Salute! The General Quiz 2020 (Prelims + Finals)

Salute! The General
Quiz
LSR 2020

PRELIMS
○ 25 questions
○ No blocking

1.
The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the Bering Strait
between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Because they are separated by
The International Date Line, Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of
Little Diomede but not completely; due to locally defined time
zones, Big Diomede is only 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede.
Because of this difference, they are famously called X and Y islands.
Id X and Y.

2.
Connect:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret Atwood
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Roald Dahl
Haruki Murakami
Jack Kerouac
Kurt Vonnegut
Joseph Heller
Ian Fleming

3.
XY is a small city situated on the ____-_____ border. It is
economically linked to the much larger city YX (not
really) lying directly across the international border in
the neighbouring country.
The cities were referenced a few times in a recent show
about drug cartels.

4
Spellbound is a 1945 American film-noir psychological
mystery thriller film directed by X starring Ingrid
Bergman and Gregory Peck.
A point of contention between X and the the producer
David Selznick was the hiring of the artist Y to create a
key dream sequence that was ultimately cut down to two
minutes from twenty minutes.

6.
All of the five Kardashian women have middle names. Kendall Jenner's
middle name, specifically, was kept in honor of a German-American
individual who died in 1994. This individual was very close to Kris Jenner
and her then husband. The death of this person was not only a sensational
event causing a media circus, it also caused a deep rift between Kris Jenner
and her ex-husband due to their different beliefs about the event.
Which individual was this, references to whom you would find in a 2016 TV
series?

7.
A recent survey conducted by 5W Public Relations in the US found that 38%
of the respondents wouldn’t carry out a specific action at the moment. This
is undeniably, although mistakenly, linked to a recent ongoing event. 14%
of a subgroup of the respondents also said they would refrain from carrying
out the action currently.
Although the survey size is relatively small, only consisting of 737
Americans, it still gives an insight into not only how mistaken linkages lead
to problems with economic consequences, but also how people often don’t
think through things and make hasty assumptions. What was this mistaken
linkage and action?

8.
ID the classical
piece used in this
soundtrack from
John Wick 3.

9.
“Jolene” is a song written and sung by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was
released on October 15th, 1973, and is ranked No. 217 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the
500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. “Jolene” is also the song most recorded by other artists
of all the songs she has written, according to Parton.
What is not as well known is that on the same night that she wrote “Jolene,” Parton also wrote
one of her other iconic songs, that perhaps today is more famously known from a cover sung by
another popular female artist, who sang it for the soundtrack of a movie in the ‘90s. This other
song was the single that was released after “Jolene” in 1974. It is one of the few songs that has
managed to reach in the top 3 position in Billboard’s hot 100 in 3 different runs/releases.

10.
In a Los Angeles Times column published on March 15, 1951, writer Marvin Miles observed a
peculiar phrase spreading throughout his circle of friends and the social scene at large. In this
context, the married men speaking to Miles believed _______ ______ could be collected by husbands
who remembered birthdays and anniversaries, stopped to pick up the dry cleaning, mailed letters,
and didn’t spend long nights in pubs speaking to newspaper columnists.
The most pervasive explanation is that the phrase originated with the ________, a subsect of the
Girl Scouts who were encouraged to perform good deeds in their communities.
Over the decades, the phrase _______ ______ has become synonymous with currying favor, often
with authority figures such as teachers or employers.
We love _______ ______ in quizzing!

11.
The term _____ ____, often used to express shock, astonishment, or amazement, was
used as early as 1552 although it’s said to have really caught on with people and
popular usage in the early 1800s.
Although not originally an English term, a lot of British and in general, Anglophone,
writers tend to use it as a stereotypical mark to distinguish X people. The term
emerged as Christians were hesitant to use God’s name in vain and thus searched for
homophones for the word ‘God’ (in their language). That put together with the first
word (that denotes something ‘holy’) helped them avoid blasphemy. It’s now a
popularly used phrase although its popular usage amongst X people is said to have
died down around the mid-1900s. FITB.

