general quiz - quiz of the week 2 - set 1

General Quiz

What sobriquet did he receive as a result of this war?

• Alexander was the second son of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and seemed to have no chance of claiming the throne of Vladimir. In 1236, however, he was summoned by the Novgorodians to become  kniaz' (or prince) of Novgorod and, as their military leader, to defend their northwest lands from Swedish and German invaders. After the Swedish army had landed at the confluence of the rivers Izhora and Y. His small army suddenly attacked the Swedes on 15 July 1240 and defeated them.

Nevsky

How is Dr. Johann Georg better known?

• Dr. Johann Georg was an itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance. Because of his early treatment as a in literature, it is very difficult to establish historical facts about his life with any certainty.  For the year 1506, there is a record of him appearing as performer of magical tricks and horoscopes in Gelnhausen. Over the following 30 years, there are numerous similar records spread over southern Germany. He appeared as physician, doctor of philosophy, alchemist, magician and astrologer, and was often accused as a fraud. The church denounced him as a blasphemer in league with the devil.

Faust

• What is the Latin phrase for “you should have the body”?

Habeas Corpus

• Pactolus is a river near the Aegean coast of Turkey. The river rises from Mount Tmolus, flows through the ruins of the ancient city of Sardis, and empties into the Gediz River, the ancient Hermus. The Pactolus once contained electrum that was the basis of the economy of the ancient state of Lydia.

• Which act “validates” the electrum present in the river?

King Midas washing his hands to lose his Golden touch.

Name this goddess.

• In Norse mythology, she was the daughter of Loki. Her kingdom, Niflheim, or the World of Darkness, was divided into several sections. Murderers, Adulterers suffered torment in a castle filled with serpents’ venom, while the dragon Nidhogg sucked their blood.

Hel

• Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.

• Who is the first poet to be interred in Poets' Corner?

Geoffrey Chaucer

What is its male counterpart called?

•  A Caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient town of Peloponnese.

Atlas

Id this region.

• They refer to themselves as Vainakhs ,which means "our people" in their language, or Nokhchiy. They and Ingush peoples are collectively known as the Vainakh. The region they have inhabited derives its name from this ethnic group, which is predominantly Muslim.

Chechenya

• Which geographical feature’s French name is La Manche, meaning The Sleeve, is a reference to its shape, which gradually narrows from about 112 miles in the west to only 21 miles in the east?

• Arakan Yoma is a mountain range in western Myanmar, between the coast of Rakhine State and the Central Burma Basin, in which flows the Irrawaddy River. It is the most prominent of a series of parallel ridges that arc through Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Burma.

• What is its major contribution to Indian Economy?

Andaman & Nicobar Islands Tourism

• These are small cetaceans of the family Phocoenidae. The name derives from a French word, which is possibly derived from the conjunction of two Medieval Latin words meaning “pig” and “fish”, classical( “sea hog”).

• They are distinct from dolphins, although this word has been used to refer to any small dolphin, especially by sailors and fishermen. The most obvious visible difference between the two groups is that these species have shorter beaks and flattened, spade-shaped teeth distinct from the conical teeth of dolphins.

Porpoise

• “pig” and “fish” ( porcus + piscis )

• In 1630, a Dutch physician named Jacobus Bontius encountered the disease while working in Java. In the first known description of this disease, he wrote: “A certain very troublesome affliction, which attacks men, is called by the inhabitants _______(which means sheep). I believe those, whom this same disease attacks, with their knees shaking and the legs raised up, walk like sheep. It is a kind of paralysis, or rather tremor: for it penetrates the motion and sensation of the hands and feet indeed sometimes of the whole body.”

• The origin of this term comes from a Sinhalese phrase meaning “weak, weak” or "I cannot, I cannot.”

Beriberi

Which word may refer to :• a mayonnaise-based sauce•  an umbrella term for Turkic peoples in the territory of

the former Russian Empire• hardened dental plaque• a meat dish made from ground raw beef

• Ancient name for K2C4H4O6.

Tartar

• The game is called "zesta-punta" (basket tip) in Basque. The Basque Government promotes the game as "the fastest sport in the world" because of the ball speed. The sport once held the world record for ball speed with a 125–140 g ball covered with goatskin that traveled at 302 km/h (188 mph), performed by José Ramón Areitio at the Newport, Rhode Island.

• In Basque language it means “merry festival”. Identify the game.

Jai alai

• King Charles II instructed John Flamsteed (the first person to hold this post) to “forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation.”

• 1675–1719 John Flamsteed• 1720–1742 ______ ______• 1995–present Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow

Astronomer RoyalEdmund Halley

• "his Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Alhaji Dr. _____ ______ Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE“

• “Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea”

• “Conqueror of the British Isles” • Which other title was claimed by this man, which was

made into a movie by Kevin McDonald based on a novel of the same name by Giles Foden?

• Identify the brand from the initial logo on the left and a clue to lead you to its present logo on the right.

• The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st/2nd century Roman satirist. Although in its modern usage the phrase has universal, timeless applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of enforcing moral behaviour on women when the enforcers are corruptible.

• audio quid ueteres olim moneatis amici,"pone seram, cohibe." sed quis custodiet ipsoscustodes? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.

• Which phrase?

Who watches the Watchmen?

• quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

• Only two non-Indians were awarded the Bharat Ratna.• Name both of them. (2 points)

Nelson MandelaKhan Abdul Ghaffar Khan