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ASIASWEEP 2016The Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz
Researched byNagarathna ‘Partikal’ Patil
Dibyendu DasArul Mani
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In partnership withQuiz Clubs and Associations
Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Mysore, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune,
Goa, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mohali
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Rules:1. Section I: 10 X 1-pointers with stakes=10+
points2. Section II: 25 X 1-pointers=25 points3. Section III: 25x2-pointers=50 points4. Section IV: 3 bonus sets =22 points
107 points + bonuses+ stakes
No halves anywhere
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Section I10 questions carrying 1 point each
Stake +1 if you are sure of the answer on any questionGet the staked answer right and you get 1+1Get it wrong and you score a negative of -1
Answers will appear after Qn. 10
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Japanese comedian Pikotaro recently set a Guinness record for the ‘Shortest song to enter the Bill Board Hot 100’ with his 45-second viral hit PPAP in which he mimics stabbing two fruits with an object. Name the song.
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AQn 2.
Considered one of the largest peace-time gatherings every year of more than 20 million people, Arba’een is a Shia Muslim pilgrimage held 40 days after the Day of the Ashura (which falls on the 10th day of the month of the Muharram). Which city is the object of this pilgrimage ?
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Qn 3. Such wedding photos popular among the Chinese and shot on actual locations are a result of fondness for which period drama ?
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Edward Joseph Sullivan defined a certain work for all time with his 1913 illustrations. Which work?
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What does this news photograph capture?Qn 5.
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These chorizo sausages from Goa are often called _______ Sausages on account of their resemblance to a familiar object. Fill the blank.
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George Lucas was a big fan of X’s work and initially approached him to play the role of Obi Wan Kenobi. X turned it down as he was concerned about how the film would look and whether it would cheapen the image of the warriors on which Lucas had based a lot of the character and fighting style. Still keen on including him in the project, Lucas offered him the role of Darth Vader as the character’s face would remain covered throughout the film, but in the end he turned that down too. Name the legendary actor.
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Often referred to as “China’s first supermodel” she is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Identify her.
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A Bad Spell in ___ is a fantasy novel by C. Dale Brittain first published in 1991. It takes place in the fictional kingdom of ____ where Daimbert, a wizard who has just graduated from the wizards' school, takes up his post as the new Royal Wizard.
____ is also the Turkic name for a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia.
What is this name?
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______ was originally known as Dhakai named after the city of Dhaka, one of many ancient textile weaving centres in Bengal region.
The term is Persian and comes from two words that mean ‘flower’ and ‘vase’/ ‘container’ respectively. The traditional art of weaving _______ has been declared by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Fill the blank.
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1.Pen Pineapple Apple Pen.2 Karbala3. Downton Abbey4. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam5. Death of the Thai King Bhumibol 6. Rosary Sausages7. Toshiro Mifune8. Liu Wen9. Yurt10. Jamdani
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Section II25 questions carrying 1 point each
No negative marking—feel free to guess
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What is the product shown below used to achieve?
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Double eyelids or Creased eyelids
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X is an imaginary childhood disease, used in the United States and Canada as a rejection term and an infection tag game. A child is said to "catch" X through close contact with an "infected" person or from an opposite-sex child of a similar age.
The word is thought to originate from the Malay/ Maori word for louse. X?
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Cootie(s) from kutu ANSWER
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The surname _______ originates from Persian and means "watchmaker”. It figures in the names of two agencies.
What is this surname?
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Saatchi (and Saatchi/ M&C Saatchi)
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The upper stretch of the river Mae Klong in western Thailand was renamed in the 1960’s in order to better match what was written in a 1952 French novel that was later translated into English.
What was the English title?
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The Bridge over the River Kwai by French novelist Pierre Boulle
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‘Kurash’ refers to a number of folk wrestling styles practiced in Central Asia. The rules require the wrestlers to hold their opponents with a particular item and attempt to throw them off their feet.
What item?
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A towel
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“____or Bust!” is a book by Ralph Leighton about the author and his friend Richard Feynman's attempt to travel to ____.
On one occasion Feynman brought up the topic of ____. Since Feynman had a reputation as a prankster and had proven himself entirely capable of inventing a fictional country name to confound friends, Leighton assumed it was made up. But the place existed, and the pair became fascinated with this hard-to-reach destination, at the geographic centre of Asia, which had become a republic in the Soviet Union. Fill the blank.
FITB.
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Tuva
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In which country would you find the Pan-Blue coalition and the Pan-Green coalition ?
These are loose coalitions of political parties with the former supporting closer ties with its neigbour while the latter supports independence.