12.
Earlier this year, Pitchfork, an American online magazine, put out a review
of Halsey’s latest album, giving it a 6.5/10 and saying that “too much of this
album sounds like the amorphous pop that you might associate with a
miserable Lyft ride.” In response to this, Halsey, in typical stan Twitter type
behaviour, tweeted, “can the basement that they run p*tchfork out of just
collapse already.”
Unfortunately, while tweeting her response, Halsey failed to do some
background research on the implications of her words, that would’ve led her
PR team scrambling to do some clean up. What was this gap that Halsey
failed to realize?

13.
“Overview effect” is a mental phenomenon, the term for which was first
coined by author Frank White in the 1970s when he was on a flight.
Experienced mainly (or, well, widely, at least) by people from a certain
profession, others not from that profession can also feel at least a part of
the effect while looking at images that evoke similar feelings.
It is said to result in a cognitive shift in awareness and of the people have
also said that while looking back at something wasn’t the original focus of
their work objectives, in retrospect, doing so “may well have been the most
important reason.” What does the “overview effect” actually mean?

14.
X is a feature that was first introduced in Cadillacs before it became a norm
and is now an essential that no car (or vehicle, in general) would be
without. Mary Anderson is popularly credited with making the first
operational manual X in 1903 although patents for this device date back to
1896. In Anderson’s design, the device is worked using a lever from inside
the vehicle and closely resembles the device’s current form.
The first electric automatic X was patented by Charlotte Bridgwood in 1917.
ID X.

15.
“Verbifying” is a phenomenon wherein a noun ends up being used as a ‘verb’ in daily use. For
brands, it would usually seem to be a boon as it just strengthens their brand image and
recognition amongst households. However, intellectual property attorneys fear that it could also
lead to “genericide” for a product or a brand, wherein the trademark’s legal power is lost.
There’s several examples of “verbifying” with products and brands that have deeply embedded
themselves into our daily use vocabulary, some of them being ‘Xerox’ and ‘Rollerblade.’
Working along these lines, a relatively lesser known fact is that the word X, which has also
become a very common verbified word, was first used as a verb on television in 2002 in an episode
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That once instance in the TV show led to such widespread impact all
60 members of a committee selected by the American Dialect Society voted to make it 2002’s
most useful new word. ID X.

16.
In November of 1440, the newly-appointed 6th Earl of Douglas, who was just 16, and his little
brother David, were invited to join the 10-year-old King of Scotland, James II, for dinner at
Edinburgh Castle. But it wasn’t the young King who had invited the Douglas brothers. The
invitation had been issued by Sir William Crichton, Chancellor of Scotland, who feared that the
Black Douglas (there was another clan called the Red Douglas) were growing too powerful.
As legend has it, the children were all getting along marvelously, enjoying food, entertainment
and talking until the end of the dinner, when the head of a black bull was dropped on the table,
symbolizing the death of the Black Douglas. The two young Douglases were dragged outside,
given a mock trial, found guilty of high treason, and beheaded. It’s said that the Earl pleaded for
his brother to be killed first so that the younger boy wouldn’t have to witness his older brother’s
beheading.
What pop culture sequence did these events inspire?

17.
Different countries have their own explanations and perceptions of various symbols and
characters. What is the character (not in the literary sense, but a general meaning) being referred
to here?
France, Italy, South Korea: Snail
Russia: Little dog
Germany, Poland, South Africa, Indonesia:
Monkey’s tail
China: Mouse
Czech Republic: Rollmops (rolled pickled
herring)
Israel: Strudel
Denmark, Sweden: Elephant’s trunk
Kazakhstan: Moon’s ear
Greece: Little duck

18.
Poltergeist (1982), directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg and Frank
Marshall, is one of the most famous horror films today. Aside from receiving multiple
nominations from the Academy Awards and winning other prizes, it’s also been recognized as a
classic by different associations and institutes and has spawned two sequels and a remake.
Being a supernatural horror movie, it’s inevitable that rumours regarding how “true” to its nature
of horror it is rise up. As such, there is a “Poltergeist curse” rumour that runs around on the
internet, claiming that this curse exists and can be seen with how some of the actors in the movie
either had premature deaths or faced some other wildly unusual situations. While that all is up to
speculation and theories, certain actions carried out during the filming of the movie and certain
scenes end up feeding these theories, even if they were done for other, unrelated reasons.
One such scene is in the latter half of the movie, where a decision made by the staff in order to
cut costs, is now rumoured to have heavily lent to the “Poltergeist curse.” What was this
decision?

