K Circle Quiz

Mithun Paul

4th June 2011

• Written

• 10 Questions

• 5 Points per answer

• 1) X was born on 1 March 1926 into a farmer’sfamily in Panaikulam, a small village 20 km fromCuddalore, Tamil Nadu. His father, Haider Mirza,was a hard-working but impoverished farmer,who came to _______after failing to make endsmeet in his village. After trying their hand at oddjobs, they managed to set up a small shop wherethey repaired cycles and two-wheelers in BengaliPura, near Crawford Market.

• Y (1926–1988) was a Tamil from Tuticorin, TamilNadu.started as a porter in the 1960s..

• Z (1911 - February 19, 2002)was an ethnicPashtun,in Kunar province of Afghanistan,

• Where did they all meet together?

• 2) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), and Götterdämmerung (TheRagnorok) are two of the most famous operas by RichardWagner. Most of these operas are centered around thestory of Brünnhilde , the walkyrie daughter of Wonton.

• Götterdämmerung ends with an aria by an overweightsoprano about Brünnhilde mounting her horse Grane andrides into the flames.

• Walkure ends with Wotan's curse to Brunnhilde.Brünnhilde begs mercy of Wotan for herself, his favoritechild. She recounts the courage of Siegmund and herdecision to protect him, knowing that was Wotan's truedesire. With the words 'Der diese Liebe mir ins Herzgehaucht' (He who breathed this love into me), sopranointroducing the key of E major, she identifies her ownactions as Wotan's true will.

• Put fundaes/What was derived from all this?

• 3) Maudlin is an English word meaning 'tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental‘. This is derived from which character mostly portrayed in art as a penitent ?

• 4) ________ soleil levant

• 5) In popular tradition, the invention and namingof the ______ came to be attributed to anassociate of England's King Charles II, one "Dr.______" or "Earl of ______".

• A variety of unproven Latin etymologies have beenproposed, including _____ (receptacle), _______(house) and _____ (scabbard or case). It has alsobeen speculated to be from the Italian wordguantone, derived from guanto, meaning glove

• Ironically In Britain they may be called Frenchletters in French as "capote anglaise" or English cap

• 6) _______is a horse drawn carriage in whichthe passengers sit face to face. Thesecarriages are still commonly made by Amishcarriage makers in the midwestern UnitedStates. Also in the Western world, the____________ is the most common type ofcarriage style used to cart tourists and leisureseekers in downtown urban settings.

• What word/phrase currently meaning, face toface, in English language gets its name fromthis carriage?

• 7) tēmētum is any intoxicating drink, especially strong wine or mead. What english word gets its origin from the period during which one used to stay away from this drink?

• 8) In Greek mythology, ______ was the child ofAphrodite and Hermes.

• Apparently born a remarkably handsome boy______was nursed by naiads in the caves of Mount Ida. Atthe age of fifteen, he grew bored with hissurroundings and traveled to the cities of Lycia andCaria. It was in the woods of Caria, nearHalicarnassus that he encountered the nymph,Salmacis, in her pool. She was overcome by lust forthe boy, who was very handsome but still young, andtried to seduce him, but was rejected. When hethought her to be gone, ______ undressed andentered the waters of the empty pool. Salmacissprang out from behind a tree and jumped into thepool.

• What happens next?

• 9) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin was a major perpetrator of the Great Terror, a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin .During the Great Terror, he personally approved 372 documented execution lists, more than any other Soviet official, including Stalin himself.

• During his stint as the foreign minister, (before which he was the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars -the equivalent of a prime minister) he formed a secret agreement with Hitler, the most important part of the which was the secret protocol, which provided for the partition of Poland, Finland and the Baltic States between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

• He was also given a free hand in relation to Finland. In the Soviet-Finnish War that ensued, a combination of fierce Finnish resistance and Soviet mismanagement resulted in Finland losing parts of its territory, but not its independence.

• Put fundaes

• 10) The guest of honor at the first of this was to be Gregory Peck. He couldn’t make it–his flight from Colombo, where he was on location for Purple Plain, was delayed. But he did attend the banquet that followed at the Willingdon Sports Club

• What?

• First FILMFARE AWARDS (1954)

• 1) X was born on 1 March 1926 into a farmer’sfamily in Panaikulam, a small village 20 km fromCuddalore, Tamil Nadu. His father, Haider Mirza,was a hard-working but impoverished farmer,who came to _______after failing to make endsmeet in his village. After trying their hand at oddjobs, they managed to set up a small shop wherethey repaired cycles and two-wheelers in BengaliPura, near Crawford Market.

• Y (1926–1988) was a Tamil from Tuticorin, TamilNadu.started as a porter in the 1960s..

• Z (1911 - February 19, 2002)was an ethnicPashtun,in Kunar province of Afghanistan,

• Where did they all meet together?

And the answer is

BOMBAY

• 3 Dons of Bombay in 80s

• X- Haji Mastan

• Y- Varadarajan Muniswami Mudaliar

• Z- Karim Lala

• 2) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), and Götterdämmerung (TheRagnorok) are two of the most famous operas by RichardWagner. Most of these operas are centered around thestory of Brünnhilde , the walkyrie daughter of Wonton.

• Götterdämmerung ends with an aria by an overweightsoprano about Brünnhilde mounting her horse Grane andrides into the flames.

