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MEMORIAL QUIZ
FINALS
RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY:
SAMANWAY BANERJEE

House Rules
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 42 questions in the finals…
 Most answers can be worked out… so go for it!
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Special thanks to:
MAJOR CHANDRAKANT NAIR
ARYAPRIYA GANGULY…
For kindly reviewing the set.

• CHINA is the country having the most number
of borders….
• List all of them.
• 14 countries.
• +3 for each correct answer.
• +8 for full house…
• So, 50 points up for grabs…
• The list excludes MACAU and HONGKONG

• North Korea
• Russia
• Mongolia
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Tajikistan
• Afghanistan
• Pakistan
• India
• Nepal
• Bhutan
• Myanmar
• Laos
• Vietnam

WRITTEN ROUND 1.0
THEME: ADWORLD
6 QUESTIONS
+5 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
IF YOU ARE CONFIDENT ENOUGH,
YOU CAN STAKE YOUR ANSWER FOR
+5. INCORRECT ANSWER, HOWEVER
FETCHES YOU -5.

ID THE MODEL ON THIS LUX AD…

• X have used this as a slogan since 1948, and continue
to do so (as of 2012). Here's the announcement of
the campaign, from the New York
Times' Advertising News and Notes column, August
1948:
• “X Consolidated Mines Ltd., owner of Y workings in
South Africa, plans a fall campaign in leading
national magazines which will stress the
engagement-ring tradition. Four-color ads will
reproduce paintings by well-known artists and carry
the slogan ‘_ ________ __ __________.' N.W. Ayer &
Sons, Inc., Philadelphia, is the agency."

What is AMUL urging people to do, in this ad?

ID THE LITTLE GIRL IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT.

The song used in this commercial is from
which movie???

Id the
blanked
out
places
from
this
Absolut
ads…

• X have used this as a slogan since 1948, and continue to
do so (as of 2012). Here's the announcement of the
campaign, from the New York Times' Advertising News
and Notes column, August 1948:
• “X Consolidated Mines Ltd., owner of Y workings in
South Africa, plans a fall campaign in leading national
magazines which will stress the engagement-ring
tradition. Four-color ads will reproduce paintings by
well-known artists and carry the slogan ‘_ ________ __
__________.' N.W. Ayer & Sons, Inc., Philadelphia, is
the agency."

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In which list are these 2 arch-rivals ( as per
political ideology) 1st and last respectively?
A QUIZ BY: SAMANWAY BANERJEE
AUDIENCE Q.#lyadhstylz

THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION…
1st and last to sign respectively

Pictured here is the
cover of 17th June 2013
edition of TIME
Magazine.
TIME Magazine called
it "the most beautiful
cover we've ever done
in our history.”
Simply, id the artist.

Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia (1844-1913) was once
showing the city of Addis Ababa to foreign visitors while
some criminals were being hanged from a tree. The visitors
were horrified by the inhumanity of Ethiopian capital
punishment and told Menelik of the new invention which
had then started gaining currency and was used for the
same purpose. He duly ordered 2 of them but realized that
they would practically be rendered useless in that country.
i)Why was that particular invention of no use then in
Ethiopia?
ii)Understanding the futility, how did Menelik personally
make use of one of them?

ELECTRIC CHAIR
NO ELECTRICITY IN ETHIOPIA. IN FACT, THIS
WAS ONE OF THE REASONS, ELECTRICITY WAS
INTRODUCED THERE IN 1896.
HE USED ONE OF THEM AS HIS THRONE.

________ _______ is a conception of the afterlife that
developed over time and was maintained by certain Greek
religious and philosophical sects and cults. The _______
______ were, according to Homer, located on the western
edge of the Earth by the stream of Okeanos. In the time of
the Greek oral poet Hesiod, it would also be known as
the Fortunate Isles or the Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed,
located in the western ocean at the end of the earth.
When translated to a European language, it also refers to
the ending point of an annual event. Also the country in
question refer to the same as "the world's most beautiful
avenue”. FITB and also give the event…

ELYSIAN FIELDS when translated to
French becomes CHAMPS ELYSEES
which is the finishing point of
TOUR DE FRANCE

• Fernando Botero Angulo is a figurative artist and sculptor. His
signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and
figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political
criticism or humor, depending on the piece. His art can be found
in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in
New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
• On the next slide are 2 paintings by him. The 1st one depicts the
death of someone from his native place. The 2nd one needs to
introduction and can be worked out from the depiction itself.
• What are the 2 subjects?
• (The ans to the 2nd one is not necessarily a person)

The Fresh Kills _______ was a ________covering 2,200
acres (890 ha) in the New York City borough of Staten
Island in the United States. The name comes from its
location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in
western Staten Island.
It was opened in 1947 as a temporary one but became New
York City's principal __________ in the second half of the
20th century. It was once the largest _______, as well as
human-made structure, in the world.
The site was closed on March 22, 2001.
FITB.
Why was it temporarily reopened?

