Quiz

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Quiz

• Meenakshi, Sunil Shastry
• 02.07.2004

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Rules

• Todays quiz will consist of 10 conventional
  rounds (20 pts per direct question) and a
  rapid-fire round (10 pts per question).
• At the end of every round, there will be a BONUS
  question worth 10 pts. Please write down your
  answers to these bonus questions on the sheet
  provided.
• There are no negative points except in Round 6,
  which will be a Wager round rules will
  explained at the start of this round.
• Questions may be passed from one team to another
  in all rounds except the rapid-fire round.
• Trivia is the quiz-masters birthright the
  quizmasters decisions are final!

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Rounds

• Business and Advertising
• Alabama
• Sports
• People and Places
• Literature
• ----- Intermission -----
• The F-Word
• Audio Bollywood
• Audio Western
• Science and Technology
• Video
• Rapid-fire

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Business and Advertising

• Each question will consist of two parts
• A Corporate Logo
• Advertising Slogan
• Identify both the companies 20 (10 x 2) pts for
  each correct answer
• The two parts of the question are UNRELATED

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Business and Advertising

• Imagination at work

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Business and Advertising

• The Fires Ready

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Business and Advertising

• Dont leave home without it

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Business and Advertising

• Forever New Frontiers

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Business and Advertising

• The Joy of Flying

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Business and Advertising

• Intelligence Everywhere

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Business and Advertising

• That was easy

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Business and Advertising

• Go Get it

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Business and Advertising

• Connecting people

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Business and Advertising

• We try harder

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Alabama
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Alabama

• What term literally meaning Fat Tuesday did
  Alabama introduced to the western world?

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Alabama

• This world famous athlete, from Danville, AL
  became the fourth American to win three or more
  Gold medals at an Olympic meet (1936, Berlin).
  Who was he?

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Alabama

• This singer/songwriter was born in Tuskegee, AL.
  His awards and accolades include 3 Grammys and
  several AMAs. He has written/co-written 19
  chart-toppers, but is best known for the song
  heard here. Name this artist.

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Alabama

• This author, born in Monroeville, AL in 1926,
  wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, the winner of the
  1961 Pulitzer prize. Tens of millions of copies
  of the novel have since been sold. This book has
  also been made into a classic movie by the same
  name. Name the author?

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Alabama

• Outraged over the killing of a demonstrator by a
  state trooper in Marion, AL (in February 1965),
  the black community decided to hold a march. Dr.
  MLK Jr., right after his Nobel Peace Prize in
  late 1964, decided to lead the march, which had
  to be delayed due to the inability to get
  requisite permissions from local law authorities.
  This march, a significant event in Americas
  desegregation, did go through on March 25th 1965
  with President Johnsons permission. Where did
  this march originate, and where did it end?

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Alabama

• Considered Americas First Lady of Courage,
  this blind and deaf woman went on to earn degrees
  from Radcliff, Harvard, the Delhi Univ., Univ. of
  Berlin, Univ. of S. Africa and Glasgow. Name this
  inspirational author who has written several
  books and worked actively for blind and deaf
  peoples causes.

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Alabama

• This Birmingham, AL born bureaucrat has authored
  books like Germany Unified and Europe
  Transformed and The Gorbachev Era. Who as the
  current National Security Advisor, is the
  highest ranked federal government employee from
  the State of Alabama?

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Alabama

• Following the fall of Hitlers Reign in Germany,
  this rocket scientist migrated to the USA in
  1950. After several intermediate jobs, he was
  appointed the director of the newly created
  George C Marshall Space Research Center in
  Huntsville, AL. He directed several projects
  including the Saturn I and V, the Gemini and the
  Apollo Moon projects. Name him.

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Alabama

• Name this Mobile, AL born baseball hall of
  famer, who currently holds the record for most
  career home runs in the major league.

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Alabama

• This Birmingham, AL headquartered materials and
  chemicals company trades on the NYSE. It has over
  300 manufacturing facilities, and was named to
  the Fortune magazines list of most admired
  companies in 2000, 2001 and 2002. It is also a
  part of the SP 500 index. Name the company.

