Renaissance 2012 Quiz finals

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RENAISSANCE 2012-2013
QUIZ FINALS

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ROUND 1

DIFFERENTIALS
Standard Rules

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Round 2

INFINITE BOUNCE
POUNCE ON THEM

Question 2
• Even though this currency note can’t be used
inside Pakistan. It (next slide) is printed by the
State Bank of Pakistan every year during the
12th Islamic lunar month Dhū al-Ḥijja. Although
other possibilities were considered, the high
level of illiteracy amongst the Pakistanis and
the additional costs that would be incurred
forced the government to go ahead with these.

Where are they used?

Question 14
• Somewhat tough one.
• Why was 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' a
French woman of 1890s named the 'Most
Kissed Woman in the World'?

Answer
• Unknown woman who drowned in the Seine in 1880s.
The coroner was struck by her beauty and made a mask
of her face which became very famous.
• Pioneers of CPR, Peter Safar and Asmund Laerdal in
1958 created a mannequin with the same mask. CPR
and Mouth to Mouth Respiration was made mandatory
as part of the training by many organizations like the
Army, Boy Scouts and of course medical students. Due
to the popularity of the Mannequin, people started using
this as a training instrument for CPR and Mouth To
Mouth Respiration.

• Key Word- CPR Mannequin.

Question 9
• What is the significance of this mountain in
the world of beverages?

Question 13
• Obligatory sports question! (oops) Logo of
which famous sporting venue?

• Google doodle celebrating Maria
Montessori’s birthday

Question 2
• There is a consensus that the _________ began in Florence, in the
14th century. Various theories have been proposed to account for
its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors
including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its
political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici;
and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the
Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
• But famous art historians like Erwin Panofsky questioned the very
idea of such a movement/phenomenon:
“It is perhaps no accident that the factuality of the _______ has been
most vigorously questioned by those who are not obliged to take a
professional interest in the aesthetic aspects of civilization— historians
of economic and social developments, political and religious situations,
and, most particularly, natural science— but only exceptionally by
students of literature and hardly ever by historians of Art.”

• Others instead see it as a period of pessimism and nostalgia for the
classical age.
• FITB.

Question 3
• Non-exhaustive list.

• Edward Donne
• Bill Fairbanks
• Jason Walters
• Aidan Flemmings
• Stuart Thomas
• Alec Trevelyan
• _______
• Bill Timothy
• Peter Smith
• John Wolfgramm

• FITB.

Question 4
• Which common prefix seen in Indian
restaurant menus, usually applied to
describe mildly-flavored, rich, creamy
gravies that may also contain nuts and
dried fruits, refers to the fact they were
originally designed for royal consumption?

Question 6
• X was born in a nativity mission center Pune District to a
Chitpavan Brahmin. At birth, he was named
Ramachandra, but became more famous as X.
• X was given this name because before he was born, his
parents had three sons and a daughter, with all three
boys dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted
male children, young Ramachandra was brought up as a
girl for the first few years of his life, including having his
nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring (nath
in Marathi). It was then that he earned the nickname “X".
After his younger brother was born, they switched to
treating him as a boy.
• ID X.

Question 10
• The etymology of the word is somewhat colorfully based on Roman
law.

• The Latin word “X",meaning witness, was used in the firmly
established legal principle “X unus, X nullus" (one witness [equals]
no witness), meaning that proof given by any one person in court
was to be disregarded unless corroborated by the proof of at least
another.

• This led to the common practice of producing two witnesses, bribed
to testify the same way in cases of lawsuits with ulterior motives.
Since such "witnesses" always came in pairs, the meaning was
accordingly extended, often in the diminutive viz X.

• Also apparently no proof was considered a proof until a man
professed it holding his genitalia in his hands.

• TESTIMONY

• Testis Unus, Testis Nullus

Question 11
• Some satanists though say its the representation of the
Devil itself, because when viewed at various angles it
apparently makes the number 666.

• This has been adapted now under the name Corna or
Mano Cornuta .

• Pagans of recent ages use this to represent the Horned
God (from whom we get the word Horny).

• What am I talking about?

Question 12
• The _____ (also previously called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a
composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and
composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902.

• In 1993 Anssi Vanjoki, then Executive V.P. of the company, brought the
whole Gran Vals to Lauri Kivinen (now Head of Corporate Affairs) and
together they selected the excerpt that became “_______". The excerpt is
taken from measures (bars) 13–16 of the piece.

• The tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times per day, about
20,000 times per second.

• Hong Kong singer Khalil Fong, a company spokesperson for Greater China,
composed a song called "Coconut Shell" which features a segment of the
_____ played on the Erhu, a Chinese two-string instrument.

Answer
• Nokia’s iconic ring tone

Question 13
• 1000, July 25, 1990
• 5000, October 11, 1999
• 10,000, February 7, 2006
• 15,000, July 6, 2007
• 21,000, Jan 08, 2008

• Simple one. What?

Question 1
• From the 18th century on, ______ were used in the French and other
armies to indicate rank. The rank of an officer could be determined by
whether an _____was worn on the left, the right or on both.

• Until 1914 officers of most French Army regiments wore gold _____ in full
dress, while those of mounted units wore silver. No insignia was worn on the
_____ itself, though the bullion fringe falling from the crescent differed
according to rank. Other ranks of most branches of the infantry, wore
detachable ______ of various colours (red for line infantry, green for
Chasseurs, yellow for Colonial Infantry etc.) with woollen fringes, of a
traditional pattern that dated back to the 18th Century.

• In the modern French Army, ______ are still worn by those units retaining
historical full dress uniforms. The French Foreign Legion continue to wear
their green and red _____ , except for a brief break in the 1920s. In recent
years the Marine Infantry and some other units have readopted their
traditional fringed ______ for ceremonial parades.
• FITB.

