LitSoc Buzzer Quiz 2012

Rules
Select a topic. Choose your opponent. 3 questions. +10/-10 +20 if the challenger wins. -10 to the losing challenger. The challenged team gets 20 points.

Choose your poison

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Science Fiction

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

William Hartnell Patrick Troughton Jon Pertwee Tom Baker Peter Davison Colin Baker Sylvester McCoy Paul McGann Christopher Eccleston David Tennant Matt Smith

ID the list.
Matt Smith is the youngest person to be on this list. He was born after the list was created. What post have all these people filled?

The Doctor

Jack and the beanstalk when Russian scientist This concept arose in 1895

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky saw the Eiffel tower and envisioned something much larger. The early designs were, like normal buildings, supported under compression, but the more recent designs are all under tensile stress. This idea was made popular by the publication of Arthur C. Clarkes novel, The Fountains of Paradise, which involves the construction of one of these in a country similar to Sri Lanka. Of late, it has been suggested that carbon nanotubes would be a good material to construct one of these.

Space elevator

Philip K. Dicks novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? follows a bounty hunter as he hunts down six fugitives whom we can differentiate from normal human beings by their lack of empathy. One of the most famous notions of the novel is the Voight-Kampff test, one of the few tools the protagonist has to distinguish between the fugitives and normal people. Name its movie adaptation, which is today considered to be one of the prime examples of the Tech-Noir genre.

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Nobel Prizes

The emperor of Antarctica

In 1950, he earned a doctorate after submitting a 28page dissertation on non-cooperative games. His son, who shares the same first and last name, was born when he was hospitalised. He remained nameless for a year since his wife felt that he should have a say in his sons name. In his biopic, he is shown making a teary acceptance speech at the Nobel ceremony, but this did not happen in real life due to concerns over his unstable mental health. ID this man.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Author, poet, philologist. ID.

Xs most famous work, which has been called the UKs best-loved book was intended to be an environmentalist fable. He was nominated by a fellow author and close friend of his for the Literature prize in 1961, along with Robert Frost, EM Forster, and Graham Greene. The prize eventually went to the Yugoslavian writer Ivo Andri. X was not awarded the prize since his storytelling "has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality, causing many to accuse the Nobel academy of snobbery.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Who is he and which prize did he win?

He was the first person to be made an Honourary Citizen of the United States. His mother was an American socialite and his father belonged to the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. He joined the army and saw action in British India, Sudan, and in the Second Boer war and became famous as a war correspondent and journalist. He was one of the first to realise the dangers that Nazism posed. In a 2002 poll, he was named the Greatest Briton of all time.

Winston Churchill / Literature

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Teh Interwebs

The home of all memes

It was originally a message board for anime enthusiasts. This website is most famous for the internet activism its users engaged in. Their most famous campaigns have been against the MPAA, RIAA and the church of Scientology. However, their most popular contributions to the internet have been lolcats, rickrolling and pedobear.

4chan


The name of this website was inspired by a poem written 800 years ago during the Song dynasty, which compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. The name literally means hundreds of times, and is similar in meaning to that of its main competitor. It is the most popular website offering this service in China.

Baidu

Explain.

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Capital
Business

What did he do twice?

Victor Lustig is a conman who is most famous for accomplishing this con not just once, but twice. The list of people he has scammed include Al Capone. After reading an article about how costly it was to maintain the _____, he made fake government stationery and invited six scrap metal dealers to bid on ____, one of whom untimately purchased it from him. Returning to the city a month later, he repeated this stunt with six other businessmen, but couldnt finish the deal as his victim went to the police.

Selling the Eiffel tower

 The name of this company is a portmanteau of the surnames of the founder Marcus _______ and his son-inlaw Samuel _____. Former employees include Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, as well as Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of Canada since 2008. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious investment banks in the world, but has sparked a great deal of controversy over alleged improper practices, especially since the 20072012 global financial crisis. Simply name this company.

