Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2019

Kaushik Banerjee
Memorial Quiz 6.0
Set & Hosted By:
Samanway Banerjee
November 17, 2019

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Guinea Pigs
• Prithwish Dutta
• Arindam Dutta
• Debanjan Bose
• Mohit Tulsyan

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• 25 questions, worth 30 points
• Q 11-20 are starred, to be used in case of a tie.
• Q 21-25 are worth two points each.
• All the questions are workable. Please go for it. No negs.
• All kind of electronic devices to be put away during prelims.
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Prelims

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• Nirmala Patankar, now retired, was a professor at the Centre for
Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta.
• A Marathi herself and added to that, her elder child was born in
Mumbai, the latter was given a middle name, synonymous to the
guardian deity of the region.
• Just give me the middle name. [1 word]
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• Binayak

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• According to Richard Dawkins, religion is the ultimate ____. Once you
have heard of it, you can’t stop thinking about it and it evolves as it
passes from one person to another.
• FITB.
2.

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• Meme

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• On the next slide is an image of a silodrome from a small town near
Jamshedpur.
• What is the three word name by which we call such a place in the
vernacular, referencing the inevitable fatality associated with stunts
performed here?
• Bravado in such a setup gives Anil Kapoor the much needed edge to
win over Madhuri Dixit in Beta.
3.

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• Maut Ka Kuan

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• Sometime in October 2019, Mint Lounge did an issue on climate
change.
• It looks at the recent UN report on rising oceans to see how the world,
especially India, is getting affected.
• The cover featured which artwork, with a small miniature image of
Gateway of India?
4.

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• The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

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• The representatives of G20 are drawn from nineteen countries:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India,
Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,
South Korea, Turkey, the UK and the USA.
• Which entity holds the 20th seat?
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• European Union.

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• This is a statewise breakdown of 64 individuals to have come on board after
achieving something.
• Tamil Nadu: 23
• West Bengal: 8,
• Maharashtra: 7,
• New Delhi: 6,
• Andhra Pradesh: 4,
• Kerala, Telangana and Karnataka: 3 each.
• What am I talking of?
6.

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• Chess Grandmasters from India.

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• The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for
galaxies invented by Edwin Hubble in 1926. It is often known
colloquially as the Hubble ______ ____ diagram because of the shape
in which it is traditionally represented.
• FITB.
7.

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• Tuning fork
• In June 2019, however, citizen scientists through Galaxy Zoo reported
that the usual Hubble classification, particularly concerning spiral
galaxies, may not be supported, and may need updating.

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• The name of this dance form possibly
comes from the Czech word for ‘half’
referring to the short half-steps featured in
the dance.
• The OED suggests that the name may have
been derived from the Czech term for a
woman of an east European country.
• Connect the dots and id the dance form.
8.

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• Polka
• Also means ‘Polish woman’

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• In 2017, which difficult task of continuity was taken up by Adriana
Hunter, with equal excitement and apprehension, after an
octogenarian retired from this job the preceding year?
• If it rings anything, the original person was first approached with this
rather daunting task by a publishing firm in the 1960s. She was paired
with a professor of French who was able to help her navigate the
various cultural and social references.
9.

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• Translating the Asterix Comics into English.
• Original translators were Anthea Bell and Derek
Hockridge.

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• On September 3, 2019 at 8:22pm local time (17:22 GMT), thousands of
spectators gathered to witness the synchronised projection of
something onto a number of the country’s most iconic buildings.
• What was being projected?
10.

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• FIFA World Cup 2022 logo.

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• The next 10 questions are starred.
• Please mark your answer sheets accordingly.

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• What kind of structures
are they trying to map
(work in progress)?
11.

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• Art Deco buildings in Calcutta.
• Metro Cinema, Tower House, Laha Paint house, Albert David HQ,
Hindustan Buildings, Hindu Mutual House, Magnet House, James Wright
Ltd HQ, Marigold house, Paribahan Bhaban building, Faraday House,
Bentink Mansion, Kundu Special office, Jajodia Mansions, Utkal
Satsang centre, Embassy Hotel and restaurant, to name a few.

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• The Aunts, unmarried and chaste, are the custodians of female
morality;
• The Wives are attached to the Commanders and elite professionals;
• The Econowives are wedded to the working classes;
• The Marthas are domestic helps;
• In this pecking order, who are treated the worst, used as scapegoats for
crimes, yet tasked with one specific task?
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• The Handmaids are fertile women, tasked
with providing progeny to a mostly barren
population.

