KQA ASKQANCE Social Sciences Quiz - Prelims and Finals

1. Capital Punishment
The Social Sciences Quiz
by
Rajagopal & Alagarsamy

2. Rules:
35 Qns Prelims
Qn No’s 11 to 20 *ed

3. The phrase XY was coined by Ebenezer Howard in his
1903 manifesto XY of Tomorrow. What is XY?
Contd…..
Q 1

4. Q 1

5. Garden City / Garden Cities

6. Originally named Losantiville, it was renamed after a
Roman General who saved Rome from destruction
and retired to his farm. The connection to Rome still
continues, as one of its nicknames is City of Seven
Hills. It was also nicknamed Porkopolis (in the 1830s)
as it was a hog packing centre.
Home to the first professional baseball team, which
continues to this day under a similar name. Which
city?
Q 2

7. Cincinnati

8. What word was coined in reference to the
widespread involuntary indentured labour of many
Central Europeans in the 16th Century and refers to a
practice described by some historians as the oldest
trade?
Q 3

9. Slave from Slav

10. Theories proposed to explain what include Sneaky
Male Theory (Richard Dawkins's prefered theory),
Sexually Antagonistic Selection, Older Brother Effect,
Social Cohesion, Alliance Formation Hypothesis, Kin
Selection, Social Prestige Hypothesis, Worker Bee
Theory?
Q 4

11. Evolution of Homosexuality

12. This book by Daniel
Drezner claims to answer
the question that other
international relations
scholars have been too
scared to ask, addressing
timely issues with an
analytical bite.
Fill in the missing word
and complete the title of
book whose cover is
shown.
Q 5

13. Zombies

14. The Westphalian System of International Relations whose
chief principles are non-intervention and sovereign states
deciding which other state and how to have legal relations
with was the basis of the international health system.
Infectious disease control were handled through
International Health Regulations (IHR) to ensure
maximum security against international spread of a
disease and it operates through WHO. IHR failure lead to
changes violating the Westphalian System.
Which recent pathogen is considered the 1st post-
westphalian pathogen?
Q 6

15. SARS

16. According to some historians, this surname came from the
Latin for hairy. Later it became a minor title, adopted by heir
to the throne and the junior member of a duarchy or
tetrarchy.
It was even used by the 1st Ottoman emperor, Mehmed II,
after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, who called
himself X of the Roman Empire.
What surname / title?
Q 7

17. Caesar

18. Found on every continent, their name comes from
Latin word borrowed from arabic and persian,
meaning bitumen and bituminous substance.
In medieval English, it meant "medical preparation of
the substance" used for it. What?
Q 8

19. Mummy

20. It was first mentioned by Plato in his works Timaeus
and Crittias in an allegory about hubris of nations. At
the end of the story, it falls out of favour with the
gods and faces their wrath. It is a byword for any
advanced lost civilizations.
While historians consider it imagined, possible
inspirations include a volcanic eruption on the island
of Thera or even the Trojan war. What is it?
Q 9

21. Atlantis

22. Hyman Minsky, whose theories about debt accumulation
were quoted during the sub-prime crisis of the late-2000s,
used the name of X to classify borrowers who always have
greater cash outflow commitments than inflows.
Similar schemes were described by Dickens in his novel
Martin Chuzzlewit. Name X, whose last business venture
was called Charpon Land Syndicate.
Q 10

23. Charles Ponzi
The borrowing scheme is called Minskian Ponzi

24. What sub-field of Social Science (and a genre of
fiction) is also known as uchronia in French, Italian,
Spanish and German, the earliest known example of
which is Ab Urbe Condita Libri (from 25 BC)?
Q 11

25. Alternate History / Counterfactual History

26. Facing difficulties in administering its far flung
provinces, which country lauched a One Unit program
in 1954, uniting its 4 western provinces into one to
counterbalance its one Eastern province? This
program continued until early 1970 after which it
became redundant. Which country?
Q 12

