10Q (Feb 6, 2024)

1. What word – German for 'compulsion to move', and one of the last words in any English dictionary – is generally used in the context of chess and other games?

2. Sling ____ and port ____ are the two main acceptable ways of carrying what? Both blanks are the same word.

3. Shown in the composite image above is the logo of the oldest existing club football tournament in Asia, and the person who it is named after, who started it in 1888 while recuperating from illness in Shimla. Name the tournament.

4. Frank Welker, who voiced the monkey in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvF3eAYSGfs), also did the sounds for which monkey in a 1999 Hollywood movie?

5. Which organisation's headquarters is this, and in which city would you find it? [1 point each]

6. The name of what creature, also called a 'shark sucker' or 'suckerfish', comes from the word for 'delay' in Latin, because ancient sailors believed they had the power to slow or even stop a ship by attaching themselves to it?

7. When this book was chosen in November 2001 as Book of the Month by Oprah Winfrey – only her second non-American book choice after Bernhard Schlink's 'The Reader' – its publisher Knopf printed an extra 700,000 copies, half a million of which sold. Though this lesson on educational site Vallath places the book as 'Canadian literature', in most other mentions, it would be classified in Indian writing in English. Using the visual as a clue, name the book (which was also in the 1996 Booker Prize shortlist) and its author. [1 point each]

8. What food item popular in Goa and originating in the Iberian peninsula, has a Filipino version flavoured with indigenous spices called the longaniza?

9. American writer H.L. Mencken, complaining of the tepidity of the American vocabulary of profanity, wrote about this sometimes hyphenated 4-word term that "is so lacking in punch that the Italians among us have borrowed it as a satirical name for an American: la sanemagogna is what they call him, and by it they indicate their contempt for his backwardness in the art that is one of their great glories." What is the term?

10. Depicted on this currency note are poet Banjo Paterson and elements from his poem “The Man From Snowy River". The poem was also commemorated in two films, a silent black-and-white version released in 1920, and an award-winning 1982 drama, which held the title of the most popular film of all time from its country [X] until the release of [Y] in 1986. Which country [X], and what movie [Y], that remains to this day the highest-grossing movie from that country? [1 point each]

Answers
1. Zugzwang
2. Firearms

3. Durand Cup, named after Sir Henry Mortimer Durand
4. Abu in 'Alladin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GVxPpR-n8)
5. NATO HQ in Brussels

6. Remora
7. 'A Fine Balance' by Rohinton Mistry

8. Chouriço
9. Son-of-a-gun
10. Australia, 'Crocodile Dundee'