QUIZ QM: Mahendra Mohan Das

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The Taste of Assam• +5/0• Written round.• Bonus 5 if all correct.

• All the answers are related to Assam somehow or the other. Think of it as a big hint.

1)• Hiteswar Saikia, former CM of Assam, rented out a

house in the 90’s. The address of the house, still in rent, reads:

• House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No. 51, Sarumataria, Dispur, Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup, (Assam) - 781006

• Who is(?) the famous resident?

2)• His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a member

of the Assam Legislative Council. Though he was born and brought up in UK, after leaving school, he considered joining the Indian Army and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam.

• On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At 23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved this feat.

• In July 2009, he was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.

• Who?

3)• The Scoville scale, used for the measurement of

something which is usually measured by a method that uses high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This identifies and measures the concentration of chemicals necessary for the scaling.

• X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU and an individual highest of 1.5mn. It was surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga Scorpion with 2mn SHU, which in turn was surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 2.2mn SHU in 2013 and holds the record till date.

• What does Scoville scale measure? Also, id X.

4)• In September 1898 he went to

southern Assam to study an epidemic of kala azar. However, he utterly failed as he believed that the kala azar parasite was transmitted by a mosquito, which he refers to as Anopheles rossi.

• The book shown, a science fiction for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is loosely based on the life of this personality.

• Which famous Indian-born doctor?

5)• Khagen Mahanta is a famous folk and traditional

music singer of Assam. He is a notable person in Assamese folk music and known as the "King of Bihu". His Bihu songs, Borgeet and other folk songs are ever green to the assamese society. The artist along with his wife Archana Mahanta and their son represent one of the most influential families in Assamese music.

• Who is the famous son?

Exchange sheets

1)• Hiteswar Saikia, former CM of Assam, rented out a

house in the 90’s. The address of the house, still in rent, reads:

• House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No. 51, Sarumataria, Dispur, Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup, (Assam) - 781006

• Who is(?) the famous resident?

Dr. Manmohan Singh.

2)• His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a member

of the Assam Legislative Council. Though he was born and brought up in UK, after leaving school, he considered joining the Indian Army and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam.

• On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At 23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved this feat.

• In July 2009, he was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.

• Who?

Bear Grylls.

3)• The Scoville scale, used for the measurement of

something which is usually measured by a method that uses high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This identifies and measures the concentration of chemicals necessary for the scaling.

• X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU and an individual highest of 1.5mn. It was surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga Scorpion with 2mn SHU, which in turn was surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 2.2mn SHU in 2013 and holds the record till date.

• What does Scoville scale measure? Also, id X.

Bhut jolokia.• The Scoville scale is the measurement of the

pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy foods.

4)• In September 1898 he went to

southern Assam to study an epidemic of kala azar. However, he utterly failed as he believed that the kala azar parasite was transmitted by a mosquito, which he refers to as Anopheles rossi.

• The book shown, a science fiction for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is loosely based on the life of this personality.

• Which famous Indian-born doctor?

Ronald Ross.

5)• Khagen Mahanta is a famous folk and traditional

music singer of Assam. He is a notable person in Assamese folk music and known as the "King of Bihu". His Bihu songs, Borgeet and other folk songs are ever green to the assamese society. The artist along with his wife Archana Mahanta and their son represent one of the most influential families in Assamese music.

• Who is the famous son?

Papon.

Infinite bounce and pounce• +10/0 on bounce• +10/-10 on pounce• Clockwise.

1)• This is a sculpture in

bronze by Daniel Chester French in Cambridge, Massachusetts honoring X, who had a big role in establishing a famous institute in that region.

• This statue is famously known as “the statue of 3 lies”.

• Whose statue? And why the statue of 3 lies?

John Harvard.• The face of the plinth is inscribed “JOHN HARVARD

•  FOUNDER • 1638” words make it a ‘Statue of the Three Lies’” because:

• The statue is not a likeness of JOHN HARVARD;• It was the Great and General Court of the Massachu

setts Bay Colony, not John Harvard, which first voted "to give 400£ towards a school or College", preempting any claim for John Harvard as FOUNDER;

• The Court's vote came in 1636, not in the inscription's 1638— the latter being merely the year of John Harvard's bequest to the school.

2)• This famous diamond was originally owned by the

royal Gaekwad family, and was later sent to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The diamond was returned to the Gaekwad family later, and in 1860, it was fitted to a necklace. The Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad sold it to an unknown buyer in the early 1920s.