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Sports
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Sports

• When were the Olympics first televised ?

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Sports

• Which country won the inaugural football
  (soccer) world cup?

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Sports

• Caroline Davidson, a young college student,
  designed something for which she was paid 35.
  Her design is now a jealously guarded logo, the
  misuse of which is likely to result in million
  dollar lawsuits. What did she create, for a brand
  which takes its name from the Greek goddess of
  victory?

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Sports

• Who is the first player in cricket history to
  provide sponsorship for his own bat with his
  first book? Name the book.

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Sports

• The NFL hands out a trophy, named for a football
  legend, to the team that wins the super bowl.
  Name him.

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Sports

• Which was the first sport to be filmed? Name
  either the event/players or the person who filmed
  it.

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Sports

• Where was Gatorade first formulated and why was
  it so named?

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Sports

• Jim Burke the Australian opening batsmen was out
  when he was caught by Colin Cowdrey in the slips
  for the score of 22 at the Manchester test in
  1956. What is so special about it?

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Sports

• What did the acronym stand for when
  the company was founded?

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Sports

• Who is credited with inventing Basketball?

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People and Places
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People and Places

• This poets name is George Gordon Noel. Born
  with a club foot, he fled England to escape
  scandal and a failed marriage and died of a fever
  in 1824. His first volume of poems is named
  Fugitive Pieces. Name him.

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People and Places

• Its original name is Flavian Amphitheatre. It
  was started by the Emperor Vespasian between 70
  and 76 AD, and completed by his son Titus in 80
  AD. They celebrated the opening by holding 100
  days worth of games there. Which place am I
  referring to?

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People and Places

• Born in an orthodox Tamil Brahmin family, she
  was one of the first women from the community to
  marry an Englishman. She spearheaded the movement
  to make Bharatanatyam a respectable art form,
  instead of an art solely practiced by courtesans,
  as it was percieved in those days. She founded
  the famous Kalakshetra institute in Madras. Name
  her.

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People and Places

• Nana was a gentle and faithful old dog which
  belonged to the Darling family.   Mr. Darling
  played a trick on Nana by making her drink an
  unpleasant medicine which he himself had promised
  to drink - and this was not appreciated by his
  family.  An angry Mr. Darling then chained up
  Nana in the yard.  As a consequence, who entered
  the children's bedroom?

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People and Places

• If your geographical position was 0 latitude,
  0 longitude, where in the world would you be?
  (Name either the country or water body)

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People and Places

• An English clergyman who emigrated from
  Cambridge to New England, left half his fortune
  and his library of 300 books to the college of
  New Towne. This was renamed in his honor. Name
  this institution.

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People and Places

• Which Indian TV personality and cook book writer
  began her career in films with the Ivory-Merchant
  production, Shakespeare Wallah winning her the
  best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival in
  1965?

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People and Places

• This scientist, philosopher, essayist and
  historian is considered the father of modern
  logicians. He was the author of Principia
  Mathematica, and after being considered for the
  Nobel peace prize, was awarded the Nobel prize
  for Literature in 1950. Who is he?

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People and Places

• This academy award winning actress was born
  Caryn Johnson in New York City and spent the
  first years of her life in a public housing
  project in Manhattan. Her successful one woman
  show brought her to the attention of Steven
  Spielberg, who cast her in the leading role in
  his film of Alice Walker's The Color Purple,
  which made her one of Hollywood's leading
  actresses. Name her.

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People and Places

• What is the term for a Japanese girl trained to
  entertain men by singing, dancing or talking
  amusingly?

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Literature
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Literature

• In detective fiction what is known as the
  inverted novel?

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Literature

• This poem was first published in the
  Knickerbocker Magazine in October 1838. It also
  appeared in its poet H. W. Longfellow's first
  published collection Voices in the Night. It
  goes Tell me not in mournful numberslife is but
  an empty dream for the soul is dead that slumbers
  and things are not what they seem. Name this
  poem.