• Walkure ends with Wotan's curse to Brunnhilde.Brünnhilde begs mercy of Wotan for herself, his favoritechild. She recounts the courage of Siegmund and herdecision to protect him, knowing that was Wotan's truedesire. With the words 'Der diese Liebe mir ins Herzgehaucht' (He who breathed this love into me), sopranointroducing the key of E major, she identifies her ownactions as Wotan's true will.

• Put fundaes/What was derived from all this?

And the answer is

It aint over till the FAT LADY SINGS

• It always used to be a fat overweight soprano who’d do the final Aria of Brunnhilde, and hence the phrase

•3) Maudlin is an English word meaning'tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishlysentimental‘. This is derived from whichcharacter mostly portrayed in art as apenitent ?

And the answer is

Mary Magdalene

4) ________ soleil levant

And the answer is

Impression, Sunrise

From whcih we get the term IMPRESSIONIST

CLAUDE MONET

• 5) In popular tradition, the invention and naming ofthe ______ came to be attributed to an associate ofEngland's King Charles II, one "Dr. ______" or "Earlof ______".

• A variety of unproven Latin etymologies have beenproposed, including _____(receptacle),_______(house) and _____(scabbard or case).It hasalso been speculated to be from the Italian wordguantone, derived from guanto, meaning glove

• Ironically In Britain they may be called French lettersin French as "capote anglaise" or English cap

And the answer is

Condom

• 6) _______is a horse drawn carriage in which thepassengers sit face to face. These carriages are stillcommonly made by Amish carriage makers in themidwestern United States. Also in the Westernworld, the ____________ is the most commontype of carriage style used to cart tourists andleisure seekers in downtown urban settings.

• What word/phrase currently meaning, face to face,in English language gets its name from thiscarriage?

And the answer is

Vis-a-vis

• From which the English idiom for Face to Face arises

• 7) tēmētum is any intoxicating drink, especially strong wine or mead. What english word gets its origin from the period during which one used to stay away from this drink?

And the answer is

ABSTEMIOUS

• 8) In Greek mythology, ______ was the child of Aphrodite andHermes.

• Apparently born a remarkably handsome boy______ wasnursed by naiads in the caves of Mount Ida\. At the age offifteen, he grew bored with his surroundings and traveled tothe cities of Lycia and Caria. It was in the woods of Caria, nearHalicarnassus that he encountered the nymph, Salmacis, inher pool. She was overcome by lust for the boy, who was veryhandsome but still young, and tried to seduce him, but wasrejected. When he thought her to be gone, ______ undressedand entered the waters of the empty pool. Salmacis sprangout from behind a tree and jumped into the pool.

• What happens next?

And the answer is

HERMAPHRODITE

• While he struggled, she called out to the gods that they should never part. Her wish was granted, and their bodies blended into one form, "a creature of both sexes".

•9) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin was a major perpetrator of theGreat Terror, a series of campaigns of political repression andpersecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin .Duringthe Great Terror, he personally approved 372 documented executionlists, more than any other Soviet official, including Stalin himself.

•During his stint as the foreign minister, (before which he was theChairman of the Council of People's Commissars -the equivalent of aprime minister) he formed a secret agreement with Hitler, the mostimportant part of the which was the secret protocol, which provided forthe partition of Poland, Finland and the Baltic States between NaziGermany and the Soviet Union.

•He was also given a free hand in relation to Finland. In the Soviet-Finnish War that ensued, a combination of fierce Finnish resistanceand Soviet mismanagement resulted in Finland losing parts of itsterritory, but not its independence.•Put fundaes

And the answer is

• It was during this soviet aggression of finlandthat the Finns invented a homemade weapon against the Russian tanks, and named it after the primary perpetrator of the aggression, Vyacheslav Mikailovich, commonly known by his pseudonym meaning Hammer in Russian, viz

• MOLOTOV

•10) The guest of honor at the first of this was to be Gregory Peck. He couldn’t make it–his flight from Colombo, where he was on location for Purple Plain, was delayed. But he did attend the banquet that followed at the Willingdon Sports Club••What?

• first FILMFARE AWARDS (1954)

• Infinite Bounce, Clockwise

• 10 Points

• 1) The earliest usage of the term "_____ _____ _____ _____" documented by the Oxford English Dictionary dates back to 1910 from an engineering manual by H.H. Suplee titled Gas Turbine. It reads, "In the present _____ _____ _____ _____ this is all that can be done.“In the context of the European and Australian patent law, the term "_____ _____ _____ _____" is a concept used in the process of assessing and asserting novelty and inventive step synonymous to prior _____.

And the answer is

STATE OF THE ART

2) Who/what?

•

And the answer is

CREW FOR THIS YEAR'S OXFORD CAMBRIDGE BOAT

RACE

Cambridge won it

3) Which community in India gets its name from the number of tenets that

their spiritual mentor, Guru Jambheshwar created. ?

And the answer is

BISHNOI 20 + 9

Their spiritual mentor, Guru Jambheshwar was a wiseecologist. He formulated Bis (twenty) + noi (nine) = Bisnoitenets from which the community derives its name.Eco-friendly social life for the community. Out of the 29 tenets,10 are directed towards personal hygiene and maintaininggood basic health, seven for healthy social behavior, andfive tenets to worship God. Eight tenets have beenprescribed to preserve bio-diversity and encourage goodanimal husbandry. These include a ban on killing animalsand felling green trees, and providing protection to all lifeforms.

