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M EGA W HATS 2016 F INALS Research By Mitesh Agarwal and Venkatesh Srinivasan

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MEGAWHATS 2016FINALS

Research By

Mitesh Agarwal and Venkatesh Srinivasan

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Written Round with six questions

20 questions clock-wise on Infinite Pounce

Written Theme Round with eight questions

20 questions anti-clock-wise on Infinite Pounce

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• Six questions in writing

• +5 for each correct answer

• +3 for each part

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Identify the book/movie character and

the TV series

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Identify the two

blanked out characters.

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Name this character – an amalgam of two

characters.

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Identify the 1980 film.

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Identify the original work and the author.

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Identify the original (debut) album and the band.

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Identify the book/movie character and

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President Coriolanus Snow

The Simpsons

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Identify the two

blanked out characters.

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Argus Filch

Hermione Granger

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Name this character – an amalgam of two

characters.

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Iron Lantern

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Identify the 1980 film.

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Caddyshack

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Identify the original work and the author.

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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

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Identify the original (debut) album and the band.

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License to Ill

Beastie Boys

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This is the iconic photo of Mahatma Gandhi clicked by Margaret

Bourke-White for Life Magazine. Gandhi's secretaries informed White

that she would be allowed to take a photograph only if she fulfilled

three conditions. One was that she was not allowed to use bright lights

as Gandhi didn't like it. What were the other two conditions?

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a. She has to learn to use the spinning

wheel/Charkha.

b. She would not be able to talk to him as it was his

day of silence.

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This acid, a key ingredient in tannic acid which is used in various industries, is

produced by plants such as sumac, tea leaves, oak bark, and witch hazel. It takes its

name from the formations below and not from a European country. Such

formations in plants, animals and humans also comes from the same origin.

Name the acid and the source.

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Gallic Acid from Galls/Gall nuts

Oak galls are formed when a gall wasp lays her eggs on the tip of an oak branch,

and the tree begins to secrete a fluid that ends up enveloping the egg, and

ultimately becomes a food source for the developing wasp larva.

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A monk from Geneva, François Bonivard was imprisoned with his two brothers

from 1532 to 1536 in a castle. Over the years, he saw his brothers die in front of his

eyes. The castle in which they were imprisoned is a tourist attraction if you go on a

Lake Geneva cruise even today.

Taken up with this story after seeing the castle,

a) Who penned a famous 392-line narrative poem about Bonivard in 1816? (3)

b) Which painter created a work with the same name in 1834? (3)

c) What is the name of the work – common to the poem and the painting? (4)

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Lord Byron

Eugene Delacroix

(The) Prisoner of Chillon

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This is an iconic painting by an Iranian woman

artist Oranous Ghasemi which made waves in

2004, as it was sold online without much protest.

Though this would seem blasphemous as per

Islamic law, experts said that this particular

painting was not forbidden due to a key element

in the painting.

What?

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It depicts a young Mohammed before he was visited

by the Angel Gabriel and started receiving his visions,

which means that at this stage in his life he is

not yet the Prophet.

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The name of this former capital city literally translates to ‘father of apples’. Some

say this is because the world’s largest variety is found here. Some say it is because

of the rich genetic diversity of apples here. And some others say it is because

Malus sieversii, the wild ancestor of the common apple is endemic to this region.

Identify the city.

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Almaty

Capital of Kazakhstan

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Connect the visuals to a critically acclaimed film from 1980, widely considered the

best Gujarati film of all time.

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Bhavni Bhavai was dedicated to

Bertolt Brecht and GoscinnyKetan Mehta filmed Bhavni Bhavai with distancing effect and the use of comic

characters. Hence, the film is dedicated to Bertolt Brecht and

Goscinny, the creator of Astérix.

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The cake (A) shown is filled with dry fruit such as currants, named after

the town in Oxfordshire (B). The town is famous on account of a nursery

rhyme, which you can guess from the pic. Id the cake (or) the rhyme.

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A B

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Banbury Cross

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,

To see a fine lady upon a white horse;

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,

And she shall have music wherever she goes

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During the 1941 Siege of Leningrad, there were severe hardships faced

by the people in the town, due to the German forces cutting off the city

from any possible outside access and depriving people of basic

necessities.

Resultantly, 2000 people in the city were convicted under

“Special Category Banditry” under Soviet Law.

What was the crime they were accused of, brought about by the

effects of the siege?