Question 2

Sales of X were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight, and
subsequent Gemini missions.

Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program,
leading to the misconception that X was invented for the space program. The X brand
is currently owned by Y.

X can be mixed with Jim Beam bourbon to make a cocktail called "Moon Beam“.

A household tip says X is an excellent dishwasher cleaning agent due to its high citric
acid content.

At one time, Philadelphia authorities attempted to deter addicts from misusing doses
of methadone by packaging it in combination with X. This was carried out under the
reasoning that nobody would be foolish enough to intravenously inject the
combination, but apparently someone was.

X was a component of the liquid explosive allegedly intended for use in the 2006
transatlantic aircraft plot (along with hydrogen peroxide and Hexamine, to produce
HMTD, a high explosive organic compound).

ID X, Y.

Question 3

• MoBaTime, a Swiss company, started around the 1940s,
has primary business is in Manufacturing
Clocks/Watches.

• Apart from this, they have minor interests in various
other fields like Airways,Railways, Energy Production.

• In India, they have forayed into an entirely different but
niche field. Here, they’ve used their full swiss name
instead of “MoBa”. Which company?

Question 4
• Banging empty coconut shells together
• Kissing back of hand
• Thumping watermelons
• Breaking celery or bamboo or
• Twisting a head of lettuce
• Squeezing a box of corn starch
• Flapping a pair of gloves

These are examples of what?

Specific answer gets 5 brownie points

Answers
• The sound effects in movies. FOLEY ARTISTS.
Effect How It's Made
Galloping horses- Banging empty coconut
shells together
Kissing - Kissing back of hand
Punching someone- Thumping watermelons
Bone-breaking blow- Breaking celery or bamboo or
twisting a head of lettuce
Footsteps in snow - Squeezing a box of corn
starch
Bird flapping its wings- Flapping a pair of gloves

Question 5
• An engineer of X discovered this one
when he set a hot soldering iron next to
his pen. The pen reacted by spitting out
ink just moments later, and the principle
behind Y was born. I.D X &Y

Answer
• X-

• Y- Inkjet Printer

Question 6
• In 1912, Tokuji Hayakawa founded a metal workshop in
Tokyo. The name for the company came from one of his
first inventions, the Ever-_________ mechanical pencil.
After the pencil business was destroyed by the 1923
Great Kantō earthquake, the company relocated to
Osaka and began designing radio sets. These went on
sale in 1925. Since then ________ developed into one of
the leading electronics companies in the world. _______
Corporation is today the fourth-largest television
manufacturer in the world.

• FITB!

Question 7
One reason for this name was because "______" is a
standard of registration pins and holes that allow
animation cells to be consistently aligned. (An
alternative registration is Oxberry (or Oxbury) standard.)

The company name is ironic since the word ______ is
derived from Greek meaning the peak, zenith or prime,
and products from the ______ Corporation prone to
failure.

FITB

• The famous ACME Corporation.

Question 8
• X was born to George and Margaret Roberts in Willows Wisconsin
on March 9 1959, she attended Willows High School and later the
Manhattan International High School (NYC).

• X had a brief relationship with Blaine (an australian surfer) who
owned Corvette Convertibles, Jeeps and Trailers.

• X holds a pilot’s licence and operates commercial jet liners in
addition to serving as an attendant. She has done various jobs
including being an astronaut, a doctor and a nascar racer. Who is
this successful lady?

• (How many bizzare answers are you going to give me? :D)

Question 9
• Jacob Bernoulli discovered this _________while studying a question about
compound interest.

• An account that starts with $1.00 and pays 100% interest per year. If the
interest is credited once, at the end of the year, the value is $2.00; but if the
interest is computed and added twice in the year, the $1 is multiplied by 1.5
twice, yielding $1.00×1.5² = $2.25. Compounding quarterly yields
$1.00×1.254 = $2.4414…, and compounding monthly yields
$1.00×(1.0833…)12 = $2.613035….

• Bernoulli noticed that this sequence approaches a limit (the force of interest)
for more and smaller compounding intervals. Compounding weekly yields
$2.692597…, while compounding daily yields $2.714567…, just two cents
more. Using n as the number of compounding intervals, with interest of
100%/n in each interval, the limit for large n is the number that came to be
known as _____________; with continuous compounding, the account
value will reach $2.7182818…. More generally, an account that starts at $1,
and yields (1+R) dollars at simple interest, will yield ____________ dollars
with continuous compounding.

Answer
• x=e=2.71828182845904523536….

Question 10
• Alexandre Campos Ramírez, was a poet, inventor and
editor.
• He was born in Fisterra in 1919, and went on to become
a construction worker and also worked in a print shop.
• Ramirez was injured during fascist bombings of Madrid
in the Spanish civil war. In the hospital he saw many
children injured and unable to play football and went on
to invent something, for which he credited his friend
Francisco Javier Altuna, a Basque carpenter as well.
Although the invention was patented in 1937, Finisterre
had to escape to France after the fascist coup d'état, and
claims he lost the patent papers in a storm.
What did he invent?

Question 11
• All this quiz has been funda questions. For a change :P

• "There are ... things that just don't have any good
explanation," he said. "I suppose you could say that if it
had been a really nice animal, something sympathetic,
then maybe nothing would have happened. Suppose I
had picked a rooster. Well, that's French, but it doesn't
have the same impact."

• Who said this in a 1973 interview with The Associated
Press, and about what?

Question 12
• Apparently the protagonist did not marry her, but
sexually assaulted her instead.

• Later she gave birth to twins, one of whom sucked
on her finger, removing the flax which had caused
her “condition” in the first place.

• The woman who actually resented her and tried to
kill her and her children was the protagonist’s
jealous wife.

• This is the unedited version of what?

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