AN OPEN QUIZ WILL BE HELD AT ST. STEPHEN'S at around 11:45 AM on the 19th of January. Details are listed below
PRIZES- 1st Prize : INR 2500
2nd Prize : INR 1500
3rd Prize : INR 1000
Consolation Prize: Verbal consolation by the quizmaster.
Registration Fee: None, Donations are welcome.
Team Strength : Three members. For every additional member INR 20,000 will be charged and will be pocketed by the quizmaster.
Age Limit : -2 to 113 years. Therefore you cannot bring your wise tortoise in case you have one
Best Team Name Award : Each member of the team will be personally congratulated though not shaken hands with and will also receive one kitkat worth INR 5.
VENUE: Seminar Hall
St. Stephen's College
Delhi University
New Delhi
( In case of fire, the venue will be shifted to the Baha'i Temple)
TIME : 11:45 AM
DATE : Monday, 19th January, 2009.
Also if you are likely to come could you drop in a mail at
jan19.2009@gmail. com This way we would know how many prelims copies to print. Last time in a burst of optimism, I printed around 15 thousand copies and only 100 teams showed up :(
For Further details contact : Shraddha Gupta - 9711257128
Chinmay Sharma - 9268124688
Quizmaster: ISHAAN CHUGH
- Made the ten most wanted list in Sweden unfailingly for the past ten years for his attempts to rob an entire ant colony.
- In 2008 finished 2nd on the ten best dressed list in Siberia losing out only to an elk.
- Only man in history to feature in both the lists simultaneously.
A message from the quizmaster
" I apologize in advance if you did not like the quiz. But the cause was too noble to refuse. All funds generated from Today's quiz will be donated to my fund where I raise money to watch the Celtics play for free. I have also put a few of my questions which i have used in previous quizzes so that you know what my intentions are for this quiz too. I hope to see you all around on 19th and would be thrilled to see you actively donate. Just in case you don't come, I will have acquaint you with my friends from Italy. Thank you once again."
1. In 1951, ____X___ visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University.
An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. They are also externally sound-proofed.
_____X____ entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation."
Inspired by this ___X___ went on to create something most fabulous and innovative and also a great reflection on Zen buddhism.
Who is X and what was his revolutionary work?
2. In Hong Kong, in August 1994, 6 relatively unknown Americans, Noam Shazeer, Jacob Lurie, Jeremy Bem, Stephen Wang, Jonathan Weinstein and Aleksandr Khazanov went on to achieve something unprecedented and unanticipated in the annals of an event dominated usually by the Russians and the Chinese. Time Magazine called this feat as one of the greatest team performances by any team in any field. Never ever had a team achieved this feat or infact even come close to achieving it.
What was the feat?
3. This language gets its names from a transliteration of the Russian suffix for 'teen'.
Some of the words are also almost childish English such as "eggyweg" (egg) and "appy polly loggy" (apology), as well as regular English slang "sod" and "snuff it". The word "like" is often inserted arbitrarily into phrases; something most of us do.
Name the language.
4. Ironically, during his earlier years, he was a sickly child and physically very weak. Though the doctors had advised him not to take part in any sort physical activity, after undergoing a couple of hernia operations his father let him play and try out their family game.
In November 1979, his older brother , who had been one of the leading international players (of the family game)in the 1970s , died suddenly of a heart attack during a tournament match in Australia. His brother's death affected him profoundly. He considered quitting the game, but decided to pursue a career in the sport as a tribute to his brother.
He obviously became a great in the "family game".
ANSWERS
1. John Cage's magnum opus 4'33"
2. All six members of a National team scored an almost impossible perfect score at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
3. Nadsat. Alex de Large popularised it in "A Clockwork Orange"
4. The legendary Jahangir Khan
