Q2015

QM: Omkar Dhakephalkar

Before we beginThe ILS Quiz Club would like to thank:• Our Principal, Ms. Vaijayanti Joshi• Our Faculty Coordinator, Ms. Suvarna Nilakh• Our college photography club, Drishtikon• Our Chief Artist, Debangshu Moulik • Our Resident Videography Expert, Alefiyah

Shipchandler• Our Electronics Systems Manager, Gawande Mama• Out Documentation Supply Head, Chandu Mama• Date photographers

And the Members of our club:• Sruthi Darbhamulla• Sravya Darbhamulla• Ammu Sasidharan• Tarun Srikanth• Indranil Ghawade• Asmit Agarwal• Mohit Talwar• Sahil Likhar• Debopriyo Moulik• Soaiappan Odyappan

PrelimsAnswers

Q1• The voiceless uvular stop or

voiceless uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula.

• What symbol represents this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet?

Q ⟨q⟩

Q2• He holds the distinction to be the only

person on whom the Lok Sabha debated for a complete session as the official agenda. This was part of a saga following a report by anti-corruption vigilance unit inspector Bidhu Bhushan Dwivedi in 1992.

• Obviously asking a question on him has become relevant now.

• ID him.

Laloo Prasad Yadav

Q3• ID the incident in question which gave

rise to these gadgets.• The Binding Thread: This sacred steel

thread not only looks hot on the chest but can also be used for climbing or squeezing the life out of enemies.

• The Boom Bhajan: Double-tapping the phone blows the ear-drums.

• The Lota of the Lord: A waterproof lota with a hidden radio transmitter to signal the Ashram.

#SanskariJamesBond

Q4• The philtrum uses capillary action

in most mammals to transfer moisture. It greatly enhances olfactory powers.• For humans and most primates

who rely on sight, it is a vestigial depression. • Where will you find the philtrum in

humans?

Between nose and mouth

Q5**• He first came into prominence when he secured

a victory for Mohiuddin Malik, the expelled speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly. A Senior Advocate termed it the birth of a North Indian star – signalling the end of monopoly enjoyed by Bombay and Madras lawyers in Supreme Court.

• But it was the impeachment proceedings against Justice V Ramaswami in 1993 that shot him into limelight. Representing Ramaswami, he became the first non-parliamentarian to address both the house of the Parliament.

• ID X.

Kapil Sibal

Q6• The poem was composed by Friedrich

Schiller in 1785.• However it is best known for its musical

setting in the 1824 Ninth Symphony by a composer. This piece has been used in the Die Hard series, National Anthem of Rhodesia as well as Triple H’s theme in WWE.

• ID the composer AND What was it selected for in 1985? Parts present.

• Click here.

BeethovenEU Anthem

Ode to Joy

Q7• This dish is essentially a frenched

chicken winglet, wherein the meat is cut loose from the bone end and pushed down. The resulting appearance gives the dish its name. • Which hors d'œuvre?

Chicken Lollipop

Q8• Taken from which business conglomerate’s website? This is

regarding their logo.“The name “______ ______” evokes all that is positive in business

and in life. It exemplifies integrity, quality, performance, perfection and above all, character.

Depicted in vibrant, earthy colours, it is very arresting and shows the sun rising over two circles – an inner circle symbolising the internal universe of the Group with an outer circle symbolising its external universe; and a dynamic meeting of rays converging and diverging between the two.

Our corporate logo thus serves as an umbrella for our Group. It signals the common values and beliefs that guide our behaviour in all our entrepreneurial activities. It embeds a sense of pride, unity and belonging in all of our 120,000 colleagues spanning 36 countries and 42 nationalities across the globe. Our logo is our best calling card that opens the gateway to the world.”

-Dr. Pragnya Ram, Chief Custodian of the Logo

Aditya Birla Group

Q9• 24 November each year is celebrated statewide

to commemorate the hero and the victory of the army at the Battle of Saraighat.

