bqc general quiz, sep 11

El GénéralMukund Sridhar

Sep 11, 2011 l

Etymology

Alcohol

Football

History

Geography

Pop culture (comix, music, movies)

Africa

South America

US and Rest of Europe

Scotland

Germany

Area split Geographic split

SIZES OF SLICES NOT ILLUSTRATIVE OF ACTUAL CONTENT

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Contents

▪ Name, Place… (8 qns)

▪ SVC – 1 (6 visuals)

▪ 10 mark questions (15 qns clockwise)

▪ Fill in the blanks (11 blanks)

▪ SVC – 2 (3 sets of visuals)

▪ 10 mark questions (15 qns anticlockwise)

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In the following 8 slides, you will find statues of famous people located in places intimately connected with them

All you have to do is identify the person (5 points) and the place (5 more)

There may be additional clues on slides pointing to the person and/or place

20 bonus points for getting all 16 answers right

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Non-exhaustive short visual connect with photographs of 6 people

Looking for a 2 word phrase or its equivalent, no ambiguity will be tolerated

Points schedule:+ 14, -7+ 12, -6+ 10, -5+ 8, -4+ 6, -2+4, no negs

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Dual internationalists in football

▪ Andrei Kanchelskis (USSR, CIS and Russia) –representative of several such footballers

▪ Pascal Chimbonda: Guadelupe and France

▪ Ferenc Puskas: Hungary and Spain

▪ Alfredo Di Stefano: Spain, Argentina and Colombia

▪ Robert Prosinecki: Yugoslavia and Croatia (representative of several other Yugoslav players)

▪ Matthias Sammer: East Germany and Germany (other examples like Ulf Kirsten etc exist)

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Term 1 is a portmanteau of 2 distinct terms and characterizes the style of sophisticated close-quarters action seen in ‘Heroic Bloodshed’ Hong Kong cinema. The focus here is both style and the usage of firearms in ways that they were not designed to be used. Firing from each hand, shots from behind

the back, as well as the use of firearms as melee weapons are all common.

Term 2 is similar to Term 1 (one word in common) and is differentiated by a focus on rote memorization, instead of feats of pure reflex. Through repeated

simulations and practice, practitioners are able to fire at their attacker's position, while moving out of their attacker's most likely return fire trajectory –this is most clearly seen in director Kurt Wimmer’s ‘Equilibrium’ and ‘Ultraviolet’

Get both terms for full points.

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2 Album 1: Makes its first appearance on the debut album as a

demoralized, slouching figure; fans saw it as a personification of the artist and what he was trying to convey with the album. Soon it also became the

official brand logo on clothes sold in the artist’s online store.

Album 2: Entering the university on the front cover, it wanders its hallways, sits in empty lecture halls, and reads multiple library books

before departing from the institution the same way it came in on the back cover.

Album 3: The story begins on a rainy day with it running out of its

apartment to the car, modeled after a DeLorean. When the car's engine dies, it attempts to hail a cab but it speeds right past him, soaking him

with puddle water; it then tries to get onto a metro rail but just misses it as it pulls away. With no other options, it races down sidewalks populated

with multi-eyed, living mushrooms and is pursued by a monstrous rain cloud that attempts to swallow it whole. Eventually, it arrives at the

university and stands before his colleagues. The story concludes with it being catapulted from the university into the sky on the back cover.

What is it?

West’

‘Dro

Bear’

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3 Connect the following

(In chronological order)▪ Miles Davis

▪ Malcolm X▪ Muhammad Ali

▪ Martin Luther King, Jr▪ George Lincoln Rockwell

▪ Sammy Davis, Jr.▪ Johnny Carson

▪ Jim Brown▪ Quincy Jones

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Stretching from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (ca 13th–17th centuries), this was created to protect commercial interests and privileges granted by foreign rulers in cities and countries visited by merchants. Cities within its ambit had their own legal system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid. Despite this, it was not a city-state, nor can it be called a confederation of city-states.

Its legacy is remembered today in the form of names of a large company, in flags and even in names of football clubs. 3 large German cities continue to style themselves officially as "Free ________ Cities”.

What is the name of this group, the company, the club and the 3 cities?

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This was a term used most often in the murder of a commanding officer (C.O.) or a senior noncommissioned officer perceived as unpopular, harsh,

inept or overzealous. As wars dragged on, soldiers became less keen to go into harm's way and preferred leaders with a similar sense of self-

preservation. This was also common if a commander freely took ondangerous or suicidal missions, especially if he was seeking glory for

himself. Sometimes warnings would be given to the target by placing a grenade pin on his bed.