19.
______ _____ is a situational comedy show that premiered
on ABC in 1987 and can be “seen” now on Netflix.
It was filmed in front of a live studio audience and lasted
for nine seasons. Each episode lasted twenty-two
minutes.
______ _____ was initially dismissed by critics as broad,
saccharine and mediocre. However, the family comedy
struck a chord with the United States and went on to air
for nine seasons.

20.
The first X was created in 1943 by Eleanor Lambert. The
event, the world’s first organized _______ ____, was called
“Press Week”, and was created to attract attention away
from French _______ during World War II, when a certain
group of people were unable to travel to Paris.
What was born out of Eleanor Lambert’s idea, something
that took place a few days ago?

21.
Considering the Civil War had ended only a few days earlier, April 14, 1865,
was a normal day in the White House. President Abraham Lincoln read his
newspapers, ate his breakfast, met with his cabinet. He also signed a piece
of legislation authorizing a government agency. That evening, he was
assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while watching Our American Cousin in
Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Though the government agency he authorized on that day’s original work
was to investigate and stop counterfeit money, it is hard to miss the irony
of the situation.

22.
X,___ is a work by a very famous French painter. When asked for a title for it,
the painter simply said “call it X,” named so in order to avoid criticism of
the work being unfinished or lacking detail. X however, received the same
criticism anyway. This work, set in the artist's hometown, Le Havre, is
symbolic of a pivotal moment in the history of art.
What is X?
The dash is simply a description of what is there in the work.

23.
X is a Hindi word, which stands for a very prominent
symbol of the License Permit Raj in India. X can also
remind you of something from Indian classical music.
This word is now synonymous with a certain kind of
near ubiquitous establishment which is often mired in
various controversies. Id X.

24.
____ is an American drama television series about New York City’s African-
American and Latino LGBTQ and gender non-conforming underground
drag ballroom culture scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
While a work of creative fiction, the series is “heavily inspired by” Jennie
Livingston’s 1990 documentary, _____ __ _______. The name of the
documentary being named like a jumbled version of the book “__ _____
_______?” by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
Name the show and the documentary that influenced it.

25.
ID the voice actor for
Cousin Itt.

Yesterday Island and Tomorrow Island

Alfred Hitchcock and Salvador Dali

Hercule Poirot
The only fictional character to get an obituary on the
front page of the New York Times

Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”

The building is the One World Trade Center

When you realize how big the world is - an existentialist
mental clarity basically, mostly felt by astronauts

Used real skeletons instead of fake ones

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet, which coined the
term ‘impressionism’

23.
X is a Hindi word, which stands for a very prominent
symbol of the License Permit Raj in India. X can also
remind you of something from Indian classical music.
This word is now synonymous with a certain kind of
near ubiquitous establishment which of often mired in
controversy. Id X.

Theka, which is hindi for a license/contract

FINALS
○ 30 questions
○ Regular bounce/pounce rules apply (no negatives on
bounce, +10/-5 on pounce)
○ QMs’ decision is final!

1.
Michael Field was a poet in the late 1880s who, although didn’t have his work selling in large
numbers, had managed to attract an elite set of influential admirers. Field was a part of the
aesthetic movement, which promoted an “art for art’s sake” philosophy, celebrating beauty as
free of moral or utilitarian considerations. His colleagues included Oscar Wilde, the art critic
Bernard Berenson, and the artists and designers Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon.
At a point, when his works were being enthusiastically received, reviewers even suggested that
Field be appointed as the poet laureate, which is an esteemed position officially appointed by the
government, or in Britain’s case, the royal household. However, he was unable to receive the
position due to a rather scandalous, though not particularly unique or unheard of, reason about
his identity. What was this reason that not only kept him from being nominated for the position,
but also was perhaps one of the reasons why he never gained a much larger following and felt
that the world was against him?

SAFETY! DON’T SUMMON SPIRITS KIDS!
(or at least be safe when doing so!)