• During the last stage of the Battle of Saraighat (1671), when the Mughals attacked by the river, the soldiers began to lose their will to fight.

Though our hero was seriously ill, he boarded a boat and with seven boats advanced against the Mughal fleet. His soldiers rallied and a desperate battle ensued on the river Brahmaputra which he won.

• Which state, who is the hero? Part points present.• Following is the coat of arms of the kingdom to

which he belonged.

Lachit Borphukan, Assam

Q10**• What is happening here?

Obama touching Lucy’s Bones

Q11• Y is a word invented by YouTubers CGP Grey

and Brady Haran that means “taking online media and re-hosting it on your website without permission.” This is not the same as sharing or linking or embedding it from its original source. It means downloading it without permission from the creator or copyright holder and redistributing it for your own use, often for your own monetary gain.

• It is prefixed with the word X, which is ground-zero for this practice since 2015, aggravated by the autoplay feature.

• ID ‘XY’.

Facebook Freebooting

Q12• Only four original titles are left:“The Property of a Lady”“The Hildebrand Rarity”“Risico”“<del> in New York”• The latest in news is not an original

title.• What are these the only four

original titles left of? ORName the latest in news.

Ian Fleming Story TitlesSPECTRE

Q13• A ______ is the oldest style of golf course, first

developed in Britain. The word comes via the Scots language from the Old English word meaning “rising ground, ridge" and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes and sometimes to open parkland. ______land is typically characterised by dunes, an undulating surface, and a sandy soil that supports grasses which from a firm turf.

• It can be treated as singular even though it has an "s" at the end and occurs in place names that precede the development of golf, for example Muirfield _____, Gullane, Scotland.

• FITB.

Links

Q14• ID this Marathi

author.• Her collection of

numerous letters written by her to her pen-pal and famous Marathi writer Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni earned her acclaim.

Sunita Deshpande

Q15**• This is a caricature from the Punch

magazine relating to the ‘Scramble for Africa’: a period from 1881 to 1914.

• Under this policy, European Control over this continent rose from 10% to 90% in this period.

• It says “‘IN THE RUBBER COILS’. Source: The <blanked> ‘Free’ State”.

• The snake represents King Leopold II. • What is blanked out?

Congo

Q16• X describes the themes this way: ID X.“If you look back at the whole of our history, both

Soviet and post-Soviet, it is a huge common grave and a blood bath. An eternal dialog of the executioners and the victims. The accursed Russian questions: what is to be done and who is to blame. The revolution, the gulags, the Second World War, the Soviet–Afghan war hidden from the people, the downfall of the great empire, the downfall of the giant socialist land, the land-utopia, and now a challenge of cosmic dimensions – Chernobyl. This is a challenge for all the living things on earth. Such is our history. And this is the theme, this is my path, my circles of hell, from man to man”

Svetlana Alexievich2015 Nobel Lit

Q17• ID this dance from.• Wiki tells me that this dance form

belongs to a sect of Jewish Christians: Orthodox Jews who attend synagogues yet believe in Christ as the messiah.

• A Keralite friend tells me it is mostly performed by elder women.

• Video.

Margam Kali

Q18• Some of the controversies associated with this

Bollywood song are:• The tune (and lyrics) have almost been

directly lifted from the old famous Marathi song Latpat, latpat tuza chalana from V Shantaram's film Amar Bhoopali (1951).

• A significant chunk has also been taken from the song Nach ga ghuma, heard in another V Shantaram classic, Chandanachi Choli Ang Ang Jali.

• The song name is itself a name of a dance form.

• What song?

Pinga

Q19• This Optical Wireless Communication

technology uses light from LEDs as a medium to deliver networked, mobile, high-speed communication in a similar manner to Wi-Fi.

• What is it called?

Li-Fi

Q20**• Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline,

Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Vimnial are the seven traditional hills of Rome.

• They are all East of the Tiber river.• There are three more hills in the

vicinity, two of these are the Pinician Hill to the North and Janiculum to the West of the Tiber.

• Name the third, lying Northwest of the Tiber, which is not a part of Rome.