• TO RECEIVE DEBRIS FROM
THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS.
LANDFILL

The earliest known appearance of the phrase is from The
Michigan School Moderator, a journal that provided many
teachers with education-related news and suggestions for
lessons. In an article titled "Interesting Notes" in the
March 14, 1885 issue, the phrase is given as a suggestion for
writing practice: "The following sentence makes a good
copy for practice…..”
As the use of typewriters grew in the late 19th century, the
phrase began appearing in typing and stenography lesson
books as a practice sentence.
Robert Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys (1908) uses
the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling.

EuroVelo 13 (EV13), is a partially
complete long-distance cycling route. When
complete, it will run for 7,650 km (4,750 mi)
from the Barents Sea down to the Black Sea.
Also called the ____ ______ Trail.
The map on the next slide shows how it will
look when fully complete.
FITB.

When Victor Gollancz founded his publishing firm
in 1928 he employed Stanley Morison to design his
cheap paperbacks and used only plain yellow
covers.
Why specifically the colour yellow?
You may get the answer by working out the places
where such books in those days (and even now)
were mainly sold.
On similar lines, what would Stanley Morison go
on to redesign 4 years later, that still persists?

The colour stood out best in the
smoke of railway stations.
• Redesign of The Times four years later gave
the world the typeface Times New Roman.

No original copy of Tommy Thumb's Song Book
has survived, but its content has been recovered
from later reprints.
The book was advertised in the London Evening
Post for 17–22 March 1744 and was published by
Mary Cooper of London.
What 1st is this book associated with or
According to historians, this is the earliest known
collection of what?

• The director of the movie
changed the title during
filming, influenced by the scene
where one of the criminals
writes the letter on his hand. He
thought "M" was a more
interesting title.
• However, there is a popular
belief regarding the director
changing the initial title from
“The Murderers are Among
Us” to “M”.
• What is that belief?

Due to fear of persecution by
the Nazis.

• One of the aims of the essay published in
1668 by John Wilkins was to provide a
replacement for the Latin language, which
had been the international language of
scholars in Western Europe by then for 1000
years. The stimulus for Wilkins to write
the Essay came from the Council of the
Royal Society, in 1662.
• What was the reason behind the delay in publishing
the work?
• Also, what more important idea was
conceived in this essay, which is precisely the
reason an eatable is referred to by a different
name in France, than in America, thereby
giving it a ‘royal’ name???

The Great Fire of London of 1666,
which destroyed some of it in draft
METRIC SYSTEM

The movie is based on the true story of
Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British
maid, who became
a missionary in China during the
tumultuous years leading up to World
War II.
The local Mandarin, played by Robert
Donat appoints Aylward in a certain
post to ensure that an ancient practice is
eradicated in the region he governs.
The practice in question possibly originated
among upper-class court dancers during
the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in
Imperial China and was banned in 1912?

FOOT INSPECTOR to unbind the feet of
young women

• This doodle was seen on the 215th birth anniversary of a
famous British paleontologist who found global fame after
making a series of discoveries when exploring the marine
fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset.
• However it is due to another of her activity that she is
immortalized, which was also seen in a Satyajit Ray
movie.

SHE SELLS SEA-SHELLS ON THE SEASHORE
• She used to go around the seashores of Lyme
Regis in England and collect seashells and
fossils.

A strike of the women and teenage girls in London in
1888 was caused by the poor working conditions in a
Bryant and May factory.
The main reasons were fourteen-hour work days, poor
pay, excessive fines and the severe health complications
of working with white phosphorus, such as phossy jaw.
i) What did the Bryant and May factory produce?
ii) Which social activist became involved in the situation
with her friend Herbert Burrows and published an
article in her halfpenny weekly paper "The Lost
Ink“?

The pic next slide is that of Susan Backlinie, a
stuntwoman who specialized in animal training. Her
animal magnetism scored her a role in Leslie Nielsen’s
1977 drama 'Day Of The Animals’, about jungle
creatures running amok, and she appeared in Charlton
Heston’s sniper movie 'Two-Minute Warning’, credited
as 'Pretty Blonde Woman In Crowd’. She also played a
water ballet instructor in 'The Great Muppet Caper’.
What was her most famous movie role?
Her brief appearance in the movie took 3 days to
shoot because she was unable to produce the intended
reaction.