1.
Michael Field was actually a pseudonym used by
Katharine Harris Bradley and her niece and lover, Edith
Emma Cooper.

2.
Give funda for the connect between two horse asses and
American standard railroad gauges.
Hints available.

2.
Railroads designed following the railroad measurements from England,
which were based on the gauge for the mine tramways that were in turn the
approximate gauge of Roman road vehicles, primarily carts and chariots,
which were wide enough to fit two horses for pulling.

3.
May 35th (not a typo) is among a long list of code words
used by the netizens of a certain country that is home to
nearly 800 million internet users. An example of the way
it is used:
Why is it used?

3.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests commonly known
in China as the June Fourth Incident.
May 35 used to bypass internet censorship in China as
the Chinese government deems June 4th
massacre/crackdown/anything too “sensitive”.

4.
The acclaimed novelist X approached the Indian actor Y with an offer to
make a film in English with Indian actors. Y said no to this offer, keeping in
mind his fan following in India.
By this time, someone suggested to Y a certain very famous novel by an
Indian author. Y made a quick read and was so enthused that he contacted
the author X to make the film. This film was made eventually, with the
English version of the movie based on the novel and the Hindi version of
the movie not based on the novel. ID the novel in question.

5.
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” is a rock musical about Hedwig Schmidt, a genderqueer East
German singer of a rock and roll band, The Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell and
with lyrics by Stephen Trask. It follows Hedwig’s journey as she discovers herself and tells her life
story through different live stage performances. In many of the numbers, she is accompanied by
her husband, Yitzhak, who’s a Jewish drag queen from Zagreb.
In the last number of the musical, “Midnight Radio,” that is sung by Yitzhak, there’s a shout-out
to some of the most famous ladies in the rock & roll scene, all of whom have helped shape the
music landscape to what it is today. FITB for all the ladies:
“Here’s to Patti (Smith), Tina ______ & ____ ___
______ ________ & Nona (Hendryx) & Nico & me!”

5.
Patti Smith
Tina Turner
Yoko Ono
Aretha Franklin
Nona Hendryx

6.
Unilever is the world’s biggest ___ _____ manufacturer, with an annual
turnover of €5 billion. With the exception of its U. S. brands, the bulk of the
company’s ___ _____ falls under its “Heartbrand” brand umbrella, so called
because of the brand’s heart shaped logo.
The local sub-brands (variants in different countries) of Heartbrand
include: Algida, Bresler, GB Glace, Good Humor, Langnese, Eskimo etc.
Name the Indian/South Asian variant of Heartbrand.

7.
During the Mardi Gras of 1978, a peaceful protest in the form of a march took place in Sydney,
Australia. But what started off as a march full of a fun, festive mood, soon turned ugly when a
police officer decided to interrupt and disrupt the march. The participants, however, only became
more emboldened to break through the cycle of hate that they’d been facing before and made the
split-second decision to instead march towards King’s Cross.
The violence and assault that occurred there, a revolution taking place, is often said to parallel
events from nine years ago in another continent, that was fighting for the same rights and
celebrating the same existence. The night of Mardi Gras of 1978 ended with 53 people being
arrested, and loud chants of support and calling for release being heard outside. The morning
after, though had all 53 released, also saw that all of them of their names and occupations
subsequently published in The Sydney Morning Herald. Many lost their jobs or housing as a
result. However, in years following it, that night has become a revolutionary date that has been
enshrined in those people’s efforts, who are widely known as the “‘78ers.” What was the march
for?

The Yoshida Manufacturing Shareholding Company is a Japanese group of
manufacturing companies founded in 1934 that manufactures architectural
products, fastening products, plastic hardware and industrial machinery at
109 facilities in 71 countries worldwide.
Yet they are mainly known for making one particular product X. The
company is responsible for making roughly half of all the X in the world -
more than 7 billion a year. The company name is so ubiquitous, we can
100% guarantee that you have seen it at some point in your life.
8.

Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki Gaisha

9.
Vanuatu is an island nation situated about 1,000 miles east of northern Australia.
While a relatively small nation, with a population of just about around 300,000
people, Vanuatu is becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination. While this,
in part, is thanks to reality TV shows like Survivor and Celebrity Survivor (the
Australian version), another reason lies with a first that this island managed to
accomplish in 2003.
The popularity of this first spiked and led to several other countries (Japan, Norway,
and Malaysia) copying it. What is this unique idea that was initially just joked over
drinks by a local resort-owner and his friend that became a reality and gives tourists a
special experience to share with their families back home?

10.
Jimmy was an actor who acted in over a 1,000 feature films from the 1930s
to 1950s, acting in movies such as It’s a Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz.
He was trained in a number of tricks and skills aside from acting that
widened his scope in his acting career. At one point in his career, it’s said
that he had 21 stand-ins, 15 of which were female.
Jimmy had also received a Red Cross gold medal in acknowledgement of 200
hours spent entertaining veterans after the war, and has been enshrined in
cement at Los Angeles amongst his other successful co-stars. Who is
Jimmy?

11.
The lexicon adopted by politicians and bureaucrats, especially those higher up in the system, end
up shaping not only the policies, but also the way the people under them work, and at a larger
scale, for countries and governments with enough power, how the world (international relations,
etc.) shifts and changes. In October, 2019, Frances Z. Brown, a former director in the National
Security Council wrote about his experiences with working in both the Obama and Trump
administrations and how their differing lexicons changed the way he worked and interacted with
others within his work sphere.
Unlike the previous administration, where Obama was a fond and frequent user of sports
terminologies and phrases to get his point across and build up a teamwork spirit, Trump’s
administration was quite the opposite. In Brown’s months with this new administration, he came
to three simple realizations about how Trump works. What were these 3 realizations? Hints to
follow.

1. Lack of clarity is the point
2. Language of threats
3. Everything is personal

12.
_____ __ ___ _____ is a sheer visual extravaganza, but the film’s soundtrack and musical selections
also offer up just as much nuance and depth. Perhaps the most striking musical number is its
opening theme, “______ __ _ ______” that recurs throughout the film. When composing the theme,
Kawai tried his best to capture the core of this futuristic universe and would meld a few styles
together in order to tap into the protagonist’s eclectic world. “______ __ _ ______” features lyrics
from the ancient Japanese language of Yamoto that is paired together with a traditional
Bulgarian harmony. The effective chanting vocals throughout the piece also callback to a
traditional Japanese wedding song that’s typically sung to help rid evil spirits. Kawai’s original
intention was to use Bulgarian folk singers to honor what he was pulling from, but instead went
with Japanese folk singers, which ends up mixing these styles even further. With such a deep
collaboration of influences here, it’s easy to see why the song makes such an impression and
conjures chills whenever it comes up in the film.
Symphony conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith notes that the song's lyrics are fitting for the union
between ________ and _______ ____at the climax of the movie.

12.
Ghost in the Shell - Making of a cyborg

13.
The __________ Award is an award given by the Public Language Award
Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English for "ironic tribute
to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive,
evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered", i.e. those who have
engaged in __________.
Its opposite, awarded by the same body, is the ______ Award for authors,
editors, or producers of a print or non-print work that "contributes to
honesty and clarity in public language". The award is interestingly named
after an author known for calling out societal truths and transgressions
through their works.

13.
Doublespeak Awards
Orwell Awards

14.
Sergei Fedorov is one of the most well known and celebrated Russian hockey players in the world and was
inducted in the NHL’s Hall of Fame in 2015. He joined the NHL after being drafted in 1989, and much as any other
foreign national, worked his way through with his exceptional skills and a slowly improving and slightly wonky
English that led to just minor mishaps - most that just ended up adding to his charm. One of these mishaps
happened in his rookie year, when he was rooming with Shawn Burr on the road for their away games.
During this mishap, Fedorov had reached out to Burr and asked him for something that he needed. Burr, flustered,
thought maybe it was a case of something lost in translation, and said he couldn’t help him out. So Fedorov went
on to ask the same from multiple other teammates only to end up with the same answer - they couldn’t help him
on this front. Fedorov was confused, and the team’s managerial staff was wondering about how thoroughly they
had scouted him, until the mystery was resolved with a Russian-English dictionary.
What was this something, that can be seen as an essential, that made people so flustered? Give both the words -
what Fedorov wanted and what he said he wanted.

