AGONY PARIKSHA

A KUTUB QUIZ

Hari Parameswaran

Sep 09 2012

Pounce and bounce etc.

The quiz has two halves, and a stage-2

� Each half has a written round. This set of 10

questions is relatively simple. Each correct answer

carries 10 points.

� Each regular round has 15 questions� Each regular round has 15 questions

� We close with a stage 2

We’ll make up the other rules as we go along…

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When Thomas Wakley founded this weekly in 1823, he gave the rationale for the name in the following terms

� "A _____ can be an arched window to let in the � "A _____ can be an arched window to let in the

light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut

out the dross and I intend to use it in both senses".

Name this internationally renowned weekly.

Answer

Lancet

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This flowering plant belongs to the Solanaceae family, which includes Datura, Capsicum, Potato, Tomato and Tobacco, among others. It is closely related to Tobacco, and closely related to Tobacco, and indeed, it takes it’s name from the Guarani word for Tobacco – a word that also used in the past by the French. What is the name the flower is commonly known by?

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Answer

Petunia (Petun)

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The 3200 kg bronze sculpture was one in an edition of 5 created by the Sculptor. He installed it “guerilla style” on the night of December 15, 1989. Impounded the next day, it was placed at a location two blocks south of where it was location two blocks south of where it was originally installed.

Copyright on it is still held by the sculptor, and in 2009 he sued the publisher of “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers” for using a picture of it without permission.

Identify this iconic sculpture.

Answer

The Charging Bull/ The Wall street Bull

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� This sculpture under the north end ofthe George Washington MemorialBridge in Seattle is depicted as holdinga Volkswagon Beetle. The beingdepicted is from Norse mythology, andit is assumed that a term popular onit is assumed that a term popular onthe internet is named after it – butodds are that the term originates fromthe Old French for “to lead, or drag,somebody about”.

What term/being?

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Answer

Troll

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After giving up on her law degree at the University of Alabama, she moved to New York in the footsteps of a childhood friend. He himself was a writer, and introduced her to his friends, most of whom found her dull. He himself was a writer, and introduced her to his friends, most of whom found her dull. Recounts one – “Here was this dumpy girl from Monroeville. We didn't think she was up to much. She said she was writing a book and that was that”

Name her and her childhood friend.

Answer

Harper Lee and Truman Capote

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� The International Hall of Fame for this sport inducted its first members in 1965. Of the 21 people who were inducted in the first year, 17 were American, 2 were from Australia, and were American, 2 were from Australia, and one each were from Japan and UK. Two among the Americans had successful film careers. Which sport?

Answer

Swimming (Buster Crabbe and Johnny W)

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The clip below is from Sacha Guitry’s 1914 film “Ceux de chez nous”.

You have to identify the person shown, and the location where this scene was shot (5 points each)location where this scene was shot (5 points each)

<<VIDEO REMOVED. Sorry>>

Answer

Monet and Giverny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMVyFmBnbY

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The etymology of this word, so popular in Kerala and West Bengal, is from a combination for a Hindi word for shop (still seen in Delhi in a similar sense) and the Hindi seen in Delhi in a similar sense) and the Hindi word for lock.

What’s the good (or bad) word?

Answer

Hartaal (Haat and Tala)

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The paper “The origin of chemical elements” appeared in in the April 1, 1948 issue of “Physical Review”. It was done on work done by George Gamow and his student Ralph Adler. However, the paper listed 3 authors. by George Gamow and his student Ralph Adler. However, the paper listed 3 authors. The third name was that of a Nobel laureate who had nothing to do with the paper, but was known to have enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the reason for the addition. Name him.

Answer

Hans Bethe (Adler Bethe Gamow)

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The Macaca Sylvanus comes in the IUCN endangered category as the population of the species has been estimated to decline at a rate exceeding 50% over the last 3 rate exceeding 50% over the last 3 generations (24 years).

Besides humans, Macaca Sylvanus is the onlyother primate living freely/natively in Europe.

What’s it more commonly known as?

Answer

Barbary Ape/Macaque

MAIN ROUND - CLOCKWISE

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This map depicts the writing systems extant in the world today. Most of the Indian languages are classified as alphasyllabic, where consonants and vowels are written as a unit.