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Cannibalism

At its worst, daily rations were reduced to 150 grams of

bread (baked with sawdust) with wallpaper used as

seasoning.

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In 2015, some of this company’s businesses like Verily, the

self-driving cars team, the Ventures investment group, Nest and Calico

cumulatively reported a revenue of $448 Million, but failed to make a

profit.

The name given to these businesses collectively, is a reference/pun on

name of the main business of the company and the speculative,

early-stage nature of these businesses.

What’s the name and the reference? Need both parts. No part points

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Other Bets – the main business being Alphabet

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This revolution in a European country that resulted in the overthrow of

an authoritarian regime is known by a name that references the unique

way in which it was celebrated, using the Dianthus caryophyllus in a

particular manner.

The Revolution had far-reaching consequences geographically including

in one country in Asia, which was invaded by a neighbour on the pretext

of anti-colonialism, and remained a colony for 27 more years.

Name the revolution and why it was named so.

Name the Asian country that was impacted.

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Carnation Revolution in Portugal named so because

Carnations were inserted into muzzles of rifles

East Timor/Timor-Leste

Indonesia invaded East Timor

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There are many small (but divisive) differences between the book and the film—such as – “a difference of 20” in one of the key locations. But one of the most significant rifts emerges in the characterization of the protagonist. The

director paints him as mad from the outset, with his wife as a “sort of screaming dishrag”, according to the author. In the book, he is depicted more sympathetically, with his alcoholism forming a key part of the problems in the family and his hallucinations. It gives the story—and its chilling qualities—a convincing narrative axis; it comes as no surprise that the author found the director’s film similar to a “big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it”.

Paraphrased and edited extract from a review thanks to a recent opera version of the book!

Book, Author and Director please.

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The Shining, Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King

Room number moves from 217 to 237 in the film.

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In 1985 Conrad Black, a Canadian industrialist, acquired control of

the Telegraph group. A feature of his new regime was the appointment

of Hugh Massingberd to develop a more eclectic and literary approach

to an otherwise dull part of the newspaper, and so outflank the Times.

The Times, which had long been unrivalled in this field had adhered to a

dull prose style and favoured a relatively narrow selection of subjects.

What was the title given to Hugh Massingberd thanks to this job?

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Master of Obituaries

Or

Obituaries Editor

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This cucumber species Cucumis humifructus, found in the southern part

of Africa, bears its fruit underground. It is thus dependent on a

particular animal species for seed distribution. This is the only fruit that

the animal eats—thus making for a strange, symbiotic relationship.

Identify the animal.

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The Aardvark, wherefore the fruit is known as the

Aardvark pumpkin/cucumber

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Also known as the Paragard, this contrivance is the only one of its kind

that still enjoys official approval in the US.

In India, it takes its name partly from the winding which is really the

business end of the device.

What was it commonly known as in India?

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Copper T

(For Birth Control/Contraceptive/intrauterine device, IUD)

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This “wretched instrument,” would have long since been snuffed out had

Mozart not used it in his Requiem. According to the person in the

picture, “Its peculiar watery melancholy ... is just the thing for a funeral,”

and “The devil himself could not make a _____ ______ sparkle.”

What are we talking about? How is this music instrument connected to

the person in pic?

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Bassett-Horn

The Italian name for the instrument, corno di bassetto,

was used by George Bernard Shaw as a pseudonym

when writing music criticism.

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Every issue of this magazine has a different message on the spine.

Readers then work out what the message has to do with the contents of

the magazine. This practice — known as the "spine line" — has since

become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including its

movie-centric sister magazine Empire.

The magazine was originally named ‘____’, after the button on tape-

recorders. This name was abandoned because it was feared that people

might view it as a magazine catering to aficionados of a specific sport.

What was the original name of the magazine and what was the new

name they adopted?

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Cue later became Q

People started associating with Billiards/Snooker

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These Mughal miniatures influenced his later Biblical paintings. The

painter never met any Mughal emperor.

In 1579, some decades after Akbar ascended to the Mughal throne, he

invited a delegation of Portuguese Jesuits from Goa to his court to

discuss their religion. The Jesuits immediately wrote home saying that

they would soon convert the Grand Moghul. While history shows that

Akbar did not convert, he still encouraged interactions between Mughal

and European artists that continued for centuries.

Which artist painted these Mughal miniatures in the 17th century?

