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Abhra Das (Assam, India)Sebastian Klussmann (Germany)Geevantha
Weerasinghe (Sri Lanka)Compiled and edited byRajiv Rai
(Quizician)QuizmasterNigel Jones (Malaysia/UK)
1 Based on a poem of the same name by the Russian Nicolai
Necrassov, Korobeiniki is a Russian folklore song whose melody is
known worldwide due to which first successful Russian entertainment
export to the west?
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Tetris
2 The title of which Frederick Forsyth novel comes from a
phrase used in Shakespearean play Julius Caesar?
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The Dogs of War
3 Henry Lumsden, Lieutenant with the British army in India,
discovered this fabric a 100% cotton tawny- colored fabric dyed
with the plant extract derived from the tea leaves. Name the
fabric.
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Khaki
4 A Greek heroine, she refused to marry any man unless he could
beat her in a foot race. Who was the only female argonaut?
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Atalanta
5 Yersinia pestis (formerly, Pasteurella pestis) discovered by
Pasteur in 1894 is considered the deadliest bug ever. What disease
does it cause which is transmitted by fleas and rats?
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Bubonic plague
6 Which rum based cocktail get its name after the Tahitian word
for The Best?
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Mai Tai
7 Which famous international brand gets its name from the
medieval French practice of the king, receiving golden silk flags
from the abbot of St. Denis before a war?
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Oriflame
8 In the year 1881, at La Chaux de Fonds in Switzerland, an
entrepreneur named Achilles Ditesheim hired six watch makers and
opened a workshop. He named the company after the Swiss Word for
Always in motion. Name the company.
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Movado
9 What special non-hierarchical object did King Arthur receive
as a dowry after marrying the beautiful princess Guinevere?
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Round Table
10 Jack Ryan worked in the Pentagon and designed the Hawk and
Sparrow missiles. He is however, more remembered for designing a
runaway hit. What?
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Barbie dolls
11 Alberto Santos-Dumont, the legendary Brazilian aviator after
winning 100,000 Francs as prize in Paris cribbed his heart out to
Louis Cartier about wasting time in having to do something. This
resulted in Cartier inventing something for him. What?
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Wrist watch. Alberto cribbed about the time wasted in checking
the time from the pocket watch. Louis Cartier cracked this problem
by creating the first wrist watch.
12 This clichd phrase was first used to describe Rudolph
Valentino. Mae West used the phrase to describe Cary Grant in the
movie She Done Him Wrong (1933). The popularity of the phrase was
cemented by a movie starring Cesar Romero in 1941. What
phrase?
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
13 The Abbott of Glastonbury at the time of the dissolution of
the monasteries sent the deeds of the manor of Mells to King Henry
VIII concealed. The steward carrying the package knew of the
contents, extracted it and ended up owning the manor. How is this
event immortalized?
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The nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner.
14 Originally known as the Chinese gooseberry, the fruit was
renamed for marketing reasons in the mid-20th century, first to
melonette, and then to ___ fruit. Which fruit?
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Kiwifruit (Called yang to in China)was introduced to New
Zealand by Isabel Fraser. People in New Zealand thought it had a
gooseberry flavour and began to call it the Chinese
gooseberry.
15 After the murder of the captain of a ship Heartsease by
Eskimos in 1612, a practice was born, which is followed even today
almost all over. What practice are we talking about?
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Flying the flag at half-mast as a mark of respect to the
deceased.
16 According to German legend, this flower takes its name from
the last words of a knight, who was drowned while trying to pick
some from the riverside for his ladies. Name the flower.
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Forget-me-not
17 This popular health drink was first launched in Australia
over 60 years ago, and named after the Roman athlete, a champion at
the ancient Pythian Games. Name it.
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Milo
18 Cleopatra wore it and so did Catherine the Great. This
gemstone was named after the Greek word for Not to be drunk. Name
it?
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Amethyst
19 What well known quote from Chinese mythology means Hiding
Your Strength from others?
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
20 The launch of Concorde on December 11, 1967 was delayed due
to a difference of opinion between the French and the British sides
on what particular issue?
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The spelling of Concorde. The French wanted an e at the end of
the name Concorde
21 What term integral to the Internet, did Ted Nelson coin in
his book Literary Machines?
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Hypertext
22 Anna Jarvis decided to launch a campaign to celebrate this
day. The first of its kind was held in West Virginia in 1908, and
it was celebrated with a religious service. The second Sunday in
May is the designated day to celebrate what?
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Mothers Day
23 What term, derived from the Latin term meaning He has
pledged describes a written statement of evidence?
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Affidavit
24 Name this bacterial disease that takes its name from the
title of a poem, published in 1530 by Hieronymus Fracastorius, a
physician, astronomer and poet of Verona.
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Syphilis
25 How did Armalcolite, a mineral from the moon get its
name?
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Named after Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin & Michael
Collins
26 The Chinese call it a "little mouse", Danes and Swedes an
"elephants trunk", Germans a "spider monkey", Italians a "snail",
Israelis pronounce it "strudels" and the Czechs say "roll mops".
What is it?
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The @ sign
27 What was invented by James Ritty to prevent his barman from
stealing money from the counter?
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The Cash Register
28 Which expression also used to describe the fluctuations in
stock markets around the world owes its origin to the Soccer World
Cup held in Mexico, 1986 ?.
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Mexican Wave
29 Japan hosted the first Olympic Games in Asia on October 1,
1964. What iconic form of transportation did they introduce to
coincide with the launch of the event?
