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The KQA October Open Quiz

The KQA October Open Quiz. Finals. Coen Brothers. Written Round. Rules. 5 coins, 5 questions Differential scoring +15, if 1 or 2 teams get it right +10, if 3, 4 or 5 teams get it right +5, if 6, 7 or 8 teams get it right. What is being commemorated in this coin?.

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The KQA October Open Quiz

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  1. The KQA October Open Quiz Finals

  2. Coen Brothers Written Round

  3. Rules • 5 coins, 5 questions • Differential scoring • +15, if 1 or 2 teams get it right • +10, if 3, 4 or 5 teams get it right • +5, if 6, 7 or 8 teams get it right

  4. What is being commemorated in this coin?

  5. Coin in whose honour? (the other side of this coin showed his portrait)

  6. Identify the location

  7. What first has been achieved with this commemorative coin?

  8. Which artist’s work is featured on this coin?

  9. What is being commemorated in this coin?

  10. Answer • Battle of Marathon

  11. Coin in whose honour? (the other side of this coin showed his portrait)

  12. Answer • Lazlo Biro

  13. Identify the location

  14. Answer • Great Mosque/Cathedral at Cordoba

  15. What first has been achieved with this commemorative coin?

  16. Answer • First Rs. 1000 coin

  17. Which artist’s work is featured on this coin?

  18. Answer • Sandro Botticelli (detail from La Primavera)

  19. Clockwise 16 questions, infinite bounce

  20. Ginsberg's Theorem is an set of adages which restate the Laws of Thermodynamics in terms of a person playing a game. 1. You can’t win. (First Law of Thermodynamics) 2. You can’t break even. (Second Law of Thermodynamics) 3. You can’t even get out of the game. (Third Law of Thermodynamics) In Ginsberg’s Theorem, how is the Zeroth Law formulated?

  21. Answer • You have to play the game.

  22. ‘Penny University’ is a fairly common name for coffee shops all over the Anglophonic world. It is a term that originates from 18th Century London. So, what were these penny universities?

  23. Answer • Instead of paying for drinks, people were charged a penny to enter a coffeehouse. Once inside, the patron had access to coffee, the company of others, various discussions, pamphlets, bulletins, newspapers, and the latest news and gossip. Reporters called "runners" went around to the coffeehouses announcing the latest news

  24. It is a Vedic-Sanskrit term for people who did not conform with the moral and religious norms of the Vedic society. The word is of distinctly non-Sanskrit origin, and there are two theories on its origin – 1. The name of one of Sumerian’s trading partners tentatively identified with the Indus Valley Civilisation 2. The proto-Dravidian word for Language What term?

  25. Answer • Mleccha

  26. What is the name given to this reasonably common motif in art? It takes its name from Italian for ‘small child’. Coincidentally, it means the same in Kannada too!

  27. Answer • Putti

  28. Where is that circled bit from?

  29. Answer

  30. In the 1975 movie, Apoorva Raagangal, director K Balachander introduces each character by associating them with a raaga. What ‘raaga’ was used to introduce Rajinikanth’s role?

  31. Answer • Apaswaram

  32. The Belgian corporation organized to manage the rights to Hergé's work (principally Tintin) is called ‘Moulinsart’. What is the funda behind the name?

  33. Answer • In the original French-Belgian, Marlinspike Hall is known as Le château de Moulinsart

  34. The Eurovision winning Finnish band Lordi has carefully maintained their monster image and never appears in public without their masks and costume. What this has meant is that a common pastime for tabloids is to dig out photos of the band unmasked. On 22 May 2006, the Daily Mail published what was believed to be an old picture of the band without their makeup or masks. It soon turned out that they had got it all wrong and had instead published an old photo of another popular Finnish band. Which band?

  35. Answer • Children of Bodom

  36. Connect.

  37. Answer • Samaresh Jung was nicknamed ‘Goldfinger’ after his performance at the Commonwealth Games 2006

  38. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Explain this quote by an author about the consequences of a book he wrote.

  39. Answer • Upton Sinclair, about ‘The Jungle’ • Sinclair wrote the book to expose the poor conditions of the American meat factory worker. Instead people fixated on food safety aspects, even forcing Teddy Roosevelt to pass laws that would eventually result in the formation of the FDA

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