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The Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn

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This is the figurative map drawn by Charles Joseph Minard (Inspector

General of Bridges and Roads, Paris) which shows the successive losses

in men of the French Army in the Russian campaign 1812-1813. This

map is now used in Information Graphics and Big Data visualization.

However, its first application was in 1898 by an Irish Mechanical

Engineer – Captain Matthew Riall Sankey (not the Sankey in Sankey

tank). This use led to the next wave of manufacturing and

industrialization and the graphics came to be known as Sankey

Diagrams.

What use that later became a standard in visualization?

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Sankey diagrams were first used in Engine Energy Flow

Diagrams that led to engine capacity definitions in the

Automobile industry.

The width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity.

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Connect and explain.

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The Mars Climate Orbiter (1999) The Vasa warship (1628) Gimli Glider (1983)

Sochi biathlon track (2014)

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Fiascos due to the confusion between Metric System

and the English/Roman System of measurement

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When the infamous Killing Fields containing the mass graves of the

people slaughtered by Pol Pot’s regime were found, substantial traces of

the chemical DDT were found. After studying the bodies and hearing

testimonies, researchers have concluded that there were two key

reasons why the chemical was used – both equally morbid.

What were the reasons?

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Mask the stench from the bodies

Complete the process of killing the people who were

buried alive

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• Eight questions in writing

• +5 for each correct answer, no part points anywhere

• The eight answers form four pairs – every correct pair gets you an additional two points each

• There is a theme linking the four pairs, which gets you seven more points

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In 1954, X wrote a lengthy letter to his friend Dorothy Sayers, praising

her recent publication of Introductory Papers on Dante. His opening

sentence reveals his delight. “Your Introductory Papers have given me a

regular feast.”

He specifically commented on a number of insights he found particularly

worthwhile. X was an expert on Dante in his own right, having written a

1933 work inspired by it, which had an “opposite title” to a John Bunyan

book.

Who is X?

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Identify the subject of this documentary film.

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Identify the Russian on this Time

magazine cover.

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Who is this?

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Screenshot from a Sega game based on a

pop culture rage. Who and what’s the name of the game?

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While numerous films have been made about

this person, this is the only biographical film

that delves into his military career.

Who?

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Who?

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Identify the title of this book.

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In 1954, X wrote a lengthy letter to his friend Dorothy Sayers, praising

her recent publication of Introductory Papers on Dante. His opening

sentence reveals his delight. “Your Introductory Papers have given me a

regular feast.”

He specifically commented on a number of insights he found particularly

worthwhile. X was an expert on Dante in his own right, having written a

1933 work inspired by it, which had an “opposite title” to a John Bunyan

book.

Who is X?

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CS Lewis

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Identify the subject of this documentary film.

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Elia Kazan

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Identify the Russian on this Time

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Who is this?

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Althea Gibson

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Screenshot from a Sega game based on a

pop culture rage. Who and what’s the name of the game?

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Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker

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While numerous films have been made about

this person, this is the only biographical film

that delves into his military career.

Who?

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John F Kennedy

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Who?

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Farah Fawcett

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Identify the title of this book.

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Stalin’s Daughter

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The pairs are…

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Elia Kazan – Althea Gibson

Sergei Prokofiev – Josef Stalin

Farah Fawcett – Michael Jackson

CS Lewis – John F Kennedy

Died on the same day!

The Theme is…

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+10 on Infinite Bounce

+10/-5 on Infinite Pounce, no part pounce

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Reflect on these lovely food items and tell us the connection.

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All three dishes (Scotch Eggs, Jalepeno Poppers and

kwek kwek) are inspired by the Nargisi Kofta

Nargisi comes from Narcissus

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The word Yahtzee is shouted when something good happens

or when you don't know what's going on. It derives from the common

expression used in the dice game of the same name (now marketed by

Hasbro). The game’s origins and the original confines of the play area are

supposed to have given it the name.

What is the origin?

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YAHTZEE was invented by a wealthy Canadian

couple to play aboard their yacht

Whenever friends were invited aboard, they were taught how to play the "Yacht"

game.

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What story of a natural activity is shown in the two visuals?

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Eruption of Mt. Etna

In the Battle between the Giants and the Gods (GIGANTOMACHY – Pic 1)

- Athena defeated Enceladus in a fight, smashing the island of Sicily on

the Giant.