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Literature

• This English short story writer, novelist and
  poet is remembered for his celebration of British
  imperialism and heroism in India and Burma. One
  of his famous works was later made into a very
  well known TV series for children. Name the
  person and the book.

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Literature

• Which Indian authors first book is Interpreter
  of Maladies, a collection of short stories?

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Literature

• This elderly gentleman, an R. L. Stevenson
  character, struggles with the dual nature of his
  personality. Although very kind and friendly to
  his friends, he has a dark side, which although
  he valiantly tries to keep away, eventually wins
  out, threatening his life. Who am I referring to?

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Literature

• This famous book based on his own experiences
  was written by Upamanyu Chatterjee, an officer in
  the Indian Administrative Service. It became a
  best-seller, and was recently made into a film by
  Dev Benegal. What is the book were talking about?

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Literature

• In literary terms, what is an apologue?

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Literature

• Her real name was Mary Ann Evans and she has to
  her fame works like Mill on the Floss and
  Silas Marner. How is she better known as?

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Literature

• In which work of fiction would you find the
  kingdom of Brobdingnag?

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Literature

• In which of the famous novels of Charles Dickens
  does the character Uriah Heep feature?

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• Intermission

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The F word

• All correct answers in this round will begin with
  the letter F.
• This is a wager round every team gets to
  decide their stakes.
• You can lay a wager for ANY number of points,
  provided you have already earned them. Teams with
  NO points can wager up to 50 points.
• Correct responses will add your wager to your
  score, while incorrect responses will deduct the
  wager from your score.
• Questions can be passed, and indirect questions
  are worth 10 points.

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The F word

• Great Britain and Argentina fought a brief war
  in 1982 over a group of islands, located about
  300 miles from the latters coast. Name the
  Islands, or the war which got its name from the
  islands.

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The F word

• Give us the Latin name for the object seen here
  or the political ideology it is said to have
  inspired.

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The F word

• This sci-fi comic character is an intergalactic
  adventurer with a female companion Dale Arden,
  and scientist, Dr. Hans Zarkov?

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The F word

• What was president John Kennedys middle name?

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The F word

• What is the capital of Sierra Leone?

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The F word

• Bill Gates appeared in an episode in the ninth
  season of this serial in 2001 where he also
  promoted Microsofts launch of Windows XP. Name
  this sitcom.

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The F word

• Name this Chinese art or practice of positioning
  objects, like buildings, and furniture, based on
  a belief in patterns of flow of chi that have
  positive and negative effects?

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The F word

• In movie jargon, give the name for the optical
  printing effect in which a single frame image is
  identically repeated over several frames. When
  projected, this gives the illusion of a still
  photograph in which the action has ceased.

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The F word

• Trimethylaminuria or Trimethylamine oxidase
  deficiency is better known as what syndrome?

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The F word

• Name this ex-Bayern Munich player who is the
  first player to win the football (soccer) world
  cup as both player and manager.

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Science and Technology
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Science and Technology

• Hewlett-Packard has developed a new programming
  language as an alternative to Java. What have
  they named it?

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Science and Technology

• Who was the first scientist to win two Nobel
  prizes in the same category?

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Science and Technology

• Which is the only stable element in the Periodic
  Table named after a human being?

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Science and Technology

• Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb test video
• Seen here is the first test of an atomic bomb
  explosion. Name the project which developed this
  bomb. Who was the project leader?

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Science and Technology

• Visible Human Project Video
• What is the video you just saw? Name the Federal
  Government sponsored project that produced this
  film.

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Science and Technology

• When paleontologists mention the "Cambrian
  Explosion", what are they are referring to?

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Science and Technology

• Why was Windows XP so named?

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Science and Technology

• What word do we get from Greek for Instruction
  in the circle of arts and sciences?

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Science and Technology

• What quintessential device for the lazy person
  was invented by Eugene Polley in 1955?

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Science and Technology

• The Gold Standard, in which currency was
  redeemable against gold, was first perfected by
  the Master of the Royal Mint in 1717. Name this
  official, who's more famous for his research into
  other areas.