Vatican Hill

Q21• Koodli is a small village in Karnataka.• Here two rivers, X and Y meet.• Then the river XY further flows into

Andhra Pradesh, tributes into a river flowing down from Maharashtra and ultimately into the BoB.

• ID the river XY.

Tungabhadra

Q22• His full name is Srimad Jagadguru Sri Sri

Sankaracharya Thotakacharya ____________ ________ Sripadangalavaru is the present Guru of Jagadguru Sri Sankaracharya Thotakacharya Samsthanam, Edneer Mutt in Kasaragod district of the Indian state of Kerala. He is the follower of unique Smartha Bhagawatha tradition and Advaita Vedanta.

• He is more famously known in the legal circles by the blanked out portion.

• FITB

Keshavananda Bharati

Q23• This reputation arises largely from two events:1. In the 1999 Super Six Stage, a drop led to the

eventual century of Steve Waugh after which Australia went on to win the match; then a shambolic run-out in the semi-final also against Australia ended the second innings with the scores tied.

2. In the final game of Cricket World Cup 2003's group stage (which was effectively a knock-out match, as they had to win to progress to the Super Six), the misinterpretation of the Duckworth-Lewis in a match they could have won led to a tie shortly before the match was called off.

• Whose reputation as what?

SA as Chokers

Q24• In Greek mythology she was a

witch/enchantress who was very skilled in magic, herbs and potions.

• She is most famous for living on an island in the Mediterranean on which she turned many of Odysseus’ crew into pigs after they had feasted.

• In DC Universe, she is a constant and deadly foe of Wonder Woman and is in league with the witchcraft goddess Hecate.

• She shares her name with a character in Game of Thrones.

• Who?

Circe

Q25**• This memorial is found quite

appropriately on the Ganeshkhind Road, roughly between the Agricultural College and Reserve Bank College.

• It is in honour of multiple people.• To whom is it dedicated?

Chapekhar Brothers

Now for the finals. . .

Q 2015Finals

QM: Omkar Dhakephalkar

Format

• Warm Up• 20 Q IR• Written Visuals• 20 Q IR• List it!

Warm-Up

10 Q, each with multiple parts

Each part has 1 point.

Total score rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5.

Write down1. The single largest natural

satellite of our solar system.

Write down1. The single largest natural

satellite of our solar system.2. The only two elements that are

liquid at room temperature.

Write down1. The single largest natural

satellite of our solar system.2. The only two elements that are

liquid at room temperature.3. The three films that have won

the most number of Academy Awards.

Write down1. The single largest natural

satellite of our solar system.2. The only two elements that are

liquid at room temperature.3. The three films that have won

the most number of Academy Awards.

4. The four novels by A. C. Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Write down5. The five founders of Facebook.

Write down5. The five founders of Facebook.6. The six powers featured on the

Six Flags of Texas.

Write down5. The five founders of Facebook.6. The six powers featured on the

Six Flags of Texas.7. The seven Deadly Sins as per

Christian theology.

Write down5. The five founders of Facebook.6. The six powers featured on the

Six Flags of Texas.7. The seven Deadly Sins as per

Christian theology.8. The eight countries that have

won the FIFA Football Word Cup.

Write down5. The five founders of Facebook.6. The six powers featured on the

Six Flags of Texas.7. The seven Deadly Sins as per

Christian theology.8. The eight countries that have

won the FIFA Football Word Cup.9. The nine Navratnas of Akbar’s

court.

Write down10.The ten countries that border

Brazil.

Synopsis:1. Largest natural satellite.2. Liquid elements.3. Most Oscars.4. Sherlock novels.5. Founders of Facebook.6. Six Flags of Texas.7. Deadly Sins.8. FIFA WC winners.9. Navratnas.10. Brazil’s neighbours.

Warm-Up

Exchange Sheets

Write down1. The single largest natural

satellite of our solar system.

Write down1. Ganymede2. The only two elements that are

liquid at room temperature.

