The document provides a 30 question quiz with some questions having multiple parts worth 0.5 points each. Some sample questions are about identifying the capital considered by the Adyghe people, the material Kenya burned in 1989 to protest the ivory trade, and the actress who revealed she was paid $25 to have her leg photographed for a famous poster instead of another actress as commonly believed. The questions cover topics in history, geography, current events, arts, and general knowledge.

1. THE KQA FEBRUARY OPEN
Prelims

2. • 30 questions
• Some questions have multiple parts. 0.5 points for each part
• Starred questions will be used to break the tie

3. 1
The image shows the Adyghe people or the Circassians commemorating their
banishment from their homeland in 1864. An estimated 1.5 million of their
population was deported to Turkey in that year. Which city do they consider
as their capital?

5. ANSWER

6. Sochi

7. *2
Kenya took the first major stand on this issue back in
1989 by torching 12 tons of this material. The country's
president, Daniel Arap Moi, lit the flames himself. It was
November, 2013 when the United States finally got into
the act. It pulverized six tons of this material, a stock
pile accumulated over 24 years. China soon followed suit
and it is expected that Hong Kong will also destroy its
stock pile (at 28 tons, it is the largest stockpile known).
What material?

8. ANSWER

10. *3
In 2013, actress Linda Gray, a popular model in the 1960s, best
known for role in the long running CBS show Dallas, made a
surprising revelation. She revealed that the leg seen in the iconic
poster belonged to her and not _____ as is popularly believed.
She told a TV show host that 'I think _____was absent that day... I
don't know. I got paid $25, one leg.‘
What did she get paid to do

11. ANSWER

12. It wasn’t Anne Bancroft, after all.

13. *4
The next slide shows a map of the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Name the district who’s name has been blanked out. The place
name is known to Indians for literary reasons.

15. ANSWER

17. 5
Her name was Cynthia. She was one of the most sought after
celebrities in the 1930s USA. She was invited to the most elite
parties, including the posh wedding of Wallis Simpson and
Edward VIII of England. She received freebies from Tiffany and
Cartier. She had box seats to the Metropolitan Opera. She was
featured in LIFE. Who exactly was Cynthia?

19. ANSWER

20. A mannequin. Created by the
sculptor Lester Gaba, Cynthia took
the party scene by storm.

21. 6
Identify the club from the logo. Also identify the image depicted on the logo.

22. ANSWER

23. A S Roma.
The logo features the Capitoline wolf feeding Romulus and Remus.

24. 7.
Built in the 8th or 9th century CE, under the patronage
of a Nikhumba Rajput king, this structure is considered
to be the largest step well in India. It shot to fame,
thanks to a prominent appearance in a 2012 movie.
Name the structure and the 2012 movie.

26. ANSWER

27. Chand Baori/Chand Baoli, built by Raja Chand.
It was converted into the pit where Bruce Wayne escapes
from, in “The Dark Knight Rises”.

28. 8
The Azure Window (see pic next slide), near Dwejra in Malta is a
natural arch, made of limestone. This stunning structure attracts many
tourists to the locality every year. In 2010, controversy arose, when a
sand-like substance made from powdered hard stone was coated over
the protected fossil-rich site. It was expected to be a temporary change
that could be quickly cleaned up. But environmentalists feared that it
had damaged the micro habitat and caused irreversible damage to the
ecosystem. The people who had unintentionally caused this damage
were forced to deal with the fall out and decided to move away.
This probably caused significant damage to Malta's tourism. The city of
Dubrovnik in Croatia was an unexpected beneficiary of this.
How?

30. ANSWER

31. The shooting of “Game of Thrones” was shifted from Malta to Dubrovnik.

32. *9
The month long activity got its name from a quote by Paul
Cezanne –
"All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done
outside."
The first one went up on October 1 and was titled "The Street is
in play". What are we talking about?

33. Banksy, “Better out than in”, the residency in New York .

34. 10
On 11 July 1791, a Birmingham newspaper announced that on 14 July, the second
anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, there would be a dinner at the local Royal
Hotel to commemorate the outbreak of the French Revolution. The invitation
encouraged "any Friend to Freedom" to attend.
Around 90 British sympathizers of the French Revolution gathered at the hotel on
July 14th. Most of them were religious dissenters who opposed the King and the
Anglican church that he backed. A rioting mob attacked them and sacked the hotel.
The rioting soon spread across Birmingham and several dissenting chapels were burnt.
One of the prime targets of the attack was the scientist ___, who happened to be the
minister of the dissenting "New Meeting Chapel". The mob burnt his house down,
but he managed to escape with his family. He was well known for his scientific
contributions, but was also controversial for his political and religious views. The riots
came to be known as the ____ riots after his name.
Who?

