KQA College Solo 2013 Common prelims answers

KQA Collegiate Solo
Championship
Common Prelims

Rules
• 24 questions, no negative marking, feel free to
take guesses.
• 8 PU contestants will make it to the PU finals,
while 8 overall (PU, UG and PG combined) will
make it to the college finals.
• Please indicate which category you belong to
on your sheet, along with your name and the
name of your institute.

• 1) Wax, lacquer, lacquer-aluminium and vinyl
are all types of what?

• 2) Most ______ ______ can be split into 3 major
types:
• Isotonic, which contain similar concentrations of
salt and sugar as in the human body.
• Hypertonic, which contain a higher concentration
of salt and sugar than the human body.
• Hypotonic, which contain a lower concentration
of salt and sugar than the human body.
• Fill in the blanks.

3) Jay-Z has a variety of companies that all
incorporate ‘Roc’ in the title, such as his clothing
line Rocawear, and his current record label Roc
Nation.

‘Roc’ is a reference to the first record label that
he started, which itself is wordplay/reference to
person X, used as a shorthand for wealth/money.

Name his first record label, or X.

Roc-A-Fella Records, John D. Rockefeller.

4) Who wrote the book ‘Safer Sex: What You
Can Do to Avoid AIDS’, published in 1992, a
year after his battle with HIV was made
public?

KQA College Solo 2013 Common prelims answers

5) X is a genre of rock that emerged in the late
1990s that is characterized by atypical rhythmic
structures and odd time signatures - whereas
most rock music uses a 4/4 meter, X frequently
uses asymmetrical time signatures, or features
constantly changing meters. This rhythmic
complexity, seen as ____________ in character
by many listeners and critics, is what gives the
genre its name.

X?

6) I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering ____
_______ is a 2009 documentary about
which character actor?

From which of his movies does the title
take its name?

John Cazale. The Godfather Part 2.

7) Connect:
1. V.V. Giri;
2. Sir Mohammad Hidayatullah; and
3. Basappa Danappa Jatti.

Served as Acting President of India.

Only V.V. Giri went on to also become the
President of India.

• 8) “Vernon Philander might have to be on
stilts to help us practice.”
• So said Jacques Kallis when asked how South
Africa were preparing for their current test
series. Who was he referring to?

• Mohammed Irfan of Pakistan.

9) What is the French word for ‘head’?

It is known to the Anglophone world in
duplicate thanks to a fairly common (adopted)
phrase that means ‘having a private
conversation’.

Tête - tête-à-tête literally means ‘head-to-head’.

10) This kind of art, with the use of strong
contrasts between light and dark, and usually bold
contrasts affecting a whole composition, is called X
(from Italian for ‘light-dark’). ID X.

• 11) ‘As “___ ____ _________" bores and alienates its
audiences, consider the opportunities missed here. (1)
This material should have become an A-list animated
film, instead of live-action. (2) It was a blunder jumping
aboard the 3D bandwagon with phony 3D retro-fitted
to a 2D film. (3) If it had to be live action, better special
effects artists should have been found.’
• From a Roger Ebert review of a 2010 TV show
adaptation that had to change its original, one-word
name in order to avoid confusion with another movie.
Fill in the blanks.

• The Last Airbender, which was originally called
“Avatar”.

12) X was a was a successful
portraitist at the court of Louis
XVI of France, and was able to
resume his career after the
French Revolution.

His less formal portraits (pic –
one of his self-portraits) showed
an interest in expanding the
range of facial expressions
beyond those of official
portraiture.

He’s seen a recent surge in
popularity – either name him, or
why he’s become popular.

Joseph Ducreux, Archaic rap meme.

• 13) John Foster ______ (February 25, 1888 –
May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of
State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure
in the early Cold War era, advocating an
aggressive stance against communism
throughout the world. The airport that serves
a major American city is named after him.
Name him, or the city.

• Washington Dulles International Airport near
Washington, DC

14) The Uranoscopidae are a family of fish
that have eyes on the top of their head – as a
result, what is their common name, a direct
translation of the Latin name?

15) This is a still from the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Brothers, showing a character
named “Dr. ______ Gathers”. The character’s name and look are based on which cult author?

16) These designs are a reference to the works
of which cult horror author?

17) Though sounding vaguely similar to an
Asian martial arts form, this cocktail (based on
rum, Curaçao and lime juice) takes its name
from the Tahitian word for ‘good’.

18) This is David Miscavige, whose official
title is Chairman of the Board of the Religious
Technology Center (RTC). What “religious”
organization is he the head of?

• The Church of Scientology.

19) X is an addition to a French surname to specify
the father rather than the son of the same name,
much like the usage of ‘Senior’ in English.

The wider world has mostly heard the word in re
two people – one a famous author (who was given
the suffix to distinguish him from his son, who
shared his name), and the other a French priest
who gave his name to a famous graveyard.

X, and name both people.

Père.

Alexander Dumas

Pere Lachaise.

20) In the film Swingers, one of the male
characters is named Sue.

The name is explained by another character by
saying, “his dad was a big X fan.” True to the song
(actually a poem by Shel Silverstein that had been
made popular by X), this character has a quick
temper and gets into fights easily.

X?

Johnny Cash, who sang ‘A Boy Named Sue’.

21) Who, seen here on the cover of
the October 15 2012 issue of Time?

22) Olive, the Other
Reindeer is a 1997
children’s book by Vivian
Walsh and J. Otto Seibold.

The name of the book is a
mondegreen (or misheard
lyric) of a famous
Christmas carol. Name the
carol.

Mondegreen of the lyric ‘all of the other
reindeer’ from ‘Rudolph, the red-nosed
reindeer’.

• 23) 2010: The original team of six.
• 2012: Chuck Norris, Liam Hemsworth and Yu
Nan joined.
• 2014: Jackie Chan, Nicolas Cage, Steven
Seagal, Clint Eastwood and Wesley Snipes will
potentially join.
• What?

• 24) This Santa Clara, California-based
technology company is not named, as you
might assume, after an indeterminate number
of Naipauls. It is simply a shortening of the
Latin word for “envy” that the people who
started it in 1993 (Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris
Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem) liked the
sound of. Name the company.

Nvidia, from the Latin “invidia”.

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