2. What's in a name?
▶ Written Round
▶ Differential Scoring
▶ +20 – only 1 team OR 20 - |_20/p_|*r
▶ +15 – 2 or 3 teams
▶ +10 – 4 or 5 teams
▶ +05 – 6 or 7 teams
▶ +20 Full house
▶ Answers are very guessable
8. Differential Infinite Pounce 1
▶ All questions on differential infinite pounce
▶ +10/0 on bounce
▶ +20/-10 – only 1 team
▶ +15/-10 – 2 or 3 teams
▶ +10/-10 – 4 or more teams
▶ 10 questions
9. ▶ In the Kurukshetra war, the mother of all battles, all the
kings – hundreds of them – aligned themselves on one
side or the other.
▶ The King of X however chose to remain neutral. He
spoke to Krishna and said, ‘Those who fight battles
have to eat. I will be the caterer for this battle.’
▶ The amazing thing was that every day, the food was
exactly enough for all the soldiers and no food was
wasted .
▶ Gimme X
12. ▶ This company's name derives from the name of a North
American dish.
▶ This dish was created in 1727 by a group of French
Ursuline nuns in New Orleans by creating a batter out of
ground cornmeal, and deep frying it to make cornmeal
croquettes.
▶ The name of this dish comes from the fact that it was used
by hunters, fishermen to silence the barking dogs.
15. ▶ Fennel is a flowering plant species in the carrot family.It is a hardy, perennial
herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.
▶ It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely
naturalized in many parts of the world, especially on dry soils near the sea-coast
and on riverbanks.
▶ The Greek name for fennel is marathon (μάραθον) or marathos (μάραθος), and
the place of the famous battle of Marathon (whence Marathon, the subsequent
sports event), literally means a plain with fennels.
▶ Although all its parts are used which specific part of this plant do Indians use a
lot and how is it better known?
18. ▶ This is a new concept which has recently sprung up in the bar
scene.
▶ Drink ________ is a company which has created an algorithm
required for this and sells the Drink ________ computer system,
Drink ________ software, POS integration to bars who wish to
switch to this idea.
▶ What unique idea is this which claims to be “reinventing the happy
hour”?
21. ▶ X is a South Indian beverage. It originated in Madurai, a
city in the Tamil Nadu state of India. It translates to "Cool
Liver".
▶ It is generally prepared and served by road side pull-inns in
Madurai as refreshment during the Indian summer.
▶ X is made by mixing badam pisin, nannari sharbat, sugar
and milk cream with an extra layer of basundi.
24. ▶ X is a royal multi-course meal.It is derived from 2 words A-
'to cook' and B- 'a shop full of meat'.
▶ X consists of 36 courses and is an integral part of the
Kashmiri cuisine.
▶ The history of X dates back to the last years of the 14th
century when the Mongol ruler Timur invaded India in 1348
during the reign of Nasiruddin Muhammad of the Tughlaq
dynasty.
27. ▶ In Québec, it is called "Joyeux Festin" .
▶ In Latin America and Puerto Rico (not so in Spain) it is
known as Cajita Feliz.
▶ In Japan, it was called Okosama Lunch from 1987 to 1988,
then Okosama Set from 1988 to 1995.
▶ In Germany, it was known as Juniortüte until 1999.
▶ What created by Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño in mid
1970s which has been controversial and was subject of
ridicule in 2014 (due to a certain change) are we talking
about?
30. ▶ Legend has it that the XY was created for an aging Nawab
Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow who lost his teeth, but not his
passion for meat dishes. X means "melt in your mouth" and
was perfect for the toothless Nawab who continued
savoring this until his last days.
▶ The original recipe that brought many a smile on the
Nawab's face, albeit toothless, and many a sigh of
satisfaction, is supposed to have more than 100 aromatic
spices.
33. The introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis
Edwardes. Edwardes, originally of Rhyd-y-gors, Carmarthenshire, was a
veteran of the Napoleonic wars and held the position of Deputy-
Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire. He is believed to have brought the
recipe home after travels in India. The article does not say how the
recipe found its way to Messrs Lea and Perrins.
When the recipe was first mixed at the pharmacy of John Wheeley Lea
and William Henry Perrins, the resulting product was so strong that it
was considered inedible and the barrel was abandoned in the
basement. Looking to make space in the storage area a few years later,
the chemists decided to try it again, and discovered that the sauce had
fermented and mellowed and was now palatable. In 1838 the first
bottles of "Lea & Perrins ________________ sauce" were released to
the general public
36. GI Tags
▶ 5 questions written
▶ +10/0
▶ +20/-10 Powerplay
▶ +20 Full house
37. 1.