And the answer is

Tributes to Pi Day

Marratech e-Meeting Panoramio Picnik Aardvark Fast Flip Gapminder Zeitgeist Joga Bonito Rebang Writely Dodgeball

5) Visigami

Gears

Goggles Reader Grants DoubleClick Boutiques Jaiku

And the answer is

Google apps

• 6) Ishanya ;Agneya ; Nairutya ; Vayavya (North-West); Urdhwa ; Adhastha etc are lesser known versions of what?

And the answer is

Directions

Guardians of Directions

• 7) The arrival of the Tuscany with a cargo of ______ from America forms an epoch in thehistory of Calcutta worthy of commemoration, as a facetious friend remarked, in a medal offrosted silver. In the month or May last we received a present of some ______ from Dr. Wiseat Hugli, as a proof that the precious luxury might be pre-served by careful husbandry .

• Professor Leslie with his thousand glass exhausters, and his beautiful steam air pumps,tantalized us with the hopes of a costly treat, and ruined poor Taylor, the bold adopter of histheory; but Science must in this new instance, as on many former occasions, confess herselfvanquished or forestalled by the simple practical discovery, that a body of ______ may beeasily conveyed from one side of the globe to the other, crossing the line twice with a verymoderate loss.

• For the voyage to India, a much longer one than had been hitherto attempted, someadditional precautions were deemed necessary for the preservation of the ______. The______ hold was an insulated house, extending from the after part of the forward hatch,about fifty feet in length. It was constructed as follows:-- a floor of one-inch deal planks wasfirst laid down upon the dunnage at the bottom of the vessel; over this was strewed a layer,one foot thick of tan; that is, the refuse bark from the tanners’ pits, thoroughly dried, whichis found to be a very good and cheap non-conductor: over this was laid another dealplanking, and the four sides of the hold were built up in exactly the same manner. Thepump, well, and main-mast, were boxed round in the same manner.

And the answer is

• 8) This is the freebase form of cocaine that can be smoked. It may also be termed rock, hard, iron, cavvy, base, or just _____. What tech portmanteau gets its name from this?

And the answer is

CRACKBERRY

• The ubiquity of these BlackBerry devices in thecorporate environment and the compulsiveuse of its ability to quickly send and receive e-mail has earned it the nickname "Crackberry"in a reference to crack cocaine as users feelthey cannot live without it.

connect

And the answer is

Nato Phonetic Alphabet

• Tango• Charlie• Oscar• Yankee• Foxtrot• Victor• Mike• Hotel

• 10) ______ derives from a word which means “hole-dweller” in Old English.There are three groups of______s. The Harfoots were the smallest of all the______s and also the first to enter Eriador. The Fallohidesare the least numerous of the ______s and tall and fair.The Stoors were the last to enter Eriador. They stand outas being the only ______s that are willing to swim.

• The first known usage of ______ is in 1895, the folkloristMichael Aislabie Denham published a long list ofsupernatural creatures. Here’s an excerpt:

• “. . . nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds,dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes,grants, ______s . . .”

And the answer is

HOBBITS

11

Stan ______

Oliver _____

And the answer is

LAUREL AND HARDY

12

• spanner, trousers, jug, toilet, pavement, cooker, flat, row, pram, plaster, tin, mince, biscuit, maize, nappy, lift, rubber, torch, chips, petrol, motorway, bonnet, jelly, jam, paraffin, solicitor, number, plate, queue, post, caravan, cinema, silencer, serviette, nought, flyover, dummy, trousers, car park, full, stop, chemist, crisps, rent

And the answer is

• 13) What is the biz connect of the Afrikaans/Dutch spelling of this animal?

And the answer is

Grey Rhebok

• The Afrikaans/Dutch spelling, Reebok, is responsible for the name of the British sportswear manufacturing company Reebok.

• 14

• Who is this guy who is known as the guy whosename appears most number of times in the movieindustry?

• Or What was developed as a results of theexperiments by one Tomlinson Holman at GeorgeLucas's company, Lucasfilm, in 1983 to ensure thatthe soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Returnof the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in thebest venues. The distinctive crescendo used in the______trailers, created by Holman's coworkerJames A. Moorer, is known as the "Deep Note".

And the answer is

• Named after Thomson Holman’s eXperiments

• 15) Patent for what?

• To assist the operation of a cathode ray tubepointer 10 wherein a metal ball is rolled on ahard surface, the disclosed may be utilized. Aresilient, rubber-like material 12 is bonded orotherwise attached to a hard base material14 which keeps the rubber-like material flat.The base has four rubber-like things 16 onthe opposite side from the resilient materialto refrain the from sliding on the surface of atable, for instance.

And the answer is

MOUSE PAD

• CRT CURSER CONTROL MECHANISM PAD

• 16) It is one of the most famous books written in the field ofComputer Science.

• American Scientist named this bookamong the best twelvephysical-science monographs of the century along with Diracon quantum mechanics, Einstein on relativity, Mandelbrot onfractals, Pauling on the chemicalbond, Russell and Whiteheadon foundations of mathematics, von Neumann andMorgenstern on game theory, Wiener on cybernetics,Woodward and Hoffmann on orbital symmetry, Feynman onquantum electrodynamics, Smith on the search for structure,and Einstein's collected papers.

• The author offers a reward check worth one hexadecimaldollar which corresponds to $2.56 for any errors found in thebook and the its correction in the subsequent printings.

• Identify the Book and the author.