Just name this country.
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Qn 8. The Cascade at Yeravan is an open-air staircase housing several sculptures and an art museum. But the most interesting part of this staircase is the amazing view from the top - of a famous mountain. Which mountain ?
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Mt. Ararat
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It is considered to have the most valuable collection of Western modern art outside Europe and the United States, largely assembled under the patronage of the country’s Empress. Pollock’s ‘Mural on Indian Red Ground’ valued at around $250 million is the most expensive Pollock painting held by this art museum.
After an upheaval in 1979, the Western art was stored away in the museum’s vault until 1999 when an exhibition was held. Now pieces of the Western art collection are shown for a few weeks every year but due to conservative nature of the government, most pieces will never be shown. Which museum ?
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Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA)
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Skeet shooter Abdullah Al-Rashidi raised eyebrows at Rio 2016 after opting to wear an Arsenal shirt while competing for gold. Though participants are supposed to wear the uniform of the country, what exception allowed him to do this ?
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Since he is a Kuwaiti and Kuwait was suspended from competing, he was still allowed to appear in his event, but without the restriction of a specific uniform of his country. He was officially an ‘Independent Olympic athlete’.
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Fans of K-pop buy bags of this item and donate them to their favorite artists. They often inscribe special or personal messages or attach photos to these. What two-word term is used to describe this item ?
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Fan Rice.
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Tsuta is the only Michelin starred ____ restaurant in the world located at Toshima, Tokyo. Fill the blank.
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Ramen. (accept Noodles or variations)
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Afghan cricket star Gulbadin Naib is seen chasing a boy who is refusing to do something. What ?
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Afghan cricket star Gulbadin Naib is seen chasing a boy who is refusing to do something. What ?
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To take polio drops.Afghanistani cricketers have been involved in a polio eradication program in the country and are working in collaboration with the UNICEF.
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Besieged for more than a year by the Assad regime, the Syrian town of ____ has existed without journalists been unable to get in, residents been unable to get out and only sporadic aid reaching the people. ABC News used their sources to find a woman in the city to chronicle the harsh conditions. But wanting to add a visual element to her story, they decided to create a comic book with Marvel – resulting in the free comic titled _____ ____ - taking its name from the town. Fill the blanks.
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Madaya Mom.ANSWER
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Qn 15. The Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport’s Terminal 3 has been designed to resemble which marine animal ?
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Manta Ray.
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Nabi Habeel mosque is located on the west mountains of Damascus, near the Zabadani Valley. According to some believers, who is buried here ?
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Abel (Habeel in Arabic )ANSWER
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The jewellers Van Cleef and Arpel created this object in 1931 and cited something known as the Douli as their primary inspiration. What is the Douli?
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The Chinese Straw Hat OR
Farmer’s Hat
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The man on the right is a tragic/heroic figure from 20th Century politics on account of his attempts at thinking independently for the country he led. This is his last public photograph, from 2 August 1953, in a meeting with Soviet ambassador Lavrentyiev. Who is this?
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Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran
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Qn 19.
This genre of art featuring a particular species was very popular among the scholars who entered the Chinese Civil Services during the heyday of that establishment. The genre was seen as extending from calligraphy, and was referred to as Wen Ren.
The species chosen was chosen for its ability to stand upright while adapting to the strongest winds.
What did these scholar-artists choose to obsessively render under the name Wen Ren?
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Bamboo
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Qn 20. This is a representation of a 121-km long network that was active about fifty years ago and is now a tourist attraction with bits and bobs to make the experience more authentic. What are we looking at here?
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Cu Chi Tunnels/Viet Cong Tunnels
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On the right is the _____-toothed whale found near Timor. On the left is the logo of Tokyo University. What connects these far-removed things?
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The Gingko LeafThe logo is a stylised version of the leaf, while the whale is still called the Gingko-
toothed Whale.
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Philip Beale conceived of a journey from Indonesia to Seychelles, Madagascar, South Africa and Ghana, and found the money to build the Samudra Raksha and embark on the journey in 2003. The project is often identified in reference to the source of his inspiration. What is this name/inspiration?
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The Borobudur Ship
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Qn 23.
This Sanskrit word is familiar to Indians for at least five different reasons. It means region, but has travelled to several other Asian countries. There it means’ nation’.
Thus, the Lao word pathet, and the Thai word prathet are all derived from the Sanskrit word.
What is this word?
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Pradesh
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When Benigno ‘NoyNoy’Aquino took charge as President of the Philippines some years ago, many people noted with approval that he didn’t seem too tempted by the charms of something called the ‘wang-wang’.
