The document Notovitch claimed to have learned of at the Hemis Monastery describing Jesus' travels to India is known as the Life of Saint Issa."Issa" is considered to be a name used for Jesus in some parts of Asia

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PRELIMS:
25 questions, worth 30 points.
Questions 11-20 are starred. Kindly mark your sheets accordingly.
Questions 21-25 are 2-pointers.
Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
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1.
Launched in 2008, the annual event is currently sponsored by
IDBI Federal Life Insurance. The last edition also served as an
official qualifier round for a similar event in Rio Olympics 2016.
Which Athletics Federation of India-authorized project be this,
which has roped in Sachin Tendulkar as the brand ambassador for
the 2017 edition?
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2.
Which term, though originated in the 1850s in the British India
Office became more widely known when American naval strategist
Alfred Thayer Mahan used it in 1902 to "designate the area
between Arabia and India“?

MIDDLE-EAST

3.
Pictured here is Ding Baozhen (1820–1886), a late Qing
Dynasty official and governor of Sichuan Province whose
title, translating to “palace guardian” was used to name a
dish.
During the Cultural Revolution, the dish's name
became politically incorrect because of its association with
Ding. The dish was renamed "Fast-fried chicken cubes"
(Hongbao Jiding) until its political rehabilitation in the
1980s under Deng Xiaoping's reforms.

KUNG PAO Chicken comes from GONGBAO

4.Whose grave?As an additional hint, I do
not want their names.

SIAMESE TWINS

5.This 2013 book documents the history of
which company?

LEGO

6.
What, conceived as a piece of jewelry for women, was remarketed
through colonial warfare (like the First Boer War and the Third
Burmese War) as a thoroughly masculine fashion and became
quite the norm as we see it currently, by the 1930s?
It was mainly popularized by soldiers who came back home safely
and retained the habit.

WRISTWATCH

7.
So, one fine day, Pope Innocent VIII wished to expel the Jews from
Venice. But the canny Venetians, who were never slavish followers
of Rome, knew "their Jews" were valuable, particularly as the chief
source of financial credit in an age of trade and hence abruptly
removed them to one of the lagoon city's 117 islands, Canarregio,
and housed there under lock and key in 1516.
The fact that they were housed in a copper foundry, gave this area
what name, that would gain notoriety centuries later and is still a
dreaded term?

GHETTO

8.
On the next slide is a pic of Pemba Lamu Sherpa, widow of Dawa
Wangchuk Sherpa, at her residence. On May 20, 2014, he went
missing while descending the western side of Mount
Kanchenjunga. Pemba was married to Dawa on January 25, 2014,
and he left for the expedition just three months later.
Who was he accompanying in that fateful expedition?

CHHANDA GAYEN

9.
In the preface to an eponymous text, the person states, "Anu and
Bel called by name me, _________, the exalted prince, who feared
God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to
destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should
not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed
people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-
being of mankind.”
Either FITB or name the document.

The CODE of HAMMURABI

10.
The “_____-_-____ men" were business and government executives who helped
the government mobilize and manage American industry during periods of
war. U.S. law forbids the government from accepting the services of unpaid
volunteers. Those employed by the government had to be paid a nominal
salary, and the salary establishes their legal relationship as employees of the
government.
What was this practice that evolved into a more well known tradition as
observed by billionaires like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry
Page et al, in the years to come?

$1 as base salary.
• The blanks would be “dollar-a-year”.

*-ed questions

11. Looking for a very specific
answer…
The Shadi Parath will be required to be signed by a pundit and will be
registered with the relevant government department.
The simple document has eight columns starting with the date of
marriage and followed by the name of the union council, tehsil, town
and district.
Both the bride and the groom have to sign the document along with one
witness and the registrar.
This marriage bill, recently passed by the National Assembly, is for
which minority community?

PAKISTANI HINDUS

12.
In his "Natural History", Pliny the Elder recorded an event like this:
We find in Histories almost incredible examples of sharpness of the eyes.
Cicero hath recorded, that the poem of Homer called the Iliad, written on
parchment, was enclosed __ _ _______.
The fact that such a huge volume could be adjusted like that remains a case of
scientific miracle. This, however, can be achieved in today's world, thanks to
nanotechnology.
Hence the blanks, till date, continue to reflect the conciseness of an incident,
and over the years found mention in Hamlet or even Victorian era works and
went on to enter common lingo.
Simply, FITB.

IN A NUTSHELL

13. This is from an adaptation of Balwant
Gargi’s “Sultana Razia”. ID the gentleman
playing Jamaluddin Yakut here.

NASEERUDDIN SHAH

This phrase was 1st brought to popular consciousness at a Conference of the
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press led by Katherine Lawrence of Hewlett-
Packard. This was part of an ongoing discussion of a clash between written policy of
promotion versus action opportunities for women at HP. The term was coined by
Lawrence and HP manager Maryanne Schreiber.
The term was later used in March 1984 by Gay Bryant. In an Adweek article written
by Nora Frenkel, Bryant was reported as saying, "Women have reached a certain
point—I call it the ____ ______. They're in the top of middle management and they're
stopping and getting stuck. There isn't enough room for all those women at the top.
Some are going into business for themselves. Others are going out and raising
families.“
FITB with a phrase much heard of in the context of the recent US Presidential
election.
14.