27. Pakistan

28. X is a 1948 novel written by BF Skinner that talked
about modifying behavioural analysis. The novel is
about a utopian community that works using
evidence-based strategies.
Skinner intended to call the novel "The Sun is but a
Morning Star" but later named it as a direct tribute to
the real inspiration (Y) for the novel. The titular
community is described in the novel as Y, but with
company. X or Y?
Q 13

29. X = Walden Two
Y = Walden by Thoreau

30. The image shows a James Gilray Caricature from 1805.
Id the two people being caricatured. Be specific.
Q 14

31. Napoleon & William Pitt the Younger

32. In 19th century British usage, a _________ man is an emigrant, often
to a British colony, supported or assisted by payment of money from
their paternal home. As a general term _______ man or _____ woman
could mean anyone living away from home supported mainly by their
family in a different house, neighborhood, city, or country regardless of
their reason for being there.
Within Victorian British culture ______ man also meant someone
(often a black sheep) exiled overseas and sent an allowance on
condition that he not return home.
In the modern context the usage of this word is quite the reverse of
the original usage. Which word?
Q 15

33. Remittance

34. This person never coined the idea/concept after himself instead
he referred to it as Fehlleistungen (meaning "faulty actions",
"faulty functions" or "misperformances" in German) while his
translator preferred to refer this by the Greek term Parapraxes
(meaning “another action”).
By what term do we know this idea/concept better?
Q 16

35. Freudian Slip

36. The new fad which has become popular among US women is going under the
knife to change the shape and size of their feet so that they look better in
shoes or simply fit into smaller sizes. Dr Ali Sadrieh, the podiatrist who
popularized this procedure says ““I had never met a patient who asked for a
hallux valgus correction with osteotomy and screw fixation. So I decided to
create a name that captures the result of the procedure, without all the Latin.
The point of the _______: being able to put a shoe on that didn’t fit
comfortably before.”
Q 17

37. Cinderella Surgery

38. During Middle Ages this chart was used for diagnosing
diseases by the doctors based on the color, smell, and taste.
By what name was this chart popularly known?
Q 18

39. Urine Wheel

40. Which film featuring an ethnologist, a zoologist, 2
WW II hero radio operators, a navigator, a civil
engineer and a pet parrot named Lorita won the
Academy Award for Best Documentary feature in
1951?
Q 19

41. Kon Tiki

42. This term meant to run or fly swiftly. Dryden used it describe
the flight of a falcon. It was first used in a nautical sense
around the American revolution to describe ships from
Baltimore, which were intended to ____ over the water,
rather than plough through them.
It was later used for a type of fast sailing ship in the 19th
century and use mostly ended with the opening of the Suez
Canal. What?
Q 20

43. Clipper

44. The first picture that greets
visitors to the National
Gallery in London is a marble
mosaic set into the floor ,
'The Awakening of the
Muses', laid in 1933 by the
Russian-born artist Boris
Anrep. Anrep used celebrated
people of the day for models,
eg Greta Garbo as Tragedy,
Virginia Woolf as History,
Margot Fonteyn as
Delectation and Winston
Churchill as Defiance. Who
did he depict as Lucidity?
Q 21

45. Q 21

46. Bertrand Russell

47. By share of population, this was the largest empire which accounted
for approximately 49.4 million of the world’s 112.4 million people in
around 480 BC – an astonishing 44%.
At its greatest extent, the empire included the modern territories of
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, all
significant population centers of ancient Egypt as far west as Libya,
Turkey, Thrace and Macedonia, much of the Black Sea coastal regions,
Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, much of Central Asia, Afghanistan,
northern Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and parts of Oman and the UAE.
Which empire?
Q 22

48. Achaemenid Empire

49. Anish Kapoor and Japanese Architect Arata Isozaki have designed the world’s
first inflatable concert hall in the Japanese town of Matsushima that will
travel to the Tsunami hit regions of Japan. This installation is named after a
“Biblical Vessel” and a term meaning “New Art”. What is the name of this
installation?
Q 23

