF ADMIRALTY" IN 1915 FOLLOWING A
DISASTROUS DARDANELLES EXPEDITION. NOW CHARLES
MORIN WAS THE PSEUDONYM USED BY SOMEONE.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Q.20. IDENTIFY THE DESIGNER.
WHEN SPANIARD ENRIC BERNAT BEGAN SELLING HIS
STRIPED CHUPA CHUPS LOLLIPOPS, HE SPENT A
GREAT DEAL ON BRANDING. ONE DAY HE WAS HAVING
COFFEE WITH HIS ARTIST FRIEND AND HE
MENTIONED HIS CONCERN REGARDING BRANDING.
HIS ARTIST FRIEND IMMEDIATELY GOT TO WORK AND
WITHIN AN HOUR CAME UP WITH AN ENDURING
DESIGN. SEE THE PIC.

Q.20. THE BIGGER PICTURE...

SALVADOR DALI

Q.21. NAME THE COLOUR.
THIS COLOUR WAS FIRST MADE AND PATENTED IN
1859 BY FRENCH CHEMIST FRANCOIS EMMANUEL
VERGUIN, WHO AT FIRST CALLED IT FUCHSINE. IT
WAS LATER RENAMED TO CELEBRATE THE FRENCH
VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF __ , FOUGHT BETWEEN
THE FRENCH AND AUSTRIANS ON JUNE 4 1859 NEAR
THE ITALIAN TOWN OF ____ IN LOMBARDY. A
VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL COLOUR IS CALLED ROSEINE.

MAGENTA

Q.22. IDENTIFY THE VOICE AND
TV SHOW.

ED SHEERAN IN GAME OF
THRONES

Q.23. WHAT IS THE RESULT?
“MANY YEARS AGO, DURING A VISIT TO WASHINGTON DC, MY WIFE'S COUSIN
POINTED OUT TO US A CRYPT ON A HILL AND MENTIONED THAT, IN 1862,
WHILE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS PRESIDENT, HIS BELOVED SON, WILLIE,
DIED, AND WAS TEMPORARILY INTERRED IN THAT CRYPT, AND THAT THE
GRIEF-STRICKEN LINCOLN HAD, ACCORDING TO THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE
DAY, ENTERED THE CRYPT "ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS" TO HOLD THE BOY'S
BODY. AN IMAGE SPONTANEOUSLY LEAPED INTO MY MIND – A MELDING OF
THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL AND THE PIETÀ. I CARRIED THAT IMAGE AROUND
FOR THE NEXT 20-ODD YEARS, TOO SCARED TO TRY SOMETHING THAT
SEEMED SO PROFOUND, AND THEN FINALLY, IN 2012, NOTICING THAT I
WASN'T GETTING ANY YOUNGER, NOT WANTING TO BE THE GUY WHOSE
OWN GRAVESTONE WOULD READ "AFRAID TO EMBARK ON SCARY
ARTISTIC PROJECT HE DESPERATELY LONGED TO ATTEMPT", DECIDED TO
TAKE A RUN AT IT, IN EXPLORATORY FASHION, NO COMMITMENTS.”

LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

Q.24. WHAT WERE THESE MALE
COUNTERPARTS NAMED?
HINDUSTAN UNILEVER TRAINED THOUSANDS OF
“SHAKTI AMMAS” ACROSS VILLAGES UNDER THEIR
SHAKTI PROGRAMME IN A BID TO DEVELOP
ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET AND MAKE THEM
FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT. IN 2010 THE SHAKTI
PROGRAMME WAS EXTENDED TO THE MALE
MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES OF SHAKTI AMMAS,
TYPICALLY HUSBANDS AND BROTHERS.

SHAKTIMANS

Q.25. WHAT IS THE TRAGEDY BEING
TALKED ABOUT?
JOSEPH ISRAEL, THE DUTCH ARTIST, WROTE A
LETTER OF APPRECIATION AFTER HE SAW “THE PINK
PEACH TREE”. HE GAVE THE LETTER TO HIS COUSIN
JET IN THE HAGUE. NOW, ACCORDING TO MARTIN
BAILEY(AN EXPERT IN HIS FIELD), HAD THIS LETTER
REACHED A DAY EARLIER TO ITS INTENDED
RECIPIENT, A TRAGEDY COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.