What caused all this approval? OR What is the wang-wang?
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Official Car Siren
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Qn 25.
It consisted of corncobs, corn silk, rice and wheat husks all ground together and, apart from becoming a byword for building character, took its name from a 1958 event.
What three-word name are we looking for?
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Leap Forward FlourAccept Great Leap etc.
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Section III25 questions carrying 2 points each
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Qn 1.
What and what?
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Sarong and SareeANSWER
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Qn 2. Name this person and his famous subject who re-surfaced in 2016.?
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“Steve McCurry and Sharbat Gula
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Tsagaan Khas is a Mongolian neo-Nazi organization with strong nationalist views. A three-word codename is used by its leader Ariunbold Altankhuum.
He took this name by combining the title of a work and the name of a notable character from the book.
Give us this title and the character which form the three-word name??
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“1984 Big Brother”. ANSWER
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Qn 4. Which sports-couple ?
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Badminton power-couple - Lin Dan & Xie Xingfang
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This master director’s 2016 film is named after a famous Pulitzer-winning play. In the film a young couple, Emad and Rana, play the lead roles in a local rendition of the play. One day Emad is attacked in the shower by an unknown man; a possible client who thought the house was still inhabited by the previous tenant, ‘a woman of many male acquaintances’. This leads to a rift in their personal relationship. Name the director and the film.
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Asghar Farhadi. The Salesman.
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The Pakistan government issued a permit allowing a Qatari prince, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani, to hunt an endangered bird in the country (pic below), leading to a major controversy. It was alleged that the government was returning a favor due to the prince as he bailed out Nawaz Sharief in a certain scandal. Name the bird and scandal.
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Houbara Bustard. Panama Papers.
The prince has been in the news following his letter to the Supreme Court in connection with the Panama Papers case describing his father's business relations with Sharif's family and his involvement in the London apartments that are at the centre of the controversy..
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In this book by a Bangaldeshi-born author, Zubaidah Haque experiences a liberated life at Harvard where she becomes a paleontologist and participates in a dig at Baluchistan, to search for the ’walking ____ that swims’, Ambulocetus natans. Fill up the blank and name the author.
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Whale. Ambulocetus Natans – walking whale that swims. Thought to be a predecessor to today’s whales.Author – Tahmima Anam
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aName this young painter who grew up to become a famous author and did this drawing for the first edition of one of his books. Also identify the book.
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Orhan Pamuk. Snow.
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Qn 9. Two classic shots by the Chinese photographer Fan Ho. The right one shares its title with a David Lean film released in 1945. The left one is also a Somerset Maugham novel considered largely autobiographical. Name both.
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Brief Encounter. Of Human Bondage
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Which political figure wrote this ‘offensive’ limerick targeting somebody from another country? Incidentally, it even won a prize.
There was a young fellow from AnkaraWho was a terrific wankererTill he sowed his wild oatsWith the help of a goatBut he didn’t even stop to thankera
Name poet and target.
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Boris Johnson. President Erdogan.
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Qn 11. Manga creator Masamune Shirow chose a particular title as an homage to a 1967 book by Arthur Koestler from which he had drawn inspiration. For his title, Koestler used a phrase that was coined by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship.
What was the title that Shirow selected? And what was Koestler’s original title?
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“Ghost in the Shell” based on “The Ghost in the Machine
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Known locally as Gyalam, this 1400-mile trade route seems to have takes its name from the two most precious commodities transacted between the interested parties—one had to keep warm presumably while the other needed a certain kind of mobility to protect their borders. What were these two commodities/or name the route.
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Tea Horse Road
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These are different stages in the mnufacture of something known as Nam Pla in Thailand, and Nước chấm in Vietnam. It calls for salt and enough representation from species of the Engraulidae family, and time. What are we talking about? What is the common name for Engraulidae?
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Fish Sauce and Anchovies
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The smaller formation in white takes its name from its position relative to the larger formation in white. The latter is not known to be excessively given to nationalism, or vice-versa in those parts. Identify both.
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Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges
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It was X’s last major commission, in his 90s. It houses manuscripts, textiles, ceramics sourced from a broad area spanning Spain to Egypt to Iran, Iraq, Turkey, India and Central Asia. Who is X? Identify the structure.
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IM PeiMuseum of Islamic Art, Doha
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The Jesuit priest Alexandre de Rhodes is one of the few Europeans to have a road named after him in Vietnam. Take a look at the tribute and figure out why. When the Jesuits were short-handed, his efforts resulted in the founding of another order. What order was this?
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He created the Vietnamese Roman script.