35. ANSWER

36. Joseph Priestley, credited with discovering Oxygen.
The riots were called “the Priestley riots”.

37. 11
Only two of these statues were made by the author’s step
daughter. One of them is at the author’s memorial museum in
Springfield, Massachusetts. The other is in the garden of the
author’s widow. After the release of a 2012 film featuring the
character, the statue in the garden was stolen. The police later
recovered the item, after an anonymous tip.
Name the character and the author.

39. ANSWER

41. **12
This structure on the banks of Lake Zurich in Switzerland, lends its name to a
poetry award, currently administered by Yale University. Identify the structure
and the eminent personality who lived here.

42. ANSWER

43. Bollingen Tower, C G Jung.

44. 13
What “material” was used to make this New Yorker cover ?

45. ANSWER

46. Emoji

47. **14
It was one of the two swords captured from the temple of Pagan God Manat
and Mohammed gave it to Ali and it went on to become one of the symbols
of Shias. The name of this sword and its phonetic variations have been
popular given names, as with one of the Prime Ministers from the
subcontinent. What?

48. ANSWER

49. Zulfiqar

50. 15
In 1966 it was patented as a "Device for Measuring and Indicating Changes in
the Resistance of a Human Body". By inducing a tiny electrical current, the
device measures changes in the human body's electrical resistance. According
to the doctrine, the resistance corresponds to the "mental mass and energy"
of the subject's mind, which are claimed to change when the subject thinks of
particular mental images. It is believed that the device has such sensitivity that
it can be used to determine whether or not fruits can experience pain, as in a
1968 assertion written by the inventor that tomatoes "scream when sliced".
Who was this inventor?

51. ANSWER

52. L Ron Hubbard

53. 16
Trinny Woodall is an English fashion advisor and designer, television
presenter and author who is currently seeing Charles Saatchi the ex-husband
of Nigella Lawson. The two women appeared to have got into an online spat
recently after Woodall took potshots at Lawson in a blog marking her 50th
birthday. Soon after, Nigella tweeted her 560,000 Twitter followers a
#recipeoftheday asking "Do I need to say anything more?" The "people" for
whom the dish is named don't go to market to get their ingredients fresh, but
are happy to use stuff out of jars and tins and the it is prepared with such
ingredients. What recipe?

54. ANSWER

55. She tweeted the recipe of Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
known as the Slut’s Spaghetti

56. 17
A barbute is a visorless war helmet of 15th-century Italian design, often with
distinctive "T" shaped or "Y" shaped opening for the eyes and mouth. The
name is first recorded in an inventory made for the Gonzaga family of
Mantua in 1407. It can be considered as a specialised form of the sallet (see
next slide). The barbute resembles classical Greek helmets and may have been
influenced by a renewed interest in ancient artifacts which was common in
this period. Where have we seen this headgear in recent times?

58. ANSWER

60. 18
Nicknamed Doobi, Hebrew for Teddy Bear, they have served IDF in many
wars. During Yom Kippur War D9 they opened routes to Israeli forces,
clearing landmines and other anti-tank obstacles. In the southern front, D9s
towed bridges and breaching equipment and helped General Ariel Sharon to
cross the Suez canal and determine the war with Egypt. In the northern
front, it was the first motorized vehicle to reach the summit of Mount
Hermon as it paved the way for IDF Engineering Corps, Golani Brigade and
Paratroopers Brigade to claim the summit and prevent it from falling in the
hands of Syria. During the Second Intifada they gained notoriety as being an
effective tool against Palestinians militants, as they were almost impervious to
Palestinian weapons and withstood even RPGs and Belly charges with more
than 100 kg and even half a ton of explosive. What?

61. ANSWER

62. Armored Bull Dozers

63. *19
The next slide depicts a comic version of a man and his work. Who and what
work?

65. ANSWER

66. Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass

67. **20
The next slide shows a mash-up of Tintin with works of another writer. Who?