50. Q 23

51. Ark Nova
after Art Noveau and Noah’s Ark

52. Which religious sect speaks a dialect of German
language that they call Mudderschproch meaning
“mother tongue”?
Q 24

53. Amish Sect

54. This is known more formally as “illusory superiority” where the
tendency is to treat all members of a group as above average,
particularly with respect to numerical values such as test scores
or executive salaries; in a survey, the tendency for most people
to describe themselves or their abilities as above average.
This phrase was named after a 1985 novel, which described life
in a fictional US town. Name this effect.
Q 25

55. Lake Wobegon Effect

56. The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany has recently
put on display an artwork by US based artist Diemut Strebe
which it calls “ a living art-piece”. This artwork was created by
using living cells supplied by a person named Lieuwe ________.
The exhibition also allows visitors to speak to the artwork
through a microphone. A computer converts the sound to
simulate the artwork’s nerve impulses in real time. What is this
artwork in question?
Q 26

57. The artist has created a replica of Van Gogh’s missing ear using
living cells supplied by the great-great -grandson of Van Gogh’s
brother Theo.

58. The word ______ in reference to cross-dressing, first appeared in
the dictionary in 1870. The term originated in the theater. Where
female characters were played by young men. Men wearing
elaborate gowns found that long hems tended to ____ on the
ground, and eventually referred to any character requiring a
dress as a “_____” role. Which word?
Q 27

59. Drag

60. Among computer professionals, _______ means using
software to continuously download and save small parts of a
large body of data in order to slowly construct a copy; it’s
typically done when there isn’t an easy way to download the
information in bulk. Recent case of Edward Snowden is a
classic example of this act.
In “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens describes Ebenezer
Scrooge as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, ______,
clutching, covetous old sinner.” What’s the good word?
Q 28

61. Scraping

62. Which historical monument in India has a Horseshoe gate,
after the custom of nailing horseshoes to its large wooden
doors for luck by the devoted peasants seeking blessings?
Q 29

63. Buland Darwaza

64. Morgan Stanley coined the term “______ _____" in August last year to
describe currencies that are particularly vulnerable because of their
dependence on foreign investment to fund current account deficits.
The new name, as coined by a little-known research analyst at Morgan
Stanley last summer, identifies Turkey, Brazil, India, South Africa and
Indonesia as economies that have become too dependent on skittish
foreign investment to finance their growth ambitions. FITB
Q 30

65. Fragile Five

66. In 2008, it was the world’s second largest refugee-
hosting country. By 2013, it was the world’s second
largest refugee-producing country that most
dramatically illustrates how quickly a country’s fate
can be upended by civil war. Which country?
Q 31

67. Syria

68. _____ Syndrome is a term of Japanese origin, which refers to
an isolated development branch of a globally available
product.
The term was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile
phones, which had developed a large number of specialized
features and dominated Japan, but were unsuccessful abroad.
The term arose as part of the dialog about Japan's position as
an island nation, and related anxiety about being isolated
from the world at large. The term has since been used for
similar phenomena in other markets
Q 32

69. Galapagos Syndrome

70. This is the term used to describe the greater-than-usual
level of bravado and the tendency to go beyond one's
usual physical limits exhibited by people who are being
photographed or filmed.
Q 33

71. Kodak Courage

72. In Psychology this refers to the belief that married men are more
desirable to women.
The belief says that this effect occurs because:
# A man who is married has already demonstrated the ability to
commit to a long-term relationship
# Another woman has found him desirable enough to make him her
long-term mate, making him appear all the more desirable
Name this effect.
Q 34

73. Wedding Ring Effect

74. These are the only two countries with no historical ties
with Britain that have become members of the
Commonwealth. One of these countries joined
because they wanted to change the medium of
education to English. The other country has been a
answer to a question in many quizzes.
Name both the countries.
Q 35

75. Rwanda & Mozambique