Final Round Bmc Quiz..

COBALT SKIES ’09 GENERAL QUIZ FINALS Quiz-master: Vinay N. Bhushan

Infinite Bounce • 10 points for every correct answer • No negatives

1) Identify..?

C. B. Muthamma India’s first woman career diplomat and first woman Ambassador

2) Identify..?

Ares I is the crew launch vehicle being developed by NASA as a component of the Constellation Program.

3) X’s most famous quirk as Umpire was his habit of lifting one foot off the ground whenever the score reached 111, or multiples thereof, they being regarded as unlucky by X in a ritual dating back to his childhood cricket team days. The number 111 is known as the “Nelson", and is considered unlucky towards the Batsman. This superstition has been the major focus of many pieces of sporting artwork, including a statue dedicated to X near Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. Also famous was his tendency to shake his hand while signaling fours; to this day, many fans in cricket crowds mimic his action while celebrating fours. Identify X.

David Shepherd

4) Identify..?

Ida, a fossil discovery that was supposed to be the link that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. But the theory was recently debunked.

5) What kind of clouds are these?

Mammatus/Breast Clouds

6) Whose gravesite?

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc

7) Whose Voice?

Carl Sagan

8) Part of the World Heritage List. What?

Nazca Lines

9) Which significant event in history is shown in this picture?

Proclamation of the People’s Republic of China by Mao Zedong on October 1st , 1949 in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

10) What is this hairstyle called?

Rat Tail

11) Robert Jensen, an economist at Brown University, USA, recently found one of the Holy Grails of economics. Potato during the Irish famine was long thought to be an example of this, but this has been disproved. Jensen found an example of this in the Hunan and Gansu provinces of China. This finding has huge implications for how governments should use consumer price subsidies. What did Jensen find an example of in China?

Giffen Good, for which demand increases when price increases.

12) Which Sport?

Foosball or Table Top Football

13) The working mechanism of what is being shown here?

Ribosome, molecular machines that make proteins out of amino acids in a cell. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”

14) Identify..?

Baskin-Robbins • Burton Baskin and Irvine Robbins, founders of the global chain of icecream parlors.

15) This place in Switzerland has been immortalized by a fictional series where the protagonist and his arch rival meet their apparent end here. How is this place better known as?

Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, apparently dies at the end of The Adventure of the Final Problem locked in mortal combat with his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

CONNECT • 20 points for the right answer. • No negatives.

1)

Twitter • “blueprint” of twitter • Jack Dorsey, creator of twitter • Shashi Tharoor, politician who got into a controversy recently for his tweets.

2)

Trinity College of Music, Oxford University • Ilayaraja, A.R. Rahman and Harris Jayaraj studied there. • That is the main building of the college.

3)

Winners of the 2009 Right Livelihood Award/Alternate Nobel • • • •

Catherine Hamlin from Australia Rene Ngongo from D.R of Congo David Suzuki from Canada Alyn Ware from New Zealand

4)

Malgudi • Bull Temple Park in Basavanagudi. • R.K. Narayan • Chowdaiah Memorial Hall in Malleshwaram

5)

Various Road Crossings named after animals/birds • • • •

Puffin Crossing Panda Crossing Zebra Crossing Pelican Crossing

6)

GLADIOLUS :- 1925 TORSION :- 1933 DULCIMER :- 1949 SCHRAPPF :- 1957 CHIHUAHUA :- 1967 VOUCHSAFE :- 1973 MILIEU :- 1985 KAMIKAZE :- 1993 POCOCURANTE :- 2003

The winning words for the years displayed in the “Scripps National Spelling Bee” competition held in the USA annually

BUZZER ROUND • +10 for the correct answer. • -5 for an incorrect answer.

1) Name the organization with this logo.

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

2) How are these two men well-known?

Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, the assassins of Indira Gandhi.

3) Amul’s tribute to whom?

Aravind Adiga for his debut novel, The White Tiger which won him the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

4) Name/title of this famous photograph?

Earth Rise

5) Although this is not his most famous photograph, Identify.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara

6) This term is used in Mathematics when a function is undefined at some point. It is also used to refer to the initial state of the Universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang. A recent popular use of this term refers to “a theoretical point in the future of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence”. What term?

Singularity

7) Identify this controversial religious site.

Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary in Jerusalem

8) Identify the Game.

GO

9) Identify..?

The first signals sent by Sputnik, first artificial satellite.

10) This play by William Shakespeare concerns a maid, Helena, who cures the King of France of a disease, then asks for Lord Bertram’s hand in marriage. Bertram obliges, then quickly flees to Italy to engage in war, hoping for death to avoid marriage. In the end, after a lot of twists and turns everything turns out well and they get married and live happily ever after. Name the play.

All’s Well That Ends Well!