QMs - ANIRUDHA & BIVASH

GRAND FINALE

RULES

• SPOT YOUR NUMBERTake your pick from a grid of 20 questions; divided into to halves by two other rounds

•OH THE ODDS!!Pick the correct choices from a given list.

•RAPID FIRE5 questions to be answered in 30seconds. 10 points for each correct crack

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Q1• The movement for Gorkhaland is gearing up and this region is a major region

in the proposed Gorkhaland.

• The name of this place is believed to mean"Assembly (or Stockade) of the King'sMinisters" in Tibetan. It may be derivedfrom the translation "ridge where we play”from Lepcha, as it was known to be the place for traditional tribal gatherings forsummer sporting events. Another possible derivation points to Kaulim, a fibrous plant found in abundance in the region.

• Give us the name of the region.

AND THE ANSWER IS…

KALIMPONG

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Q2• Satyananda was born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., in an American

Quaker family. In 1904, aged 22, Samuel came to India to work at a leper colony in Shimla. In 1912, he married a local Rajput girl, purchased a chunk of farmland and settled there.

• Samuel applied himself to improving the farmland he had purchased. In the year 1916, he realised the climate of the region could help the cut exports, promote indigenisation nad in turn bolster the economy of the local people.

• What did he do which helped the people and later became a symbol of the Nation’s pride?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

Introduced Apples to Himachal Pradesh

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Q3

• Gal Potha or the Stone Book – Polonnaruwa is actually a long inscription but from a distance looks like a giant book.

• It talks about the X origins of King Vijaybahu and his story of his becoming the king. And then it talks about the taxes he reduced along with tax rates. Taxes reduced with the distance of fields from the water tank – interesting!

• It talks about the virtues of the king. His hefty donations, the repair works carried out at various stupas, his friendly alliance with many kingdoms of India.

• In the end, it says: X are the rightful heirs of the throne of Sri Lanka. Therefore, non-Buddhist kings like Cholas and Pandyas shall not be consecrated in Sri Lanka.

• What is X ?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

X - KALINGA

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Q4

• A synchrotron is a large machine that accelerates electrons to almost the speed of light. There are about a hundred synchrotrons in the world but only one in the Middle East.

• In a rare show of solidarity Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan and Palestine came together 20 years ago to build the only such facility and succeeded recently. It is named Synchrotorn –light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East. The reason for choosing such a name apart from the scientific connotations is that it signals a new era of collaborative science wherein the potential treasure and “richness” of science is “unlocked” , “discovered” and utilised.

• So what serves as the inspiration for naming it thus?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

SESAME – Synchrotorn for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East

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Q5

• These paintings were created in most schools of India painting, starting in the 16th and 17th centuries and are today named accordingly, as Pahari, Rajasthan or Rajput, Deccan , and Mughal .In these painting each X is personified by a colour, mood, a verse describing a story of a hero and heroine (nayaka and nayika), it also elucidates the season and the time of day and night in which a particular X is to be demonstrated or performed; and finally most paintings also demarcate the specific Hindu deities attached with the X, like Bhairava or Bhairavi to Shiva, Sri to Devi etc.

• What are these styles of paintings known as?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

RAGAMALA PAINTINGS

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Q6• The medal was issued in Gold for the highest dignitaries who were

associated with the campaign as well as select officers on general duty, Silver for other dignitaries, field officers and other staff officers,in Copper-Bronze for the non-commissioned officers and in tin for the privates.

• On the reverse it had a fresco of the storming of the fort while the obverse showed, in the words of a nineteenth century work on medals, the following words 'ASSUD OTTA-UL GHAULIB', signifying the Lion of God is the conqueror, or the conquering Lion of God.

• Who were the two parties involved in this war?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY & KINGDOM OF MYSORE

SERINGAPATTAM MEDAL

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Q7• The X agency was established in 1851 by Paul Julius

X in Britain at the London Royal Exchange.• He worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and

was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications caught his attention.

• He later developed a prototype news service in 1849 in which he used electric telegraphy and very ancient yet effective form of message sending by aviary means.

• The company initially covered commercial news, serving banks, brokerage houses and business firms.

• Id X.

AND THE ANSWER IS…

REUTERS

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Q8

• These were banned in New York in 1961 and the city claimed that there was an outbreak of Hepatitis B, while others suspected it was because the city wanted to clean up before the 1964 World’s Fair.

• However these had been a very coherent part of the nation’s culture even before the settlement of Europeans. Even the sailors of the place used it for personal identification certification in case a dispute rose. When the government launched the social security numbers and asked the people to keep it safe people again used this to keep it safe with them at all times?

• Finally the ban on these was lifted in 1997.What are we talking of ?

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Q9

• When you hear patent you might think “invention,” but there is also a design patent, which serves to allow the owner to “exclude others from making, using, or selling the design.”