VAN GOGH, CUTTING HIS EAR

Q.26. NAME THE SCULPTOR.
FINDING MENTION IN OVID’S METAMORPHOSES, HE
IS DESCRIBED AS CYPRIOT SCULPTOR, WHO AFTER
SEEING THE PROPOETIDES PROSTITUTING
THEMSELVES ,LOST INTEREST IN WOMEN. HE THEN
CARVED A STATUE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT HE FELL IN
LOVE WITH IT AND HENCEFORTH INSPIRING A
FAMOUS LITERARY WORK.

PYGMALION

Q.27. WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT?
HE ALWAYS WANTED TO JOIN THE REVOLUTION AGAINST
THE FASCIST REGIME OF FRANCO. THE BRITISH
COMMUNIST PARTY THOUGHT OF HIM AS A "POLITICALLY
UNRELIABLE MAN" AND DENIED HIS APPLICATION TO JOIN
THEM. IN 1936 HE TRAVELLED TO SPAIN AND BECAME THE
CORPORAL OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES .FIGHTING AT
THE ARAGON FRONT HE EXPERIENCED THE TROUBLES OF
HIS FELLOW COMRADES AND LATER HE WROTE A BOOK
"HOMAGE TO CATALONIA" ,DOCUMENTING HIS
EXPERIENCES.

GEORGE ORWELL

Q.28. IDENTIFY THE
PROTAGONIST.
HE IS THE MAN WITH AN ICONIC PONCHO, BROWN
HAT, TAN COWBOY BOOTS AND A FONDNESS FOR
CIGARILLOS. THIS RARELY TALKING MAN IS THE
PROTAGONIST IN THE "DOLLARS TRILOGY" OF
SPAGHETTI FILMS AND IS PLAYED BY AN ICONIC
CHARACTER ARTIST OF OUR TIMES.

MAN WITH NO NAME

Q.29. WHY DID MUSIC DIE ON
THAT DAY?
THIS SONG IS A DEDICATION TO A CERTAIN INCIDENT
WHICH IS MENTIONED AS “THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED”.

SONG DEDICATED TO BUDDY
HOLLY, RICHIE VALENS AND J.P
“THE BIG BOPPER” RICHARDSON

Q.30. CONTEXT OF HEARING THIS
NOSTALGIA?

GOOGLE AD
THE REUNION SONG

Q.31. WHAT OTHER INCIDENT DID HE
PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN?
IAN MECKIFF, AN AUSTRALIAN LEFT ARM FAST BOWLER, WAS
CALLED FOR THROWING DURING THE 1ST TEST OF THE 1963 ASHES
SERIES BY COLLIN EGAR AND IT SUBSEQUENTLY ENDED HIS CAREER.
BUT HE WAS ALSO KNOW FOR A FAMOUS INCIDENT INVOLVING AN
INCOMPLETE RUN. WHAT OTHER INCIDENT DID HE PLAY A MAJOR
ROLE IN?

1ST TIED TEST IN HISTORY

Q.32. WHAT DID IT INSPIRE?
DURING THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, PERICLES DELIVERED A
FAMOUS ORATION TO COMMEMORATE THE DEAD. MANY YEARS
LATER , GARRY WILLS, A PROMINENT AMERICAN AUTHOR NOTED
THE FOLLOWING SIMILARITIES AND TERMED PERICLES'S FAMOUS
ORATION AS AN INSPIRATION TO SOMETHING.
- BEGINS WITH AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REVERED PREDECESSORS
- PRAISES THE UNIQUENESS OF THE STATE'S COMMITMENT TO
DEMOCRACY
- HONORS THE SACRIFICE OF THE SLAIN
- EXHORTS THE LIVING TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

SPECIAL ROUND RULES :
5 QUESTIONS( +10 FOR EACH CORRECT)
INFINITE POUNCE ON ALL QUESTIONS
EACH HAS A THEME IDENTIFICATION
SCORE
IF YOU CHOOSE TO ANSWER THE THEME
ON THE 1ST QUESTION AND GET IT RIGHT
THEN YOU EARN 50 POINTS. INCORRECT
WILL COST HALF THE POINTS(25). SAME
APPLIES FOR ALL QUESTIONS EXCEPT
LAST.
EACH TEAM GETS TO ANSWER THEME
ONLY ONCE.

