bodhi 2017 - prelims with answers

BODHI – THE OPEN GENERAL QUIZ

PRELIMS

25 questions. 30 points. Q11-17 are starred questions. Top 6 teams to the finals. Switch off the mobile phones. Make intelligent guesses.

Q1. Perkins Engines (officially Perkins Engines Company

Limited), a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is primarily a diesel engine manufacturer for several markets including Agricultural, Construction, Material Handling, Power Generation and Industrial. It was established in Peterborough, England, in 1932. Over the years Perkins has expanded its engine ranges and produces thousands of different engine specifications including diesel and gas engines.

For what specific purpose was the Perkins engines imported to Kerala in the 1930s?

and the answer is….

To use as the engines in the first ever fleet of KSRTC buses.

Q2.

The artwork was created by artist Michelle Wibowo from Michelle Sugar Art, using a staggering 16,074 entities. The art work measures an enormous 12ft x 8ft and weights 154kg. This was unveiled to mark Prince William's first Father's Day as a dad.

What was used to create this artwork?

Toblerone

Q3.

Originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The _____ empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of _____ City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, _____ City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

FITB.

Benin.

Q4 In 1982, X launched his “______ Without Slums”

programme – a politically motivated but heartfelt campaign to rid the city of its slums and provide a “life of noble dignity” for the urban poor who, in X’s words, had been living in an “inferno of garbage”.

Spain Library Park (Parque Biblioteca España) is a library park located in the Santo Domingo Savio neighborhood of ______ . It is named after the country of Spain, whose government helped fund the project through the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.

Identify X. Fitb.

Pablo Escobar Medellin

Q5. Identify the subject. Lyrics from the song Boom, Like That by Mark Knopfler.

I'm going to San Bernardino ring-a-ding-dingMilkshake mixers that's my thing nowThese guys bought a heap of my stuffAnd I gotta see a good thing sure enough now

Oh my name is not Crock, that's ____ with a ___Like crocodile but not spelled that way nowIt's dog eat dog, rat eat rat____ style... Boom! like that

Folks line up all down the streetNow I am seeing this girl divide her meat nowAnd then I get it Wham! as clear as dayMy pulse begins to hammer then I hear a voice say:

Ray Kroc

Q6.

IT was discovered by a Russian and Indian oil exploration team operating from the seismic exploration vessel Academic Arkhangelsky during mapping of the Gulf of Khambhat (earlier Cambay) in 1964-67, followed by a detailed survey in 1972.The naming is attributed to a team from a survey run in 1965 analysed in the Rashmi building in Peddar Road, Cumballa Hill.

What am I talking about?

Bombay High.

Q7. He arrived at the London Zoo on 5 November 1947,hence the

name. He was a tiny baby, weighing just 23 lb (10 kg) and holding a small tin hot-water bottle.He was the replacement for Meng, who had died in 1941. He was captured in the French Cameroons on behalf of Paris Zoo and was traded for a tiger from Calcutta Zoo.

He died aged 31 or 32, in 1978 of a heart attack during an operation on his infected teeth. By this time he had become an icon. Public awareness of animal behaviour had been growing, thanks to the ever-improving natural history programmes on television, while studies by scientists like Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas and Dian Fossey were changing the public's attitude towards primates.

Just identify this icon.

Guy the Gorilla

Q8. Have a close look at the logo and name the

founder.

Shahid Afridi

Q9. The Scotsman described him in 2008 as a "real-life James

Bond able to tame the most powerful cars, while possessing all the mystique of Zorro."The Sunday Times in 2009 described him as "not a man but an idea, possibly an extraterrestrial," speculating that, along the lines of the Spartacus mythology, the more people that were linked with the character, the stronger the mystery would become.

The question of "Who is ____ ____?" has been described as one of the most-asked queries on the Internet.The Sunday Times reported that online and text-answering services rated it as one of the most popular questions of all time, along with the meaning of life.

So who is ____ ____?

THE STIG

Q10 In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist,

came to stay at The Savoy ,Mussoorie with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva Mountstephen, also a spiritualist.

One morning after Miss Mountstephen had returned to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. The murder was never solved and her doctor was also found dead a few months later, of poisoning. Miss Mounstephen was later arrested for tampering with her friend’s bottle of sodium bicarbonate by adding prussic acid to it, though the court found her not guilty.

What 1920 literary work was inspired by this murder?

Q11 – Q17 are starred questions. **

Q11. One of his first loves was motorcycles, in fact by 1926 he

had already gained a repuation as a reckless speedster on his Italian Galloni 500 cc (red) with a sidecar. He began looking for faster motorcycles which he could enjoy playing with. In 1928 he brought a 250 cm Konigsswellen Moto-Guzzi, which was a racing motorcycle, he began racing in May 1928, he finished third. He would go on to compete in around nine other races. He would give up motorcycle racing as he could no longer afford it.

Who was this person, known to us in a totally different context?

Oskar Schindler

Q12. When scouting locations for On Her Majesty's Secret

Service, producer Harry Saltzman used his contacts to gain permission to use portions of the ________ ____ as SPECTRE headquarters in the film. Saltzman provided art director Syd Cain with a tour of the complex, but Cain said that not only would the location be difficult to light and film inside, but that artificial sets could be constructed at the studios for a fraction of the cost.The idea was shelved.

The entity was constructed during the run-up to World War II, shortly after the Locarno Conference and was named after a Minister of War pictured in the next slide.

Fitb.

Maginot Line

Q13.

Beyonce paying tribute to whom?

Josephine Baker.

Q14.

IT is a tile-based German board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games and Z-Man Games in English. The board game is named after a medieval fortified town in southern France, famed for its city walls. What board game?