Underground GI newspapers sometimes listed bounties offered by units

against unpopular commanding officers. Throughout Vietnam, there were 230 documented cases as many as 1,400 other officers' deaths could not be

explained. Between 1970 and 1971 alone, there were 363 cases of "assault with explosive devices" against officers in Vietnam.

What is the term used for this and how did it originate?

issecti

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7Evolving out of the norteño folk tradition, this can be heard on both sides of the US–Mexican border, using a danceable, accordion-based polka as a

rhythmic base. Known as the Hispanic equivalent of Gangster Rap, this tradition is said to date back to the 1930s when the underlying events first

began.

Like rap/hip-hop and other genres, they describe the lives of the poor, destitute and helpless, particularly those who seek power in a violent manner.

However, what is amusing about them is that lyrics mostly refer to specific events and people and include real dates and places, often at the express

request of customers who commission them to commemorate their acts.

Elijah Wald, a former blues guitarist who has written a book on them says: "The first thing a ___ ______ would do after a successful run was to hire

someone to write a _______ _____about it”

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The more urbanized younger citizens of this country (half the population is

under 20, by the way) refer to their nation as “______” or “____”, slang terms that imply a love of “the food, the flamboyant dressing, the mannerisms, the boisterous—some say loud—interaction among complete strangers”. While youngsters sprinkle their conversation with this phrase and bandy it about as a

symbol of their passionate patriotism, elders have tried to ban these terms, citing them as plain embarrassing.

The terms themselves are derived from the pidginized version of their nation’s

name in English, the language that holds disparate parts of the country together.

The country’s large film industry and advertising firms wrap themselves in this

feeling, coating their advertisements liberally with a dose of “____-ness”. Etisalat, a leading mobile-phone carrier whose local numbers begin with “0809”, has branded itself “0809ja”, trying to cash in on a youthful image.

Which country and what terms?

Naija/9

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Ruler of most of India between 1719 and 1748, history’s judgment of this

man is bipolar. While some say he was a gifted administrator who promoted the arts, detractors say he spent most of his reign in a drug-induced haze. In

any case, he was a wily survivor whose reign witnessed among other things:▪ Institution of Urdu as a court language & the abandonment of traditional

Timurid dress in court▪ The popularization of the Khayal as a musical form

▪ Significant losses of territory and authority to the Marathas, who at one point occupied Delhi and let him continue ruling as a puppet

▪ The worst sack of Delhi in history, with the invaders departing after puzzlingly leaving him alive and in fact, re-crowning him Emperor

He is said to have died of ‘sorrow’ (most likely consumption) in 1748 when

his prime minister died on the battlefield after successfully staving off yet another (Afghan) invasion. He lies buried at the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya

in Delhi.

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In 1918, founders proclaimed a new secular republic, naming it the

___________ Democratic Republic, __________ being a term that originated from pre-Islamic history, derived from the name of a local satrap.

However, Soviet expansionists brutally annexed it barely two years later.

Although the proclamation restricted its claim to historically undisputed territory, the use of that particular name would soon bring objections from a

neighboring country, inflamed that this was a device for detaching one of its provinces, which had a significant minority that it thought was loyal to

____________.

Today in modern times, the name ___________ is used to denote both the republic and the north-western provinces of the neighboring country, which

are East __________, West _________, Ardabil, and Zanjan. However, the nomenclature South _________ is used by some politicians in the Republic

of __________ and groups advocating separatism of East and West __________ to provoke hostile reactions and inflame public sentiments.

Which 2 countries?

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11. One-word connect

Hermann Heights monument, New Ulm, Minnesota

Monument at _________ ______, Germany

Logo of the sporting club of the city of Bielefeld, Germany

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Arminius▪ Hero of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest▪ Arminia Bielefeld▪ The Herrmann memorials in Germany and the

US (Arminius is Latin for Herrmann)

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Since 1936, this event has been held annually in the first week of July between the two teams. The tournament is held in a spectacular venue at an elevation of 3,700 meters. The event also includes Folk music, dancing and a camping village is set up.

The 2 teams have always played the sport closest to its original form. What is interesting is that there are no umpires and there are no holds barred, i.e. there are no rules. In order to decide the final teams, preliminary matches are played in both

local leagues to select the best players. The final game itself is divided into two halves, with a 10 minute interval.