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• In one of his stand-up specials, Ricky Gervais explained how he had to
book a helicopter to reach Dublin from London a few years back, as
the volcano eruption in Iceland ensured all flights to be canceled.
• People got stranded. They missed weddings and funerals and far more
important meetings. The airlines strictly said that they wouldn’t pay a
penny, as the insurance companies would not have paid them back.
• Give me a three-word answer, the reason cited by the airlines, already
made familiar to us courtesy a Bollywood film.
13.

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• Act of God

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• In 1926 a book titled "Life of Barrister Savarkar" was published, written
by someone who used the pseudonym Chitragupta. It was the colonial
period and authors mostly used pseudonyms lest they get harassed by
the British. The book lavishes praise on Savarkar, and is believed to be
the origin of the epithet ‘Veer’ as it is mostly associated with the
person.
• In 1987, the original edition was reprinted, with a startling revelation.
• What?
14.

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• Chitragupta was Savarkar himself.
• In other words, “Gangadhar hi Shaktiman hai”

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• The Edict of Fontainebleau was issued on June 1, 1540 by the King
Francis I while at his Palace of Fontainebleau. It occurred after the
"Affair of the Placards" turned Francis I's policy from one of tolerance to
the persecution of the Protestants.
• In Western history, which term was first applied to French Protestant
Huguenots looking for a safe place against Catholic persecution after
the first Edict of Fontainebleau?
15.

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• Refugee

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• In 1940, NYC Mayor Fiorello ________ took advantage of the disastrous
finances of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit and the Interborough Rapid
Transit, ravaged by the Depression and the ban on fare increases, to
acquire both companies. That strained the city’s resources, with a total
cost of $326,248,000. The cost was not much lower than that of building
the entire IND network, and while it did unify the system, it didn’t
produce a single additional mile of subway.
• What is his surname, whose legacy still survives, albeit in a different
mode of travel?
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• LaGuardia

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• On the next slide is an image from a scroll which was discovered in
Herculaneum in 1750s. In 1810, George, Prince of Wales, received 18 of
them and presented four to the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a gift.
• Archaeologists have struggled to find a way to read the damaged
scrolls, so there’s little known about their contents.
• What damaged these scrolls, or what are these black marks?
17.

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• Volcanic ashes from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

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• Teresa Knowlton was a young woman from California who had
planned to become a Buddhist nun.
• Her corpse was the first to be found, floating off Pattaya Beach.
• The specific sartorial choice she was seen in gave rise to a moniker for
her murderer.
• What?
18.

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• ‘Bikini Killer’ for Charles Sobhraj

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• Shakespeare, the original ‘first boy’ when it comes to new phrases,
used it when Mercutio, in reference to a duel of wits with Romeo, said:
“Nay if our wits run the ____ _____ _____, I am done.”
• This found idiomatic usage in the world of sports. In the 17th century, it
was quite the thing to set one horse off on a ramble and require the
trailing horses, set off at intervals, to follow it as accurately as possible.
• Which phrase be this?
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• Wild goose chase.

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• The cease-fire border dividing the two parts of the country earned its
“Green Line” nickname after a peace force commander used a green
marker to draw a wobbly line across a map of the country in 1964.
• Now the zone is verdant with flora and fauna, including the lapwing
wading bird, the once-presumed-extinct spiny mouse, and the
mouflon—a wild sheep with large curled horns.
• Which country?
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• Cyprus

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• A recent Guardian article by Polly Smythe begins thus:
• If the rules of ___________ _________ are as constant as the _____ ____, so is
the format. Every series since time immemorial has featured an array of
questionable knitwear, a student who can correctly identify Tchaikovsky’s
Fifth Symphony in E Minor but go blank at George Michael’s Faith, and a
seemingly endless barrage of Oxford and Cambridge teams.
• The writer referred to something universal in the second set of blanks, but
the quizzically inclined me immediately associated it with a now-defunct
event in this part of the world.
• Give me both set of blanks.
21.

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• University Challenge
• North Star

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• An Indian woman named Malinche knew the Aztec language Nahuatl
and Mayan.
• A priest, Gerónimo del Aguilar, had been shipwrecked in the Yucatán
and learned Mayan during his sojourn there.
• They acted as the interpreters between which two people, in an epic
meeting in which few things were lost in translation, changing the
history of a continent in the process?
22.