• WRITTEN ROUND 2.0
• ANSWERS ARE ALLITERATIVE…
• +5 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.
• STAKE FOR +5/-5

AUDIENCE Q:
We all know that Khan Abdul Gaffar
Khan’s followers were called Khudai
Khitmatgars. In English they were referred
to as “Red Shirts”. Which famous Italian
revolutionary’s followers were also referred
to by the same name, which traces its
origin to the fact that the colour can
conceal bloodstains…

During the British Raj, women who used
to come from Britain to Calcutta in search
of grooms were often referred to by this 2
word term.
Some of them succeeded in finding a
suitable partner, while some of them used
to return empty-handed.
Which term???

When this Indian scientist went to Iraq,
Saddam Hussein made an offer one could
hardly refuse. He asked him to stay back in
Iraq and contribute in the country’s
nuclear programme. Yet, he resisted this
lucrative(?) offer.
Id this famous scientist, whose
contribution in developing India’s missiles
is unforgettable.

_______ Daniels was the Creative Director
at Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago
in the 1950s, and was famously associated
with the Marlboro Man campaign.
Somebody from the world of popular culture
is partially inspired by this gentleman.
Who?

The last equestrian statue of X in a public
street is being dismantled in Santader in 2008.

• INFINITE POUNCE 2.0
• 15 QUESTIONS
• +10 ON POUNCE
• NO NEGATIVES ON POUNCING…

• The Europeans used what is known as the
“Mediterranean draw”. There’s another one
called the “Mongolian draw”. What was the
purpose of them?
• In connection to the above, what is the use
of such objects, whose pictures are on the
next slide?

• The Mughals, on learning from the Mongols, used these…

But concentrating over 100 pounds of force against
the thumb would damage that thumb. So to protect
them, the Mongols had to create yet another object:
The thumb ring. This hand-carved object could be
made from wood, bone, horn or antler.

During his stint at Cambridge, Charles Babbage joined a
group, members of which were disappointed by the way
math was taught there. They formed a club, called the
Analytical Society, which campaigned to get the university
to abandon a certain notation devised by its most famous
alumnus. Babbage titled their manifesto “The Principles
of pure D-ism in opposition to the Dot-age of the
University.” As is quite evident, he was prickly, but he had
a good sense of humor.
What was the manifesto all about??

Newton’s notation of calculus relied on dots, and
the Analytical Society wanted replace it with the
one devised by Leibniz, which
used dx and dy to represent infinitesimal
increments and was thus known as “d” notation.

 On the next slide is a still from a 1970s movie, showing
Beverly House, bought by X three blocks from Sunset
Boulevard.
 This particular mansion was the setting of the most
gruesome scene in the film. Another reference to X
made in the movie was that the person who used to stay
here was the head of a film company called
International, which was also the early film company of
X.
 Id X and the movie.

• INSERT STILL FROM THE GODFATHER

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
THE GODFATHER

Nothing much is known about William Smellie’s early
life, not even his birth date, because his father was part
of a banned group of Presbyterians who didn't keep
any records in case of persecution. His first job was as
an apprentice to a maker of whalebone supports for
ladies' corsets.
What did he do in the year 1768 for the first time, for
which he was paid just £200?

Edited the 1st ever edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica

Ancient Greeks and Romans could not penetrate the
wetlands of South Sudan. Although James Bruce claimed
to be the first European, modern writers give the credit to
the Jesuit Pedro Páez.
According to Pliny the Elder, it was "in a mountain of
lower Mauretania.”
Richard Francis Burton was outraged at fellow explorer
John Hanning Speke’s claim, since Burton regarded this
as still unsettled.
However, it was a journalist in search of somebody, who
confirmed Speke’s observations in 1875.
What were all these guys trying to find over the years?

The Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan was built by Thomas Cook in
1899 for British tourists sailing from Luxor. The ostentatiously
spacious Room 1101 in the Old Wing is named after Winston
Churchill who visited there in 1902. On the floor above, Room
1201 is the _____ _____ suite who came here in 1937 for a specific
purpose. The body of work created here by the person in the
blanks can be worked out from the geography.
Talking of the Old Wing, the more starkly modern Nile wing was
originally built to house people for a certain purpose in the 60s.
ID the person in the blanks, the body of work and the purpose
for which the Nile wing was put to use initially…
2+3+5

AGATHA CHRISTIE, DEATH ON THE NILE
• Originally built to house Soviet workers
constructing the nearby Aswan High Dam in the
Sixties.