50
10
40
2030
THE THEME IS…..

AND THE QUESTIONS ARE
……..

Q. WHAT ARE THE PICTURES
COLLECTIVELY CALLED?
COUSINS ELSE WRIGHT AND FRANCES GRIFFITHS TOOK A
SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND MADE HEADLINES WHEN AN
ARTICLE IN "THE STRAND MAGAZINE" INTERPRETED THEM
AS CLEAR AND VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA. IT
WAS ONLY YEARS LATER THAT THESE COUSINS ADMITTED TO
THE PICTURES BEING A FORGERY AND THE MYTH WAS
BROKEN. HOWEVER IT STILL INSPIRES MANY FICTIONAL
WORKS TILL TODAY.
ANSWER..

Q. WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT?
WHEN AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST CHARLES DAWSON
CLAIMED THAT HE HAS FOUND THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN
APES AND HUMANS, THE WHOLE WORLD STOOD UP TO
NOTICE.
BUT CONSEQUENT INVESTIGATIONS EXPOSED THE HOAX IN
1953 AND THE SKELETON WAS FOUND TO HAVE CONSISTED OF
THE ALTERED MANDIBLE AND SOME TEETH OF AN
ORANGUTAN DELIBERATELY COMBINED WITH THE CRANIUM
OF A FULLY DEVELOPED, THOUGH SMALL-BRAINED, MODERN
HUMAN.
ANSWER..

Q. NAME THE FRIEND.
GEORGE HACKENSCHMIDT, A FAMOUS WRESTLER OF HIS DAY,
IS ALSO CREDITED AS PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING'S FIRST
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. IT WAS SOMETIME
AROUND 1906 THAT HE APPEARED IN A MOVIE WITH HIS
FRIEND WHICH CENTERED AROUND A CONTEST BETWEEN
THEM. EVENTUALLY THE PLOT MAKES HIS FRIEND WIN THE
FIGHT IN WAYS NEVER UNDERSTOOD. THIS WAS THE FIRST OF
MANY SUCH MOVIES FEATURING HIS FRIEND.
ANSWER..

Q. NAME THIS NOVELLA.
FIRST PUBLISHED AS A THREE-PART STORY IN BLACKWOOD'S
MAGAZINE, THIS NOVELLA STARTS WITH CHARLES MARLOW
TELLING HIS STORY TO FRIENDS ON AN ANCHORED BOAT ON
THAMES. THE DESCRIPTIONS OF HIS EXPERIENCES AS A
CAPTAIN OF A STEAMBOAT USED FOR IVORY TRADING, WAS
SO MOVING THAT IN REAL LIFE IT FORCED THE BRITISH
CROWN TO COME UP WITH THE CASEMENT REPORTS
DETAILING ATROCITIES COMMITTED DURING THE REIGN OF A
CERTAIN MONARCH AND IN TURN BEGINNING THE FIRST
HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
ANSWER..

Q. IDENTIFY THE CHARACTER.
BASED ON WILLIAM RUTHERFORD , A
SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN AND PHYSIOLOGIST
WHO WAS PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY
AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, THIS
FICTIONAL CHARACTER’S APPEARANCE WAS
THUS DESCRIBED :
“HIS APPEARANCE MADE ME GASP. I WAS
PREPARED FOR SOMETHING STRANGE, BUT
NOT FOR SO OVERPOWERING A
PERSONALITY AS THIS. IT WAS HIS SIZE,
WHICH TOOK ONE'S BREATH AWAY – HIS
SIZE AND HIS IMPOSING PRESENCE. HIS
HEAD WAS ENORMOUS, THE LARGEST I
HAVE EVER SEEN UPON A HUMAN BEING...”
ANSWER..

HARRY HOUDINI
BACK TO
CHOICES

COTTINGLEY FAIRIES
BACK TO
CHOICES

THE PILTDOWN MAN
BACK TO
CHOICES

HEART OF DARKNESS
BACK TO
CHOICES

PROFESSOR
CHALLENGER
BACK TO
CHOICES

THE THEME IS….

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

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