▶ Dittam is the list of ingredients and its proportions used in making of
XY.
▶ To meet the increasing demand changes were made to Dittam for six
times in its history. At present the ingredients include besan flour,
cashew nuts, cardamom, ghee, sugar, sugar candy and raisins.
▶ The different types of XY include Asthanam Y, Kalyanotsavam Y and
Proktham Y (This is the most common one).
38. 2.
▶ Hyderabadi X is a type of X popular in Hyderabad.
▶ X is a stew composed of meat, lentils and pounded wheat
made into a thick paste.
▶ It is originally an Arabic dish and was introduced to the
Hyderabad State by the Arab diaspora during the rule of the
Nizams (the former rulers of Hyderabad State).
▶ Local traditional spices helped in evolving a unique
Hyderabadi X that became popular among the natives by the
19th-century.
▶ During the 2014 Ramadan season, ₹5 billion worth of
Hyderabadi X was sold in the city
39. 3.
▶ XY was original started by the Thakur family which migrated from
Unnao in Uttar Pradesh to X after plague broke out there in Unnao in
early 19th Century.
▶ Ram Ratan Singh Thakur, the first generation confectioner started
making and selling Y locally.
▶ Thakur’s grandson Babu Singh Thakur helped grow the family business
in their Line Bazaar store and XY was also called as "Line Bazaar Y"
locally.
▶ The family closely guards the recipe of XY as a trade secret which has
been passing through the lineage of the family.
▶ In Pune and other places other confectioneries also sell XY which are
not connected to the Thakur family.
40. 4.
▶ The district has 29 ________ in operation and consequently X is
occasionally known by the epithet "The Y Capital of India".
▶ Rajeev Samant studied engineering at Stanford University and worked
at Oracle in San Francisco thereafter. After quitting his corporate job,
Rajeev established Z upon his return to India.
▶ He initially experimented with crops such as mangoes, roses,
teakwood, and table grapes before realizing that X’s climate and
temperature were well-suited for growing Y. In consultation with Kerry
Damskey, Samant setup the first ______ in X.
▶ Z was named after Rajeev’s mother – 'Sulabha'. Samant steadily
expanded the company over the next few years by introducing newer
varieties and expanding the company’s offerings.
41. 5.
▶ It was another day at the X Palace and the reigning King was ready to have
his lunch. His chief chef Kakasura Madappa completed the preparation of all
the courses for the royal meal. With space left for one more sweet dish,
Madappa began experimenting. He added gram flour (besan), ghee and sugar
to make a syrup.
▶ By the time the King finished his lunch, the dish had cooled down to become a
cake. The chef then served it hesitantly to the King. The delighted king
demanded a second helping and asked what it was. Madappa, nervously
named it 'X Y'. Y in Kannada means a sweet concoction.
▶ It was soon officially designated the royal sweet and is even today considered
the 'king' of sweets in the South.
▶ The king then asked Madappa to set up a shop outside the Amba Vilas Palace
grounds so that his subjects too could taste the Y.
▶ Thus was born Guru Sweets in X in 1957. The royal cook-Kakasura-passed
away in 1964, aged 70 and by then XY had become one of the main sweets in
the Indian palate. His descendants still operate the shop and the XY of this
shop has a unique and distinct taste.
42. Curious Cutlery
▶ Written Round – 7 questions
▶ Differential Scoring
▶ +20 – only 1 team
▶ +15 – 2 or 3 teams
▶ +10 – 4 or 5 teams
▶ +05 – 6 or 7 teams
▶ +20 Full house
▶ Answers are very guessable
49. Answers
1. Spork
2. Knork
3. Spife
4. Splayd
5. Popcorn
6. Cookie Dipper
7. Spaghetti Fork
8. It was being used for
cocaine
9. Chip
50. Differential Infinite Pounce 2
▶ All questions on differential infinite pounce
▶ +10/0 on bounce
▶ +20/-10 – only 1 team
▶ +15/-10 – 2 or 3 teams
▶ +10/-10 – 4 or more teams
▶ 10 questions
51. ▶ According to historians of Odisha, X originated in Puri, as khira mohana, which
later evolved into the X.
