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The 30 positions

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Chinmay & Jitaditya

30 positions, Round I

1. Identify X

• Among X’s ancestor were an explorer, an inventor (of Telescope), an author of the constitution of the community, Inventor of the first electromagnet, and father of architecture.

• X himself is a renowned scientist, having invention of the Hovercar, Discovery of a parallel plane and a device to enter it, to his credit.

Hint:

• Hint: Terrence Stamp played X in the popular television serial Smallville.

AND THE ANSWER IS…

Answer

• Jor-El (Father of Superman)

2. Identify the movie

• Based on Novel by James Michener, this movie, dealing with racism and prejudice, is about an ace American Air Force pilot in the Korean War. When asked what he would say to the Japanese and US AF which would not approve his wedding, he says, “Tell them I said ___”

• Won four Oscars from 10 nominations.

Answer

• Sayonara

3. Identify

• A leading figure in the Mexican revolution, he is famous for his work on agrarian rights. Some of his famous quotes are:

• "Seek justice from tyrants not with your hat in your hand, but with a rifle in your fist."

• "I wish to die a slave to principles, not to men."

Answers:

• Emiliano Zapata

4.

• Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.

• Largely autobiographical, the story details an incident when an Englishman took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. He is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, an ivory trader with a reputation, to civilization in a cover up.

Answer:

• Heart of Darkness

5. Identify

• This western released in 1961, was originally planned to be directed by Stanley Kubrick who was later fired due to creative differences. When it was finally completed, it had little resemblance to the original Charles Neider novel.

• Although not a very famous one, this film is believed to have inspired the double-sided coin that Jai uses in Sholay.

Answer

• One-Eyed Jack

6. Identify

• The tram shown in the photograph is a sample of what originally used to run from 1920-48 in New Orleans and which was immortalized by Pulitzer winning play in 1947

• Just identify

Answer

• Streetcar Named Desire

• Clue from the 1st Round: Brando

30 positions, Round II

1. What is it?

• In 1961, Psychologist Karl Peglau designed a version of this ubiquitous device so as to aid children, aged, illiterate and particularly, color blind population, to go about their business safely while moving in the city. The version designed by Peglau, adopted after moderate changes, is still one of the fondly remembered legacies of the area.

• Merchandise involving key part of this device have become so popular as to lead to a case over marketing rights.

• Identify what I am talking about.

Answer

• Traffic Lights- Ampelmännchen

2. Name the institution • In 2006, this institution was founded in 1882 by 54 musicians under

the name Frühere Bilsesche Kapelle (literal translation, "Former Bilse's Band"); the group broke away after their previous conductor Benjamin Bilse announced his intention of taking the band on a fourth class train to Warsaw for a concert. It was given its current name and reorganized under the financial management of Hermann Wolff in 1887. Its reputation was enhanced greatly when Hans von Bülow, one of the most esteemed conductors in the world, joined in 1887., Guests like Hans Richter, Felix von Weingartner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms and Edvard Grieg were involved with the institution over the next few years. Programmes of this period show, surprisingly, that the orchestra possessed only 46 strings as against the Wagnerian ideal of 64.

• In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the for it as number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

• What institution?

Answer

• The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

• The funding for the organization is subsidized by the city of Berlin and a partnership with Deutsche Bank.

3. What is the context?A visiting ‘royalty’ ensured lasting notoriety for himself at this spot. Who and how?

Answer

• Michael Joseph Jackson, King of Pop and founder of Neverland

4. Pray, who?

King of Prussia, foremost king of his time, an inspiration for Hitler and popularly known for correspondence with Voltaire… who is being described?

Answer

• Frederick the Great

5. What is the memorial dedicated to?

This memorial was created to commemorate one of the lasting scars of World War II. It was erected in 2004 and was brought down in (after 10 months) 2005 when the organization overseeing it could not pay the lease for the real-estate. There are a total of 1067 crosses which have been preserved for a day when they could be re-erected.

Answer

• Check-point Charlie memorial, dedicated to people who were killed while attempting to cross the wall.

6. Which side of Berlin wall are we looking at?

Answer

• The wall was in the territory of the eastern block and therefore, western administration did not bother to stop people from graffiti or even relieving themselves on the wall.

• Clue from the 2nd Round: Berlin

30 Positions Round III

1.

• The term was first used by Joseph Goebbels, in a manifesto he published in the German newspaper Das Reich in February 1945, but was popularized by Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" speech of March 5, 1946

• What term?

Answer

• Iron Curtain

2. Identify

• The flag shown here is that of a country which which annexed its neighbour in 1195 and ruled it until 1275, when Baron Almaszout drove them away. Identify

Answer

• Borduria (The oppressed one being Syldavia)

3.