• In 1943, the diamond was purchased by Meyer Rosenbaum of Detroit, President of the Meyer Jewelry Company. Rosenbaum later gave the diamond to Marilyn Monroe, who wore it for the shooting of the song Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, and also in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

• Which famous diamond?

Moon of Baroda.

3)• Herzogenaurach is a town in the district of

Erlangen-Höchstadt, in Bavaria, Germany. This town is sometimes called “the town of bent necks”; owing to a certain ‘practice’ by the residents of the town.

• What practice? Put funda.

Adidas & Puma.• The town of Herzogenaurach was divided on the

rivalry between Adidas and Puma, leading to the nickname “the town of bent necks” as people looked down to see which shoes strangers wore, before talking to them.

4)• Erika “Aya” ___ is a former US military member and

archery world champion. She continues to compete at an international level as an archer. She is the founder of OS Internationale, and organization for people of a specific sexual orientation and has been featured as a spokesperson and advocate in a wide variety of publications, and on radio talk shows and television programs.

• She, however, became even more famous when she married someone in a commitment ceremony in 2007.

• Whom did she famously marry?

Eiffel tower.

5)• FITB.

PayPal mafia.

6)• A deer, a female deer.• A drop of golden sun.• A name I call myself.• A long long way to run.• A needle pulling thread.• A note to follow so.• A drink with jam and bread.

• Connect.

Do re mi fa sol la ti.• (video inserted)

7)• Before becoming a ____ ____, the person (usually a

woman) is trained to lie down for hours without moving. She or he must also be able to withstand the prolonged exposure to the cold. Before service, the individual is supposed to have taken a bath using a special fragrance-free soap and then finished off with a splash of cold water to chill the body down.

• What is being talked about?

Body sushi.

8)• “Why is that we have never heard voices in

connection with the freedom of people under the suppression and tyranny of Pakistani authorities on the other side of the cease-fire line? Why is it that we have not heard here that in ten years these people have not seen a ballot paper? With what voice can either the Security Council or anyone coming before it demand a plebiscite for a people on our side who exercise franchise, who have freedom of speech, who function under a hundred local bodies?”

• Excerpt from a speech on 23rd January, 1957, which reportedly concluded with the speaker's collapse on the floor.

• Why is this speech famous? Who is the speaker?

V K Krishna Menon.• Longest speech in United Nations.

9)• Who is the lyricist of the song?

• (video inserted)

Kapil Sibal.

10)• “Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have

many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. ______ is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness, and love are much more powerful. We would not have war at all if everyone could learn how to live with true love, hope, and forgiveness. If that little girl in the picture can do it, ask yourself: Can you?”

• Part of a speech delivered by Kim Phuk on National Public Radio in 2008. What was she talking about?

Napalm girl.

Infinite bounce and pounce• +10/0 on bounce• +10/-10 on pounce• Anti-clockwise.

1)• It was performed on Halloween October 30, 1938

and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Wells, the episode was an adaptation of science fiction novel by the same name. This show was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins with no commercial breaks, which suggested that an actual Martian Invasion was in progress. Mass hysteria ensued. It is estimated that some six million heard the CBS broadcast; 1.7 million believed it to be true, and 1.2 million were “genuinely frightened” prompting Hitler to call it “evidence of the decadence and corrupt condition of democracy."

• Which novel/ program?

War of The Worlds.• H G Wells.

2)• X is a fictional cosmic

entity who first appeared in the short story "The Call of X", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. The issue is shown on the right.

Cthulhu.

3)• L. L. Zamenhof published the Unua Libro, the first

book detailing X, on July 26, 1887. He wrote this book under the surname Doktoro X, X meaning “the one who hopes”.

• Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn, politically neutral language that would transcend nationality and foster peace and international understanding between people with different languages. Growing its popularity, it is now the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.

• Which language?

Esparanto.

4)• Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, 86 year old at that time,

did something rare on 28th February 2013, which was last done by Angelo Correr in 1415, about 600 years ago, to end the famous Western Schism.

• What?

Papal resignation.

5)• Name the TV show. Also, name the Hindi TV show

that has been inspired from this show.

• (video inserted)

Kumar’s at No.42• Comedy Nights With Kapil.

6)• This parody video game portrays a _____ floating on

a log down a river. The _____ presents with bangs, a lance, and a purple sweater. It knocks 'Phot-Hogs' that are attempting to take his photograph into the river with his lance. The _____ also signs 'Otter-graphs.' The _____ also must dodge the 'whirlpool of success,' which will lead him out of control, while navigating the river.“

• Name the video game. Or, who is it named after?