Write down1. Ganymede2. Mercury and Bromine3. The three films that have won

the most number of Academy Awards.

Write down1. Ganymede2. Mercury and Bromine3. Titanic, Ben-Hur, The Lord of the

Rings: The Return of the King4. The four novels by A. C. Doyle

featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Write down1. Ganymede2. Mercury and Bromine3. Titanic, Ben-Hur, The Lord of the

Rings: The Return of the King4. A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of

Four, The Valley of Fear, The Hound of Baskervilles

Write down5. The five founders of Facebook.

Write down5. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo

Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

6. The six powers featured on the Six Flags of Texas.

Write down5. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo

Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

6. Spain, France, Mexico, Texas, Confederacy, USA

7. The seven Deadly Sins as per Christian theology.

Write down5. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo

Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

6. Spain, France, Mexico, Texas, Confederacy, USA

7. Pride, Envy, Anger, Lust, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony

8. The eight countries that have won the FIFA Football Word Cup.

Write down5. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin,

Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

6. Spain, France, Mexico, Texas, Confederacy, USA

7. Pride, Envy, Anger, Lust, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony

8. Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, England, France, Spain

9. The nine Navratnas of Akbar’s court.

Write down5. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin,

Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

6. Spain, France, Mexico, Texas, Confederacy, USA

7. Pride, Envy, Anger, Lust, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony

8. Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, England, France, Spain

9. Birbal, Tansen, Faizi, Todar Mal, Man Singh, Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana, Fakir Aziao-Din, Abul Fazl, Mulla Do-Piyaza

Write down10.The ten countries that border

Brazil.

Write down10.French Guiana, Suriname,

Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay

Warm-Up

Tally of Scores

IR 1

20 Q+10

Infinite Pounces: +10/-10Clockwise

Q1• The 100th Amendment to the

Indian Constitution came into force since the 1st of August 2015.• It amended the First Schedule,

which lists the States and Union territories of India.• This amendment was passed

following a ‘LB Agreement’.• Explain.

Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh

Q2• The word means fly in Tswana therefore the

English term often tends to be tautological. It is major cause of indirect poverty and hunger in the continent.

• ID this creature (C1).• They are often attracted to dark colours likes

buffalo hides. Therefore some scientists believe that another creature has developed something not as camouflage but to confuse this first creature.

• ID this creature too (C2).• Part points present.

Tsetse, Zebra

Q3• This is Hiroo Onoda. What is c2f?• Click here

Last Japanese to surrender• (1974)

Q4• Under what conditions and where will you

find these? I use this form currently.-Home port/What be troublin’ ye?-repaint ye ship-main sail/litany picture-bottle o’ messages-update your Plunderin’/Add a

potrait/Bewitched Portrait-Scrawl/eyein’ with pleasure-Skewer/Return fire-Abandon Ship

Facebook: Pirate English

Q5• This is a flawed logic. Brands don't

buy into brand ambassadors personal opinions.

— X, May 29, 2015 • X had good reason to lend his

support. His own company dealt with this threat earlier this year when caught on the wrong side of a debate.

• Who is this unlikely supporter X?

Sachin Bansal

Q6• The Z effect is a technique of

moviemaking where story is revealed through contradictory interpretations of the same event by different people.

• Kamal Haasan’s Directorial venture “Virumandi” also employs this technique.

• Name Z, a 1950 film which first employed this technique.

Rashomon

Q7• On the next slide is Alma-Tadema's 1868

'Phidias Showing the Frieze of the __________ to his Friends', a painting reflecting contemporary reconstructions of the frieze's colour.

• Phidias was in charge of this section of the structure. At present, the majority of the frieze is at the British Museum in London (forming the major part of the Elgin Marbles).

• FITB.

Parthenon

Q8• This phrase is used when one displays fortitude in the

face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being unemotional.

• A sign of weakness would be trembling of the something in question.

• The Huron Reflector, 1830, makes the meaning unambiguous:

"I acknowledge I felt somehow queer about the bows; but I kept __________________, and when my turn came, and the Commodore of the Police axed [sic] me how I come to be in such company...”

