This document contains questions for an upcoming quiz competition. It includes 8 written questions and 16 spoken questions across two rounds testing knowledge about history, art, current events, and geography. The questions cover a wide range of topics and range from identifying people, places, objects, and events to explaining concepts.

1. ASKQANCE JUST MISS
OPEN QUARTET FINALS
18 NOVEMBER 2023

2. Written
5 questions
10 points with +5/+10 stakes
Equal negs

3. 01
Name the comic
and the city.

4. 02
Borrows the ligne claire style from X.
Also name the city.

5. 03
City?
Artist?

6. 04
‘Historical’ work. Name the
artist and the city.

7. 05
A show inspired by a
newspaper article which
argued that 30% of all
marriages had children from
previous marriages.
This is one room from the
house used.

8. clockwise
8 questions
Bounce/pounce
10 points/-5 on bad pounce

9. 01
Miss Stormé de Larverie, the lady who
appears to be a gentleman, is the title of this
1961 photograph by Diane Arbus.
Eight years later, this person would ask the
question ‘Why don’t you do something?, and
the rest, as they say, is history.
At which specific location did she ask this
question?

10. 02
These are two different formats for an
old-school element with an Indian
English moniker.
It has multiple names, but the common
Indian English term comes up
repeatedly in one context.
What term? What context?

11. 03
Not named after an
explorer, this World
Heritage site in the Table
Bay takes its name from
the Dutch word for seal.
Which location?
A different sort of seal
made this location world
famous in the 1980s.
Explain.

12. 04
This is the flag of a dynasty of Pakhtun
descent whose name we know for
Bollywood reasons.
The most famous ruler was an ardent
conservationist. The misadventure
associated with him was actually
executed by his premier, another
person with a famous surname.
Give dynasty and misadventure, or
conservation effort and premier.

13. 05
Very surprisingly, it is not the creature
below which is on their crest. Which
territory?

14. 06. Two monuments on Prince Edward Island. The one on
the right celebrates the premier who got them into Canada.
The other was raised by Indians to celebrate a cousin.
Who?

15. 07
Hippolyte Bayard’s 1842 work Arrangement
With Specimens was created using no
camera but a distinctive compound.
The names for this technique come from
the substance used, and the fact that no
camera was used. Give both names.

16. 08
This group takes
its name from
how they are
arranged around
the blue one.
Name the group,
and the blue one.
Also name the
island to the west
of the blue one.

17. anticlock
8 questions
Bounce/pounce
10 points/-5 on bad pounce

18. 01
Somebody held a Give Me a Name contest in 1954, offering a prize of
Rs 500 for the best name. 47,000 entries poured in, and the winning
name,was suggested independently by two people ~ a Mr Rele from
Girgaum and a Mr Aras from Sion.
The name came after the creation, and some felt that the creation
itself took something from the works of Richmal Crompton.
What creation? What name?

19. 02
Seniormost exponent
of something in North
America. Work it out,
and also tell us what
was inspired by her
eagerness to acquire
this expertise?

20. 03
This is Val MacClatchey,
a real estate agent from
Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, , posing
with the camera that got
her a lot of trolling .
Decades before this
photo, she was watching
the news when she head
something, and rushed
out to capture it. What?

21. 04
His original 1880s patent was vacated
on the grounds that it was not
different from existing patents. This
one survived, and still bears his name.
This Scottish veterinarian didn’t have
too much luck with his business idea ,
and was forced out of the company.
Who? What was the original patent,
designed because of the
cobblestone paving in Belfast,
where he practised?

22. 05
The statue of this American pioneer includes a
telescope pointed at one of his original
artefacts. He put this town on the map with his
experiments, but something else from two
decades after him got the place some
attention.
Name him, the town, and the river on which it
stands.

23. 06
The BBMB is not a Keralite version of the BBMP but a non-profit
associated with the state governments of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh,
Haryana and Rajasthan.
Their job is to manage a project centred around the Suni and Badu
gorges.
Expand BBMB, or tell us what they do.

24. 07
Phaethon lepturus is often called the
X Bird, either on account of its
shrieks which could sound like a X’s
whistle on board ships, or because
their tail-feathers look very much
like a tool that the X always carried.
Take a good look at the bird, and
give us X and the tool.

25. 08
At 11.35am on 8 August 1969, a traffic cop was requested to step in
and help Iain Macmillan achieve something while standing on a
step ladder. The cop obliged, but only enough to give Macmillan six
attempts since it was peak time on a Friday. We’ve probably come
across the fourth attempt.
What are we talking about?

26. Written
Two answers to each: 5+5
Explain funda +5

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