▶ It has been traditionally offered as bhog to goddess Lakshmi at Jagannath
Temple, Puri.
▶ According to the local legend, Laxmi gets upset because her husband Lord
Jagannath goes on a 9-day sojourn (the ratha yatra) without her consent. So,
she locks Jai Vijay Dwar, one of the temple gates and prevents his convoy from
re-entering the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. To appease her, Jagannath
offers her X. This ritual, known as Bachanika, is part of the "Niladri Bije" (or
"Arrival of the God") observance, which marks the return of the deities to the
temple after the Ratha Yatra.
▶ On July 30, 2015, on the day of "Niladri Bije", a social media campaign was
started by using a hashtag #XDibasa and it later became a mainstream
celebration as the maiden day to celebrate X’s origin to be Odisha
54. ▶ Before modern coffee shops ruled Korea, people frequented places
called X. Although the word X means “tea or coffee house”, they are
different than Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts.
▶ X are places that people could enjoy hot beverages while chatting with
a hostess .
▶ These coffee shops also provided a coffee delivery service by
motorbike. A pretty girl would deliver the coffee to businesses or
homes.
▶ ID X which is also the name of a blockbuster Indian movie?
57. FITB and put fundae
▶ French - pot-de-vin - “a glass of wine”
▶ Syria - finjaan ‘ahwa - “a cup of coffee”
▶ Portugese - gaseoso - “soft drink”
▶ Hungarian - lekenyerezni - “bread down”
▶ South Korea - soju - Korean whisky
▶ Hindi - _______
60. ▶ X is a dish of seasoned, skewered and grilled meat, served with a sauce. X
may consist of diced or sliced chicken, goat, mutton, beef, pork, fish, other
meats, or tofu.
▶ X originated in Indonesia and is its national food.
▶ The term X is often mistakenly identified as peanut sauce. Traditionally, X
referred to any grilled skewered meats with various sauces; it is not necessarily
served solely with peanut sauce.
▶ However, since the most popular variant of X is chicken X in peanut sauce, in
modern fusion cuisine the term X has shifted to X style peanut sauce instead.
63. ▶ According to one story, X was invented by Bhima.
▶ Apparently, during his exile in the kingdom of Virata- he was in the
disguise of a cook and being a macho warrior he knew zilch about
cooking.
▶ So he did, what a naive beginner would do.
▶ He chopped up different vegetables, boiled them in water and added
grated coconut. And luckily the dish became a hit and thus X was born.
66. ▶ X is a word which apart from its root meaning also means “great
enthusiasm and energy” and is derived from the French word for
orange or lemon peel.
▶ X as a verb means to scrape off the outer part of a peel(of a citrus fruit).
▶ What is X which is also the name of an automobile by an Indian
company ?
69. ▶ XY is a Y made of X meat and various other ingredients traditional to
French cuisine and present in other European cuisines.
▶ In 1879, the British Medical Journal reported a group of sailors aboard
the Troop ship HMS Tamar (1863) were poisoned by a bad XY which
spawned an Admiralty investigation.An earlier reference to a XY recipe
is given in the Booke of Cookery, published in 1575 AD in the UK.
▶ XY was a traditional dish for the American holiday of Thanksgiving,
though is currently uncommon at Thanksgiving meals.
▶ The XY Mystery is a 2012 book about how a character is accused of
murdering a General because he dies after eating an XY baked by her.
▶ What is XY which seems to be the favourite choice of all murder
accusations?
78. “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put
them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.”
The origins of the ________ bread lies in the above verse from a
religious text and hence its name.
Name this bread which is preferred by fitness enthus as an healthier
alternative.
81. ▶ The story of the loaf’s accidental beginnings goes something like
this: once upon a time, way back in 1976, there was an Athlone-
based fish shop owner named Rashaad Pandy who had nothing to
feed a few day workers who’d been helping him clean up a piece of
property. Being a resourceful individual, he combined what he had –
a round Portuguese roll, polony, slap chips and achar – and sliced the
creation into four so they could all enjoy a piece.
▶ On tasting the roll, one of the labourers, Froggie, who was full of
quirky sayings and had recently watched the film _________ , based
a 1925 novel, at the Athlone Theatre, gleefully exclaimed, “this is a
______ smash” (meaning, it’s a winning dish), and the name just
stuck.
▶ It is also sometimes mistakenly referred to by the nickname AK-47,
which is a variant of the sandwich made in Johannesburg, in part due
to how it can be held in one's arm in a similar manner to the firearm.