The ____ scheme was not invented by Charles _____ contrary to popular belief. Similar schemes appeared in Charles Dickens 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewitt and 1857 novel Little Dorrit . But it was popularized in 1920 after Charles _____ made nearly $420,000 by defrauding investors. The _____ scheme usually entices new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent.

Ponzi Scheme

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Hard rockget a pick!

Metal and rock music

ID X.
___X___ is a feminist punk-rock collective based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it consists of approximately 12 members, who wear brightly coloured balaclavas and use only nicknames during interviews. On February 21, 2012, five members of the group staged an illegal performance at Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour after which three members were arrested, tried and sentenced to seven years. Most of their song lyrics are anti- ____ which is why the band has been accused of being anti nationalist by the government.

Pussy Riot

Ronnie James Dios Italian grandmother used to use the ______ to ward off the evil eye (malocchio). ______became famous in metal concerts very soon after Black Sabbath's first tour with Dio. ________would later be appropriated by heavy metal fans under the name maloik, a corruption of the original malocchio.

Sign of the horns

The names of the original members of the band were originally created by combining the first name of an iconic female sex symbol and the last name of an infamous murderer. The lead singer shares his stage name with the bands name and is derived from the names of a very famous 1960s female sex icon, and spree killer Charles _____ who started the notorious ____ family.

ID the band.

Marilyn Manson

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Geography

 A magnetic hill is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an unusual optical illusion . In bicycle racing, such regions are known as "false flats. ID the unusual phenomenon.

Objects appear to move against gravity

What do they have in common?

Vessel/Aircraft USS Cyclops SS Cotopaxi USS Proteus SS Marine Sulphur Queen Flight 19 G-AHNP Star Tiger Douglas DC-3 NC16002 Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel Port of departure Barbados Charleston, South Carolina St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Beaumont, Texas Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida Santa Maria Airport,Azores San Juan, Puerto Rico Kindley Field,Bermuda

Intended destination Baltimore,Maryland Havana, Cuba (routine exercise) Kindley field,Bermuda Miami Kingston Airport, Jamaica

They were all lost in the Bermuda triangle

ID X.
______ is a designer of planets ,and designed many planets including the Earth. His favourite part of the job is creating coastlines, the most notable is the coast of Norway on planet Earth, for which he won an award. When Earth Mk. II is being made, ______ is assigned to the continent of Africa. He is unhappy about this because he wants to make more ___X___ (arguing that they give a continent a baroque feel), and ___X___ in Africa would be hard for him to explain without natural glacial movement.

Fjords

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Hop, skip, and jump

Olympics

Connect.

Flying Finn

 X shooting was held during the 1900 Olympics at Paris. The Xs were released in front of a participant and the winner was the competitor who shot down the most Xs from the sky. The participant was eliminated once they missed two Xs. Animal rights campaigns were mounted against X shooting. In 1902 bans came into force in the United States leading to the introduction of Y. Belgian Leon Lunden shot twenty-one X's on his way to the championship. Give us X and Y.

Live pigeons/Clay pigeons

During the Winter olympics, on 22nd February 1980, at the Olympic Centre in Lake Placid, New York, sportscaster Al Michaels, who was calling the game on ABC delivered his famous call: 11 seconds, you've got 10 seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow, up to Silk. Five seconds left in the game. Do you believe in miracles? YES! This event was described as the 20th centurys greatest sporting moments by Sports Illustrated. What was it?


Miracle on ice The United States team defeated the Soviet team, who had won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament since 1954.

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TV Shows

ID the show.

 __X___was originally to be called The Gimp referring to the use of gimp suits in BDSM sexual role-playing. But Perry McCarthy who was the first to play the ___X_ protested and the name was changed. The name derives from the show hosts time at the private Repton School, where new boys had always been called _X__. Ben Collins was the second person to play the __X_ but was sacked in 2010 for disclosing the identity of the __X__. Some say X is the answer ..

The Stig

Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by ___X____ . The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer. ___X___ is better known for his surrealist films which have given rise to the term ______ after his name.

David Lynch

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