Tibetan, Thai, Khmer, Hmong, Sinhala also belong Tibetan, Thai, Khmer, Hmong, Sinhala also belong to this category, as do some Cree Indian languages.

This family of writing systems takes it’s name from the first four letters of the Ge’ez script of Ethiopia (similar to the word “abecedary” – an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet).

What is the common name given to this family?

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Answer

Abugida

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Nathaniel Wyeth was born in 1911

into what was the foremost American family of the arts. Unlike his brother Andrew though, he showed an aptitude for Engineering. He went on to get his master’s degree in Mechanical engineering from U. Penn. He worked for Dupont, Mechanical engineering from U. Penn. He worked for Dupont, and made several inventions there.

In 1987, he was inducted into o the Polymer Processing Hall of Fame (yes – there is such a thing) for his 1973 invention of the technique of stretch-blow molding. The product resulting from this technique is used world-wide. What was this product?

Answer

The PET Bottle

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This 1970 movie starred Shashi Kapoor, AparnaSen and Utpal Dutt, among others.

As can be seen from the title scene, it involves elements of a meta-film, being set in the elements of a meta-film, being set in the Bollywood film industry. One of the screenwriters is a Booker prize winner.

The 2007 film “The Darjeeling Limited” used the song “Typewriter Tip Tip” from this film.

Name it

<<Video of credits scene REMOVED>>

Answer

Bombay Talkies

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This classic cookbook was published

in 1945. It was widely considered to

be among the first attempts to present authentic Chinese recipes to

Americans. The author, BuweiYang Chao, was a doctor who learned to

cook while a student at Tokyo Women’s Medical College. While she

came up with the recipes, it is believed that the text for the book was came up with the recipes, it is believed that the text for the book was

written up by her husband Yuen Ren Chao, a linguist (who is also the

author of the well known poem “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”).

This book also introduced a new term into the lexicon, as the

translation for the word “Ch’ao”, a cooking technique for preparing

food in a wok.

What term was cooked up as a translation for “Ch’ao” in this book?

Answer

Stir-Fry

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What familiar, last-but-not-least convention in comics is usually traced back to this in comics is usually traced back to this Katzenjammer kids strip that appeared on August 2, 1903?

(Thanks to Arul Mani for the wording on this question – that’s also a hint)

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Answer

Use of “Z..Z..Z” to indicate Sleeping

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US Patent number 3803463 for a “WEAPON

FOR IMMOBILIZATION AND

CAPTURE” was granted to Jack Cover, a NASA CAPTURE” was granted to Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, in 1974.

How does it connect to this 1911 book, which was also known as “Daring Adventures in Elephant Land”.

Answer

TASER

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The artist normally asked for his pictures to be hung in such a manner that they must be encountered at close quarters - “Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls”.

There’s no real danger of that, since his 1961 work, measuring 93 in × 81¼ in, set the record for the highest price paid for a post-war work on May 8, 2012.

Name this painting with a rather mundane, though descriptive title.

Answer

Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow”

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Generally called “Portrait of a Man”,

this Jan van Eyck painting portrays

an unknown man donning a piece

of headgear. Initially the term for this

type of headgear referred to a simple

hood, but over the years it evolved hood, but over the years it evolved

into a complex headgear of the type

shown here.

In French, the word was also used in falconry to denote the hood placed over the hawk’s head to prevent it from flying away. It is quite probable that this was behind the origin of the current meaning of the word (with an “e” suffixed) as is used in English today – as a protector.

Answer

Chaperon/Chaperone

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Near the cricket stadium in Thalassery in Northern Kerala, there’s this statue of a person who stayed in the area from 1839 to 1859. It was in this period that he started work on what was to be the first Malayalam-English dictionary. He also started Rajyasamacharan, which is considered by most to be the first significant Malayalam most to be the first significant Malayalam newspaper.

His grandson shared his first name, and had written a famous novel in 1921 that was set in India. This novel was also made into a 1972 movie directed by Conrad Rooks.

Name both of them.

Answer

Herman Gundert and Herman Hesse

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Columbo, starring Peter Falk was a legendary TV serial, inspiring, among others, our own “Karamchand”.