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• Hernan Cortes
• Monteczuma II

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• In July 2012, a then recently published Forbes expose of this company
tarnished it’s image. The headline asked, “Can X Deliver?"; the writer
all but predicted that it wouldn’t.
• Cut to 2019. Mihir Dalal’s book on the journey of this entity is titled ‘___
______ Startup’. The date from which it was available in stores, 6th
October, only enhanced it’s aptness.
• Which company?
• FITB.
23.

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• Flipkart
• Big Billion Startup

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• In an interview, he explains how there has always been a deep Irish-
Indian connection, underscoring a decades-long relationship that
dates back to Mahatma Gandhi, who warned Sinn Fein, about the by-
products of violent protests.
• He goes on to add: “And our current Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, as
we call him, his father’s from Mumbai”.
• All this in respect to something, which will see its final stop in Mumbai in
about a month’s time, i.e. December 2019.
• Who am I talking of? Why exactly is he coming to India?
24.

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• Bono
• The Joshua Tree Concert.

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• Akram Khan's solo performance in the turn of this decade saw him return to
the roots of his homeland, in search of the stories and characters of his past.
• What is the one word name for the production, an integral part of the
cultural consciousness of many a Bengali, although now fallen out of
favour?
• The designs that you will be watching are by Tim Yip, a Chinese artist
known for his work on a 2000 Asian film for which he won an Academy
Award for Best Art Direction.
• Which BP nominee?
25.

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• Desh
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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• Finals in a while…

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The Deal
• Written Round 1.0- Anniversaries- 4.
• Infinite Pounce 1.0- 15+1.
• Written Round 2.0- Alliteration- 6.
• Infinite Pounce 2.0- 15+1.

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Written Round 1.0
•4 questions, on various anniversaries in 2019.
•+10 for each correct answer.
•+10 for a full house.
•50 points up for grabs.

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• Surinder Kaur is often referred to as the
Nightingale of Punjab.
• This song is from the soundtrack of which film,
heard amidst chaos in a cosmopolitan
structure?
1. 25 years

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• They were the first people to be offered which iconic role, which later
went to a young guy working for the advertising section of Indian Express?
50 years2.

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• Martha Ellis Gellhorn, who happened to be the third wife of Ernest
Hemingway was a famous journalist herself. Lacking official press
credentials to witness a historical incident, she hid in a hospital ship
bathroom, and after reaching the destination impersonated a stretcher
bearer.
• 75 years back, she was the only woman to have witnessed which
defining incident of the bygone century?
75 years3.

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• The Economic Consequences of the Peace is a book written and
published by a British delegate. In his book, he argued for a much
more generous peace, not out of a desire for justice or fairness – these
are aspects of the peace that he does not deal with – but for the sake
of the economic well-being of all of Europe.
• Who wrote it?
• Where did he represent the British Treasury?
100 years4.

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• Please exchange!

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• Surinder Kaur is often referred to as the
Nightingale of Punjab.
• This song is from the soundtrack of which film,
heard amidst chaos in a cosmopolitan
structure?

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• They were the first people to be offered which iconic role, which later
went to a young guy working for the advertising section of Indian Express?

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• Goopy Gyne
• 1st choice was Arun
Mukherjee.
• The passed onto Kishore
Kumar who would have
sung the songs as well.
• Jibonlal Banerjee, who
later served as the editor
of Satyajug was briefly
considered.

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• Martha Ellis Gellhorn, who happened to be the third wife of Ernest
Hemingway was a famous journalist herself. Lacking official press
credentials to witness a historical incident, she hid in a hospital ship
bathroom, and upon impersonated a stretcher bearer.
• 75 years back, she was the only woman to have witnessed which
defining incident of the bygone century?

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• The Economic Consequences of the Peace is a book written and
published by a British delegate. In his book, he argued for a much
more generous peace, not out of a desire for justice or fairness – these
are aspects of the peace that he does not deal with – but for the sake
of the economic well-being of all of Europe.
• Who wrote it?
• Where did he represent the British Treasury?

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• John Maynard Keynes; Paris Peace Conference
(Treaty of Versailles)
• After the First World War, Keynes attended the
Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as a delegate
of the British Treasury.

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• Scores Please!

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Infinite Pounce 1.0
•15 (+1) questions.
•+10 for each correct answer on direct/bounce.
•+10/-5 on pounce.