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The Bullet train
30 Huey, Dewey and Louie are the nephews of Donald Duck. What
are the names of the nieces of Daisy Duck?
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April, May and June.
31 In 1949, Alec Pompaz, a scout for the New York Giants
baseball team recommended that the team sign this 23-year old
pitcher. The team refused and this young man went on to become
famous in the world of politics. Who?
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Fidel Castro
32 The word first appeared around 1930 and was the name for
rubber eraser. The word ____ as used by A J Hackett, is said to be
"Kiwi slang for Elastic Strap. What?
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Bungee as in Bungee jumping
33 Logo of this sporting event consists of three elements in
red, blue and greenthe three colours that are most widely
represented in national flags around the world. The motto is the
Spirit in Motion. The name of this sporting event derives from the
Greek word for beside" or "alongside. Which sporting event?
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The Paralympic Games
34 This game was created by the royal family of Malaysia about
500 years ago. The name of the game comes from the Malay and Thai
word for "kick" and "ball". Which game?
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Sepak Takraw
35 On January 9, 2006 when Australia and South Africa met in
the first international twenty20 match to be played in Australia,
what was the strange about the uniforms of the teams?
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Each players nickname appeared on the back of his uniform
rather than his name/surname.
36 Which modern day sporting title was first conferred by Tsar
Nicholas II on the five great players who participated in a
competition in St. Petersburg in 1914?
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Grandmaster (in Chess)
37 This game originally called Mokshapat (in Sanskrit) was
created by the 13th century Indian poet saint Gyandev. Which
game?
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Snakes and Ladders
38 This expression derives from the world of horse racing. When
a jockeys win is totally assured, he relaxes his grip on the reins
when nearing the finish line. Which expression?
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To win hands down (or hands-down victory).
39 The United States Navy Fighter Weapons School was
established in March 1969 at NAS Miramar, California after a United
States Navy report recommended that a graduate-level school be
established to train Fleet fighter pilots in air combat tactics to
counter the relatively poor air combat performance of Navy aircrews
over Vietnam. By what other name do we know this school
better?
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Top Gun
40 In 1686 king Louis XIV of France had a terrible operation,
he was sliced open without anesthetics but he endured it bravely. A
group of French nuns at the cloister of Saint Cyr celebrated this
by writing a song Dieu sauvez le roi. A traveler from another
country heard the tune, copied it and translated it. What did the
song become?
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God save the King
41 This battle was fought on June 4, 1859 during the
Austro-Sardinian War, resulting in a French-Sardinian victory under
Napoleon III against the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai.
The Sardinians regard this as a great victory, which later paved
the way for Italian unification under Garibaldi and Victor
Emmanuel. How has this battle been immortalized?
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This was the Battle of Magenta (after which the colour takes
its name).
42 Captain Ridleys shooting party commanded by Alistair
Denniston arrived at a housing site owned by property developer
Captain Hubert Faulkner in August 1939. The site was originally
owned by a wealthy London financier Sir Herbert Samuel Leon. What
happened here in the next couple of years proved to be a game
changer. Which place?
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Bletchley Park-The Enigma Coding Machine was cracked here
during World War II.
43 This started in medieval France, when a king would hug a new
knight, placing both his arms around the knights neck. This
tradition carries forward in the French military custom of kissing
both cheeks of a man on whom they confer an award. In England, this
took the form of a king tapping each shoulder of a knight with his
sword. Which English word from the French for To Neck describes
this practice?
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Accolade Ad = to + Colla = neck
44 The BOAC flight between London and Johannesburg, in May 1952
introduced not only an important technology, but also a phrase to
the English language (based on this technology). What phrase?
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Jet Set
45 On the 5th of March 1960, the Belgian arms transport "La
Coubre" exploded in Havana harbour, killing 136 people. A memorial
service was held and among the prominent guests were Simone de
Beauvoir and Jean- Paul Sartre. But something much more famous
happened at that memorial service which has been reproduced
millions of times ever since. What?
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Famous photograph of Che Guevara was taken here by Alberto
Korda.
46 This metaphoric expression originally alluded to an unknown,
was so used in a novel by Benjamin Disraeli (The Young Duke, 1831).
The expression was soon applied to political candidates among the
first of who was James Knox Polk. He won the 1844 Democratic
presidential nomination over Martin Van Buren on the eighth ballot
and went on to win the election. What term?
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Dark Horse
47 Which medical word in Latin literally means "straightening a
deformation in children" It actually started because the correction
of curvature of the spine in children was the main concern of
medical practitioner at that time. Which word?
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Orthopedics
48 This concept was first discovered in 1870 by John Tyndall an
English physicist, the first practical use of it occurred in 1955
when an Indian scientist Narinder. S. Kapany incorporated this in
an endoscope, an optical instrument used by doctors for medical
experimentation inside the human body. What?
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Optical Fibre
49 This was used as an identifying symbol among Belgian freedom
fighters. It was introduced in UK by a Belgian refugee Victor de
Laveleye on the BBC during a broadcast and later popularized by
Winston Churchill. What?
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V for Victory sign
50 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, had a decisive role to
play in the royal politics of his day. He initially supported the
Lancastrian Edward IV and later the Yorkist Henry VI. As a result,
he was known by a particular sobriquet, which is also used in
modern politics. What?
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Both his candidates eventually became kings as a result he was
known as Kingmaker.