This year, Prince William and Kate Middleton were formally invited to attend the

event, with a letter written to them stating that “In 1997 the HRH Duke of Edinburgh flew in especially to witness the event and give away the Duke of Edinburgh cup which still adorns the reception counter of a local hotel”

Name the event and the 2 teams

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Originally developed in 1950 by Laboratoire Dauphinois d'Hydraulique in

Grenoble, France, this was a patented product purchased by several cities and governments. It is no longer protected by a patent, and is widely used

all over the world and produced by many contractors.

This product has inspired several variants, including the Modified Cube (U.S., 1959), the Stabit (U.K., 1961), the Akmon (Netherlands, 1962), the

Dolos (South Africa, 1963), the Seabee (Australia, 1978), the Accropode(France, 1981), the Hollow Cube (Germany, 1991), the A-jack (U.S., 1998),

and the Xbloc (Netherlands, 2001), among others.

However, they have also come in for heavy criticism; detractors say they have been shown to offer little advantage compared to other armour units,

instead becoming eyesores.

What product and why is it relevant for us?

Bill B

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Several possible origins of this name:

▪ Association with the City of ________, and the supposed endorsement of the fourth Earl of __________ (1730–1803), who spent much of his life

traveling Europe, demanding high standards of hospitality.

▪ Another suggestion is that the city of _________ was "where the concept of modern hotels was born when, for the first time, an inn separated customers

from their horses and created rooms for customers and special spaces for horses".

▪ The name may have become popular in part because ‘________' is easy to

say in any language, even when transliterated into Cyrillic

It is, however, hard to discover this name before 1870. About 150 by this name remain today, mostly in France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany and one in

________ itself.

What are we talking about?

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11 blanks (A to K), contained in 2 separate but connected paragraphs

2 points per blank, 8 point bonus if you get all blanks correct

Fill in the blanks

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For a product to be labeled ____A____ , it must be aged in oak barrels for at least

three years. Historically, casks previously used for ___B____ were used (because

casks were expensive, and second-hand ____B____ casks were readily available

due to exports from Jerez in Spain. In fact, ___B___ is an anglicization of Jerez).

Today, ___C____ production is a nearly inexhaustible generator of second-hand

barrels for the ___A___ trade, due to a regulation requiring the use of only new,

freshly charred oak barrels in the maturation of __C__.

Historically, the production of ___A___ was restricted to only 4 recognized regions:

•___D___ and ___E___ (where ___D___ and ___E___ are geographical opposites)

•___F___ (named after the southernmost Inner Hebridean islands, famous for the

distinctive flavour of peat in all its products)

•___G___ (named after a clan, this region temporarily lost its status as a

recognized region because all but 3 local production centres shut down due to US

prohibition and the Great Depression, but has since regained recognized status)

Recently, another region has emerged with recognized status:

• ___H___, named after a river, this area has the maximum concentration of

distilleries in the whole country

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The reason ____A___ became popular was quite peculiar: it was the event known

as The Great French Wine ___I___, (I being the generic term for rapid and

complete chlorosis of plants under attack from pathogenic organisms).

This event devastated the French economy for 15 years, with the French

government offering 320,000 francs as a prize for anyone who could fix the issue –

Leo Laliman solved the problem by _________J_________, which permanently

changed the taste of French (or even European) wine forever. However, the French refused to give him the prize, insinuating he could have been the cause for

the problem in the first place.

There is only 1 root stock of grape wine in Europe that is immune from this problem:

One of them grows on the volcanic Greek island of ____K____, (K is the caldera of

one of the most gigantic explosions in human history) which where it is speculated that the immunity comes from the volcanic ash in which the vine grows

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▪ A: Scotch

▪ B: Sherry

▪ C: Bourbon

▪ D: Highland

▪ E: Lowland

▪ F: Islay

▪ G: Campbeltown

▪ H: Speyside

▪ I: Blight

▪ J: Grafting American rootstock to French vines▪ K: Santorini

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Non-exhaustive short visual connect with different sets of items

Points schedule:+ 6, -3+ 4, -2+ 2, no negs

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Traditional brands that became popular in the US after being frequently name-dropped in hip-hop

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Nicknames of African Football teams

Egypt – The Pharaohs

Sudan – Desert Hawks

Zambia – Copper Bullets

South Africa – BafanaBafana

Angola – Black Antelopes

Morocco – Lions of the Atlas

Senegal – Lions of Teranga

Ghana – Black Stars

Cote D Ivoire– The Elephants

Benin –The Squirrels

Cameroon –Indomitable Lions

Tunisia – Eagles of Carthage

Nigeria –Super Eagles

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The earliest form of this was between Paderborn and Le Mans in 836 AD. The first recorded modern one was between Keighley and Poix-du-Nord in 1920 following the end of World War I.