There he now lies half buried below the mountain of Athena

(Pic 2 - as in the scene in the gardens of Versailles). He is unable to

escape, yet his struggle to do so was believed to shake the earth, thereby

explaining the activity of the volcano to ancient Greeks and Romans.

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All the clues below lead you to one word – the other word is derived

from this one and has its use as an object in from the world of science.

Give both words.

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Syrinx and Syringe

Syrinx was a nymph and was pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan. She

was transformed into hollow water reeds that made a haunting sound

when the god's frustrated breath blew across them. Pan cut the reeds to

fashion the first set of pan pipes, which were thenceforth known as

syrinx.

Syrinx is the name for the vocal organ of birds.

The song is Rush’s Temple of Syrinx

The word syringe was derived from this word.

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As per the USFDA, if the product is labelled as ___A_____, then is should

contain at least 20 percent of the daily value per RACC (“reference

amounts customarily consumed”—essentially serving size) of whatever it

is they’re boasting about.

If a foodstuff is ___B____, it must have 10 percent to 19 percent of the

daily value (per RACC) of that something.

Meanwhile, when labeling features the word(s) ____C_____," that

means that each serving has at least 10 percent of your daily value of

that specific thing”.

What are A,B,C (word/words closest variants are fine)?

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A – High, Rich In or Excellent Source Of

B – Good Source Of, Contains, or Provides

C – More, Fortified, Enriched, Added, Extra, Plus

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This is the debut film of Lauren Bacall. It is also the only Hollywood film

till date to have a unique combination in the film credits from a writing

perspective.

Identify the movie and tell us the unique combination.

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To Have and Have Not

The only film to date based on a novel by a

Nobel Prize-winning author (Ernest Hemingway) to

have its screenplay co-written by another Nobel

Prize-winning author (William Faulkner).

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This gentleman was a philosopher and writer, who founded the

Philosophy department at the University of Hyderabad. His most famous

and common haunt was the India International Centre in Delhi, where

he was often seen lecturing, either in the auditorium or in the bar!

He died at his room in IIC in 2007.

His major source of income was the royalty stream he inherited from his

mother, accruing from the translation of his maternal grandfather’s

works. His paternal grandfather however, is much more famous.

Identify the person. Full name please.

Identify the works that gave him the royalties.

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Ramachandra (Ramu) Gandhi

Rajaji’s Ramayana / Mahabharata

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A feature of Athenian democracy, this process was held once a year.

Citizens were asked to write down the names of the people on a shard

of pottery who they deemed guilty of this punishment. A minimum of

6000 votes was needed, and if this was achieved, then the person would

be ________ and had ten days to comply. Defying this would mean the

death penalty.

What modern day word comes from the shard of pottery used?

What was the main reason to use a shard of pottery for the writing?

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Ostracise

Pottery shards were widely available, and using

papyrus was a much more expensive affair!

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The original 1861 piano score of this work features a Gothic typeface

heading, which the composer objected to and had changed. In the

revised text, he wrote a long preface outlining the immense

requirements and cost of bringing this work to life and ended it with,

“Wird Dieser Furst sich finden?”, meaning “Will such a prince be found?”

He did succeed a few years later, finding a patron who funded his works,

including this one in question. For this particular work, the patron

wanted it premiered in Munich, but the composer insisted and got his

way, and had a new venue created for this purpose.

Identify the composer, the work and the location.

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Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

Bayreuth Theatre

Ludwig II of Bavaria was the patron

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Between 1880 and the end of WW1, this country dominated the global

sales of a particular product. This was unusual, since they had very poor

quality of the raw material crop. One reason for the development of the

industry was the imposition of a state monopoly for this product in the

Ottoman Empire, which resulted in the movement of many Ottoman

merchants to this country. The British officers here liked the product and

it gradually started becoming popular in the UK and the western world.

In 1913, an American brand looking to ape these products incorporated

three motifs from this country into its logo, including the name itself.

Which country and product? What is the famous American brand?

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Egyptian cigarettes

Camel

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These are representations of a country, state, a city, a person. Name all parts and

connect.

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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow

The Institute for the Physical and Chemical Research

(RIKEN), Japan

Oakridge National Laboratory, Tennessee

Yuri Oganessian

4 new periodic elements named Moscovium,

Nihonium, Tennessine and Oganesson

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Stonehenge models that were wrongly sized!

