The Riddler: Finals

The Riddler Finals

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X is an electrical weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge originating from a grounded object in an atmospheric electric field (such as those generated by thunderstorms or thunderstorms created by a volcanic explosion). X is a bright blue or violet glow, appearing like fire in some circumstances, from tall, sharply pointed structures such as lightning rods, masts, spires and chimneys, and on aircraft wings. X is named after St. Erasmus of Formiae, the patron saint of sailors. The phenomenon sometimes appeared on ships at sea during thunderstorms, and was regarded by sailors with religious awe, accounting for the name. x?

St.Elmo’s fire

2. • Oscar Niemeyer (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect and designer who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. For 2 years now, he and the Brazilian chemical company Braskem have worked in association with The Brazilian GP at Interlagos, promoting Go Green projects. This year, their work came under criticism for its displeasing appearance. What exactly did he and this company churn out?

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• While Oscar designed it,Braskem worked from an on-site laboratory ,over the three-days,to will collect blue caps from disposable drinks bottles.The caps were ground and melted and then pressed into blocks and cut into shape to form the blue plastic trophy that was awarded to the winners.

3. • X have adopted a custom logo known as Y, as well as a wordmark which has appeared on the vast majority of their promotional material and on the front cover of almost every studio album. Y is derived from Mary Queen of Scots' mark (shown on the right), which was reworked by a band member for use on the album artwork for When Dream and Day Unite. It consists of a capital Phi, a capital Mu, and a capital Alpha. Give me X and Y.

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• X = Dream Theater • Y= The Majesty

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Copacabana. • Copacabana – the nightclub in New York. • Barry Manilow- sang Copacabana about this club. • Copacabana, the 1947 movie starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda. • The famous 4km Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.

5. • At the age of 20,this guy was a ball spotter at the 1980 U.S. Open. • Now this actor has done voiceover work on animated television series, including the superhero "The Atom" and also on several episodes of Justice League Unlimited! He is a famous TV personality who in most of his episodes pays tribute to Redford's character in The sting by touching his nose frequently!

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John McGinley

6. • _______ depicts parts of American society and culture of the 1960s,highlighting cigarette smoking, drinking, sexism, adultery, homophobia,antisemitism, racism and a complete lack of concern for the environment as examples of how that era was so much different from the present.Smoking, far more common in the United States of the 1960s than it is now, is featured throughout the series; many characters can be seen smoking several times in the course of an episode. _______ has received highly positive critical response since its premiere. Viewership for the premiere at 10 p.m. on July 19, 2007, was higher than any other AMC original series to date.Characters in _______also see stirrings of change in the ad industry itself, with the Volkswagen Beetle's "Think Small" ad campaign mentioned.The children's television show Sesame Street ran a parody of "______," a child-friendly skit that lasts 2 minutes and 15 seconds, sometime in late 2009. ID the show!

Answer

• Madmen

7. • X was a followed of Frederick Taylor who is considered the Father of Scientific Management. X developed the idea of rating an employee publicly. Every worker's progress was recorded on individual bar charts inked in black on days he/she completed the standard and red on the day he/she fell below. • What is X or the system he devised ?

Answer • Gantt Charts

8. • This practice is considered a pseudoscience and takes its name from cheir meaning hand and manteia.It can trace its roots back to India.he Hindu sage Valmiki is thought to have written a book, comprising 567 stanzas on the subject. From India, this spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, Persia and to other countries in Europe most notably Greece where Anaxagoras practiced it. What practice?

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• Chiromancy - Palmistry

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Rules • • • •

5 Sets +25,+20,+15,+10,+5 -1/2 throughout. No negatives on the last set

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Set 2

Set 3

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Set 5

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Tick Tock Tick Tock

9. • Known for his rather unconventional attire throughout the early part of his career, he was encouraged by his sponsors to switch over to more conventional clothing to suit his status at the top of the field as he grew.He has had mixed fortune since his switch, and this caused his hardcore fans to make a call for him to revert to his traditional attire. Who he?

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10. • Elena Bodnar, who lives in Chicago, got her start as a scientist in Ukraine, when she witnessed the devastating effects of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986.At the ceremony, Bodnar demonstrated her invention, which she said could have prevented people from breathing in Iodine131 in the wake of Chernobyl.Given is a pic of her invention. What invention? what's its claim to fame?

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• Gas-mask bra. Won the Public Health Ig-Nobel this year

11 • In 1952,Levegh had driven 23 straight hours of the race and was leading.He failed to win only because of a missed shift, resulting in engine failure, in the final hour of the race.In the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans,at approximately 6:25pm local time Levegh hit a car in front which launched his car into the stands,thus killing him and 86 other spectators.This came to be known as the 1955 Le Mans disaster.This disaster implicated certain practices and thus brought about a change in the rules of this sport. What?

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Changing of drivers during the course of the race was made mandatory

12 • The original jersey colour was pink, which was quickly abandoned for thin black-and-white vertical stripes. The legend has it that in 1906 X played another team that used these colors, to decide who would get to keep them. X lost, and decided to adopt the colors of the flag of the first boat to subsequently sail into the port which was the 4146 ton Swedish freighter Drottning Sophia, sailing from Copenhagen and the rest,as they say is history. Id X

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Trivia:These three countries are given a collective name due to their proximity to a water- body.What collective name? Else id the three countries

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• Baltic States

14. • This toy was invented in the late 1950s by French electrician André Cassagnes. Cassagnes originally called it Telecran ("telescreen"), on account of its resemblance to a television screen. After a complex series of negotiations, The Ohio Art Company launched the toy in the United States in time for the 1960 holiday season with the name "_______". The inside surface of the glass screen is coated with aluminum powder which is then scraped off by a movable stylus, leaving a dark line on the light gray screen. The stylus is controlled by the two large knobs, one of which moves it vertically and the other horizontally. To erase the picture, the artist turns the toy upside down and shakes it. What toy?