And the answer is

The Art of Computer Programming

• Donald E Knuth

17) The word ______ is reminiscent of the Italian verb riavvolgere ("to wrap"), though the two words are not etymologically connected.[citation needed] The word may also be a diminutive of Italian dialectal rava, or turnip. Similar in appearance to German Maultaschen, ______ are usually smaller.

And the answer is

RAVIOLI

• 18) Where would u generally find this kind of charts?

And the answer is

REIKI Clinics

• 19) This was founded by entrepreneur Taylor "Lame"Ruthenberg, to produce and distribute a foam clogdesign acquired from a Quebec company called FoamCreations.

• It was initially designed to be used in Spas, and hence theweird design

• For hospital specific use, a covered variotion called Rxwas created.

• are #6 on the "Worst" list of Maxim's "The 10 Best &Worst Things to Happen to Men in 2007.

• Jibbitz are decorations which can be clipped to this.

And the answer is

CROCS

20) What do all these things together make?

hot pink: _________ red: life orange: healing yellow: sunlight green: nature turquoise: magic/art indigo/blue: serenity/harmony violet: spirit

And the answer is

Gaypride Flag

hot pink: sexuality

• 21) Conrad 'Nicky' Hilton - (May 6, 1950 to February 1, 1951) "Your heart knows when you've met the right man. “

• Michael Wilding (February 21, 1952 to January 30, 1957) "This, for me, is the beginning of a happy end.“

• Mike Todd (February 2, 1957 to March 22, 1958) "This will last for ever. For me it will be third time lucky.“

• Eddie Fisher (May 12, 1959 to March 6, 1964) "I have never been happier in my life.”

• ____ ______ (March 15, 1964 to June 26, 1974) "I'm so happy I can't believe it. I love him enough to stand by him no matter what he might do.“

• _____ ____(October 10, 1975 to August 1, 1976) “ We're stuck like chicken feathers to tar - for always.“

• John W. Warner (December 4, 1976 to November 7, 1982) “He's number one all the way - the best I've ever had.

• Larry Fortensky (October 6, 1991 to October 31, 1996) "With God's blessing, this is it, for ever

And the answer is

ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S comments on each of her MARRIAGE days

• RICHARD BURTON

• RICHARD BURTON

• 22) ______which means "resurrection" or "renaissance"(reddyah);is a secularist political organization mixing Arabnationalist and Arab socialist interests, opposed to what it sees as"Western imperialism" and calling for the "renaissance" or"resurrection" of the Arab World and its unity in one united state.Its motto — "Unity, Liberty, Socialism" (wahda, hurriya,ishtirakiya) — refers to Arab unity, freedom from non-Arab controland interference. Its ideology of Arab socialism is notably separatein origins and practice from Marxism.

• The organization was founded in Damascus, Syria in 1947 by theSyrian intellectuals Michel Aflaq, and Salah al-Bitar. The motto ofthe organization - "Unity, Liberty, Socialism" was inspired by theFrench Jacobin political doctrine linking national unity and socialequity

• Neednt say which organization, who was the most famous posterboy of this organization ?

And the answer is

SADDAM HUSSAIN

• BAATH party

23) About what band name did the founder laterexplained that the name derived "from theidea of a weapon, a pin-up, a young thing, abetter-looking assassin".

Not given to modesty, false or otherwise, headded, "launched the idea in the form of aband of kids who could be perceived as beingbad.

SEX PISTOLS

SID VICIOUS

•24) Name of what group of people comes from the sanskritwords for wanderers in forests?

BANJARA

from Vana-Chara

• 25) Ruma Guha Thakurta,________, Yogita Bali and Leena Chandavarkar

• Who is missing?

And the answer is

Madhubala

• Wives of Kishore Kumar

26) Johannes Kepler, after some profound research, came up with the explanation that this had occurred as a result of a triple conjunction of two planets, Saturn and Jupiter, in the constellation Pisces. He calculated this happened once every 805 years, which meant that it had previously happened in 799 AD and 7 BC. What phenomenon did he thus try to explain?

Star of Bethlehem

• 27) This is a strong contender for the accolade of 'the book that hashad more influence on the development of English than any other'.

• Many phrases that are now common currency in the languageappeared first in this. Likewise, a varied collection of everydaywords also first saw the printer's ink in the work; for example,'accurately', 'battering-ram', 'expansion', 'gopher', 'ingenuously','needleworker', 'phrasing', and so on...

• The text of this has been used in numerous important works; MartinLuther King's I have a dream speech, which he delivered on thesteps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963 and in whichhe quoted directly from this,

• "[I have a dream that one day] every valley shall be exalted, everyhill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be madeplain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory ofthe Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.“

• 400th anniversary of the publication of this was celebrated recently.

And the answer is

King James BIBLE

30) Who/what are the missing ones?

• S C (coffin polisher);

• H F (carpenter);

• K R (skate sharpener at the local ice rink);

• S S (lion cage cleaner);

• Warren Beatty (rat-catcher).

• Bette Midler (worker at a pineapple processing plant);

• Danny DeVito ( hairdresser);

And the answer is

FIRST JOBS

• Sean Connery (coffin polisher); • Harrison Ford (carpenter);• Keanu Reeves (skate sharpener at the local ice

rink); • Sylvester Stallone (lion cage cleaner);•• Warren Beatty (rat-catcher).

Bette Midler (worker at a pineapple processing plant);

• Written

1

• A X pleadingly begs " Oh, please, please beat me! ". The Y says " No! " with a chuckle.