His first name is never explicitly mentioned, though screenshots of his badge seem to indicate that it is Frank.

A case that hinged around his first name being Philip was argued in the US courts in 1987, and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

Interestingly, the case revolved around the world of trivia.

What’s the story?

Answer

Fred Worth, the author of “The trivia encyclopedia” had inserted this question on Columbo’s first name being Philip in the book –using the old mapmaker’s trick to catch anyone who would copy from his work.who would copy from his work.

Sure enough, “Trivial Pursuit”, which came out a few years later, had the same question and answer.

He took the makers of Trivial Pursuit to court and asked for USD 300 million in damages. He lost.

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This work, which starts with the sentence

“Salutation to Ganesa” was published in 10

volumes from 1991 to 1996. The collected work

was released in 1999 (shown with most, but

not all, of the writing masked in the picture

here)

Regarding how was inspired to tackle the Regarding how was inspired to tackle the

subject in the manner he did, the writer said “I

changed the emphasis from 'whodunit' to 'what

happened'. I'd seen advertisements for Douglas

Adams' book "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective

Agency". A holistic detective? You wouldn't just

have to solve the crime, you'd have to solve the

entire world that that crime happened in. That

was the twist that I needed.”

Answer

From Hell

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Dangdut is a Bollywood influenced musical genre that emerged in the early 70s from the Orkes Melayu that played tunes that were popular among their multi-ethnic audiences in the urban centers of Java and Sumatra. The term is onomatopoeic, and comes from the sound of the Tabla (or gendang, the local variant).

It is thought to be coined as a term of derision by a It is thought to be coined as a term of derision by a music magazine, but was popularized by musician Rhoma Irama, who used it in his 1973 superhit song Terajana which has the lyrics

“This is the song, song of India”.

What 1959 song of India was Terajana talking (or singing about)?

Answer

Terajana refers to “Tera Jana Dil KeArmaanon Ka” - From AnariArmaanon Ka” - From Anari

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This is one of the most commonly used technique for joining two pieces of wood in carpentry.

The term is also commonly The term is also commonly seen in English to mean “To combine or interlock into a unified whole”.

The name of the joint itself comes from the avian world.

Answer

Dovetail

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Eddie Saunders had

caught this shark in

the 54th Metropolitan the 54 Metropolitan

South Florida Fishing Tournament in 1989 , and displayed it in his JD Electricals Supplies shop in Shoreditch, London. On 17 April 2003, when the new Saatchi Gallery opened at County Hall with a famous exhibit, under what title was this shark exhibited at a Shoreditch gallery?

Answer

“A dead shark isn’t Art” exhibit at the “A dead shark isn’t Art” exhibit at the Stuckism International gallery in response to Damien Hirst exhibit at Saatchi.

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This temple situated in what is now Pakistan is dedicated to Siva. Legend has it that when Sati died, the tears of Siva were collected in two ponds, one at Pushkar, and the other at this Pushkar, and the other at this place. It is also said that the Pandavas spent 4 of their 14 years of exile here. The government of Pakistan has supposedly decided to nominate this temple complex for World Heritage status. Identify it.

Answer

Katas Raj Temple

PHASE 2

We start with a written Set of 10 questions

Written 2-1

� The ceremony is conducted by members of I.B.M

when one of their group passes away. As part of the

ceremony, a prayer is offered which starts – “O Divine

Master of all mystery, who in wisdom and skill didst create and design all

that is visible and invisible. Thou hast instilled within us the talent to that is visible and invisible. Thou hast instilled within us the talent to

amaze, mystify and entertain….”

The ceremony was first performed in 1926, after the

death of one who was perhaps their most famous

member.

Name the ceremony. Also tell me what I.B.M is?

Answer

Broken Wand Ceremony

International Brotherhood of Magicians

Written 2-2

For what does scriptwriter Anjum Rajabaliidentify the following narrative functions in the context of Bollywood cinema� Introduction

� Thunderbolt� Thunderbolt

� Beyond Forbearance

� Ah! Relief

� A parallel narrative

� Can’t say it? ___ it!

� Transition

� What’s grammar without punctuation?

Answer

The song and dance sequence

Written 2-3

� Literally from the Greek for “Beyond the Dowry”, this was a term for things like clothing and jewelry that a woman brought into the marriage which remained exclusively her property. into the marriage which remained exclusively her property.