• It is officially known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. It existed between May 14, 1955 and 1 July 1991. Vaclav Havel (the former President of Czechoslovakia) counts the dissolution as his greatest accomplishment, according to his 2007 memoir To The Castle and Back. How do we better know this treaty?

Answer

• Warshaw Pact

4.

• Ivan III Vasilevich was known as "gatherer of the Russian lands", he tripled the territory of his state and laid the foundations of the Russian state. He was popularly known as Albus Rex, a name which inspired the name of certain “movement” more than four centuries later. Which “movement”?

Answer

• The White Resistance to oppose the Reds– Albus Rex= White Tsar

5.

• It was a period of political reforms began on January 5, 1968, when reformist Slovak Alexander Dubček came to power, and continued until August 21 when it was invaded by its former allies to halt the proceedings. It has become immortalized in literature such as Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. How do we know this certain period of time in a certain country?

Answer

• Prague Spring

6. Which event?

Answer

• “Blood in the water" match between USSR & Hungary in 1956 Olympics– Documentary Freedom's Fury– Mark Spitz, provided voice for the

documentary and was also coached by Zador – Ervin Zador, the guy who was beaten up– 1956 melbourne olympics logo.

• Clue from the 3rd Round: Communist Bloc

30 PositionsRound IV

1. Connect

Answer

• Laika– Her picture– Sputnik 2– This soil variety on mars found by Mars

Explorer has been named ‘Laika’ after her– Mars explorer

2. Identify• This movie holds the record for the largest

number of zero gravity wires in one scene.

Answer

• Moonraker

• Q: "I think he's attempting re-entry, Sir!“

3.

• Explorer 1, officially Satellite 1958 Alpha, was the first Earth artificial satellite of the United States. On the July 29, 1958, US President Eisenhower signed an act that effectively marked a new era in science. However this act ensured that satellites like Explorer were not possible anymore. What was so unique about Explorer 1

Answer

• The only US government sponsored space mission not launched by NASA. (Launched on 31st Jan. 1958, 10:48 pm, EST). The act created NASA in July 1958.

4. Identify

Unnamed enemies (clearly understood at the time to be the Soviets) are sabotaging the American space program, and unless the West beats them to the moon, they will establish a strategic advantage to conquer the world.

Answer

• Destination Moon

5. Connect: Effectively ended an era

Answer

• The Apollo-Soyuz mission, first joint mission between USA and the USSR

• Clue from the 4th Round: Space Race

INDIVIDUALS CLUES

1.

• Pierre Boulle was a French engineer who worked as a technician on British rubber plantations in Malaya. After the war he started writing novels to support himself. Although he has written several books he is primarily famous for X and Planet of the Apes which were also made into successful Oscar winning movies. So identify X.

Answer

• Bridge on the river Kwai

2. What comes in between?

Answer

• Ben Hur– All time American Best Sellers– Ben Hur broke the record of Uncle Tom’s

Cabin, which was in turn broken by Gone With the Wind

Answer

• Einstein– Persistence of memory was inspired by theory

of relativity. Dali painted soft clock to show flexibility of time

– the 1919 solar eclipse provided the much needed practical evidence for it

– Walter Matthou who played Einstein in the movie IQ

– SN Bose worked under him. Bose-Einstein constant was named after them...

• During filming, this movie was referred to as "Production 9401" or "Wimpy". The latter name came from the second-unit cameraman on the picture Rex Wimpy who appeared on clapboards and production sheets, and some on-the-set stills

• It was made in b/w as the director thought if so many bad, inexpensively made, b/w "B" movies did so well at the box office, what would happen if a really good, inexpensively made, b/w movie was made. Identify

4.

Answer

• Psycho

5. Identify the drug

Chiefly sold and prescribed during the late 1950s and early 1960s to pregnant women, as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and as an aid to help them sleep. Before its release, inadequate tests were performed to assess the drug's safety, with catastrophic results for the children of women who had taken it during their pregnancies.

Answer

• Thalidomide

Identify

• Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO (Lawrence of Arabia)

6. Connect

Answer

• The Catcher in the Rye – William Holden & Joan Caulfield in the movie Dear

Ruth, from where the name Holden Caulfield comes – Nicola Coppola somehow managed to get an

autograph from the reclusive author who hadn't given any interview since the 80’s. It was just to impress his crush Patricia Arquette.

– Mark David Chapman (Lennon’s assassination) and John Hinckley, Jr. (attempted assassination of Reagan) who were allegedly influenced by the book

• Grand Theme:

• We Didn't Start the Fire ….

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