• As ‘use in sentence’ for which two words?

•2) ______ is of Indian descent and lives with his father Ravi, his mother Mona and his sister Tina. He befriended ______after moving to town. ______’s favorite hobby is filmmaking. He is an expert on no budget special effects, and builds his own models for science fiction movies. He is well-liked at school, but sometimes his filmmaking gets on people's nerves. Ravi _______ is a doctor who wishes his son would take up more serious issues. Tina is a year younger than ______, but she is such a good student that she was moved up a grade so that both she and ______ are in the same year as ___and the gang. •

Qn) Whos this new friend of archie?

•

•3) In November 1957 — — Ed Gein was arrested in his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin for the murders of two women. When police searched his home, they found furniture, silverware, and even clothing made of human skin and body parts. Psychiatrists examining him theorized that he was trying to make a "woman suit" to wear so he could pretend to be his dead mother, whom neighbors described as a puritan who dominated her son.

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•5) The state of Arkansas is nicknamed the ___________ State because during its early days many of its residents carried a ___________ ______; it was also called the Toothpick State because early settlers used ___________ _______(a.k.a. "Arkansas Toothpicks") to pick their teeth.

•

• 6) This was probably first used by Thomas Kyd in The _______ _______ around 1587, where the play is presented before an audience of two of the characters, who comment upon the action.[5] From references in other contemporary works, Kyd is also assumed to have been the writer of an early, lost version of Hamlet (the so-called Ur-Hamlet), with a play-within-a-play interlude

• William Shakespeare used this in many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost, and Hamlet.

• Musicals: The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams ;Lestat: The Musical ;Cats;

• Movies:• Charlie kauffman's Synecdoche, New York.;• Moulin Rouge!;• François Truffaut film Day for Night;• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by Harold Pinter• Austin Powers in Goldmember ;• Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles• Tropic Thunder • Scream1;Scream2;Scream3;• Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds,

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• What term in navalarchitecture gets itsname from this place,called the HistoricalState or NegeriBersejarah amonglocals and is the thirdsmallest Malaysianstate, after Perlis andPenang.

• 9) sealed with neoprene cement, to protect non-electric firing assemblies for underwater demolitions

• to protect a microphone he used to make an underwater recording.

• used by engineers to keep soil samples dry during soil tests

• used as a one-way valve by paramedics when performing a chest decompression in the field

• used in the field by engineers to initially protect sensors embedded in the steel or aluminum nose-cones of Cone Penetration Test (CPT)

10) What word, known mainly as the old capital of an East African nation, is also used by many other nations in their name because it simply means ‘land Of Peace’

1

• A X pleadingly begs " Oh, please, please beat me! ". The Y says " No! " with a chuckle.

• As ‘use in sentence’ for which two words?

And the answer is

MASOCHIST & SADIST

• A masochist pleadingly begs " Oh, please, please beat me! ". The sadist says " No! " with a chuckle.

•2) ______ is of Indian descent and lives with his father Ravi, his mother Mona and his sister Tina. He befriended ______after moving to town. ______’s favorite hobby is filmmaking. He is an expert on no budget special effects, and builds his own models for science fiction movies. He is well-liked at school, but sometimes his filmmaking gets on people's nerves. Ravi _______ is a doctor who wishes his son would take up more serious issues. Tina is a year younger than ______, but she is such a good student that she was moved up a grade so that both she and ______ are in the same year as ___and the gang. •

Qn) Whos this new friend of archie?

•

And the answer is

RAJ PATEL

•3) In November 1957 — — Ed Gein was arrested in his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin for the murders of two women. When police searched his home, they found furniture, silverware, and even clothing made of human skin and body parts. Psychiatrists examining him theorized that he was trying to make a "woman suit" to wear so he could pretend to be his dead mother, whom neighbors described as a puritan who dominated her son.

PSYCHO

Its after this story that ROBERT BLOCH writes the book

And the answer is

Alice in wonderland

•5) The state of Arkansas is nicknamed the ___________ State because during its early days many of its residents carried a ___________ ______; it was also called the Toothpick State because early settlers used ___________ _______(a.k.a. "Arkansas Toothpicks") to pick their teeth.

Qn)Connect the pictures

•

And the Answer is

BOWIE KNIFESJim Bowie, known in American

history as HERO OF ALAMO...he gave name to BOWIE knife a

particular type of knife he used to carry.

• 6) This was probably first used by Thomas Kyd in The _______ _______ around 1587, where the play is presented before an audience of two of the characters, who comment upon the action.[5] From references in other contemporary works, Kyd is also assumed to have been the writer of an early, lost version of Hamlet (the so-called Ur-Hamlet), with a play-within-a-play interlude

• William Shakespeare used this in many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost, and Hamlet.

• Musicals: The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams ;Lestat: The Musical ;Cats;

• Movies:• Charlie kauffman's Synecdoche, New York.;• Moulin Rouge!;• François Truffaut film Day for Night;• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by Harold Pinter• Austin Powers in Goldmember ;• Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles• Tropic Thunder • Scream1;Scream2;Scream3;• Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds,

And the answer is

Play within a play/movie within a movie

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AHAB

8

• What term in navalarchitecture gets itsname from this place,called the HistoricalState or NegeriBersejarah amonglocals and is the thirdsmallest Malaysianstate, after Perlis andPenang.