What phrase, also the name of an AC/DC album?

Stiff Upper Lip

Q9• Connect

Supergroups• Cream: Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and

Ginger Baker.• Them Crooked Vultures: John Paul

Jones, Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme. • Atoms for Peace: Thom Yorke , Flea,

Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, R.E.M. and Mauro Refosco.

• Badlands: Jake E. Lee, Ray Gillen, Greg Chaisson, Eric Singer, Jeff Martin

• Snakepit: Slash etc.

Q10• He is also said to have orated the maxims of the

his Smriti (100 BC – 400 CE), which has been called the "juridical text par excellence" and represents the only Dharmaśāstra text which deals solely with juridical matters and ignoring those of righteous conduct and penance.

• In the Mahabharata, he plays a critical role in many instances. For example, it is he who requests the Pandava brothers to create a rule for sharing their wife Draupadi, so that they do not end up fighting for her company.

• ID him, who would probably do a much better job than Arnab.

Narad

Q11• Apparently the "sharp," "principal," and "diffuse"

characterizations were devised first by the British chemists George Liveing and Sir James Dewar in the 1870s (their papers were compiled and published as Collected papers on spectroscopy).

• The "fundamental" characterization came later, due to the work of Arno Bergmann around 1907.

• Though this characterization of the fine line property of Spectral lines has become obsolete, this legacy lives on in another form.

• How?

s, p, d, f orbitals

Q12• India Q.• Ad for? (Released: Feb 2015)• Video

Diu Tourism

Q13• Who is blanked out? • This is the 2008 G8 Summit.

Angela Merkel

Q14• One potentially racist element in his work is that

the majority of the men who serve the main antagonist are the dark-skinned people. They come from the South and East, corresponding with Asia and Africa in the loose connection to the real world.

• The author himself made this comment:“They of course are quite obviously - wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic."This is regarding a race associated with amassing wealth.

• ID the author.

JRRT

Q15• When X took a catch to dismiss

Sangakkara in 2006, Y was heard to say “the terrorist has got another wicket!”

• Y’s most notable innings was in the Tied Test. Suffering from dehydration in the oppressively hot and humid conditions, he was frequently vomiting on the pitch. He wanted to go off the field "retired ill”. However after his captain said “let’s get a real <nationality>”, he went onto score 210.

• ID X and Y. Part points present.

Hashim AmlaDean Jones

Q16• National T1 T2 Presentation is a

ceremony that takes place every year shortly before T1. The president is presented with a T2, usually of the Broad Breasted White variety.

• Generally the National T2 Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board are involved.

• Since 1989, during a president’s first T1, it has been an annual tradition.

• ID T1 and T2. No part points.

Thanksgiving Turkey

Q17• This technology was announced in Sep 2015.• It works automatically when your phone is

held up to the checkout terminal, with no need to open an app.

• Pressing your thumb to the phone eliminates the need to use a PIN, speeding the transaction. It fuses the virtual and physical worlds of commerce in a way that no other payment system has done.

• What technological innovation/breakthrough/what I am talking of?

Apple Pay

Q18• It was invented by David Sanderson and Lee Brady

in 1975. • At first the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied

their application for a patent on the basis that the idea was flawed but later granted the application and within weeks, hundreds of thousands were manufactured and distributed out of the company's food manufacturing plant in Chicago.

• It was promoted in clothing shops, candy stores, sex stores and chic emporiums.

• It was listed by People magazine as being one of the 434 names and events that define pop culture.

• What had they invented?

Candy Pants

Q19• Connect these Bachchan movies: (Exhaustive)AdalatDonKasme VaadeThe Great GamblerDesh PremeeSatte pe SattaAakhri RaastaBade Miyan Chote MiyanLal BadhshahSooryavansham

Amitabh Double Role

Q20• Connect:Italy: Apuan, JulianScotland: ArrocharAustralia: Australian Germany: BavarianSlovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia,

Montenegro, and Albania: DinaricUnited States: Trinity, IssaquahJapan: JapaneseNorway: LyngenTurkey: PonticNew Zealand: SouthernRomania: TransylvanianSouth Korea: Yeongnam

Alps

Written Round

8 images, with two persons in each

Each person in an image has 5 points

Recognize: Q1.

