Ferrus
25 Sep 2009, 11:59 PM
Prizes: $500 a question, and are 50 question.
First 10 questions to start with, then 5 more every ten minutes. Only a fully answered questions will be accepted.
Morituri te salutant
Part A - Portraits
Name the historical personages
1. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/27659be06df6f4a6cd57d37b6dc00437Part 1 Question 1.jpg Fripping
2. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/a98bbba22c33bce9e3bcc5992cc22d6bPart 1 Question 2.jpg Randall
3. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 1 Question 3.jpg (Rococo)
Randall
4. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 1 Question 4.jpg (Friend of Uyghurs)
(Explorer)
(Sweedish) Ace
5. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 1 Question 5.jpg Defensin
Part B - Fish
Name the species of fish (common names)
6. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 1.jpg
(Popular fishing in Australia)
(Corruption of the sun, in a way)
(Freshwater, name particularly used in Britain) Hermione
7. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 2.jpg Oxyjen
8. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 3.jpg Randall
9. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 4.jpg Randall
10. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 5.jpg
(Electric)
Ace
Part C - Quotations
Name the speaker of the quotation
11. 'I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if he didn't.' Lastrailway
12. 'At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.' Lastrailway
13. 'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.' Randall
14. 'It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality.' Lastrailway
15. 'What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?' Randall
Part D - History
16.
'So, irresolute, and physically exhausted, he left the decision to fate. It was beyond him. Yet by certain commands, he showed understanding of the future. When he reproached Macro for abandoning the setting of the rising sun, his meaning was clear. And when Gaius, in casual discussion, slighted the memory of Sulla, he foretold that Gaius would have all Sulla's faults and none of his virtues. Then, weeping bitterly, and clasping his grandson Gemellus, he said to the frowning Gaius: "You will kill him! And someone else will kill you!" However, despite failing health, he did not ration his sensualities. He was making a show of vigour to conceal his illness; and he kept up his habitual jokes against the medical profession, declaring no man over thirty ought to need advice as to what was good or bad for him.'
To which historical figure is this Roman historian referring to? C.J. Woolf
17.
Which Persian physician and philosophy first distilled alcohol and sulphuric acid? Lastrailway
18.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 4 Question 3.jpg
What battle is displayed in this painting, and in what year did it take place?
C.j.Woolf
19.
'Florence not only existed under political forms more varied than those of the free states of Italy and of Europe generally, but it reflected upon them far more deeply. It is a faithful mirror of the relations of individuals and classes to a variable whole. The pictures of the great civic democracies in France and Flanders, as they are delineated in Froissart, and the narratives of German chroniclers off the 14th century, are in truth of high importace; but in comprehensiveness of thought and in rational development of the story, none will bear comparison with the Florentines.' Which cultural historian wrote this paragraph? Randall
20.
Which culture produced this object?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 4 Question 5.jpg
(Mesoamerican) C.J. Woolf
Part E - Geography
21. Which city became a ghost town in 1967? Lastrailway
22. In the late 19th century, an explorer found the last wild species of a type of animal? Which type of animal was this? Lastrailway
23. In which city is this building found, and what is it called? Ace
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 5 Question 3.jpg
24. Which lake is this?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 5 Question 4.jpg
(On a continent that starts with 'A') Stopharian
25. Which geographer categorised desert types? Lastrailway
Part F – Literature
Name both the author and the work in question .
26. ‘I was working for an outfit known as Islam Inc., financed by A.J. the notorious Merchant of Sex, who scandalised international society when he appeared at the Duc de Ventre’s ball as a walking penis covered by a huge condom emblazed with the A.J. motto: “They Shall Not Passâ€ÂÂÂ’ Fripping
27.
‘Behind yon hills, where Lugar flow,
‘Mang moors and mosses many, O,
The wintry sun the day has clos’d,
And I’ll awa to Nannie, O.’ C.j.woolf
28.
‘It was in the cab with Jim that impressions really crowded on Strether, giving him the strangest sense of length of absence from people among whom he had lived for years’ Ace
29.
‘Weep for the tears of Troy!
For Troy, deeds without name have breed
Pain without end. Aphrodite, goddess of joy,
Gave, and I was her gift; thence without respite sprang
Anguish of blood and tears and deep despair;
Mothers of Troy wailed for their vanquished sons;
Sisters knelt by Scamander’s brims to hang
On new made tombs locks of virgin hair’ C.J. Woolf
30.