And the answer is

MALLACAMAX

• From straits of mallaca

• Malaccamax is a naval architecture term for the largest size of ship capable of fitting through the 25 metres (82 ft)-deep Strait of Malacca.

• Basically minimum limit on a ship size if it wants to do a global trot

• Similar terms of Panamax, Suezmax and Seawaymax are used for the largest ships

• 9) sealed with neoprene cement, to protect non-electric firing assemblies for underwater demolitions

• to protect a microphone he used to make an underwater recording.

• used by engineers to keep soil samples dry during soil tests

• used as a one-way valve by paramedics when performing a chest decompression in the field

• used in the field by engineers to initially protect sensors embedded in the steel or aluminum nose-cones of Cone Penetration Test (CPT)

And the answer is

Other common uses of Condom

10) What word, known mainly as the old capital of an East African nation, is also used by many other nations in their name because it simply means ‘land Of Peace’

Darussalam

Negara Brunei DarussalamState of Brunei, Abode of Peace

Tanzania

Asalamum va Aleykum=Peace on you

• Infinite Boucne

• Anticlockwise

1

• What name , literally meaning ‘Foundation’, was an indian household name in the late 80’s?

BUNIYAAD

2

• Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart (1997)

• and Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in (2001).

• What are we talking about?

• Only two pairs of performers who received Oscar nominations for playing the same character in the same film.

• Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Gloria Stuart as Old Rose in “Titanic” (1997) and Kate Winslet as Young Iris Murdoch and Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch in “Iris” (2001).

3) What are we talking about?• _______is a Group 1 flat type.

• open to three-year-olds

• run over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 10 yards (2,423 metres),

• scheduled to take place each year in early June.

• most prestigious of the five Classics.

• is sometimes referred to as the Blue Riband of the turf.

• named for Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of __________, whoinaugurated it in 1780

And the answer is

EPSOM DERBY

4

Why is Marie-Thérèse Walter mistress of a famous personality considered the most costliest mistress ever?

And the answer is

Nude Green Leaves and Bust by Picasso

The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for nearly six decades. It sold at auction for US$106.5 million, a world record price.

Nude in a black armchair

in 1999 it was bought by Les Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, for 45.1 million USD.

Le Rêve (tHE DREAM)

LA LECTURE

Woman in Hat and Fur Collar

• 5) Apple Boxes are woodenboxes of varying sizes withholes on each end usedchiefly in film production.These boxes are specializedpieces of equipmentbelonging to the gripdepartment, and should notbe confused with simplecrates or other boxes

• New York: Positioned soApple Box is tallest, 20"

high.LA and Texas: Positioned soApple Box is on its side,resting on its largest side 8"tall for a full apple.

• Main use?

And the answer is

To make the Actor LOOK TALLER than Actress

• Often the need arises to make an actor appear taller, either because of their height, or to fit with the composition of a particular shot. In this use Apple Boxes are jokingly referred to as "Man Makers".

6.Inventor with his inventions-what is the most famous one?

• In 1827, _____ introduced his 'kaleidophone', a device for rendering thevibrations of a sounding body apparent to the eye-later called photometer

• Chair of Experimental Physics in King's College London.

• the measurement of the velocity of electricity in a wire

• early spectroscopy through the discovery and exploitation of spectral emissionlines.

• Earliest telegraph models(he is seen here with Faraday et al)

• In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for hisexplanation of binocular vision, a research which led him to make stereoscopicdrawings and construct the stereoscope.

• In 1840, _____ introduced his chronoscope, for measuring minute intervals oftime

• He was responsible for the then unusual Playfair cipher, named after his friendLord Playfair.

• In 1840, _____ brought out his magneto-electrical machine for generatingcontinuous currents.

And the answer is

WHEATSTONE BRIDGE

• Charles Wheatstone

• 7) This is Zeta Puppia a star in the constellation ofPuppis.

• Charles G smith , founder of American ApplianceCompany was researching about this star when heinvented gaseous (helium) rectifier. He named itafter Latin for ‘Light From Gods’

• What name?

And the answer is

RAYTHEON

• In 1922, two former engineering collegeroommates Laurence K. Marshall andVannevar Bush, along with scientistCharles G. Smith, founded the AmericanAppliance Company in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Its focus, which wasoriginally on new refrigerationtechnology, soon shifted to electronics.The company's first product was agaseous (helium) rectifier that wasbased on Charles Smith's earlierastronomical research of the star ZetaPuppis. The electron tube waschristened with the name RAYTHEON("light of/from the gods")

8

• Georgios Nicholas Papanikolaou was a Greekpioneer in cytology and early cancer detection.

• His portrait was depicted on the obverse of theGreek 10,000 drachmas banknote of 1995-2001,prior to its replacement by the Euro.In 1978his work was honored by the U.S. Postal Servicewhich issued a 13 cent stamp .

• What was his most famous contribution?