• (picture on the next slide)

7)• ____ ____ appears in many legal cases as well as in

some hospital records all over the world, and is widely famous especially in the United States and Canada.

• Joe Bloggs and John Smith works in the UK instead of ____ ____, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. In India, Ashok Kumar is used as an alternative.

• In 1941, Frank Capra directed and produced an American comedy drama film named “Meet ____ ____”.

• Who/what is being talked about?

John Doe.• The name is used as a placeholder name for a party

whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal action, case, or discussion. The name is also used to refer to a corpse or hospital patient whose identity is unknown.

8)

• Some Google streetview images.

• Put funda.

Privacy policy.• The privacy laws of UK require Google to blur faces

of people on Street View to protect them from recognition and that led to the blurring of the logos of KFC featuring Colonel Sanders.

9)• Anya Major (born 1966, in the United Kingdom) is

an English athlete and actress who appeared as "Nikita" in the 1985 video to Elton John's song of the same name.

• It was, however, her discuss throwing experience that she used somewhere else made her famous just after half-time of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.

• What happened?

Apple 1984 commercial.

10)• Majdur paida huwe, majdur hi marogeVote na diya hamein, to zinda jaloge.

• Jal kar hum shola bane hai, Kaun jalayega zinda aap ko, jab hum aap ke saath khade hain.

• Slogans of which famous political rivalry?

Pick your pill• Entertainment • Geography • Sports • Science• Art• History• Business • Etymology

• It was while living with her mother that this famous personality would embark on journey to become a Canadian pop sensation. She began by starring on the kids show Space Teens alongside Jessica and Alan Thicke. Not long after Space Teens, she gained notoriety with her first singles. The song was a minor hit and she spent a year touring the Canada.

• This song was followed up with a second song, Sandcastles in the Sand. The love ballad was a flop but it did lead to a romance with her co-starrer in the video. The song's lyrics in many ways mirrored the short relationship she would have with him who she dated for a week and a half.

• Which famous personality?

Robin Scherbatsky.

• Which two countries are named after this famous military and political leader of the early 19th century?

Bolivia and Venezuela.• Simon Bolivar.

• Venezuela = Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

• This robot, exhibited at a university research exhibition is named ____ in honor of a famous sportsperson. Either FITB or identify the sportsperson.

Mobot, Mo Farah.

• These creatures can withstand temperatures from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, pressures about six times stronger than pressures found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a person, and the vacuum of outer space. They can go without food or water for more than 10 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce; and is often called the toughest animal on the planet.

• Name the creature.• (picture on the next slide)

Tardigrades or water bear.

• Which famous painting is being talked about?

The Raft of Medusa.

• Who, presenting what, to whom?

Abul Fazl, Akbarnama, Akbar.

• She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

• Monroe's unsolicited endorsement provided invaluable publicity to the most iconic product of this designer. In a 1954 interview, when asked what she wore to bed, the movie star provocatively responded: “___ ___ ___.“

• Identify the lady or the product.

Coco Chanel, Chanel No.5.

• The Indian currency when the British invaded was the ___. It was worth nothing compared with the pound sterling. When someone tried to sell a shoddy product to the soldiers they would sometimes respond that they would not even pay a single ___ for it, kind of like saying “I wouldn't give you two cents for that.”

• What did the corruption of the term lead to?

I don’t give a damn.

Megaconnect• +10/0 for individual answers.• Non-exhaustive list.

• For slides,• 1: +60/-30• 2: +60/-30• 3: +50/-25• 4: +40/-20• 5: +30/-15• 6: +20/-10• 7: +10/0

1)• Other than close human relatives such as chimps

and gorillas, X’s also have fingerprints. Though on the evolutionary tree, primates and modern Xs‘ ancestors branched apart 70 million years ago, the fingerprints of X and a human being are eerily similar.

• Identify X.

2)• Played by 2-4 or 6 players, this board game was

invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" (Stern is the German for star) as a variation of the older American game Halma. The current name originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928. The Pressman company's game was originally called "Hop Ching ____".

• Which game?

3)• Founded by American copywriter and publicist John

J. B. Wilson in 1980, the 34th ceremony of this award was held on March 1, 2014.

• The movies winning the top awards in recent years are as follows:

• 2013: Movie 43• 2012: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2• 2011: Jack and Jill• 2010: The Last Airbender• 2009: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen• 2008: The Love Guru

• Which award is being talked about?