Recognize: Q2.

Recognize: Q3.

Recognize: Q4.

Recognize: Q5.

Recognize: Q6.

Recognize: Q7.

Recognize: Q8.

Written Round

Exchange Sheets

William HerleyArthur Davidson

JFK, Marilyn Monroe

Chuck NorrisBruce Lee

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

Ian Fleming, Sean Connery

Charlie Chaplin, MG

Castro, Malcolm X

RD Jr., Slash

Written Round

Tally Scores

IR 2

20 Q+10

Infinite Pounces: +10/-10Anticlockwise

Q21• This is the Coronation Bridge.• It was named to commemorate the coronation of

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 and was completed in 1941.

• It is also known as Baghpul, because of the two lion statues at it’s entrance and Lohapul because it is made of steel.

• (i) In which Indian state is it and what is it’s strategic importance considering NH 31 runs across it?

• (ii) which river does it span; which is the lifeline of another state.

• Part points present.

WB, gateway to NETeesta

Q22• ID this instrument.• Audio.

Ans.• (Ghatam)

Q23• It is a Nepalese and Tibetan alcoholic beverage also popular

in parts of the eastern Himalayas.• It is usually drunk at room temperature in summer, but is

often served piping-hot in brass bowls or wooden mugs when the weather is colder.

• Semi-fermented seeds of millet are stuffed in a barrel of bamboo called a dhungro. Boiling water is then poured in and sipped through a narrow-bore bamboo tube called a pipsing.

• When the boiled barley has cooled, some yeast or dried barm (scum formed on top of the liquor) is added and it is left to stand for two or three days when fermentation begins; this concoction is called glum.

• After fermentation is complete, water is added to the brew and is then ready for consumption

• What drink?

Chhaang

Q24• Connect the development and growth of

these:-E-Commerce: Danni Ashe (Danni’s Hard

Drive)-Streaming Video: About 1994, a Dutch

Company-Webcams, Bandwidth, Bulletin Board

Systems, Subtitles and close captioning-Digital Camera, Cable Television,

Microfiche and the VCR.

Pornography

Q25• Oleg Peshkov: Hero of the Russian

Federation. (posthumous) • Alexander Pozynych: Order of

Courage (posthumous)• Konstantin Murakhtin: Order of

Courage-Alexander had gone to rescue Oleg

and Konstantin.

What incident am I talking of?

2015 Turkish Betrayal

Q26• It is a Mongolian variant of a sport that

traces its modern roots to India. The traditional Indian game was played with seven a side, but the modern version has lesser players.

• Originally invented in the early 2000s as a tourist attraction, the sport is as of 2006 reported to have attracted a modest following in Mongolia.

• In Pakistan, it is played in the Himalayas and Hindukush.

• What is this Mongolian variant?

Yak Polo

Q27• Vijaydan Detha, also known as Bijji, was a noted

writer from Rajasthan and a recipient of the Padma Shri and the Sahitya Akademi.

• He has more than 800 short stories to his credit, which are translated into English and other languages.

• His stories and novels have been adapted for many movies, including:

Prakash Jha’s 1989 movie which won a National Award for Costume and was screened at London

Amol Palekar's 2005 film which won a National Award for Playback Singing and was screened at Sundance and Palm Springs.

• Give me the two movies. Part points preset.

Parinati, Paheli

Q28• What is currently unique to these

four? (Exhaustive)Ram Vilas PaswanAshok Gajapathi Raju PusapatiAnant GeeteHarsimrat Kaur Badal

Non BJP Cabinet MinistersRam Vilas Paswan: Consumer, Food,

PDS (LJP)Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil

Aviation (TDP)Anant Geete: Heavy Ind, Pub Ent

(SS)Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food

Processing (SAD)

Q29• A _______ chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated

transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics.