The practice was continued after the WW2 as a way to push through cross-border projects of mutual benefit. For example, Coventry did this with Volgograd and with Dresden, all three cities having been heavily bombed

during the war. This practice implies representation in a specific ward of the city and a garden dedicated to the arrangement in each ward.

Within Europe, this program has an annual budget of about 12 million euros,

allocated to about 1,300 projects.

The phrase “X Y" is sometimes used to refer to an informal version of the above practice without a formal agreement on the basis of culture alone.

What practice? What are X Y?

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List of the 50 largest country subdivisions by area (including surface water)

809,444AustraliaState of New South Wales20

906,807BrazilState of Mato Grosso19

948,596CanadaProvince of British Columbia18

1,043,514AustraliaState of South Australia17

1,076,395CanadaProvince of Ontario16

1,183,000ChinaInner Mongolia Autonomous Region15

1,228,400ChinaTibet Autonomous Region14

1,253,164BrazilState of Pará13

1,346,106CanadaNorthwest Territories12

1,420,968AustraliaNorthern Territory11

1,542,056CanadaProvince of Quebec10

1,570,947BrazilState of Amazonas9

1,660,000ChinaXinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region8

1,717,854United StatesState of Alaska7

1,852,642AustraliaState of Queensland6

2,093,190CanadaTerritory of Nunavut5

2,166,086DenmarkGreenland4

2,339,700RussiaKrasnoyarsk Krai3

2,645,615AustraliaState of Western Australia2

3,103,200RussiaSakha Republic1

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Derived from the Spanish for “watchman,” and even deeper from a Latin word (early 13c) first used to indicate

“keeping awake on the eve of a religious festival" (an

occasion for devotional watching or observance)

First used in 1824 in a Missouri context, where ______

committees kept informal rough order on the frontier or in

other places where official authority was imperfect.

Now commonly used in law enforcement in a pejorative

context.

What word?

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5Around 1830, a London merchant received a letter talking about some fabric; the London merchant misinterpreted the handwriting, understanding it to be a trade-name taken from a river that flows in that area. Subsequently the product was advertised as such and the name remained ever since.

During the economic difficulties of the potato famine of 1846-7, the Countess of Dunmore recognized its sales potential, localized production to one geographical area (which was prefixed to the fabric’s name) and sought to

widen the market by removing irregularities caused by dyeing, spinning and weaving (all done by hand) in order to bring it in line with machine-made cloth, which resulted in increased sales and a cult following.

In 2004 the American company Nike used the fabric to produce limited edition runs of retro trainers originally released in the 1980s. The fictional character Robert Langdon wears this, as does Miss Marple and Doctor Who.

Vivienne Westwood is a big fan - her brand logo is very similar to the product’s logo. The product pursued a long-running legal case to stop her using the trade mark but Westwood won by being able to point to three minor differences between her logo and the product’s.

What cult fabric/product/brand?

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6 Put fundaes

1. Senegambia: 4.8%

2. Upper Guinea (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and

Sierra Leone): 4.1%

3. Windward Coast (Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire):

4. Gold Coast (Ghana and east of Côte d'Ivoire):

5. Bight of Benin (Togo, Benin and Nigeria west

of the Niger Delta): 20.2%

6. Bight of Biafra (Nigeria east of the Niger

Delta, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and

Gabon): 14.6%

7. West Central Africa (Republic of Congo,

Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola):

8. Southeastern Africa (Mozambique and

Madagascar): 4.7%

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These were the eight principal areas used by Europeans to buy

and ship slaves to the Western Hemisphere

Between 1650 and 1900, 10.24

million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas from the following regions in the above proportions

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Humorous units of measurement

1 Wheaton – 500,000 twitter followers

1 Sagan – 4 billion 1 Warhol – 15 minutes of fame

1 Fonzie - Coolness measured by Fonziescreentime in an episode

1 Friedman - 6 months into the future

1 Helen - 1186 ships worth of beauty

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Headquartered in Kolkata, this organization comprises 40 factories,

nine training institutes, three Regional Marketing Centres and four Regional Controllers of Safety.

Main events in its evolution can be listed as below:

1801 - Establishment of Gun Carriage Agency at Cossipore, Kolkata

1802 - Production started from 18th March 1802 at Cossipore1906 - Administration came under a separate charge under an

Inspector General1948 - Placed under direct control of Ministry of Defence

1962 - Dept. of Defence Production was set up at Ministry of Defence

Which agency?