• A very famous design patent USD11023 was granted on Feb 18 , 1879 which expired after 14 years, and included a beautiful and poetic description of the then-unfinished design. The patent contained a “slew of possible ways to reproduce the design. It covered replicating the design as a statue or statuette, in relief, in pictures and even in a variety of materials: “metal, stone, terracotta, plaster-of-paris, or other plastic composition

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Q11

• Transylvania, located in Romania is regarded as the home of the Dracula and therefore attracts many tourists. However the large tourist influx is supported by sauna springs and bear spotting treks.

• The Carpathian Mountains are home to wolves, lynx and Europe’s largest population of brown bears. Around 5000 bears roam the oak and beech forests. Strangely, the population flourished during the 1970s to 1980s.

• Strange because most of the world’s animals were threatened by the expansive and rapid human extension into forest habitats and rampant hunting was prevalent during the period.

• Why this strange trend?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

ROMANIAN DICTATOR WAS ONLY PERMITTED TO HUNT

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Q12

• These are some findings of 2014 from a temple presumably built before eighth century. The temple is believed to be Padmaseni temple dates back to the reign of Somvamshi kings. The temple is on the verge of losing its identity however, the rock edicts are intact. Photographs of the rock edicts were sent to several historians and researchers. Till date there has been no news on the progress.

• Why is this temple and some other temples in the vicinity on the verge of losing their identity and disappearing forever?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

TEMPLES SUBMERGED UNDER THE HIRAKUD DAM

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Q13

• A pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access.

• The oceanic pole of inaccessibility , is named as Point Nemo and is 2,688 km (1,670 mi) from the nearest landmass. Point Nemo is relatively lifeless; its location within the South Pacific Gyre(system of circulating currents) blocks nutrients from reaching the area, and being so far from land it gets little nutrient run-off from coastal waters.

• Based on the almost lifeless surrounding and the far off distance from any inhabited land, Point Nemo is selected for a very specific cause. What ?

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Q14

The following clip contains the words of a Nobel Laureate, Identify the Nobel Laureate

AND THE ANSWER IS…

BOB DYLAN (KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOORS)

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Q15

• Overall, the funfair accommodates 400 to 700 children and employs around 50 people in the local area.

• Project supervisor Yasin al-Boushi said that one of the obstacles was finding a suitable and safe location. They settled on two cellars under separate buildings that they then linked together to create the space for the funfair.

• "The next problem we faced was how to find the necessary construction materials. Due to the lack of cement in East Ghouta, we were forced to use mud with straw for interior cladding. The metals used in the project were brought from local landfills and recycled,” al-Bushi told Anadolu Agency.

AND THE ANSWER IS…

DAMASCUSS, SYRIA

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Q16

• The _______ were a tribe of Native Americans living in the Connecticut and Rhode island area. They inspired the naming of the ship _______, which was originally built in 1832 to trade with China but was later converted into a whaling vessel.

• During the California gold rush, it brought people to California but was deserted by its crew. Today its location is a California historic landmark.

• The ship inspired the name of something. What?

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Q17• The Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas, rather surprisingly, hosted this event in

1981 and 1982. It was chosen as a replacement for an earlier venue in the state of New York.

• The venue was quite wellequipped despite being only atemporary arrangement.

• However, the participants werequite dehydrated due to thehigh heat and it has not beenused since then.

• Which famous sporting eventwas held here in 1981 and 1982?

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Q18

What was that a proof of ?

• The proof uses modal logic, which distinguishes between necessary truths and contingent truths.

• For modal logic, many "possible worlds" are considered. A truth is necessary if it is true in all possible worlds. But a truth is contingent if it just happens to be a single case. If a statement happens to be true in our world, but is false in another world, then it is a contingent truth. A statement that is true in some world (not necessarily our own) is called a possible truth.

AND THE ANSWER IS…

Scientists used mathematical calculations to PROVE the existence of GodSCIENTISTS and have ‘confirmed’ the existence of God after proving a mathematician’s theory which suggests that there is a higher power.

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Q19

• In early January 1942, a series of anonymous letters to The Daily Telegraph had claimed that the paper’s crossword wasn’t hard enough. It could be solved in a matter of minutes, they said; so a 100 pound challenge was set up to complete the task in 12 minutes.

• Five people beat the 12-minute deadline.

• Several weeks later, four of them received a letter marked 'Confidential’ inviting them, as a consequence of taking part in 'The Daily Telegraph Crossword Time Test’, to make an appointment to see a Col Nichols of the General Staff on a matter of national importance.

• What happened to these four people as a consequence?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

THEY BECAME CODE BREAKERS AT BLETCHLEY PARK TO BREAK THE GERMAN

ENIGMA CODES

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Q20• In 1729, about two years after this famous scientist’s

death, a book containing some of his theories was published.

• In one such theory a cannon on top of a high mountain fires shots parallel to the ground. Each time it is fired, more gunpowder is used and the shot goes farther before striking the ground. However the shots curve around due to Earth’s spherical shape. With enough gunpowder, a shot could eventually be fast enough to circle the earth completely and come back to the top.

• Who was the scientist and what in the modern world is derived from it?

AND THE ANSWER IS…

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