Q15. Gerard Behar Center is a major arts centre in Jerusalem

for independent theatre, dance, and musical productions, children's shows, art exhibitions, artist workshops, and festivals. In 2010 the center hosted over 900 events with attendance in excess of 263,600 participants. The center includes two theatres and is home to two dance companies, Kolben and Vertigo.

The place was widely in the news thanks to the events which took place here in the early 1960s.

What happened there?

Trail of Adolf Eichmann

Q16.

The ______ ______ _____was a mid-19th century American art movement started by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the ______ ______ Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and the White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with this movement expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America.

Identify the art movement.

Hudson River School

Q17. Known informally as ‘Mate in 2’. Its objective is to determine the

two moves that will result in a checkmate and win for white. The setter of this problem wrote a book containing 18 such problems, along with 53 poems, called Poems and Problems which was published in 1969.

Who is this multi-talented man?

Vladimir Nabokov

Q18. This was one of the earliest and strategically most

important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy.The road is named after _____ Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars.

The road shares its name with a business establishment of an individual, who was named after an Italian polymath.

The next slide shows the remains of this historic road. Just name the road/establishment.

Q19 . Several theories have been put forward as to where X

got inspiration for this character. A corn merchant from Edinburgh who won a catering

contract for King George IVs visit to Scotland. He was buried in Canongate Kirkyard, with a gravestone that is now lost. The theory is that X noticed the gravestone and adopted the name of the character.

One school of thought is that X based his views on the poor on those of demographer and political economist Thomas Malthus.

Which character?

Ebenezer Scrooge

Q20. The island’s 1990s struggle for independence is the setting for

the 2006 novel Mister Pip, by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones. The book was made into a film of the same name in 2012.

An Evergreen Island,a film by Australian documentary filmmakers Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini of Frontyard Films, showed the people of the island survived for almost a decade without trade or contact with the outside world.

This island was named in honour of this French admiral pictured in the next slide,who was also the first European to have sighted this island.However he is also known for lending his name to another entity which is very commonly seen in Kerala.

Identify him/island.

Bougainville

Q21-25 are two pointers.

Q21. Isabella Stewart Gardner was a leading American art

collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Gardner created much fodder for the gossip columns of the day with her reputation for stylish tastes and unconventional behavior.

Her surprising appearance at a 1912 concert wearing a white headband emblazoned with "Oh, you Red Sox" was reported at the time to have "almost caused a panic", and remains still in Boston one of the most talked about of her eccentricities.

In accordance with the will of Isabella Stewart Gardner, admittance to the museum is discounted to people wearing something and is totally free to another group of people.

Identify both the criterion.(1 +1)

People wearing Boston Red Sox memorabilia.(1) Free to anyone named Isabella.(1)

Q22. In his work,he describes how he first got to be checked at

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. My heart rate was accelerating and Bob suggested I see the

doctor. Because I was very flexible and had long hands and feet, I had some early symptoms of ______ syndrome, a disease that affects connective tissues and can be fatal if there is leakage to the vessels that lead to the heart. If you reach out your arms and form a T and your wingspan is longer than your height, you can be at risk. In my case, those measurements have always been very close. I didn't know at the time why the doctor decided to look into this. My mom and Bob didn't want me to freak out, so they told me it was simply a good idea to have an EKG test in order to look at the heart.”.

The ______ syndrome is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue.The degree to which people are affected varies. People with this syndrome tend to be tall, and thin, with long arms, legs, fingers and toes.

It is named after Antoine ______ , a French pediatrician who first described the condition in 1896.

Who is describing his health condition? (1) Also name the syndrome. (1)

Michael PhelpsMarfan Syndrome

Q23. In 1888, X opened the Consersations Haus restaurant

with Y in Baden-Baden, and the two were then invited to London by Richard D'Oyly Carte to become the first manager and chef of the Savoy Hotel, positions they held from 1889 until 1897.

The Savoy under X was an immediate success and this owed everything to the civilized genius of X and his brilliant chef Y, who introduced the English to the delicacy of French haute cuisine and many celebrated dishes invented at the Savoy , including Peach Melba and the thin toast named after the same singer.

Identify the manager-chef duo.(1 + 1)

X-CESAR RITZY-AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER

Q24. His first attempt at a corporate takeover was in 1984, when he

launched an unsuccessful $7.6 billion bid to buy the government controlled freight rail company, Conrail.He also failed in an attempted takeover of kitchen designer Formica in 1988 and, later, with motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson.His family owns the majority stake in a certain entity and this takeover has resulted in several controversies.

Who and what entity? (0.5+0.5)

One of the companies that he did purchase successfully during the 1980s was the nearly bankrupt Zapata Offshore, a remnant of Zapata Corporation, an oil and gas company founded by an individual who was the 41st in a certain list. Who was the founder of Zapata Corporation? (1)

Malcolm GlazerManchester United

George HW Bush

Q25 He was instrumental in organizing the Asian Cup qualifying round

tournament, involving Israel, Iran, Pakistan and India, at the Maharaja’s College Grounds, Ernakulam in 1959 and had spearheaded a team of organizers in hosting the Santosh Trophy for the first time in Kerala in 1956.

He also invited the then Wimbledon champion to play an exhibition match on 30 January 1938 to popularize Tennis in the state. Following this, he founded the Trivandrum Tennis Club on 1 February 1938 at Shasthamangalam.He was the first player to reach 10 finals at a single Grand Slam event. This mark stood until 2015, when Roger Federer reached his tenth Wimbledon final.

Identify the individual who played an important role in popularizing many sports in the state and also the Wimbledon champion who was invited to play exhibition matches in Kerala. (1 + 1)

G. V. RajaBill Tilden

Top 6 teams qualify to the finals.

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