14.
“I need love” when he meant “glove”

15.
In the cake scene in Coraline, an interesting decision with the way the
cursive words are written on the cake hint at
the lie that’s being told - that they’re welcome,
but she’s not home. Of course, this is said to be
so according to _____________, which while the
analysis does fit here appropriately, is also
usually perceived to be a pseudoscience.
FITB + tell what led to this analysis.

Graphology + the double loops on the ‘o’ in home
(according to graphology, double loops means that the
person who has written it is lying)

16.
While Hedy Lamarr is perhaps best known as an actress, acting in films such as H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) and
Samson and Delilah (1949), having her name engraved with a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, she has
also been posthumously inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Originally born in Austria-Hungary, she migrated to the United States with her mother after the Nazis annexed
Austria. While she had been acting since young, she also had an interest in trying her hand at inventing different
devices and technologies. During the wartime, she wanted to lend a hand and join the National Inventors Council,
but was reportedly instead told to help by using her celebrity status to sell war bonds. While she did follow that
advice and helped sell war bonds, her desire for invention didn’t die, and along with her friend, composer and
pianist George Antheil, they managed to create a device that had a frequency-hopping signal, which allowed it to
avoid being jammed. This stemmed from her hearing about the radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging
technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course.
Although the US army didn’t adopt the technology, even after it was patented in 1942, they did later use an
upgraded version of it in 1962. What’s even more interesting is how this technology’s techniques are still being
incorporated in some of the technology that we make use of today - how is it seen today?

It’s used in bluetooth and and legacy versions of Wi-Fi

17.
The Six Grandfathers was a sacred Lakota site located in the Black Hills, the ancestral
lands promised to the Lakota in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. As Six Grandfathers,
the mountain was part of the route that Lakota leader Black Elk took in a spiritual
journey that culminated at Black Elk Peak. However, in 1876-78, through various
military campaigns, the United States took control over the territory that was
supposed to be a part of the Great Sioux Reservation as they found gold in the area.
Much like a microcosm of America’s history, once the territory was taken over,
expeditions began and in the next 60 odd years, the identity of that site had changed.
This change, of course, involved participation and oversight from redneck Americans,
especially one who was also a part of, or at least a supporter of, the KKK. What has
the site become now?

18.
Rea Irvin was an American artist working in New York in the 20th century. In 1924, he was
working on the launch of a certain product. The final details of the product had been laid out,
however, something very crucial was missing. To meet this requirement, Irvin created a certain
character which makes annual appearances (except a few years) on a certain very commonly seen
platform, in some form or the other.
This theatrical character has a name (given later by Corey Ford), however, no one has been able
to trace with surety who it is based on. Moreover, in this product’s universe, this is not the only
fake character- Owen Ketherry, who some of the product’s clients have conversed with , is another
fake character.
Some speculate that the character created by Irvin is based on Comte d’Orsay, who has been
described as ‘while an amateur painter and sculptor of modest attainment, was a calculating
social climber and parasite of somewhat more conspicuous success’ or a ‘dandy and man of
fashion’. Who could this character created by Irvin be?

Eustace Tilley, the New Yorker dandy

19.
Rudi Dutschke was a German Marxist sociologist who was most well known as a spokesperson
and political activist during the German student movement that took place in the late 1960s. In
the 1970s, he also ended up joining the emerging Green movement that was focused on
ecopolitics.
His socialist beliefs had strong Christian roots and he believed that Jesus Christ was, in fact, the
greatest revolutionary. This mix of ideologies takes a very literal representation in the name he
gave to his first son, Hosea-___ Dutschke. Hosea is a Minor Prophet from the Old Christian
Testament and is often seen as a “prophet of doom,” although underneath his message of
destruction is a promise of restoration. The second person that Dutschke named his son after
represents his socio-political beliefs, and is perhaps a quintessential icon in Dutschke’s political
belief sphere. Who is this second person? FITB.