• Supposedly, Glaser said he was inspired by a glass of beer; however, in a 2006 talk, he refuted this story, although saying that while beer was not the inspiration, he did experiments using beer to fill early prototypes.

• Cloud chambers work on the same principles as ______ chambers, but are based on supersaturated vapour rather than superheated liquid. While ________ chambers were extensively used in the past, they have now mostly been supplanted by wire chambers and spark chambers. Historically, notable ________ chambers include the Big European _________ Chamber and Gargamelle.

• FITB.

Bubble Chamber

Q30• The fort is named after a saint who cured chief

Suraj Sen Kachwaha of Silhonia village of leprosy. The earliest record of this fort is 525 AD.

• When the Mughal leader Akbar captured the fort, he made it a prison for political prisoners. For example, Kamran, Akbar's cousin was held and executed at the fort. Aurangzeb's brother, Murad and nephews Suleman and Sepher Shikoh were also executed at the fort.

• The fort covers an area of 3 square kilometres and rises 35 feet. Its rampart is built around the edge of the hill, connected by six bastions or towers.

Gwalior Fort

Q31• A well-known work of the end of the sixteenth century, the Wuzazu,

informs us about the nine different young, whose shapes are used as ornaments according to their nature.

1. The pulao like to cry, are represented on the tops of bells, serving as handles.

2. The qiuniu like music, are used to adorn musical instruments.3. The chiwen which like swallowing, are placed on both ends of the

ridgepoles of roofs (to swallow all evil influences).4. The chaofeng lion-like beasts which like precipices, are placed on the

four corners of roofs.5. The yazi which like to kill, serve as ornaments of sword-grips.6. The bixi are fond of literature, are represented on the sides of grave-

monuments.7. The bi'an which like litigation, are placed over prison gates (in order

to keep guard).8. The suanni which like to sit down, are represented upon the bases of

Buddhist idols (under the Buddhas' or Bodhisattvas' feet).9. The baxia finally, big tortoises which like to carry heavy objects, are

placed under grave-monuments.

These are young of what creature?

Dragons

Q32• According to a legend reported in Shahnameh and

repeated by several modern authors, the Sassanian king Bahrām V Gōr learned towards the end of his reign (421–39) that the poor could not afford to enjoy music, and he asked the king of India to send him ten thousand luris, men and women, lute playing experts.

• When the luris arrived, Bahrām gave each one an ox and a donkey and a donkey-load of wheat so that they could live on agriculture and play music for free for the poor. But the luris ate the oxen and the wheat and came back a year later with their cheeks hollowed with hunger. The king, angered with their having wasted what he had given them, ordered them to pack up their bags and go wandering around the world.

• This is a theory behind the origin of what people?

Romani/Gypsies

Q33• This is the filmography of David J. Peterson, a

conlanger.• ID X and Y . No part points.2011–2015: Game of Thrones: X, Y 2013–2015: Defiance: Castithan, Irathient,

Indojisnen, Kinuk'aaz 2013: Thor: The Dark World: Shiväisith 2014: Star-Crossed: Sondiv 2014–2015: Dominion Lishepus 2014–2015: The 100: Trigedasleng 2015: Penny Dreadful: Verbis Diablo 2016: The Shannara Chronicles: Noalath 2016 Emerald City: Inha, Munja'kin

Dothraki, Valyrian

Q34• She is represented as being very young for the

mother of a 33-year-old son, which is not uncommon in depictions of her at the time of the incident.

• Various explanations have been suggested for this. One is that her youth symbolizes her incorruptible purity, as the creator himself said to his biographer Ascanio Condivi.

"Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in her case, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?“

• Which famous Work am I talking about?

Pietà

Q35• The two main antagonists are represented

as opposites to the point that while one uses a PC, the other an Apple Macintosh. • Just like one of them in the beginning of

the series, the author’s real name, appearance and gender is till date unknown.• The show has inspired three live action

films, three video games one live action drama and one real life murder.• Which show?