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• This is someone writing in the final edition of his magazine:
• “...our function was to make our readers laugh — at the world, at
pompous leaders, at humbug, at foibles, at ourselves. But, what are the
people who have a developed sense of humour? It is a people with
certain civilised norms of behaviour, where there is tolerance and a
dash of compassion.”
• Who?
• What prompted him to literally shut his shop, after almost three
decades of success?
1.

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Question slide
Safety slide
Answer slide

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• K Shankar Pillai

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• Emergency

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• Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 copies remain in existence.
Graded 8/10 on the accepted quality measurement, it was the first of
its kind to sell for $1 million, in 2010.
• That same year a second copy (graded 8.5) sold for $1.5 million. Actor
Nicolas Cage had his copy stolen in 2000, only for it to be recovered in
2011, and then sold for $2.16 million.
• In fact Nic Cage was chosen by Tim Burton for the titular character of a
shelved 90s film.
• Copy of what?
2.

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• 1st issue of Action Comics.

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• A few years ago, someone published the results of what is called the Great
Elephant Census, which counted all the savanna elephants in Africa. What it
found rocked the conservation world.
• Researchers landed on artificial intelligence. 50 custom audio recorders were
made. As the months wore on, the recorders were collecting hundreds of
thousands of hours of jungle sounds, — which meant there was another problem:
How could someone sort through all these recordings to find the elephant voices
he wanted?
• In AI circles this is known as the ‘________ _____ problem.’ The blanks indicate a
place where with a lot of background noise, the human brain can focus on a
specific person's voice and amplify that above all the other voices. AI can do
the same thing.
• Who is this tech guy, always remembered as a second fiddle? Also, FITB.
3.

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• Paul Allen

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• ‘Cocktail Party’ problem

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• Id the speaker, reminiscing about someone from his trade.
• Who is he talking about? [3+7]
4.

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• Gulzar talking about Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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• Proposals to amend the timescale require evidence in the form of
cores of sediment that have been extracted from the ground. Within
the core there must be a clear sign of major environmental change
marked by a chemical or biological trace in the strata, which acts as
the physical evidence of where one unit stops and another begins.
• All these to determine the new epoch. This marker is often called
‘golden spike’ after the object next slide.
• What was the historical significance of the object, as it was put to use
on May 10, 1869, somewhere in Utah?
5.

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• This marker is often called the “golden spike” after the ceremonial
gold spike that was used to join two railway tracks by Leland Stanford
when they met in the middle of the US at Promontory Summit, Utah
Territory, forming the transcontinental railroad.

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• Eliza Scidmore was an entity’s first official female writer, photographer,
and board member.
• She was also an advocate of something in Washington D.C. After
spending time living and reporting from a specific country, she
returned to Washington with photographs of what she described as
“the most beautiful thing in the world” —and began petitioning
President Grover Cleveland’s administration to use the path along the
Tidal Basin for the same.
• Which organization did she work for?
• What was popularized by her in D.C?
6.

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• National Geographic

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• Cherry blossoms…

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• In April 1911, the government of a particular country held an international
competition to produce a design for its new capital city. Walter Burley Griffin,
an American architect, produced a design with impressive renderings of the
plan done by his better half Mahony Griffin. On May 23, 1912, Griffin's design
was selected as the winner from among 137 entries.
• What city be this?
• A precinct in the same city is named after _______ Circle, the street which forms
the northern boundary of the precinct. It was on his original plan and named
after Leptospermum scoparium, a tea tree from its neighbouring country.
• What specific venue am I talking of?
7.

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• Canberra
• Manuka Oval

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• In 1935, Griffin won a commission to design the library at a certain
university in India.
• Although he had planned to stay here only to complete the drawings for
the library, he soon received more than 40 commissions.
• In fact, he died of peritonitis in early 1937, five days after gall bladder
surgery at King George's Hospital and was buried in Christian Cemetery of
the same city.
• Which city?
Free Hit8.

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• Lucknow

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• As a military slang name for an object, this particular word dates back
to 1916. No one is quite sure where the word comes from, although
one popular theory claims that because they were non-rigid variants
they would supposedly be listed on military inventories under the
heading “Category _: ____.”
• However, a more likely idea is that the name is onomatopoeic, and
meant to imitate the sound that the taut skin or “envelope” of a fully
inflated one makes when flicked.
• This is the origin story for which word used to describe what kind of
objects?
9.

