LONEWOLF WRITTEN QUIZ

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1) The phenomenon created by Peter Thompson, a professor of Psychology at the University of York, came into news again recently when a famous Singer and Songwriter posted a photo on her Instagram account creating a flurry on social media. Name the phenomenon ?

2) The first known instance of its use occurred in a letter sent from Seville to Rome by a Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi on May 4, 1536 that describes the arrival in Spain of three ships bearing treasure from Latin America. It was used to denote a unit of a measure of weight or volume. In this letter, he used it to denote a unit of measure for clay jar of wine, which is equivalent to about 1/13th of a barrel. During 16th Century its being used in Spain for a unit of unit of measure called an arroba, then equivalent to 11.3kg (25 lb) or 22.7 litres (six gallons). What is it ?

3) Connect the following exhaustive list.

4) The base of the leaf of this rare tree is rolled up to form a cup like structure. According to Indian mythology, Lord Krishna was responsible for the cup shape of the leaves thus the tree getting the scientific name Ficus Krishnae. Now the question is , according to popular belief how the leaves of the tree got cup shaped ?

5) This famous personality's birthday was put as 2nd February, 1915 by his father while filling up his school admission form for Modern School in Delhi. But later when his grandmother told him that he was born in some time in August, he decided to fix it in the middle of the month i.e. 15 August 1915. Who is that famous personality.

6) His name is Harish Chandra Mehra. What is his claim to fame ?

7) Shankar Maharaj, a village Gandhian village school teacher worked among the people of a tribe classified as criminal by the British Administration on Gandhiji's advice. Through Gandhiji he arranged for some land to be allocated to the tribe, which than abandoned dacoity as a way of life. A Gujrati book by Kanhaiyalal Munshi about the work of Shankar Maharaj inspired Arjun Dev Rashk to write a screenplay for a film. Which Film ?

8) Jim Laker is the only bowler to take X's wicket in X's only first class match. The first batsman to score 1000+ runs in a single Ranji Trophy season was X's ADC when X was the Governor of Bombay. X's younger sister was the first woman to hold Cabinet rank in Jawaharlal Nehru's first Cabinet. X holds a unique record in First Class cricket. Id X and what record ?

9) Give me a Cricketing Term

10) Angus Finlay Hutton, a British-Indian tea planter, while working in the High Wavy Mountains in the western ghats of Theni district, Tamil Nadu in 1948 collected a new genus of bat which was later named after after a famous Indian Personality. The bat is considered as one of the rarest fruit bats in the world and even entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1993 for its rarity. Name the bat OR after whom it is named ?

11) The following song "Na Bole Tum Na" from the film “Baaton Baaton Mein”(1979) copied from the same tune used by both

i) a military marching song and ii) an anti-war protest song .

The tune was also used as background score in the film "Dr. Strangelove“(1964). Listen the song and give me that immensely popular Military Marching Song, which was sung by both sides of the American Civil War.

12) This place in India was originally named by the Captain Charles Pratt Kennedy, who was one of the first explorers to come to this valley and was very struck by its beauty, after his sweetheart in the boyhood days. The place is now misnamed, and will remind you of a famous place from Scotland, which was associated with a Legendary King, who was immortalized by Sir Walter Scott's "Tales of a Grandfather". Name the place in India.

13) Connect the following railway stations

Deula Gondia Junction Venkatagiri Kote Halt Jalna Raipur Junction Shrirangapatna Yeliyur

14) This composed sub-atomic particle was initially named wrongly, had two sources who said that two different persons pointed out about the fault in its name. According to one source it was a famous German physicist and another source says it was an Indian Scientist. The fault in the name pointed out by them was that the Greek word for "intermediate", after which it was named, has no "tr" in it, so the "tr" should be dropped from the previous name of the particle. If the German physicist was Werner Heisenberg then who was that Indian Scientist ?

15) She got married to a person who not just belong to a different faith, him being a Muslim while she belonged to a Bengali Brahmo family, but was 22 years elder to her. Their marriage took place with Muslim rites in September 1928 against severe opposition, which was attended by only two relatives of her and few common friends. Post marriage her name was changed to Kulsum Zamani, but she became popular by another name during the Quit India movement of 1942. Name her ?

16) He has a temple in his honor in Khera Rathore, Uttar Pradesh. His side-kick Roopa also has a temple to his name not far away. At the peak of his work, his actual followers numbered a mere 17. He was shot dead on 7th May, 1955 in Lavan village in Madhya Pradesh. Amitabh Bachchan once said that during his younger days he was in awe of him. There are many folk songs and nautanki plays based on his life. In 1971 a movie based on his life starring Dara Singh in the lead was released. Identify him ?

ANSWERS

ANSWERS

1) Answer: Thatcher Effect

2) Answer : @ Sign

3) Answer: Dennis Amiss and Desmond Haynes, only players to score century in their first and final ODIs.

4) Answer: Ficus Krishnae is commonly known as Makhan Katori. It is said that once while stealing butter, Krishna was caught red-handed by Mata Yashoda. To escape from punishment, Krishna rolled the butter in a leaf of Ficus Krishnae. It is believed that the leaves of the tree took the shape of a cup after this incident and ever since it remained in the same shape as Krishna had rolled it.

5) Answer: Khushwant Singh

6) Answer: He was India's first bravery award-winning child. On February 4, 1958, at a special programme, he was presented the first National Bravery Award by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

7) Answer:

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960)

8) Answer: X - Raja Maharaj Singh. Oldest cricketer to make his first class debut at the age of 72 years.

9) Answer: “Mankading”. Bill Brown was the first player to be out Mankaded and the character Tipu in Lagaan (played by Amin Gazi) also was out in the same fashion.

10) Answer: Salim Ali's Fruit bat, named after Indian ornithologist Salim Ali.

11) Answer: The military song is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home“.

The anti war song is “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye”.

12) Answer: Annandale (Shimla). Its original name was Annadale (Anna, the name of the girl and "dale" meaning a valley). The Legendary King of Scotland is Robert the Bruce, 7th Lord of Annandale.

13) Answer: Railway Stations with Single Alphabet Station Codes.

Deula ( D ) Gondia Junction ( G ) Venkatagiri Kote Halt ( H ) Jalna ( J ) Raipur Junction ( R ) Shrirangapatna ( S ) Yeliyur ( Y )

14) Answer: Homi Jehangir Bhabha. The particle name changed from "Mesotron" to "Meson“.

15) Answer: Aruna Asaf Ali

16) Answer: Daku Man Singh. He was among the dreaded dacoits of Chambal region and had 1,112 robberies and 185 murders to his credit between 1939 and 1955.