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Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), supplier of arms to the Indian armed forces – has cult status for its full-page ads that come only twice a year on Independence Day and Republic Day

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▪ Product A: was a (licensed) knockoff of a legendary Japanese

product; it was marketed in India under a different brand name – in fact, the public misunderstood the original name of the product to be a

derivative of the Indian brand. It was introduced into India to squarely compete against 2 European brands (B & C). However, plagued by a

poor service network and inconsistent performance, it lost commercial appeal; the last one was sold in 1991

▪ Product B: Based on an award-winning Central European design, this

product was made in Mysore and achieved a cult following in India from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. In fact, one of its components was so

powerful that resourceful Indian entrepreneurs began cannibalizing it for other purposes; the origin of the Indian brand name is unclear,

though there is a hypothesis that it was named after the ancestral homeland of its Indian manufacturers

Name products A and B

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11Sumerian texts repeatedly refer to three important centers with which they traded: Magan, Dilmun, and X.

▪ Magan is usually identified with Egypt or Oman

▪ Dilmun was a trade distribution center for goods originating that might be in

islands of Bahrain, Eastern Province (Saudi Arabia), Oman, or the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf

▪ The location of X, however, is hotly debated: Two theories emerged:

– One school suggesting that X is the Sumerian name for Y– Another suggests that X was a neighbor to Egypt and could be the

ancient civilization of Punt (modern day Somaliland & Puntland)

What are X and Y?

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Melissa Cross is a voice teacher from New York City. Though her background lies in traditional opera, she is the creator of

The Zen of _______ Instructional DVD series.

Melissa Cross' first DVD was called "The Zen of ________: Vocal Instruction for a New Breed." Her second DVD was titled

"The Zen of ________ 2" and expanded on the instruction

found in the first DVD.

Students include Rob Flynn, Corey Taylor, Randy Blythe,

Brian Fair.

What does Melissa Cross do exactly?

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Screaming!

Teaches extreme metal vocalists to scream/screech without permanently damaging their vocal cords

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2 separate but similar-sounding political terms - Identify

The most famous political club of the French Revolution, so-named

because of the Dominican convent where they met, located in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. At the height of its influence, there

were thousands of chapters throughout France. The club shut down after the fall of its most famous leader.

Initially moderate, the club later became notorious for its violent and vindictive rule over France.

To this day, it is a synonym for left-wing revolutionary politics.

Political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of

Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland. The

movement took its name from the Latin for James.

It was a response to the deposing

of James II and VII in 1688, when he was replaced by his daughter Mary II jointly with her husband and first cousin William of Orange.

The Stuarts lived on the European mainland after that, occasionally attempting to regain the throne with the aid of France and Spain.

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Jacobins – the ‘ou la mort’ was dropped from the French motto after the end of the Reign of Terror

Jacobites – who wanted to get King James (Jacobus in Latin) back to power

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▪ Over history, this symbol has represented many of the following things:

– Dual sovereignty of the emperor (secular and religious)

– Dominance of the Byzantine emperor over both East and West

– The church and the state

▪ Origins lie in the Byzantines symbolically moving away from their Roman

predecessors; after the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantines, they took

over this symbol – today it features in the logo of the Turkish police,

Ataturk University and several Turkish football teams

▪ From Byzantium, this also spread eastward to all Slavic and Orthodox

states, most prominently Russia

▪ Seen on several flags, football team crests, royal coat of arms, army

regimental signs and surprisingly in the logo of a state government in

India!

What symbol?

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The Double Headed Eagle

Albania

Serbia

Russian Federation

AEK Athens

Govt of Karnataka

Greek Orthodox Church

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15 Complete these 3 famous gatefold album covers (all 3 for full, 2 at least for 5 points) – albums are unconnected (1/2)

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15 Complete these 3 famous gatefold album covers (all 3 for full, 2 at least for 5 points) – albums are unconnected (2/2)

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Almost-exhaustive short visual connect

Points schedule:+ 14, -7+ 12, -6+ 10, -5+ 8, -4+ 6, -2+4, no negs

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South American national football derbies

▪ Simon Bolivar derby: Venezuela Vs Colombia

▪ Pacifico derby: Peru Vs Chile

▪ Andean derby: Peru Vs Ecuador

▪ Tricolour derby/The Yellow War: Ecuador Vs Colombia

▪ Rio De La Plata derby: Argentina Vs Uruguay

▪ Battle of the South Americans: Argentina Vs Brazil

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