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• Why Zeppelins are called Blimps
• Category B: Limp

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• In 1492, when Spanish boats first trod the beaches of the Bahamas, the
Admiral thought these islands were an outpost of the fabulous isle of
Zipango. The source of the name was a book Columbus took along
with him and covered its margins with notes. The inhabitants of
Zipango, according to it’s author, "have gold in the greatest
abundance, its sources being inexhaustible. . . In this island there are
pearls also, in large quantities, of a red color, round in shape, and of
great size, equal in value to, or even exceeding that of white pearls.”
• How do we better know Zipango?
• Whose book did Columbus carry?
10.

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• Japan
• Marco Polo

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• He became obsessed with the underworld of counterfeiting gangs after he
was made Warden of the Royal Mint in 1696. His penchant towards
something had made him quite an expert at assessing the purity of metals.
By his reckoning, one in five coins in circulation in England were false. He
took on the criminal networks, collecting evidence by frequenting taverns
and brothels in disguise. In 1699 he ensnared the master forger William
Chaloner, who once boasted he had ‘coined’ 30,000 guineas of false gold
(the equivalent of £50 million today). Chaloner was convicted of treason
and publicly hanged, drawn and quartered.
• Who is this gentleman?
• What practice made him an expert in determining the purity of metals?
[3+7]
11.

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• Isaac Newton
• Alchemy

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• Mick Brown, a Daily Telegraph journalist, is the author of several books,
including Richard Branson: The Inside Story, a 1988 biography of the
man who founded the airline, Virgin Atlantic. As a result, someone, often
dubbed “the Richard Branson of India”, put out feelers to Brown. “His
people approached me to see whether I would do a biography,” Brown
confides. “It wasn’t something that I was interested in doing.”
• What made Brown silently grab media attention in this part of the world
earlier in 2019?
• Who got in touch with him after the Branson biography hit the stands?
12.

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• He tracked Nirav Modi

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• A major portion of the screenplay demanded for a village circus,
something increasingly going out of vogue these days. After thorough
search, the desired tent was found at a place called Malancha, on the way
to Basanti, in South 24 Parganas.
• When the cast members, Ramen Roychowdhury, Arjun Rampal, Jishu
Sengupta and Jibon Guha arrived on the first day of shoot, police were
already having a difficult time in controlling the crowd.
• Which film?
• Who, someone whose latest outing has been fighting crime in the capital,
received her sole National Award for this film?
13.

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• Secondo Pia was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best
known for taking the first photographs of something on May 28, 1898 and,
when he was developing them, noticing that the photographic negatives
showed a clearer rendition.
• What?
• He can also be considered a pioneer in the field of photography for using
a recent invention in the 1890s, given that they were a novelty in the late
nineteenth century, with the reliable ones having been invented only in
1879.
• Which invention greatly enhanced his industry?
14.

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• Shroud of Turin

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• Lightbulbs by Edison.

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• Talking of Edison, this 1903 silent short film was written, produced, and
directed by Edwin S. Porter, a former Edison Studios cameraman. Actors
in the movie included Alfred C. Abadie, Broncho Billy Anderson and
Justus D. Barnes, although there were no credits. Though a Western, it was
filmed in Milltown, New Jersey. The film was inspired by Scott Marble's
1896 stage play, and may also have been inspired by a 1900 incident
perpetrated by the guy on the next slide, who would have his own biopic
six and half decades later.
• What was the name of this film, sharing its title with a similar act pulled off
decades later?
• Who is the guy on the next slide?
15.

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• Great Train Robbery
• Butch Cassidy

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• Talking of trains…
• In 1888, the Census Bureau held a contest: using samples of population
statistics from St. Louis, it asked challengers to invent new ways of
processing data. To general amazement, a twenty-eight-year-old former
census employee won easily.
• This son of a German immigrant grew up in Buffalo, tinkering with
machines. He especially liked trains—he had already pioneered an
“electro air brake” for them—and it was this passion that led to his idea for
tabulation. He knew, from his census work, that it took too long for an
enumerator to write out answers by hand.
• Who? What was his inspiration?
16.

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• Herman Hollerith
• He had noticed how quickly train conductors could punch passenger
tickets as they moved through a crowded car. He reasoned that a
device could record the census in a similar way.
• One part of the contest asked the candidates to divide the data into
categories. It took the second- and third-place competitors forty-four
and a half hours and fifty-five and a half hours, respectively. Hollerith’s
machine did the same task in five and a half hours.