Deathnote

Q36• As a young boy, he developed entrepreneurial skills

working at his father's general store in Socorro County, New Mexico. This was followed by varied experiences, including a stint as a representative in New Mexico's first State Legislature and a career decision to become a banker.

• It was with the intention of buying a bank that he arrived in Texas at the height of the oil boom. Instead he ended up buying something else which would later define his life.

• In 1927, he bought The Stevens, the largest in the world at that time. Today it is named after him.

• ID him. Pic follows.

Conrad Hilton

Q37• Just before release of Age of Empires II,

Microsoft insisted that ES take out the Janissary's tall white hat. • Ever since, the first skin with the hat has

been available to download in fan sites, or included in fan expansions either replacing the hatless skin or as part of a "Royal Janissary" unit available in the editor.• Why did Microsoft make this demand?

Pic follows.

Players would mistake them for KKK

Q38• This is part of a video made by the

embassy of a country depicting it’s history for the 2010 Word Expo.• ID the country.• Video.

Poland

Q39• While previously the island's glaciers formed a natural barrier, these

glaciers are now slowly melting as the climate warms. This will further reduce the population of ground-nesting birds.

• In 2011, scientists instituted a four-year programme, what would be by far the largest attempt in the world to date.

• The project was led by zoologist Anthony Martin who stated, "This is a man-induced problem since the 18th century sealing and whaling ships; and it's about time that man put right earlier errors.”

• In July 2013, the success of the main phase which took place in May that year, was announced. 180 tonnes of brodifacoum was dropped over 70% of the island.

• Another 95 tonnes was planned to be dropped by three helicopters in January 2015.

• In June 2015 the programme concluded, apparently “very likely” successfully. Monitoring will continue for a further two or three years.

• What operation, on the South Georgia Island, in the Southern Atlantic?

Rat eradication!

Q40• According to Article 6 of the Rome Statute,

what do these acts constitute?1. Killing members of a group2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to

members of the group3. Deliberately inflicting on the group

conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Genocide

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List-it!

10 Mins

Every two answers get you five points.

List-it!As of November end, our Prime Minister Narendra

Modi has made 33 official foreign trips, visiting 30

countries.

List these 30 countries.

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. 2 visits were for BRICS summits.3. 2 East Asia summits.4. 2 G20 summits.5. 1 was a state funeral.6. 1 visit was to the UNGA debate.7. 1 SAARC summit.

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different 30 countries.

List-it!

Exchange Sheets

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. 2 visits were for BRICS summits.3. 2 East Asia summits.4. 2 G20 summits.5. 1 was a state funeral.6. 1 visit was to the UNGA debate.7. Nepal

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different countries.

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. 2 visits were for BRICS summits.3. 2 East Asia summits.4. 2 G20 summits.5. 1 was a state funeral.6. USA7. Nepal

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different countries.

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. 2 visits were for BRICS summits.3. 2 East Asia summits.4. 2 G20 summits.5. Singapore6. USA7. Nepal

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different countries.

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. 2 visits were for BRICS summits.3. 2 East Asia summits.4. Australia, Turkey5. Singapore6. USA7. Nepal

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different countries.

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. 2 visits were for BRICS summits.3. Myanmar, Malaysia4. Australia, Turkey5. Singapore6. USA7. Nepal

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different countries.

List-it!1. 21 trips were pure state-visits.2. Russia, Brazil3. Myanmar, Malaysia4. Australia, Turkey5. Singapore6. USA7. Nepal

NOTE: This list is specially created as a hint and is such that all of these are different countries.

List-it!1. Bhutan2. Japan3. Fiji4. Seychelles5. Mauritius6. Sri Lanka7. France8. Germany

List-it!9. Canada10.China11.Mongolia12.South Korea13.Bangladesh14.Uzbekistan15.Kazakhstan16.Turkmenistan

List-it!17.Kyrgyzstan18.Tajikistan19.UAE20.Ireland21.UK

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