Glass Ceiling

15. FITB with a couple of words.

ROMAN EMPERORS

16.
Envisioned by FDR as a “world moderator”, the vague definition
left much room for interpretation by those who would later
inhabit the position. According to the website of the entity they are
associated with, their roles are further defined as “diplomat and
advocate, civil servant and CEO.”
What am I talking about?

SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED
NATIONS

17.
Idries Shah published the book on the
right in 1966, just a year before “Tales of
the Dervishes” cemented his reputation.
Who is the subject of this book, someone,
who holds a special place in Sufi studies
and is quite popular in this part of the
world as well?

MULLAH NASIRUDDIN

18.
In 1887, a Russian war correspondent, Nicolas Notovitch claimed that while
at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, he had learned of a document, according
to which, X abandoned his hometown at the age of 13 and set out
towards Sind. He crossed Punjab and reached Puri Jagannath where he
studied the Vedas under Brahmin priests. He spent six years in Puri and
Rajgirh. Then he went to the Himalayas, and spent time in Tibetan
monasteries, studying Buddhism.
Notovitch's writings were immediately controversial and Max Müller stated
that either the monks at the monastery had deceived Notovitch (or played a
joke on him), or he had fabricated the evidence.Muller then wrote to the
monastery at Hemis and the head lama replied that there had been no
Western visitor at the monastery in the past fifteen years and there were no
documents related to Notovitch's story.
So, whose supposed visit to India was mentioned by Notovitch?

JESUS CHRIST

19. Lateral hint: the answer to the
previous question.
Randolph’s mother Mona was born in Delhi. He was born on 24th November
1941 in Chennai. His biological father was marine engineer Donald Scanland,
who subsequently died during World War II. Mona was training to become a
doctor in the service of the Red Cross when she met Johnny, who came from a
family of sports promoters in Liverpool who ran Liverpool Stadium. During
World War II, Johnny was a commissioned officer serving as a Physical
Training Instructor in India. They married on 7 March 1944 at St Thomas's
Cathedral, Bombay and Randolph too took Johnny’s surname. In 1945, the
family sailed for four weeks to Liverpool on the Georgic.
Despite having a superlative surname, Randolph did not prove prolific
enough for the entity he would be briefly associated with, in the years to
come.

PETE BEST
• Ringo Starr replaced him as the drummer for The Beatles.

20.
“Mannargudi Mafia” is the disparaging name given to Sasikala Natarajan’s
family, referring to the small town in Tiruvarur district that she comes from.
According to an AIADMK insider, it was X, the then CM of a certain state who
alerted the lady in Poes Garden and warned her about the Mannargudi mafia.
He apparently told Jayalalithaa to keep a watch on her inner ring. He is
believed to have indicated to her that big investors were avoiding Tamil Nadu
because of the extortionate demands of Sasikala and her family.
Specifically, an NRI businessman who came to Tamil Nadu with a project had
to shift to another state because the Mannargudi mafia had sought a 15
percent cut.
So, friends, ID X.

2-POINTERS
• 1 point for every correct part.

21. Which brand? Also, FITB (variations
accepted).
Songwriter Fred Leigh may have been the first to use the phrase in the sphere
of popular culture, but the phrase entered the common parlance not through
this musical tune, but through print advertisements run by a brand beginning
in 1925 that featured a sad-faced yet fetching young woman.
The text touting began “Edna’s case was a really pathetic one. Like every
woman, her primary ambition was to marry. Most of the girls of her set were
married — or about to be. Yet no one possessed more grace or charm or
loveliness than she. And as her birthdays crept towards that tragic thirty-
mark, marriage seemed farther from her life than ever. She was _____ _ _________
___ _____ _ _____.”

LISTERINE

22.
The pic next slide is the bird’s eye view of the new urban foot-
print of an Asian city, with 17 new islands, called The Great ______.
This is in response to its dubious distinction as the world’s fastest
sinking city.
Which city?
FITB.

GARUDA; JAKARTA

1.
In October 2016, Alex Younger said X would not “get through our recruitment
process” as he lacked a strong ethical core.
He further added, people in a such a profession cannot take moral shortcuts
and have to cope with complex moral and physical challenges in the most
forbidding environments on Earth. In fact, new recruits are expected to have
high degree of emotional intelligence, should value teamwork and must have
respect for the law always.
What is Alex Younger the head of?
Who is X?
23.

MI-6, JAMES BOND

24. Advt of??? Directed by??? (video removed)

H&M; Wes Anderson

25. Who covering whom?

Akshay Kumar covering Frank Sinatra

The document Notovitch claimed to have learned of at the Hemis Monastery describing Jesus' travels to India is known as the Life of Saint Issa."Issa" is considered to be a name used for Jesus in some parts of Asia

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The document Notovitch claimed to have learned of at the Hemis Monastery describing Jesus' travels to India is known as the Life of Saint Issa."Issa" is considered to be a name used for Jesus in some parts of Asia