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Written Round 2.0
•6 questions, having alliterative answers, like ‘Herman Hollerith’
•+10 for each correct answer.
•+10 for a full house.
•70 points up for grabs.

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• Plan of which mausoleum?
• The image on the next slide
directly lends itself to the name of
this place.
1.

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• During WW 2, babies had special gas masks made for them which
would only be issued if an emergency situation arose. Children were
issued with what became known as “_____ ______” gas masks – the
nickname was an attempt by the government to make the gas masks
seem less scary.
• FITB.
2.

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• In 2016, during a dinner organized by the Lord’s Taverners, Jeffrey Dujon
made a revealing statement. Asked who among the plethora of
outrageously quick fast bowlers that he kept wickets to was the fastest,
his answer surprised everyone present. For Dujon, who had the
unwelcome job of facing up to everyone from Andy Roberts to Malcolm
Marshall and Curtly Ambrose from behind the stumps, this answer
seems appropriate enough, as vouched by even cricketers like
Graham Gooch who spoke about the mortal fear of facing this person’s
deliveries. Though now faded into oblivion, his highest score in Test
matches came at Wankhede-21 not out.
• Who?
3.

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• Since 1974, it has bestowed its annual Inkpot
Award on guests and persons of interest in the
popular arts industries, as well as on members
of its board of directors. It is also the home of
the Will Eisner Awards.
• What am I talking of, subject of this book?
4.

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• A few minutes into Anand Patwardhan’s superlative documentary
‘Ram Ke Naam’, someone is seen addressing a congregation and
thanking them for turning up. Given his reach for the masses and his
penchant for silencing the people with his baritone, it seemed a
natural choice. He gave the necessary shout outs, when the film broke
into LK Advani continuing with his speech.
• In 2019, he was nowhere to be seen, as he contested against BJP from
his famed constituency and ended up losing. Oh how the tides have
turned.
• Who?
5.

3/26/2019
• Voting was not always a private affair conducted behind the safety of
a curtain. In early America, everyone knew your vote. They heard it
loud and clear. You voted by stepping up to an election officer and
announcing your vote in front of spectators. The practice was called
____ ____. This, naturally, led to intimidation and harassment.
• Which phrase loaned from Latin be this, much dreaded in the student
community even in this part of the world?
6.

3/26/2019
• Plan of which mausoleum?
• The image on the next slide
directly lends itself to the name of
this place.

3/26/2019
• Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur

3/26/2019
• During WW 2, babies had special gas masks made for them which
would only be issued if an emergency situation arose. Children were
issued with what became known as “_____ ______” gas masks – the
nickname was an attempt by the government to make the gas masks
seem less scary.
• FITB.

3/26/2019
• Mickey Mouse

3/26/2019
• In 2016, during a dinner organized by the Lord’s Taverners, Jeffrey Dujon
made a revealing statement. Asked who among the plethora of
outrageously quick fast bowlers that he kept wickets to was the fastest,
his answer surprised everyone present. For Dujon, who had the
unwelcome job of facing up to everyone from Andy Roberts to Malcolm
Marshall and Curtly Ambrose from behind the stumps, this answer
seems appropriate enough, as vouched by even cricketers like
Graham Gooch who spoke about the mortal fear of facing this person’s
deliveries. Though now faded into oblivion, his highest score in Test
matches came at Wankhede-21 not out.
• Who?

3/26/2019
• Patrick Patterson

3/26/2019
• Since 1974, it has bestowed its annual Inkpot
Award on guests and persons of interest in the
popular arts industries, as well as on members
of its board of directors. It is also the home of
the Will Eisner Awards.
• What am I talking of, subject of this book?

3/26/2019
• (San Diego) Comic Con

3/26/2019
• A few minutes into Anand Patwardhan’s superlative documentary
‘Ram Ke Naam’, someone is seen addressing a congregation and
thanking them for turning up. Given his reach for the masses and his
penchant for silencing the people with his baritone, it seemed a
natural choice. He gave the necessary shout outs, when the film broke
into LK Advani continuing with his speech.
• In 2019, he was nowhere to be seen, as he contested against BJP from
his famed constituency and ended up losing. Oh how the tides have
turned.
• Who?

