19th General Quiz

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19th General Quiz
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• In the movie X, the character of Y, Isabelle,
  claims that her first words in English were New
  York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!
  This scene is a reference to the movie A, in
  which actress B, yells the same, while walking
  down Champs Élysées, with a bunch of newspapers
  in her hand.
• Identify X, Y, A and B.

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X
A
Eva Green (Y)
Jean Seberg (B)
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In a Peanuts strip from 1953, Schroeder embarks
on an intensive workout. He does push-ups, jumps
rope, lifts weights, touches his toes, does
sit-ups (Puff, Puff), boxes, runs (Pant,
Pant) and finally eats (Chomp! Chomp!).
What happens next..?
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In the last two panels he walks to his piano with
determination and begins playing furiously, sweat
springing from his brow. The eighth notes above
Schroeders head are from the opening bars of
Beethovens Hammerklavier Sonata (Op. 106), a
piece so long, artistically complex and
technically difficult that it is referred to as
the Giant Sonata. Courtesy NYTimes, Jan13,
2009
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What do the red stars represent? Hint will be
given if asked for!
Skopje Macedonia
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Lahore
Almora
Shantiniketan
Khanewal
Calcutta
Skopje Macedonia
Chidambaram
Mumbai
Thiruchirapalli
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Birth Places of Nobel Laureates from India/Indian
origin/Indian born..
British-Raj Citizens Ronald Ross Almora,
Uttarakhand Rudyard Kipling Mumbai,
Maharashtra Rabindranath Tagore Calcutta,
WB Sir CV Raman Tiruchirapalli, TN American
Citizens of Indian Origin Hargobind Khorana
Khanewal, Pakistan S Chandrasekhar Lahore,
Pakistan Venki Ramakrishnan Chidambaram,
TN Indian Citizens of foreign origin Mother
Teresa Skopje, Macedonia People of Indian
Descent VS Naipaul- Port of Spain,
Trinidad Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economics Amartya Sen Shantiniketan, WB
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Connect
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Ballets composed by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty
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Who is this man, and why did he make this chart?
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Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of the board
game Scrabble, sitting on a pile of Scrabble
tiles. He decided upon the letter distribution by
studying the letter frequencies on the first page
of the New York Times and made a chart of it. The
frequencies of alphabets in Scrabble have
remained unchanged since its invention by Butts
during the Great Depression.
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Grand Connect
Incomplete set No negs Max. Two attempts No
consecutive attempts
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(No Transcript)
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40 pts chocolate
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35 pts
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30 pts
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25 pts
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20 pts
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15 pts
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10 pts
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5 pts
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The Beatles
Julia
Eleanor Rigby
Lady Madonna
I am the walrus
Matchbox
Long, winding road
Hey, Jude!
P.S. I love you
Yellow Submarine
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Connect the man with the picture on the right.
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Enzo Ferrari. The picture on the right is that of
Count Francesco Baracca, an Italian Air Force
pilot WWI hero. His mother Countess Paolina,
asked Enzo to use the prancing stallion symbol on
his car for good luck. However, instead of the
white background, Enzo used yellow, the colour of
his hometown, Modena, alongwith the colours of
the Italian national flag. Also, the tail of
the Ferrari stallion points upwards, unlike the
original!
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The following are different kinds of what?
New York Chicago New Haven Hawaiian Californian Gr
eek Sicilian St.Louis Mexican Detroit
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Pizza styles
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__________ ___________ was started by Michael
Hart in 1971 with the digitization of the United
States Declaration of Independence. Hart, a
student at the University of Illinois, obtained
access to a Xerox Sigma V Mainframe Computer in
the university's Materials Research Lab. Through
friendly operators, he received an account with a
virtually unlimited amount of computer time its
value at that time has since been variously
estimated at 100,000 or 100,000,000. Hart has
said he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing
something that could be considered to be of great
value. 
What did Hart start?
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Hart is the founder of Project Gutenberg, the
oldest digital library. Project Gutenberg is now
hosted by ibiblio at the Univ of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. The Project was named after