84. All things Fruity
▶Written Round – 5 questions
▶Differential Scoring
▶+20 – only 1 team
▶+15 – 2 or 3 teams
▶+10 – 4 or 5 teams
▶+05 – 6 or 7 teams
▶+20 Full house
▶Answers are very guessable
85.
86. X is a "cross between tangerine and sour orange.
Originally an accidental hybrid, it is said to have been discovered by (and named
for) Father _______ Rodier in the garden of his orphanage in Misserghin, near
Oran, Algeri.
X is also the name of an application in Linux and a popular feminine name with
characters in Westworld, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Walking
Dead etc..
87. ______ limes are bulgy, mottled, and supposedly not as pretty as the
smooth and glossy skins of other varieties of lime such as the silver or
Persian lime. From this was born the reference to the less
aesthetically appearing lime as the ______ lime.
The ______lime gained its name from Indian Muslims who most likely
encountered the fruit as an import from lands such as Thailand and Sri
Lanka, where Buddhists and other non-Muslims predominated. ...
From this Indian usage, intended to convey otherness and exotic
provenance, the term passed into English.
88. XY is the Hindi/Urdu name of a fruit.
X is what this fruit is called in Persian but it refers to another food in
Hindi/Urdu.
Y is the name of an ancient city in Uzbekistan which was the centre for
Sufi Islam before Genghis Khan destroyed it . Y is (maybe, but
probably not) derived from a Sanskrit word from which is also derived
the name of an Indian state.
89. ▶ The name X is derived from the Malay-Indonesian languages word
for spike, a reference to the numerous spike protuberances of the
fruit.
▶ Regarded by many people in Southeast Asia as the "king of fruits",
X is distinctive for its large size, strong odor, and formidable thorn-
covered husk.
▶ Anthony Bourdain, a lover of X, relates his encounter with the fruit
thus: "Its taste can only be described as...indescribable, something
you will either love or despise. ...Your breath will smell as if you'd
been French-kissing your dead grandmother."
▶ Richard Sterling says:
▶ ... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions,
garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.
Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from
some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports,
including public transportation in Southeast Asia.
90.
91. Known in the nineteenth century as "the most beautiful in color,
and the most worthless in quality, of all the varieties of
squash” what is this variety of squash which derives its name
from its appearance, called?
92. ▶ Garcinia is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae native to
Asia, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia.
▶ Commonly, the plants in this genus are called saptrees, X
(which may also refer specifically to Garcinia __________),
garcinia or, ambiguously, "monkey fruit".
▶ Garcinia indica is indigenous to the Western Ghats region
of India located along the western coast of the country.
▶ The outer cover of fruit is dried in the sun to get Y. It is an
healthier alternative to another popular souring agent. Y
squash is also used in preparing a drink consumed during
summers.
97. ▶ The X effect is a term coined by the Hindu monk and professor of
Anthropology at Syracuse University, Agehananda Bharati in 1970
used especially in religious studies and sociology for the phenomenon
of elements of a nation or people's culture being transformed or at
least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-imported back to their
culture of origin.
▶ It is named after the idea that modern X was developed among
_______ immigrants in the United States (rather than in native _____,
where in its simpler form it was originally looked down upon), and was
later exported back to be interpreted as a delicacy in _______
cuisine.
▶ For example,
The Apu trilogy films of Satyajit Ray, which were flops in India before
they were given prizes in Western countries and re-evaluated as classics
of the Indian cinema.
100. ▶ X is one of the most expensive varieties of beef.
▶ X must fulfill all the following conditions:
▶ Tajima cattle born in Hyōgo Prefecture
▶ Farm feeding in Hyōgo Prefecture
▶ Bullock (steer or castrated bull)
▶ Processed at slaughterhouses in X, Nishinomiya, Sanda, Kakogawa, or
Himeji in Hyōgo Prefecture
▶ Marbling ratio, called BMS, of level 6 and above
▶ Meat quality score of 4 or 5
▶ Gross weight of beef from one animal is 470 kg or less.
103. ▶ In 2001, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook declared that "X is now a true
British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is
a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external
influences."
▶ By 2009 Brits were consuming 25 million portions (2.5 billion pounds) of X per
year and 65,000 people were employed cooking and serving it.
▶ There are songs and also a 2005 UK film about X.
▶ Gimme X