The current meaning of “equipment, or apparatus” is attested from 1791. Today the term is again generally used in a negative legal sense, with the most common usage being associated with drugs.

Answer

Paraphernalia

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Considering non-polar persistent, moving bodies of ice formed when the accumulation of snow in the region exceeds its sublimation, the largest one is in the Pamirs and is named after the Russian naturalist and explorer, Alexei the Russian naturalist and explorer, Alexei Fedchenko.

The second largest non-polar one was “discovered” by mountaineer Tom Longstaff in 1909 and is named after the Balti term which approximately means “the land of abundant Roses”. Name it.

Answer

Siachen Glacier

Written 2-5

For long we had been told that the only

movie Mahatma Gandhi saw was Vijay

Bhatt’s 1943 movie “Ram Rajya”. He saw it

in 1945.

As it turns out, he had seen a movie before As it turns out, he had seen a movie before

that. In 1944 he had seen a Hollywood

movie. Directed by Mike Curtiz, it was made

in response to a request by FDR. It was also

one of the movies targeted by the House

committee for Un-American activities.

Name it.

Answer

Mission to Moscow

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The latin word that means “cultivated” may be seen the name of many plant species, including that of pineapple, the cucumber, radish and Asian rice.radish and Asian rice.

What’s the good word?

Answer

Sativus

Written 2-7

…what happens in between these scenes is what most people remember. Name the movie.

Answer

Un Chien Andalou

Written 2-8

Aristotle himself called it “First philosophy”, but this branch of philosophy gets it’s name from the order in which Aristotle’s works were anthologized. His editor, Andronicus, is supposed to have the chapters on “first were anthologized. His editor, Andronicus, is supposed to have the chapters on “first philosophy” right after another of Aristotle’s works, and called it “τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικὰβιβλία” (the work right after X).

Which branch of philosophy are we talking about?

Answer

Metaphysics

Written 2-9

When he visited Rome with five small portraits, including this one, he was hailed as “Raphael Reborn”.Reborn”.

The name by which he is popularly known may be confused with the name of a cheese – both names are based on the city where he was born.

Answer

Parmigianino

Written 2-10

Hot off the presses – who do we see attempting to do a “Konrad Lorenz” here?

Answer

Putin

ANTI-CLOCKWISE

Anti-Clockwise 1

� In the Landmark finals there was a question about connecting SalmanRushdie, Anton Chekov and Joseph Conrad. and Joseph Conrad.

Similarly, connect the two images shown here.

Answer

Sebastian Melmoth – The name under which Oscar Wilde travelled for 3 years after his

imprisonmentimprisonment

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Chadayamangalam is a village in the Kollam district of Kerala. For some years there has been a project to create the sculpture shown on the right, on top of a rocky hill of right, on top of a rocky hill of mythological importance.

What’s the story with this place?

Answer

The place where Jatayu fell to earth after the battle with Ravana

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Died in 1841, but preserved in Arsenic - you can find this Raven

in the Rare books department of the Philadelphia Free Library. It’s in

the library because of literary associations. It was the pet of a

famous author, and when his children asked him to put the bird in one of his books, the author obliged. Poe made a special mention of this in his review stating that the bird’s “croaking might have been prophetically heard in the course of the drama”. Not long after, he wrote prophetically heard in the course of the drama”. Not long after, he wrote “The Raven” – and was taunted with the refrain

“Here comes Poe with his Raven, like ____ _____

Three fifths of him genius, two fifths sheer fudge”

Which author’s pet is so immortalized?

Which book of his did it appear in?

Answer

Charles Dicken’s “Grip The Raven”.

Makes an appearance in Barnaby Rudge

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This style of Karate was the first to adapt the concept of “dan” and coloured belts.

The style is now known in terms of the name of the first Dojo – and the name means of the first Dojo – and the name means something akin to “the house of the pine-waves (the movement of pine needles when the wind blows through them” after the pen-name under which the founder, GichinFanakoshi, wrote.