'Death the inevitable end of everything, confronted him got the first time with irresistible force. And Death which was present in their dear brother (who, waking up, moaned and by habit called indiscriminately to God and on the devil) was not so far away as it had hitherto seemed to be. It was within himself too, he felt it. If not today, then tomorrow or thirty years hence, was it not all the same? But what that inevitable Death was, he not only did not know, not only had never considered, but could not and dared not consider' Last Railway
Part G - Sport
31. Who won the 1935 German grand prix? Lastrailway
32. Who was the only Spanish winner of Wimbeldon in the 1960s? Defensin
33. Who is this a picture of, and what island was he born?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 7 Question 3.jpg
Oxyjen
34. Which sport explicitly banned 'gutta-percha on the soles or heels of [a player's] boots' in 1863? Lastrailway
35. Which chess opening was invented in Budapest, and is named after a player? Ace
Part H - Popular culture
36. 'Hey I got one of your birds.' is spoken in the opening lines of a film by which actor? C.J. Woolf
37. On which British TV show did the leader of Kraftwerk deliver responses to the interviewer in his robotic stage personality?
Oxyjen
38. Who is this?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 8 Question 3.jpg
(Jazz) Ace
39. What was Stevie Wonder's first UK top 20 in 1966? Randall
40. Name the following actress and the role for which she has recently gained fame.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 8 Question 5.jpg
(Queen)
(# 3)
(HBO/BBC/RAI co-production)
(Henry VIII)
(Series 3) C.J. Woolf
Part I - Science and Mathematics
41.
Stefan Banach was a pivotal figure in which branch of mathematics? Randall
42.
Dynamic instability is associated with which protein? Defensin
43.
Which Greek word, meaning element, came to be the first root word of the name of a branch of chemistry? Ace
44.
What name is this equation typically given?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 9 Question 4.jpg
(Drip, drop) Oxyjen
45.
What is the importance of this plant to biology?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 9 Question 5.jpg Lastrailway
Part J - Pix 'n' mix
46.
What does the adjective 'roperipe' mean?
Ace
47.
Which philosopher said: 'To be sure the constitution of the structural whole and its everyday kind of Being, is phenomenally so manifold it can easily obstruct our looking at the whole as such phenomenological in a way which is unified'. And where? Ace
48.
Name the language being used here.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 10 Question 3.gif
(Extinct)
Stopharian
49.
Who is the sculptor?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 10 Question 4.jpg
(Female)
(H.M. associate)
Stopharian
50.
What is the musical connection between Gloucester in England and Baltimore in Maryland? Ace
First 10 questions to start with, then 5 more every ten minutes. Only a fully answered questions will be accepted.
Morituri te salutant
Part A - Portraits
Name the historical personages
1. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/27659be06df6f4a6cd57d37b6dc00437Part 1 Question 1.jpg Fripping
2. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/a98bbba22c33bce9e3bcc5992cc22d6bPart 1 Question 2.jpg Randall
3. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 1 Question 3.jpg (Rococo)
Randall
4. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 1 Question 4.jpg (Friend of Uyghurs)
(Explorer)
(Sweedish) Ace
5. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 1 Question 5.jpg Defensin
Part B - Fish
Name the species of fish (common names)
6. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 1.jpg
(Popular fishing in Australia)
(Corruption of the sun, in a way)
(Freshwater, name particularly used in Britain) Hermione
7. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 2.jpg Oxyjen
8. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 3.jpg Randall
9. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 4.jpg Randall
10. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 2 Question 5.jpg
(Electric)
Ace
Part C - Quotations
Name the speaker of the quotation
11. 'I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if he didn't.' Lastrailway
12. 'At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.' Lastrailway
13. 'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.' Randall
14. 'It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality.' Lastrailway
15. 'What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?' Randall
Part D - History
16.
'So, irresolute, and physically exhausted, he left the decision to fate. It was beyond him. Yet by certain commands, he showed understanding of the future. When he reproached Macro for abandoning the setting of the rising sun, his meaning was clear. And when Gaius, in casual discussion, slighted the memory of Sulla, he foretold that Gaius would have all Sulla's faults and none of his virtues. Then, weeping bitterly, and clasping his grandson Gemellus, he said to the frowning Gaius: "You will kill him! And someone else will kill you!" However, despite failing health, he did not ration his sensualities. He was making a show of vigour to conceal his illness; and he kept up his habitual jokes against the medical profession, declaring no man over thirty ought to need advice as to what was good or bad for him.'
To which historical figure is this Roman historian referring to? C.J. Woolf
17.
Which Persian physician and philosophy first distilled alcohol and sulphuric acid? Lastrailway
18.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 4 Question 3.jpg
What battle is displayed in this painting, and in what year did it take place?
C.j.Woolf
19.