3/26/2019
• Shatrughan Sinha

3/26/2019
• Voting was not always a private affair conducted behind the safety of
a curtain. In early America, everyone knew your vote. They heard it
loud and clear. You voted by stepping up to an election officer and
announcing your vote in front of spectators. The practice was called
____ ____. This, naturally, led to intimidation and harassment.
• Which phrase loaned from Latin be this, much dreaded in the student
community even in this part of the world?

3/26/2019
• Viva Voce

3/26/2019
Infinite Pounce 2.0
•15 (+1) questions.
•+10 for each correct answer on direct/bounce.
•+10/-5 on pounce.

3/26/2019
• Excerpt from Thomas Friedman’s “Thank You For Being Late”:
• “That response should go down in history with the first words ever uttered
on a telephone, on March 10, 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell, the
inventor, called his assistant—whose name, ironically, was Thomas
Watson—and said, “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.” In my
mind, “What is ‘shoe’?” is also up there with the first words uttered by
Neil Armstrong when he set his foot down on the moon, on July 20, 1969:
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
• What was the significance of this statement, in terms of a turning point
achieved on Feb 14, 2011?
1.

3/26/2019
• Watson did not try to respond to
the first clue, but with the second
clue he buzzed in first to answer.
• The clue was: “Iron fitting on the
hoof of a horse or a card-dealing
box in a casino.”
• Watson, in perfect Jeopardy!
style, responded with the question
“What is ‘shoe’?
IBM Watson winning Jeopardy!

3/26/2019
• On the eve of Second General Elections in 1957, the Election Commission
received an interesting suggestion to tackle impersonation – instead of
marking the left forefinger of a voter with indelible ink, he should undergo a
procedure compulsorily before receiving any ballot paper.
• The reasoning was that it would remain prominent for well over a week and
a voter would not be able to personate another voter for that period. The
suggestion came following criticism that the mark made on a voter's finger
by indelible ink is not, in fact, indelible and is capable of being removed.
• What procedure be this, the specific one in this case would not have been
possible if it was after 1979?
2.

3/26/2019
• Vaccinating (or revaccinating) for small pox.

3/26/2019
• Because it is low-density but high in strength, balsa is a very popular
material for light, stiff structures.
• It is also valued as a component of full-sized light wooden aeroplanes, most
notably the World War II de Havilland Mosquito.
• Its most famous application however came in 1947, that, according to its
principal protagonist, serendipitously saved a group of homo sapiens.
• What?
3.

3/26/2019
• Cenacle is also known as the “Upper Room”. The first Christian church,
it is actually a portion in the David's Tomb Compound in Jerusalem.
• What part of a regular household does it translate to, in Latin?
• With reference to the above, this place is considered to be the site for
what?
4.

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• Dining Room
• Last Supper

3/26/2019
• On a cool afternoon in October 1980, Dawood and his brother Sabir
became the target of the Pathans for being a threat to the latter’s
hegemony in Bombay. What they were doing around that time is
termed in local slang as ‘hazari lagana’.The Pathans-Amirzada and
Alamzeb-knew of a particular handicap regarding Dawood on that
specific day. They decided to take advantage of this to finish him off,
because under no other circumstances would they find him the same
again.
• What exactly was ‘hazari lagana’?
• Why would that be an appropriate time?
5.

3/26/2019
• Routine police station visits.
• He would not be carrying
any weapons to the police
station.

3/26/2019
• In 1912, Heinrich Kubis, a German, became the world’s first _______
___________. The first woman to be ushered in what would later
become a female dominated profession was Ellen Church. Because of
her primary profession, other companies followed suit, recruiting similar
women.
• FITB. Which other qualification was mandatory? [2+3]
• This was relaxed and completely went out of fashion thanks to a major
event.
• How did that event help relax this? [5]
6.

3/26/2019
• Flight attendant.
• One had to be a registered nurse.

3/26/2019
• WW II broke out which meant military nurses were required.

3/26/2019
• On the next slide is an image showing the geographical range of a
particular species. The portion marked in brown is inconclusive.
• What am I talking of, first formally described by Albert Gunther in 1864
before scaring a Bengalee seven decades later?
• De'Anthony Thomas plays for the Baltimore Ravens. Snoop Dogg claims
to have given Thomas a particular nickname though Sports Illustrated
claims otherwise. This specific nickname is however associated with
another sportsperson, who hung up his boots a few years back.
• Who?
7.