69. ANSWER

70. HP Lovecraft

71. 21
It was designed after spending three months of research in anatomy, surgery,
medicine, criminal history, criminology, ancient and modern burial customs,
and electrodynamics. It was assumed that since the protagonist was a scientist
but no practicing surgeon, he would take the simplest surgical way to cut the
skull. And further that he would cut the top of the skull off straight across
like a pot lid. The end result was a head which looked flat like a shoe box.
They also placed wire clamps over the lips and painted the face blue-green so
that it looked corpse-like grey in black and white. Two electrodes were also
glued to neck for the added effect. The eyes were waxed to make them look
heavy and half-seeing. An undersized suit was used to make the limb look
longer and finally heaving boots weighing 13 pounds each were worn to
produce the lurching walk. What is being described here?

72. ANSWER

73. Boris’ Karloff ’s Frankenstein

74. 22
If he was in No.2 who was in No.1?

75. ANSWER

76. James Whistler’s Mother. The paintings were originally titled Arrangements in
Black and White No. 1 and 2

77. 23
It is a reddish-brown phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals. It occurs
usually in small isolated crystals. There are at least four different kinds of X,
depending on relative elemental composition of the mineral:
X-Ce (Ce, La, Pr, Nd, Th, Y)PO4
X-La (La, Ce, Nd, Pr)PO4
X-Nd (Nd, La, Ce, Pr)PO4
X-Sm (Sm, Gd, Ce, Th)PO4
The abundance of these minerals was supposed one of the main reasons why
a princely state refused to join the Indian union, which state? What mineral?

78. ANSWER

79. Kingdom of Travancore. The mineral was monazite. One of the combinations
of Monazite was with Thorium.

80. 24
In a bid to do away with the problematic pronounciation involved with
umlauts, what product is being marketed in China as Ye Ge meaning “wild
boy”?

81. ANSWER

82. Jagermiester

83. 25
The next couple of slide shows a sequence of images. Please follow them.
The question is on the 2nd slide.

85. And then a urban legend was born,
what?

86. ANSWER

87. And then Clark Gable killed the Undershirt.

88. 26
Id the actress and the film/director

89. Arundhati Roy and Pradeep Kishen/Massey Sahib

90. 27
The kit contained the following things show here and listed on the next slide.
The pistol was intended to scare off "wolves, bears, tigers, etc." These kits
also featured a special "combination gun" (a rifle, shotgun and flare gun)
What was this kit used for?

91. • pistol and ammunition
• wrist compass
• 18 waterproof matches with
striker
• machete; fishing kit
• strobe light with spare battery
• 8 fire starters
• folding knife
• antenna
• 3-pair wool gloves
• signal mirror
•
•
•
•
•
NAZ-7M type medical kit
penlight
R-855-YM or R-855-A1 radio
two “Priboy 2S”, radio batteries
three wool balaclava hoods.

92. ANSWER

93. Survival kit for Soyuz Astronauts

94. 28
The eighteen disciplines were first stated in the scrolls of Togakure-ryū.
Subsequently they became the definitive curriculum followed schools by
providing total training of the warrior in various fighting arts.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Seishinteki kyōyō (spiritual refinement)
Taijutsu (unarmed combat)
Kenjutsu (sword techniques)
Bōjutsu (stick and staff techniques)
Sōjutsu (spear techniques)
Naginatajutsu (naginata techniques)
Kusarigamajutsu (kusarigama techniques)
Shurikenjutsu (throwing weapons techniques)

95. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Kayakujutsu (pyrotechnics)
Hensōjutsu (disguise and impersonation)
Shinobi-iri (stealth and entering methods)
Bajutsu (horsemanship)
Sui-ren (water training)
Bōryaku (tactics)
Chōhō (espionage)
Intonjutsu (escaping and concealment)
Tenmon (meteorology)
Chi-mon (geography)

96. ANSWER

97. Ninjistu

98. 29
In 1919-1920 this person employed by the OED, for researching etymologies
of the Waggle to Warlock range. This person later went on to parody the
principal editors as "The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford" in a story titled
"Farmer Giles of Ham" a comic Medieval fable published in 1949. The story
describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named
Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble
beginnings to rival the king of the land. Who?

99. ANSWER

100. J.R.R. Tolkien

101. 30
This romantic composer is considered an emblematic figure of the
reunification process of the Italian peninsula, the Risorgimento.
After Italy was unified in 1861, many of his early operas were re-interpreted as
Risorgimento works with hidden Revolutionary messages that probably had
not been intended by either the composer or librettist. Beginning in Naples in
1859 and spreading throughout Italy, the slogan "Viva _____" was used as an
acronym for Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia. Who?

102. ANSWER

103. Guiseppe Verdi

104. END OF PRELIMS