'Florence not only existed under political forms more varied than those of the free states of Italy and of Europe generally, but it reflected upon them far more deeply. It is a faithful mirror of the relations of individuals and classes to a variable whole. The pictures of the great civic democracies in France and Flanders, as they are delineated in Froissart, and the narratives of German chroniclers off the 14th century, are in truth of high importace; but in comprehensiveness of thought and in rational development of the story, none will bear comparison with the Florentines.' Which cultural historian wrote this paragraph? Randall
20.
Which culture produced this object?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 4 Question 5.jpg
(Mesoamerican) C.J. Woolf
Part E - Geography
21. Which city became a ghost town in 1967? Lastrailway
22. In the late 19th century, an explorer found the last wild species of a type of animal? Which type of animal was this? Lastrailway
23. In which city is this building found, and what is it called? Ace
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 5 Question 3.jpg
24. Which lake is this?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 5 Question 4.jpg
(On a continent that starts with 'A') Stopharian
25. Which geographer categorised desert types? Lastrailway
Part F – Literature
Name both the author and the work in question .
26. ‘I was working for an outfit known as Islam Inc., financed by A.J. the notorious Merchant of Sex, who scandalised international society when he appeared at the Duc de Ventre’s ball as a walking penis covered by a huge condom emblazed with the A.J. motto: “They Shall Not Passâ€ÂÂÂ’ Fripping
27.
‘Behind yon hills, where Lugar flow,
‘Mang moors and mosses many, O,
The wintry sun the day has clos’d,
And I’ll awa to Nannie, O.’ C.j.woolf
28.
‘It was in the cab with Jim that impressions really crowded on Strether, giving him the strangest sense of length of absence from people among whom he had lived for years’ Ace
29.
‘Weep for the tears of Troy!
For Troy, deeds without name have breed
Pain without end. Aphrodite, goddess of joy,
Gave, and I was her gift; thence without respite sprang
Anguish of blood and tears and deep despair;
Mothers of Troy wailed for their vanquished sons;
Sisters knelt by Scamander’s brims to hang
On new made tombs locks of virgin hair’ C.J. Woolf
30.
'Death the inevitable end of everything, confronted him got the first time with irresistible force. And Death which was present in their dear brother (who, waking up, moaned and by habit called indiscriminately to God and on the devil) was not so far away as it had hitherto seemed to be. It was within himself too, he felt it. If not today, then tomorrow or thirty years hence, was it not all the same? But what that inevitable Death was, he not only did not know, not only had never considered, but could not and dared not consider' Last Railway
Part G - Sport
31. Who won the 1935 German grand prix? Lastrailway
32. Who was the only Spanish winner of Wimbeldon in the 1960s? Defensin
33. Who is this a picture of, and what island was he born?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 7 Question 3.jpg
Oxyjen
34. Which sport explicitly banned 'gutta-percha on the soles or heels of [a player's] boots' in 1863? Lastrailway
35. Which chess opening was invented in Budapest, and is named after a player? Ace
Part H - Popular culture
36. 'Hey I got one of your birds.' is spoken in the opening lines of a film by which actor? C.J. Woolf
37. On which British TV show did the leader of Kraftwerk deliver responses to the interviewer in his robotic stage personality?
Oxyjen
38. Who is this?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 8 Question 3.jpg
(Jazz) Ace
39. What was Stevie Wonder's first UK top 20 in 1966? Randall
40. Name the following actress and the role for which she has recently gained fame.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 8 Question 5.jpg
(Queen)
(# 3)
(HBO/BBC/RAI co-production)
(Henry VIII)
(Series 3) C.J. Woolf
Part I - Science and Mathematics
41.
Stefan Banach was a pivotal figure in which branch of mathematics? Randall
42.
Dynamic instability is associated with which protein? Defensin
43.
Which Greek word, meaning element, came to be the first root word of the name of a branch of chemistry? Ace
44.
What name is this equation typically given?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 9 Question 4.jpg
(Drip, drop) Oxyjen
45.
What is the importance of this plant to biology?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 9 Question 5.jpg Lastrailway
Part J - Pix 'n' mix
46.
What does the adjective 'roperipe' mean?
Ace
47.
Which philosopher said: 'To be sure the constitution of the structural whole and its everyday kind of Being, is phenomenally so manifold it can easily obstruct our looking at the whole as such phenomenological in a way which is unified'. And where? Ace
48.
Name the language being used here.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 10 Question 3.gif
(Extinct)
Stopharian
49.
Who is the sculptor?
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Part 10 Question 4.jpg
(Female)
(H.M. associate)
Stopharian
50.
What is the musical connection between Gloucester in England and Baltimore in Maryland? Ace