And the answer is

PAP SMEAR TEST

• 9) ______'s Grammar and Computer Science

• Saroja Bhate and Subhash Kak

• 1993, pp. 79-94

• I Introduction

• The enterprise of science has two fundamental elements. The first element is to develop techniques that make theelucidation of the computational computer structure of nature and the mind easier. The second element is thecreation of new computing algorithms and machines that have powerful cognitive and computational abilities: thisincludes development of new techniques of representing and manipulating knowledge, inference and deduction.The tasks of representing and processing knowledge with a somewhat different emphasis has parallels in manyancient disciplines. Thus grammarians have long considered questions of relating facts about the physical worldand cognition to linguistic expressions. Likewise logicians have developed formal structures to relate events anddraw inferences from them. This is seen best in the work of ancient Indian logicians and grammarians. It has beenargued by Ingalls, Staal, Matilal, Briggs, Kak and others1 that many contemporary developments in formal logic,linguistics, and computer science are a rediscovery of the work of these ancient masters. But apart from thequestion of a correct history of ideas it raises the following important question of significance to Sanskritists as wellas cognitive and computer scientists: Are there other rules in ancient Indian logic and grammar that may be of usein making further advance in cognitive and computer sciences? A little bit of history shows why this is a validquestion. Nineteenth century Western linguists did not see the significance of the context-sensitive rules of _____’sgrammar. In fact their fundamental importance was seen only when _____an style structures were first introducedby Western linguists such as Chomsky about thirty years ago.

• This was a path breaking paper written by oneSubhash Kak, often quoted by NaturalLanguage Processing researchers…Fill in theblanks

And the answer is

Using PANINI’S PANINIYAM as a basic Grammatical text in Natural Language Processing Algorithms for Aritificial

Intelligence simulations

10

• What did Jack Cohen,who, from 1919, sold groceries in the markets of the London East End, create when he acquired a large shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell?

And the answer is

TESCO

• T. E. Stockwell and Jack Cohen

11

• The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece.

• They are: Kerkyra ; Paxi ;Lefkada , Ithaki ,Kefalonia , Zakynthos ,Kythira .

• You know them from the collective name that is used to refer to it.

• What Indian Connect?

And the answer is

HEPTANESIA /Bombay

• Seven islands of Bombay (Mumbai) in India.

• Heptanesia is the earliest documented name for the islands, mentioned by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in his geographic works.

12

• Complete this line from the gospel of John: "8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 8:32 ___". Whose motto comes from this?

And the answer is

• And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (CIA)

•13 This race, descendant of the vikings, gave their name to a particular region in the northern France. Their name might have been derived from 'Norsemen', a •reference to their Scandinavian descent. Because of their barbaric origins many cultures have similar words in their languagues meaning barbarians/pirates ?•An american essayist, famous for his essay 'White Negro' and considered creator of 'New Journalism' also shares his first name with this tribe.•What name/region?

NORMAN/NORMANDY

Norman Mailer

•14) how do u know, Glavnoye Upravlyeniye Ispravityel'no-Trudovih Lagyeryey i koloniy, the government agency that administered one of several Soviet penal labor camp systems, better?

And the answer is

GULAG

The infamous russian prisonGlavnoye Upravlyeniye

Ispravityel'no-Trudovih Lagyeryey

• 15) Whose lesser known profession include being a Photographer forBritish Vogue, L'uomo Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Interviewmagazine and i-D, among others, founding Zoo Magazine, the fashion/artmagazine based in Berlin, Germany which he shoots for regularly._______ is also currently Editor at Large and regular photographer forZoomer Magazine, a Canadian periodical focused on topics relevant tothe baby boomer generation.

• As a photographer, _______ has worked with many of his peers,including Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart,Robert Plant, Take That, Joss Stone, Plácido Domingo, Sarah McLachlan,Celine Dion, Billy Idol, Moby, Amy Winehouse, t.A.T.u., Annie Lennox,Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry, Lenny Kravitz, Die Antwoord, and Morrisseyto name a few

• His list of photography exhibitions are shown in the next page (just foran FYI perspective ; wont help cracking the qn ):

• His photographic exhibitions include:

• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1999

• McCord Museum, Montreal 2000

• Saatchi Gallery, London 2000

• Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany 2001

• ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2004

• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 2004

• Calvin Klein, NYC, Dallas, Paris 2005

• Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London 2005-06

• Il Tempio Di Adriano, Rome, Italy, July 2006

• Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany, September 2006

• Leica Gallery, Vienna, Austria, November 2006

• Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2006

H.Stern exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2007PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain, Fotografos

Insospechados (Unsuspected Photographers)

Mickey Rourke photographs, May–July 2007Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, England, May–June 2007

401 Projects, New York City, September–November 2007

The Hospital, Covent Garden, London, England, November 2007 (Modern Muses)

The National Portrait Gallery, London, England, February–May 2008 (Modern Muses)

Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, May 2008 (Photos of the German National Football Team)14th Street Gallery, New York City, May 2008 (Hear The World) (plus other exhibitions in Berlin and Zurich with the same show)

Saatchi Gallery, London, July 2009 (Hear The World)Calvin Klein American Women 2010, New York City, September 2010

And the answer is

BRYAN ADAMS

16) The subject, Marie Jullian (or Julien), was born in Arles June 8, 1848 and died there August 2, 1911. She married Joseph-Michel Ginoux in 1866 and together they ran the Café de la Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, where X lodged from May to mid September 1888. He had the Yellow House in Arles furnished to settle there.

Evidently until this time, X's relations to M. and Mme. Ginoux had remained more or less commercial, but Y's arrival in Arles altered the situation. His courtship charmed the lady, then about 40 years of age, and in the first few days of November 1888 (November 1st, or more probably November 2nd) Madame Ginoux agreed to DO WHAT?