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• Etch-A-Sketch

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The construction of A in 1987 caused a lot of annoyance to citizens, while the Construction of B in 2007 brought back the smiles on their faces. Put funda

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• A- One Liberty Place • B- Comcast Centre Curse of William Penn

16. • This video is a simple interaction between the brothers. The video shows the elder brother as he goes from being cheery and playful, to getting hurt. He starts screaming in pain and eventually ends up laughing the whole incident off. All this while the younger brother remians blisfully unaware of his actions. What video?

• Charlie Bit Me

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17. • Put Funda

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The Pink Panther A Shot in the dark Inspector Closeau The Return of the Pink Panther The Pink Panther strikes again Revenge of the Pink Panther Trail of the Pink Panther Curse of the Pink Panther Son of the Pink Panther The Pink Panther The Pink Panther 2

18. • Brynhildr is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Norse mythology, where she appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events. Under the name Brünnhilde she appears in the Nibelungenlied and thus even in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen .Brynhildr is probably inspired by the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia, who married Merovingian king Sigebert I in 567. The history of Brynhildr includes fratricide, a long battle between brothers, and dealings with the Huns. This apart, she is commonly associated with sport. Put Funda (Put pic.)

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It ain’t over till the fat lady sings • Despite his obvious allegiance to the Red Raiders, Texas Tech sports information director Ralph Carpenter was the picture of professional objectivity when the Aggies rallied for a 72-72 tie late in the SWC tournament finals. "Hey, Ralph," said Bill Morgan, "this... is going to be a tight one after all." "Right," said Ralph. "The opera ain’t over until the fat lady sings."

19. • Connect – Put full funda

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• Stadia of Light

20. • UGO.com ranked the _________ at number two on their Top 50 Video Game Weapons of All Time list. "X-Play ranked it number one on their Top 10 Badass Weapons list, stating that while "not as fancy as the gravity gun", it was the first weapon that "really made us swoon.Some debate has gone on as to what the name actually is,one accepted name given is "BioForce Gun". However the more popular name is _____________. What weapon?

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BFG

21. • Y is a fictionalized retelling of real people X met during his days as a singer in Los Angeles, after the failure of his first album, Cold Spring Harbor. At the time, X was trying to get out of a bad deal with the record company Family Productions, so, he was "hiding out" at the bar, performing under a false name while Columbia Records tried to get him out of the deal.Y shot X to such fame that Y stuck on as X's nickname. Gimme both X and Y

22. • ________1__________ is a phrase most commonly associated with the Physicist X who won the Nobel sometime in the 60's. _____________2_____ is commonly associated with a tempermental tennis legend from the 80's. Now 1 and 2 essentially mean the same thing and they are also the names of the autobiographies of X and Y respectively. Gimme all 4 variables.

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23. Principles for what? • Letters should be typed by alternating between hands. • For maximum speed and efficiency, the most common letters and digraphs should be the easiest to type. This means that they should be on the home row, which is where the fingers rest, and under the strongest fingers. • The least common letters should be on the bottom row, which is the hardest row to reach. • The right hand should do more of the typing, because most people are right-handed. • Digraphs should not be typed with adjacent fingers. • Stroking should generally move from the edges of the board to the middle. An observation of this principle is that, for many people, when tapping fingers on a table, it is easier going from little finger to index than vice versa.

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24. • Connect

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Written round – 6 questions 5 points per right answer 3 stages +15/-7 +10/-5 +5/0

Set 1

1. In some reckonings, X is the greatest of the Seven Sages or Saptarshis. X is also the Indian astronomical name of the star of Canopus, is said to be the 'cleanser of waters', since its rising coincides with the calming of the waters of the Indian Ocean. Another reference is in the Mahabharata in Sauptikaparva as the teacher of Guru Drona, who gave Drona, the greatest of weapons, Brahmastra.

2. What is being depicted?

Set 2

3. • ________ Magazine is an American magazine specializing in the game of poker. Separate editions are also published for Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Australasia.The American edition began as a bimonthly in October 2004 and went monthly in August 2005.In December 2006, _________ Magazine purchased thepokerdb.com, an online tournament database. The site has since been integrated into the _________ Magazine web site. What is ____?

4. • This was a successful language rights agitation in the 1980s that fought for the first language status of the Kannada language in the state of Karnataka, India.It recommended giving primacy to Kannada in State schools. Actor Dr Rajkumar led the campaign.What campaign/who was it named after?

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5. This word can mean a monastery under the supervision of an abbot or a convent under the supervision of an abbess.It can also mean the group of buildings comprising such a monastery or convent or event the church of such a monastery or convent.

6. • _______ is a form of trot or run at a slow or leisurely pace. The main intention is to increase fitness with less stress on the body than from faster running.The definition of a __________ as compared with running is not standard. Dr. George Sheehan, a running expert, is quoted to have said "the difference between a _________ and a runner is an entry blank".Others are usually more specific, defining a __________ as running slower than 6 mph (10 minute per mile pace, 10 km/h, 6 min/km)

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Agastya Ocean of Milk being churned Bluff Magazine V.K.Gokak Abbey Jog

Connect • Waterfalls 1.Agasthiar Falls 2.Doodh Sagar 3.Bluff (aka Shivanasamudra) 4.Gokak Falls 5.Abbey Falls 6.Jog Falls

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