Che Guevara - so Hosea-Che Dutschke

20.
In an almost peculiar twist of events in history, the popularity of square dancing in US is
inextricably linked to Henry Ford’s staunch dislike for jazz dancing. In fact, Ford was so hellbent
on pushing square dancing in place of it that he poured tons of money into square dancing and
country music in general. In 1926, he published an instruction manual for aspiring square
dancing instructors titled “Good Morning: After a Sleep of Twenty-Five Years, Old-Fashioned
Dancing is Being Revived by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford.” He also required his employees to attend
the square dancing events he created for them, funded fiddling contests and radio shows
promoting “old time dancing music,” as well as the creation of square dancing clubs across the
US. In all his efforts, Ford only managed to become semi-successful as he never really was able to
supplant jazz, but he did manage to spark a revival of interest in square dancing.
Why did Ford so adamantly believe that jazz dancing was the harbinger of moral decay and all
sins and evils in America?

He believed Jazz was created by Jews and he was an anti-Semite :)
(also racist, bc while he didn’t believe that Blacks were particularly
evil like Jews, he did think they weren’t smart and could be easily
manipulated by the Jews and their evil Jazz music and dance)
“Popular music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The
mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of
sliding notes, are of Jewish origin”

21.
Bong Joonho is perhaps one of the last people we’d expect to have worked with Harvey
Weinstein, but as life has it, they did sort of end up working together for Bong’s first English-
language film debut, Snowpiercer. The distribution rights for the film were acquired by The
Weinstein Company and there were plans for a wide release of it. However, a minor dispute
occurred between Bong and Weinstein (in which Bong emerged victorious, and then began to
include a clause in all his future deals that would help avoid the same situation as he had dealt
with Weinstein, #neveragain) that led to the distributors being switched to Radius-TWC, which
meant the film only received a limited release in art house cinemas.
Knowing Bong’s style of directing, wherein he makes storyboard sketches of all his scenes and
shoots precisely those scenes as he wants them, thus cutting out the unnecessary multiple angle
filming and extra footage editing, and knowing his indifference towards superhero movies, what
was the source of the dispute between Bong and Weinstein that, in the midst of it all, leading up
to it had Bong lie to Weinstein that his father was a fisherman?

Weinstein wanted to cut out a lot of the movie (20
minutes of it) and instead include more action +
monologue scenes. Bong always likes having his
director’s cut.
Bong lied about his father being a fisherman to save a
particular scene that he really liked from being cut in the
initial reviews by invoking some family sentimentality in
Weinstein.

22.
The American rapper Eminem released his eleventh studio album on January 17, 2020 titled _____
__ __ ________ __. The album's title and alternative cover art share the same concept as the 1958 Jeff
Alexander album ______ _________ presents _____ __ __ ________ __ , described by Chris Willman of
Variety as "the one and only album _________ever released".
The album is dedicated to American rapper Juice Wrld, who died from an accidental drug
overdose on December 8, 2019, and Eminem's former bodyguard CeeAaqil Allah Barnes who also
died.
These are some audio files that form the intro and the outro of the album to help you get to the
name of the album and the person the album pays a tribute.

22.
Music to be Murdered By
Alfred Hitchcock

23.
In May 1970, a few months after the show began airing, the Board of the State
Commission for Educational Television vetoed the showing with a member stating
that “Mainly the Commission members that Mississippi was not yet ready for it.” The
five-member panel of the Board consisted of educators and private citizens, including
a teacher and a principal, and was headed up by James McKay, a banker in Jackson,
Mississippi. McKay’s presence was notable for the fact that his father-in-law, Allen
Thompson, had just retired after spending 20 years as mayor of Jackson. Highly
resistant to integration in the city during his tenure in office, Thompson was also the
founder of Freedom of Choice in the United States, or FOCUS, an activist group that
promoted what they dubbed “freedom of choice” in public schools—a thinly veiled
reference to ___________.
Name the show and why it was banned?

Sesame Street
It was considered too controversial because on the series, the human cast
was integrated, with black performers Matt Robinson and Loretta Long as
Gordon and Susan, respectively, appearing alongside white actors Jada
Rowland and Bob McGrath. The children of Sesame Street were also
ethnically diverse.