In order to save the distance around the concerned water
body, busses and cars cross the Strait of Tiquina on barges
or canoes when the passengers usually separate from the
heaver vehicles.
The above-mentioned strait is the only one of a kind,
where it does not separate 2 different water bodies but the
larger and smaller portions of the same water body.
Just give me the name of the water body in question…

LAKE TITICACA
• In Peru, these smaller and larger
parts are referred to as Lago
Pequeño and Lago Grande,
respectively.

 In the midst of a frantic 2 week search, the War
department hung Wanted posters with an innovation
which became a fixture of law enforcement after this
incident.
 Along with the person suspected, the posters mentioned
John S. Surratt and David C. Harold.
 Fishermen pointed soldiers in the right direction, and
they located the main person involved in a Virginia
tobacco barn; they burnt the barn and found the suspect
had been shot through the neck.
 Who was the main one involved?
 What was the innovation?

JOHN WILKES BOOTH; PHOTOGRAPHS

The cast and crew gathered to shoot the scene in
a bar at Vincennes, at the busiest hour, which
explains why a crowd of onlookers is pressing
close to the rail that separates the rest of the
café from the part, right nearby, where the shoot
is taking place.
The performance initially took place to John Lee
Hooker’s “Shake It Baby”, however we get to
hear the music composed by Michael Legrand.
Which ‘performance’ is being referred to?

On October 24, 1971, the Detroit Lions were hosting
the Chicago Bears at Tiger Stadium. Late in the game, with
Detroit trailing 28-23, the Lions were driving into Chicago
territory and X, who entered the game as an injury
replacement, caught a pass from Greg Landry for thirty-
two yards and a first down at the Bears' 37-yard line.
Three plays later, Landry threw a pass that tight
end Charlie Sanders dropped near the end zone. X, a decoy
on the play, began running back to the huddle with 1:02
showing on the clock.
Who is X and what happens next, which makes him the
sole entrant of a cursed list (as far NFL is concerned)?

Suddenly, he dropped to the turf clutching his chest
around the 20-yard line. Hughes collapsed near
Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, who saw him begin to
convulse violently on the field. Realizing what was
going on, Butkus motioned to the sideline frantically
to get Hughes assistance
Charles Frederick "Chuck" Hughes, only NFL player to
die on the field during the game.

Haidar Ali co-wrote the blockbuster movie
Jodhaa Akbar. His early stint with acting
however was some 3 decades ago, where he
portrayed the character of Raja in a TV series.
ID the series.
Also, name his more famous mother, who had
the distinction of a certain 1st in India.

NUKKAD
PRAMILA, THE FIRST MISS
INDIA

An apprentice sign-writer in Wellington, art seemed a
natural progression for him and when he left the sign-
writing trade, he for a time ran an eponymous Bag
Shop in the city he shifted to.
As women browsed, he surreptitiously sketched their
profiles on the back of a brown paper bag, a stack of
which he kept within arm's reach under the bench
top. Later, some of these sketches became works on
canvas.
But his art never became widely known.
ID this gentleman…

• LADY WITH DOG
A Quiz by SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz, who still directs it, The
American ________ _______ Tournament is the oldest and
largest tournament of its kind held in the United
States; the 2009 event attracted nearly 700 competitors.
For 30 years the contest was held at
the Marriott in Stamford, Connecticut, but owing to
increasing popularity, in 2008 it moved to the larger
Marriott Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. In 2015
the tournament returned to Stamford.
FITB…

In their May, 1977 issue National Geographic
featured an article called The Celts: Europe's
Founders, the article featured a section called Vive
Les Celts.
Whom or what was this particular section devoted to,
in an attempt to popularize it in the States?

ASTERIX
• The strip was later reprinted in Asterix and
the Class Act.

Although probably already in use to some extent, the use
of this phrase meaning to continue a series in a somewhat
dismissive manner probably entered common language as
a result of the 1975 musical Chicago, based on a play
written by Maurine Dallas Watkins in 1926. The opening
song is performed by Chita Rivera in the original cast
album from the musical, but Liza Minnelli's 1975 single of
the song gave the phrase even more popularity.
The phrase also lends itself to the title of a 1979 musical,
an Ella Fitzgerald album, and a radio series, among other
uses in literature and music.

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