3/26/2019
• Kobe Bryant
• Black Mamba

3/26/2019
• Albert Gunther’s landmark paper on the anatomy of a creature was
the first to establish that the reptile was not a lizard, but in fact the only
living member of an entirely new group of reptiles, which he named
Rhynchocephalia. Fossil and genetic evidence have subsequently
confirmed Günther's assertion, and it is now recognised as the only
living member of a once diverse lineage that shared a common
ancestor with lizards and snakes over 240 million years ago.
• Which animal be this, known to us thanks to someone’s mistaken
pronunciation?
Free Hit8.

3/26/2019
• Tuatara and not Taratua

3/26/2019
• ID the short film which earned its director the Palme d'Or Grand Prize at
the Cannes Film Festival, and an Oscar for writing the Best Original
Screenplay in 1956.
• Yet, his most famous contribution is perhaps something originally
released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde in France.
• What?
9.

3/26/2019
• Talking of Cannes…
• In Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation of a subterranean literary work,
the film abruptly ends with Kōji Mitsui breaking the fourth wall to utter a
callous remark about a fellow slum dweller's suicide.
• Which work/film, also adapted by Jean Renoir two decades before
Kurosawa?
• One of its notable adaptations raked in the Palme d’Or . What?
10.

3/26/2019
• In a letter dated October 10, 1991 to then President R Venkataraman,
Prime Minister P.V Narsimha Rao proposed this idea involving a person,
which was eventually met with vehement opposition.
• "I have discussed today with President and he said that there is no
provision for withdrawing the _______ _____ _____. It will not be sent to
Archives. It may be kept with Home Ministry. It will not be mentioned when
the names are called. Nothing needs to be done," the note quoting then
home minister said.
• The idea was briefly floated again in 2014. Needless to say, that was a
deliberate attempt at pocketing a few votes.
• What was the brouhaha all about?
11.

3/26/2019
• Netaji being awarded with
posthumous Bharat Ratna.

3/26/2019
• On the next slide are some signs commemorating a frequent guest in a
place named Rum Point. What?
• Which British Overseas territory, which gets its name from a Carib word
for crocodiles?
• While at it, ‘who’ was here on Sept 12, 2004?
• (Any 2 parts for full points)
12.

3/26/2019
• Hurricanes in the Atlantic
• Cayman Islands
• Hurricane Ivan

3/26/2019
• Talking of British territories, quite a few of them have shown to be
obese. Case in point being, Nauru, Samoa and so on.
• A 2014 study by the University of Oxford showed that a certain dietary
change that harked back to the colonial times was responsible for
bringing such a change.
• Which simple change be this?
13.

3/26/2019
• In an attempt to civilize the islanders, they were taught to fry the fish
instead of eating them raw.

3/26/2019
• During the 1970s and 1980s, a US programme - codenamed Hexagon -
launched 20 satellites into orbit for a specific purpose.
• In 2011, the material were handed over by the US Geological Survey for
scientists to use. They studied a region whose historical data is scarce. By
comparing these with more recent satellite data from Nasa and Jaxa,
the researchers have been able to see how the region has changed.
• The Columbia University team looked at 650 of something in the region
spanning 2,000km.
• What did Hexagon do? Also, 650 units of what spread across 2000km?
14.

3/26/2019
• Spy satellites to secretly
photograph the Earth.

3/26/2019
• Himalayan glaciers.

3/26/2019
• Shyamji Krishna Varma, the Oxford-educated lawyer founded the Indian
Home Rule Society in England. He might have had a role in influencing
Madan Lal Dhingra, who went on to assassinate Curzon Wyllie, a British
army officer, in South Kensington, in 1909.
• The assassination shocked the British and made some members of the
British establishment wonder if closer cultural ties with India were a good
idea. Rich industrialists in Bombay found a novel way. They hoped they
could reassure the British that not all Indians were potential assassins.
• What was their idea?
15.

3/26/2019
• ‘All-India’ cricket team to England.
• They met in 1909 to discuss this.
• The team would have Parsis, Hindus
and Muslims.

3/26/2019
• When Zlatan’s new statue was unveiled in front of a stadium, BBC
came up with a list of bizarre statues that have made headlines in
recent years.
• Getting an entry in this list along with the statues of CR7, Mo Salah and
the likes, is this Maradona statue.
• ID the 2 cities (i.e., Zlatan’s and Maradona’s) in question.
16.

3/26/2019
• Malmo
• Kolkata

3/26/2019
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