Answer

Shotokan

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On the 16th of March, 2012, media outlets were focusing almost entirely on the story of the budget, and that of Sachin’s 100th century. Lost in that din was a story about the verdict of a case - A.K. Bhattacharya, a manager at the Indian- A.K. Bhattacharya, a manager at the IndianIron and Steel Company, and Dipak Sircar, a safety officer at the same company, were given a sentence of one year’s imprisonment, for something that happened on Dec 27, 1975 (and which “inspired” a 1979 Bollywood movie).

What were they sentenced for?

Answer

The Chasnala Tragedy

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On the right are a couple of stills from Andy Warhol’s “Eat” (1963) – a 45 minute film which is filmed in black and white, has no soundtrack, and for it’s entire duration shows a man, played by a fellow pop artist, eating a mushroom.

Said pop artist is otherwise best known for something that he designed as a Christmas something that he designed as a Christmas Card for MoMA. He later made a sculpture of it – this has been exhibited at the Indianapolis museum of Art since 1970, but has been reproduced in multiple forms. The USPS released a stamp in 1973 that features the image.

Google’s logo on Feb 14, 2011 was also a homage to it.

Identify this iconic sculpture.

Answer

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Henry De Vere Stackpoole (1863-1951) was an Irish author, who worked as a ship’s doctor for over 40 years. He also gained expertise on the islands of the South Pacific in the course of his travels, and his books contained description of the natural life on those islands.

He is primarily remembered today for a trilogy he wrote.

The first book was published in 1908, and filmed thrice –in 1929, 1949 and 1980 (this last version was released in in 1929, 1949 and 1980 (this last version was released in India to great success).

The second book – “The garden of god” was also filmed in 1991.

The third book – “The gates of morning” was published in 1925.

What was the name of the first book?

Answer

The Blue Lagoon

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One of those questions where chimping can help…

One of the Russian Five, this composer was Military Engineer by profession. He was well Military Engineer by profession. He was well known for his expertise on fortifications and rose in the ranks to become a General in 1906.

He was also a critic, but because of his role in the military, all his articles on music were written under the pseudonym “***”

Answer

Cesar Cui

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Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in Gabon.

French prospectors had identified Uranium deposits in

the region, and the Uranium mined there was exported

to France for use in it’s nuclear program.

In 1972 a worker at a nuclear fuel–processing plant in

France noticed that was a much lower than expected

percentage of U-235 in the sample – in fact the Ore from percentage of U-235 in the sample – in fact the Ore from

one part of the mine seemed to missing the equivalent

of 200 kg of U-235.

No one could explain this, till one of the scientists

remembered a 1953 paper from UCLA scientist George

Wetherill - he had posited a scenario which proved to be

true at Oklo. What was this scenario?

Answer

This is the only known case of natural fission reactors.

There were 16 such natural fission reactors in this area –

here, self-sustaining natural nuclear reactions took place here, self-sustaining natural nuclear reactions took place about 2 billion years ago, running for a few hundred thousand years, and averaging 100kW of power output during that period

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ancie

nt-nuclear-reactor for more info

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This is a picture of the giant bubble chamber that was used at CERN from 1970 to 1978. The Z-boson was identified in this bubble chamber. Billed as the “Mother of all bubble the “Mother of all bubble chambers”, it was named after the mother of a fictional character from the 16th

century.

Name the mother.

Answer

Gargamelle

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After his career came to an abrupt halt in 1919, he left the field, but he still holds the third highest career batting average, behind Ty batting average, behind Ty Cobb and Roger Hornsby.

His nickname came about due to incident caused by a particularly painful case of blisters.

Answer

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson

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This honor, the highest accorded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, was formalized in 1813, and is given by the Governor and Secretary of State to individuals in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments and of noteworthy accomplishments and outstanding service to a community, state or the nation. LBJ, Reagan and Churchill have been accorded this honor.

Name this honor, which has nothing to do with the military – though the title may suggest otherwise.

Answer

Kentucky Colonel

Sanders of KFC was a Kentucky Colonel

Avinash Mudaliar pointed out that Dr Rajkumar was also so honored

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When Cornell awarded him his doctoral degree in 1876, he became the first D.V.M (doctor of Veterinary medicine) in the US. Along with his assistant Theobald Smith, he made several important discoveries. During a study of hog cholera, they demonstrated that dead (heat killed) organisms could immunize animals against living organisms – thus laying a foundation to a method of creating a typhus vaccine.