In This is Spinal Tap, the band commissions a Stonehenge set, but

mistakenly asks for a model of 18 inches instead of 18 feet, which tiny

replica then finds its way into a real Tap concert—even though nobody

has informed the band’s members of the mix-up beforehand.

A year earlier, in Aug 1983, Black Sabbath released Born Again

(October 1983 in the U.S.). The second track on the album is a brief

instrumental called “Stonehenge”—and on their 1983 Born Again tour,

Black Sabbath hilariously had to shelve a Stonehenge stage concept

because the scenery was much too big to use—someone had

misinterpreted the requested measurements, making all of the pieces

roughly nine times too large.

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Since it began in 1943, the trophy, named after an actress, has been fought over by US, British and Canadian ships, often inspiring daring and somewhat

chaotic strategies to obtain her.

Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she made a series of Hollywood films known as

“aqua-musicals”, which featured elaborate performances with synchronized swimming and diving. This got her pin-up status and one such photograph became the stuff of legend, and navy officers starting chasing this original

photograph.

Name the Hollywood actress after whom this

Naval Trophy is named.

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Esther Williams

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Connect this tree found in Baja California, Mexico to this character from

poetry whose name has come to mean a task or goal that is elusive or

impossible to achieve.

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Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark gives its name to

the Boojum tree and the character Snark is representative of

an unachievable goal

The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly

dangerous Boojum. The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to

explain that it was a Boojum after all.

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The International Space Station (ISS) is getting an ultra-portable inflatable room for

astronauts to live in: the _______ Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). The design

was the product of a series of summer studies at which top academics, scientists,

and engineers gathered to imagine how future space colonies could look.

BEAM is named and created by a billionaire entrepreneur who made his money in

another similar earthly endeavor – a chain found across the US. One could relate

his surname with a post-2000s Best Picture Winning Oscar director.

a. Identify the surname (the ‘B’ in BEAM)

b. What was the “earthly endeavor”?

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Robert Bigelow

Budget Suites of America

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Two expressions in the English language have been derived from the

practice of examining the length of horses’ teeth when estimating their

ages. Give us both expressions.

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1. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

(meaning don't be ungrateful when you receive a gift)

2. Long in the tooth (meaning too old)

Horses’ gums recede with age, leading to longer teeth. A common way to inspect

a horse’s “worth” is to check it’s mouth, hence the phrase.

Receiving a horse as a gift and immediately inspecting its value was considered

offensive, much like inquiring about the worth of a present today is rude.

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In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press

correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the

biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the

competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a

former schoolhouse in Reims, France.

For this, he was publicly rebuked by the AP, and then quietly fired. His

competitors likened his action to treason at a massive scale.

What was the reason for his firing?

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Kennedy had defied military censors / broken a

pledge to get the story out before the embargo

period.

Winston Churchill and Harry Truman had agreed to suppress news of the

capitulation for a day, in order to allow Josef Stalin to stage a second surrender

ceremony in Berlin. Kennedy was also accused of breaking a pledge that he and

16 other journalists had made to keep the surrender a secret for a time, as a

condition of being allowed to witness it

first-hand.

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The legitimate owner of the trophy,

the African lady on the left, is seen

handing over her winner’s trophy to

the American lady on the right.

Name one of the two people and

explain.

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Atsede Baysa, the winner of the

2016 Boston Marathon gave the trophy to Bobbi Gibb,

the lady who first ran the race in 1966

In 1996, she was retroactively recognised as the first women’s winner

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In 2007, the National Archives of India staged an exhibition to celebrate

150 years of the founding of a ‘trinity’. This was appropriately described

by a Kolkata newspaper as, “The Other Revolution of 1857”. The trinity

was based in three of India’s best-known cities.

It was the culmination of a long drawn process which was initiated in

1835 by Macaulay, in his capacity as the President of the General

Committee of Public Instruction and as the Law Member in the

Government.

What was this ‘trinity’?

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Universities of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta

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The Khadi duck is an unconventional beige cloth that is woven using

three threads as opposed to the conventional two. There are strong

regulations with respect to the thickness of threads, density, and so on.

In its most famous use in India, the yarn is made of cotton, and woven

on handloom, and some of the measured metrics are “Breaking Load”

and “elongation”.

What is the exact use for the Khadi Duck?

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It is the piece of fabric used to

fasten the Indian National Flag to the post and the

rope

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FINAL

SCORES

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