And the answer is

L'Arlessenne by VanGogh and Gaugin

• Same female and place was drawn twice by two of the most brilliant painters, just for competition sake

Vangogh Le Cafe De Nuit

Gaugin Night cafe at Arles

And the answer is

PERCIVAL LOWELL

Google mars, which was launced on Lowell's bday

Lowell predicted canals on mars

• 18) The Brahman splits into male(Parashiva) andfemale(Parasakti) and manifests as the universe. Theparashiva has five aspects:- 1)Sadyojata-aspect thatpropagates manifest brahman-associated withbrahma-represents earth. 2)Vamadeva-aspect thatsustains manifest Brahman-associated with Vishnu-represents water 3)Aghora-aspect that rejuvenatesmanifest Brahman-associated with Rudra-representsfire 4)Tatpurusha-east-aspect that reveals-associateswith Rishi,Muni,Jnani,yogi-represents air 5)Isana-aspect that conceals-associated with all that exist-represents ether

• Basic postulate for what?

And the answer is

VASTU SHASTRA

19

• What is the full name of Thomas _____ who in1880, invented gabardine, a hardwearing,water-resistant yet breathable fabric, in whichthe yarn is waterproofed before weaving?

And the answer is

20

• Bloomsday is a commemoration observedannually on June 16th to celebrate the life of Xand relive the events in Y, all of which tookplace on the same day in Dublin in 1904. Xchose the date because his first outing with hiswife-to-be, Nora Barnacle happened on thatday, when they walked to the Dublin urbanvillage of Ringsend. The name derives from W,the protagonist of Y.

And the answer is

• X- James JOYCE

• Y- ULYSSES

• W- Leopold bloom

21

Barbarella is a 1968 science fiction film based on the FrenchBarbarella comics created by Jean-Claude Forest. The film starsJane Fonda. The plot is that in an unspecified future Barbarella(Jane Fonda) is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieveDoctor _____ _____ (Milo O'Shea) from the planet Tau Ceti inorder to save the Earth. _____ _____ is the inventor of thePositronic Ray, a weapon.

The band _____ _____ took its name from the mad scientist inthe film, Dr. _____ _____. Milo O'Shea, who played the part,repaid the compliment by appearing as an older version of thecharacter in Arena, the band's 1985 concert film.Some of theband's early appearances were at a nightclub calledBarbarella's, in their home town of Birmingham, England.

The band continued the homage to its roots with their 1997 USsingle, "Electric Barbarella" (released in the UK in 1998).

And the answer is

Duran Duran

• 22) This company started by Humphrey Brothers atCheshire, shot to fame when they provided thesmart, tailored kits for both Portsmouth andManchester City in the 1934 FA Cup Final.

• Today, the brand has been reinvigorated by anassociation with American sportswear giants Nike.Buying _____ in 2008, Nike have helped _____ tore-energise and to use their illustrious heritage toinspire their current designs. Currently supplyingtailored kits to England, Wales, Northern Ireland,the Republic of Ireland, Manchester City and manymore, _____ are a prominent name in the world offootball culture.

And the answer is

23

This is the oldest aphrodisiac known to man. It has a dark brown root and small red fruit. It was also said to have mystical properties. It also contains three dangerous alkaloids, including the dreaded scopolamine or truth serum.

Name it

MANDRAKES

24

• Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language (part of the greater Afroasiatic language family) that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia

• what is the akkadian word for "to build on a raised area"?

And the answer is

ZIGGURAT

25

X was owned by the Shinyei Kisen Goshi Kaisa of Japan.

X had previously been known as both SS Stubbenhuk and SS Sicilia. X was later renamed Heian Maru. X was wrecked at Cape Soyedomari, Hokkaidō, Japan, on 11 February 1926.

And the answer is

Komagata maru

• 26) Operation Market Garden (17–25 September 1944)was an Allied military operation, fought in theNetherlands and Germany in the Second World War.It was the largest airborne operation of all time.

• Despite all this the operation was considered a failurebecause of many rampant glitches – delay in captureof certain bridges, stronger resistance by axis forcesthan anticipated etc. The failure of Market Gardenended Allied expectations of finishing the war in 1944.

• The qn is what did British Lieutenant-General FrederickBrowning, deputy commander of the First AlliedAirborne Army, tell Field Marshal BernardMontgomery, the operation's architect, when the latertold him about the plan for Operation Market Garden?

And the answer is

27

• What did Adolf Ehinger invent in 1935 inspired from a hand-crank pasta maker?

And the answer is

Paper Shredder

28• During World War II, Country A was under the

colonial rule of Country B. Country B• was at war with Country C. Faced with attack from

C, B had to withdraw from A. Now, in A, there was a freedom struggle going on to free the country from B. The leader of this struggle was Person D. So when C drove B out of A, D welcomed C as its deliverer and joined his forces with C’s armies. But C treated A so badly that within a couple of years, D switched sides and allied himself with B once again. The Country A got its freedom a few years after WWII. Name A, B, C and D

• A is Burma; B is British Empire; C is Japan and D is Aung San and the Burmese National Army.

29

• Arthur Rose David Taylor and Wallace Waite, together formed which upmarket chain of supermarkets?

And the answer is

WAIT-ROSE

• Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose

•30) ____________is the ghostly double of aliving person, a sinister form of bilocation•In the vernacular, the word "______________"has come to refer (as in German) to any double orlook-alike of a person. The word is also used todescribe the sensation of having glimpsed atoneself in peripheral vision, in a position wherethere is no chance that it could have been areflection. They are generally regarded asharbingers of bad luck

•Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincolncontains it.