Also instrumental in founding the Mission Etrangeres Paris—
erroneously referred to as the French Foreign Mission.
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The use of brands like the Toyota Dolphin for an unusual purpose has led to a descriptive phrase becoming a verb in a certain Asian country.
What is this verb? —you might need to explain a little. In which country?
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White-vanningDisappearances of political opponents by van-borne agents in Sri
Lanka.
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On the left is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Kestrel. On the right is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Night-Heron. The name comes from the colouring, reminiscent of a certain fabric. What name? Also, how does the fabric get its name?
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Nankeen, from Nanjing/Nanking
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This agricultural product has a name given erroneously. But some people call it X Sanani, which is a far more accurate name. What is X? Why is the latter name more accurate?
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Mocha.More accurate because it was sourced from around Sana’a
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In 2008 an attempt was made to rechristen this memorial in the name of democracy rather than a dictator, but the move wasn’t very popular. Whose name does it continue to bear? It has 89 steps leading up to the entrance. Why?
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Chiang Kai Shek MemorialHe died at the age of 89.
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This tongue-shaped territory came into existence for reasons that may make no sense now. Identify the country or the reasons, and name the territory or the great Asian river that originates here
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Afghanistan/ The Great Game
Wakhan Corridor orAmu Darya
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Identify the artist/literary work for which this illustration was produced. And name the Asian species that seems to have inspired the work.
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Poison Tree by BlakeThe Upas Tree
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The flag of the House of Mohammad was always green in colour. Dynasty X always favoured Colour 1 while Dynasty Y favoured Colour 2. This is probably why most countries in West Asia have flags that use these colours in various permutations and combinations. Name either the dynasties or the colours.
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Abbasid and UmayyadOR
Black and White
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Guiseppe X, seen here, was not as famous as his younger brother Gaetano who took it upon himself to read Walter Scott, and follow the lives of Anne Boleyn and Lucrezia Borgia. Their shared talent however caused him to receive a lucrative commission from an unlikely foreign country. What was their shared surname? What was this commission?
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DonizettiThe Ottomans hired him to write music for parades and a national anthem
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This is an example of an art form called Tsian Tsui or ‘dotting with X’. It required the use of a material that never lost its iridescent blue, and the demand essentially allowed a neighbouring kingdom to make a lot of money and commit it to architectural splendour. What was this commodity X ? Name the other country?
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Kingfisher Feathers and Cambodia
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Section IV - BonusesThree sets of four/five questionsEach answer carries one point
Bonus of +1 if you get all correct in any set.
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Set IAnagram Pairs
Five cluesEach answer carries one point
Bonus of +1 if you get all correct in any set.
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Set 1. Set I1Take a logo featuring an animal paw, and set aside a persistent search to go to a posh city (5,5)
2Turn the capital of a central Asian country into an evil female character from the Marvel universe. (6, 6)
3Turn Potala location into a notion of prayer in another religion. (5, 5)
4Spin the top-half of a hyphenated trouble-spot in the Caucasus to yield the capital city of one of India's neighbours. (7, 7)
5Monkey around with a feminine Lithuanian name to get a whiff of Paris in Asia. (6,6)
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1. Baidu/Dubai2. Astana/Satana
3. Lhasa/Salah4. Nagorno/Rangoon
5.Birute/Beirut
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Set IIThank You Vary Much
Four cluesEach clue leads to two answers that differ from each other by one letter
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Set IIATake an Asian country and find out about an avatar of Vishnu. (5, 5)BFlip an Asian capital into the smallest emirate. (5,5)CShake a capital city till it yields silk cotton. (5, 5)DBash dried coconut till you've driven out a reptile. (5,5)
Bonus of +1 if you get all 4 right.
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1. Burma/Kurma2. Amman/Ajman3. Seoul/Semul4. Copra/Cobra
5.+1 if all 4 are right
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Set IIIMore
Four cluesBonus available
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3ACrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon revealed which genre of narrative/film to the rest of the world?
3BWhich 20th century faith founded by a colonial-era bureaucrat counts Victor Hugo and Sun Yat Sen amongst its saints?
3CThe Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea--now Western New Guinea-- was known by a slogan-like name from 1973 to 2001. What was this name?
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Set 33DWhich underperforming scion of a political family do we see here in conversation with Manmohan Singh?
3EAnd now show that you've figured out how this set works with the name of an Asian capital city, and an explanation.
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1. Wu Xia2. Cao Dai
3. Irian Jaya4. Anura Bandaranaike
5.Kuala Lumpur
Answers that begin with adjacent letters in the alphabet