Johannes Gutenberg, who was the inventor of the
mechanical printing press and movable type
printing press.
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Who is this distinguished scientist?
Arthur C. and Caroline J. McCallister
Distinguished Chair Professor Anderson Faculty
Scholar Director of the Center for Computational
Research and the National Institute of Dynamical
Physics. Recipient of the Alexander von
Humboldt Prize of the Netherlands, National
Science Foundation Presidential Investigator
Award, Exceptional Achievement Medal from the
International Society of Engineers, Pi Gamma
Tau Industry Excellence Professorship, He
serves on the editorial board of the Journal of
Advanced Dynamics, the Journal of Nano-Particle
Computation, Physik-Publication and several other
journals, and on the advisory boards of many
industry consortia. He holds honorary
doctorates from the Universidad Politecnica de
Madrid, Tsing-Chua Beijing University and
the Universidad de Sao Paulo, among others
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Prof. Smith of PHD comics!!
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This object was used by the Incan civilization,
its usage being taught to the ruling classes and
higher classes in the third year of
schooling. However, the Spanish Conquistadores
mistook it to be idolatrous and destroyed many
of them, as a result of which these are found
mainly in museums or anthropology departments of
universities. What is this object? And what is
its alleged purpose?
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This is a Quipu, or Khipu, also called Talking
Knots. These were recording devices used by the
Incans to save numeric data. A number is
represented as a sequence of knot clusters in
base 10. Each cord consisted of positions for
units, tens, hundreds, and so on. Purportedly
used by the Quipucamayocs, the accountants, or
Quipu-authorities, to calculate taxes and conduct
population surveys!
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Connect!
(Hint available)
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Hint
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The Vipers in Kill Bill 12
Black Mamba
Sidewinder
Snake charmer
California mountain snake
Cottonmouth
Copperhead
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Geohashing..
A method for finding an effectively random
location nearby and visiting it a Spontaneous
Adventure Generator. Every day, the
algorithm generates a new set of coordinates for
each 11 latitude/longitude zone (known as
a graticule) in the world. The coordinates can be
anywhere -- in the forest, in a city, on a
mountain, or even in the middle of a lake!
Everyone in a given region gets the same set of
coordinates relative to their graticule.
What are the input strings for the algorithm?
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The date, and that dates Dow Jones opening
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Connect !
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Chicory Coffee substitute Also called Blue
Sailor
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Who said the following? And what was the person
talking about?
Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add
62,000. By this rule the circumference of a
circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be
approached.
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Chaturadhikam satamas?agu?am dvasas?istatha
sahasra?amAyutadvayaviskambhasyasanno
vrîttapari?aha?.
Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add
62,000. By this rule the circumference of a
circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be
approached.
Aryabhata, approximating the value of p (3.1416)
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Identify this person..
Born in 1935, in Brooklyn, to Nettie Martin
Konigsberg Life-size statue of him in Oviedo,
Spain Has had marriages/relationships with
Harlene Rosen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton,
Stacey Nelkin, Mia Farrow and his adopted
step-daughter, Soon-yi Previn Has played with
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band The voice-over
for the character Z in the movie Antz Has won
numerous Academy BAFTA Awards
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Woody Allen
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• Grand Connect!!
• Incomplete set
• No negative marks
• No consecutive attempts
• Max. 2 attempts

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(No Transcript)
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50 pts Various kinds of Chocolates Admiration
from quizmaster
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45 pts chocolate
This GC has nothing to do with movies!!
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40 pts
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35 pts
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30 pts
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25 pts
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20 pts
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15 pts
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10 pts
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5 pts
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• Tom and Jerry brandy/cognac
• My Fair Lady -gin
• Alexander gin
• Godmother vodka
• Joker - gin
• The Golden Eye vodka
• Long Island Iced Tea
• Screwdriver vodka
• Blue Lagoon - vodka
• Bloody Mary- vodka

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