24.
The band X is a rock band based out of England. They chose the name X
because of its "stylistic implications and association." The band also chose
the same typeface used on the X college building in Dessau, Germany. ID X.

25.
Robert McCulloch, President of the McCulloch Oil Company, has been famous for the
ambitious accomplishment of developing Lake Havasu City in the Arizona Desert on
the shores of the Colorado river.
As the crowning touch for the project, Mr. McCulloch, a native of St. Louis, bought
the 19th century ______ ______ on April 18, 1968, from the Corporation of London for
$2,460,000 and had it brought to the United States, stone by stone, for reconstruction
hoping to attract tourists and prospective buyers of residential lots. The construction
took three years to complete.
Since its inauguration on October 5, 1971, ______ ______ has become the second-largest
tourist attraction in Arizona, after the Grand Canyon.

London Bridge (is falling down, falling down, falling down)

26.
The Kanji of the year is a Japanese character chosen by the Japanese Kanji
Proficiency Society through a national ballet in Japan. The character with
the most votes, selected to represent the events of that year wins.
The 2016 Kanji was 金 read as kin or kane meaning gold. The character was
chosen as a representation of two particular events that took place that year
and one viral video that has been viewed almost 136 Million times.
Give the three “golden” reasons.

26.
○ Japan winning high number of gold medals at the Rio
Olympics
○ Donald Trump winning the U.S. Presidential
elections (“blond hair” is “kinpatsu”)
○ Pikotaro (Daimaou Kosaka), the singer of PPAP
known for wearing the gold-coloured animal print
outfit.

27.
Nigel Goode, lead aviation designer and co-founder at Priestman Goode, which has
been delivering aircraft interiors for 30 years for airlines, including most recently the
Airbus Airspace, states: "Our job as designers is to reinforce the airline’s brand and
make it more recognisable, but our primary concern is to deliver an interior that
maximises comfort to create a pleasant environment.”
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing, explained their psychological approach to the cabin:
"the idea is to give airplanes a more residential feeling, with relaxing ______ and
restful _______."
What, almost constant, aircraft feature is being talked about?

(Most) Airline seats being blue (=calm)

28.
On September 12, 1895, a Nebraskan named Jessie Allan died of Tuberculosis. Such deaths were a
common occurrence at the turn of the 20th century, but Allan’s case of “consumption”
“reportedly” came from an unusual source. She was a ________.
A wave of legislation in the United Kingdom sought to attack the problem. Although the Public
Health Act of 1875 didn’t refer specifically to _____ ____, it did prohibit lending “bedding clothing
rags or other things” that had been exposed to infection. The law was updated in 1907 with
explicit reference to the dangers of spreading disease via ____ ____.
In response, numerous methods were used for disinfecting ____, including holding the _____ in
vapor from “carbolic acid crystals heated in an oven” in Sheffield, England, and sterilization via
“formaldehyde solution” in Pennsylvania, according to Greenberg. In New York, ____ were
disinfected with steam.
Concerns like these are probably circulating again due to coronavirus and considering our
immediate environment.

28.
Library books were blamed for spreading deadly diseases

29.
___ _____ ___________ is an American comedy rock band consisting of
Macaulay Culkin, Matt Colbourn, Phoebe Kreutz, Deenah Vollmer and
Austin Kilham.
Deenah Vollmer said the idea for ___ _____ ___________ began as a joke in 2012
as they “soon realized you can replace most any word with slice or cheese.”
Some of their songs include All _____ Parties, _____ Gal, Take a bite of the
wild _____, all of them playing on/parodying famous ___ ______ ___________
songs (a popular band of the 60s-70s).
Give the band name, a play on the band they’re parodying.

30.
This popular journalist has been working in conflict zones for two decades. His most appreciated
works include those set in the Iraq war where he traveled with the US Marines and the
Afghanistan War. He has published books, photo-essays and articles for various publications.
Recently, his work has gained popularity after the assassination of general Qassem Soleimani.
A lot of people in India believe that certain activities he undertook in India were illegal and they
demand action against it. The government of India appears to share some of the hostility, with
his VISA for travel to India being rejected just before an important event earlier this year. ID this
journalist.

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