4)• Lifespans of this species typically range from a few

hours (in the case of some very small hydromedusae) to several months. Life generally ends after the medusa has begun spawning. Life span varies by species.

• One unusual species is reported to live as long as 30 years. Another unusual species, Turritopsis dohrnii, might be effectively immortal because of its ability under certain circumstances to transform from medusa back to the polyp stage, thereby escaping the death that typically awaits medusae post-reproduction.

• What ‘immortal’ species if being talked about?

5)• Its popularity was increased in the mid-nineteenth

century by the miners of the California Gold Rush, who frequently traveled to California. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States visited a construction site of a famous entity, and was photographed with it, which further increased its popularity.

• The art of making this was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists on 6 December 2012.

• It has various types such as Monte Carlo, Optimo, Fedora, Greenstreet, Baton etc.

• What?

6)• Invented between the 1st and 4th centuries in

another country, this system was adopted, and developed by some Persian Muslims (mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala) and some Arabs (mentioned in Al-Kindi's c. 830 Ketab fi Isti'mal al-'Adad al-Hindi) by the 9th century. It later spread to the western world by the High Middle Ages.

• What?

7)• Also called the cavy, this animal plays an important

role in the folk culture of many Indigenous South American groups, especially as a food source, but also in folk medicine and in community religious ceremonies. Since the 1960s, efforts have been made to increase consumption of the animal outside South America.

• In Western societies, it has enjoyed widespread popularity as a household pet since its introduction by European traders in the 16th century. Their docile nature, their responsiveness to handling and feeding, and the relative ease of caring for them, continue to make the a popular pet.

• Which animal?

Answers

1)• Other than close human relatives such as chimps

and gorillas, X’s also have fingerprints. Though on the evolutionary tree, primates and modern Xs‘ ancestors branched apart 70 million years ago, the fingerprints of X and a human being are eerily similar.

• Identify X.

Koala bear.

2)• Played by 2-4 or 6 players, this board game was

invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" (Stern is the German for star) as a variation of the older American game Halma. The current name originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928. The Pressman company's game was originally called "Hop Ching ____".

• Which game?

Chinese checkers.

3)• Founded by American copywriter and publicist John

J. B. Wilson in 1980, the 34th ceremony of this award was held on March 1, 2014.

• The movies winning the top awards in recent years are as follows:

• 2013: Movie 43• 2012: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2• 2011: Jack and Jill• 2010: The Last Airbender• 2009: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen• 2008: The Love Guru

• Which award is being talked about?

Golden Raspberry Award.

4)• Lifespans of this species typically range from a few

hours (in the case of some very small hydromedusae) to several months. Life generally ends after the medusa has begun spawning. Life span varies by species.

• One unusual species is reported to live as long as 30 years. Another unusual species, Turritopsis dohrnii, might be effectively immortal because of its ability under certain circumstances to transform from medusa back to the polyp stage, thereby escaping the death that typically awaits medusae post-reproduction.

• What ‘immortal’ species if being talked about?

Jellyfish.

5)• Its popularity was increased in the mid-nineteenth

century by the miners of the California Gold Rush, who frequently traveled to California. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States visited a construction site of a famous entity, and was photographed with it, which further increased its popularity.

• The art of making this was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists on 6 December 2012.

• It has various types such as Monte Carlo, Optimo, Fedora, Greenstreet, Baton etc.

• What?

Panama hats.

6)• Invented between the 1st and 4th centuries in

another country, this system was adopted, and developed by some Persian Muslims (mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala) and some Arabs (mentioned in Al-Kindi's c. 830 Ketab fi Isti'mal al-'Adad al-Hindi) by the 9th century. It later spread to the western world by the High Middle Ages.

• What?

(Hindu-)Arabic numerals.

7)• Also called the cavy, this animal plays an important

role in the folk culture of many Indigenous South American groups, especially as a food source, but also in folk medicine and in community religious ceremonies. Since the 1960s, efforts have been made to increase consumption of the animal outside South America.

• In Western societies, it has enjoyed widespread popularity as a household pet since its introduction by European traders in the 16th century. Their docile nature, their responsiveness to handling and feeding, and the relative ease of caring for them, continue to make the a popular pet.

• Which animal?

Guinea pig.

Connect: Misnomers.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.