If we were told that an organism was named after him, we If we were told that an organism was named after him, we might leap to the conclusion that it is a species of fish, but that species probably gets it’s name from the Latin for “to leap”.

What was named after him is a micro-organism that is often in the news as a source of infection.

Name him, or the micro-organism.

Answer

Salmonella – after Daniel Salmon

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The general term for the kind of railing seen in the first two pictures originates from the name of the molded shafts that form the support. This shaft can be functional or ornamental, and in turn gets it’s name from and in turn gets it’s name from the Italian for "pomegranate flower”, due to it’s resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open flower.

What is the term used for these supporting shafts?

Answer

Baluster (Whence Balustrade)

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The second season of the BBC documentary series

“The Private Life of a Masterpiece” focused on two

paintings. One was Velasquez’s painting known as

“The Rokeby Venus”. The other was a painting that

was originally called “The bath”, and was a cause of

much notoriety and controversy when it was first much notoriety and controversy when it was first

exhibited in 1863 (Emil Zola’s novel “ L'Œuvre” is a

fictionalized version of this).

It inspired, among other things, a painting by

Monet, and a series of paintings, sketches and

linogravures by Picasso

Name it.

Answer

SCORES AT THIS POINT

STAGE – 2

TOPIC : SCIENTISTS

- 6 questions. One (very specific) connect

- 10 points for each answer

- Connect in the first 2 questions for +40/-20- Connect in the first 2 questions for +40/-20

- Connect in next 2 for +30/-15. At question 3, I’ll also tell you more about the connect

- Connect in the last 2 for +20/-10

- One additional clue at the end, and a free guess at the end for +10

1 - +40/-20

Nikolay Basov was awarded the Physics Nobel Prize in 1964, along with Alexander Prokhorow and an American Scientist. The American scientist is the one that most folks associate with the discovery (or associate with the discovery (or invention) that resulted in the Nobel Prize, and between 1989 and 1997, Fujitsu had released a set of gaming PCs and consoles named after him.

Who was the American Scientist, or what was the invention?

Answer

Charles H. Townes (LASER/MASER)

Nikolay Basov goes into the connect

2 - +40/-20

Although his first degree was in History, this French aristocrat soon switched tracks, and his 1924 PhD thesis under Paul Langevin resulted in a Nobel Langevin resulted in a Nobel Prize a mere 5 years later. Identify him.

Answer

Louis De Broglie (goes into the connect)

3 - +30/-15

� His work in the decoding the waggle dance of the bees earned this behavioral biologist a Nobel Prize in 1973. Name him

Answer

Karl Von Frisch (goes into connect).

CLUE: The connect is that these 6 people are the only ones who have won these two awards – one being a Nobel Prize. You just need to identify the other award for the connect

4 - +30/-15

Dugald Stermer (died Dec 2, 2011, so this is almost a TCQ ) , persuaded Norman Rockwell to paint the Rockwell to paint the portrait of this Nobel Laureate for the June 1967 issue of the magazine “Rampart” where he worked as the Art Director.

Answer

Bertrand Russell (goes into connect)

5 - +20/-10

Konrad Lorenz was one of the three winners of the Konrad Lorenz was one of the three winners of the

1973 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology (along

with Karl von Frisch – who we already met – and Niko

Tinbergen). He is credited as one of the founders of

the scientific study of animal behavior. Identify this

field, which takes its name from the Greek for “The

study of character”.

Answer

Ethology (Konrad Lorenz goes into connect)

6 - +20/-10

In the “Oxford book of modern science writing”, Richard Dawkins called him “the wittiest of all scientific writers”. In his “Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography” he recounts a story of when he visited the US – “When asked to make he visited the US – “When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.”

Name this winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine

Answer

Peter Medawar

Misc Clues +10

Among those that didn’t get into the list as they didn’t have a Nobel were

…and the initial grant for the

award came from him

Answer for connect

These are the 6 people who have a Nobel Prize and also the UNESCO Kalinga award for Prize and also the UNESCO Kalinga award for the popularization of Science. Grant money for the award came from Biju Patnaik.

SCORES