canara union lone wolf quiz 2014 - finals
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THE 32ND CANARA UNION LONE WOLF QUIZ FINALS
F I N A L S – O C TO B E R , 2 0 1 4 , N AV I N R A JA R A M
FINALS FORMAT
Start with your prelims scores
Round 1:24 Questions - Top 8 go through, 8 eliminated
Round 2: 20 Questions - Top 4 go through, 4 eliminated
Round 3: 16 Questions - One winner!
Entire quiz is on Pounce
3 strikes and you are out of pounces – Round 1
1 Bonus Strike for Round 2, and 1 more Bonus Strike for Round 3
+10 on pounce, +10 on bounce
Accepting Partial Pounce (+5) for one half of the answer on pounce.
You lose a pounce if you get part pounce wrong OR say that you’ll go for one half, write answers to both halves and get one half wrong.
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3 Strikes
The temple where this song was filmed takes its name from an alternate Sanskrit name for the sun-god.
As per legend, Surya was born of Aditi, the wife of Kashyapa, from a lifeless egg, hence the name that literally means “dead egg”.
Name the temple/alternate name.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_73kIBWN6rU)
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Martand Sun Temple, Anantnag
The wild ancestors of modern day horses used to roam the grassy plains of Europe in vast herds and while resting among the tall grass, they would need to keep their heads high to look for the nearest sign of danger.
The ancestors of today’s domestic cows – the Aurochs/wild oxen were creatures of the woods and would survive in the Black Forest. When danger threatened, they would keep their heads low in order to watch under the trees for approaching predators.
These are cited reasons for what opposite traits observed in these animals?
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Horses stand up forelegs first, while cows
stand up hind-legs first
While more notable names such as JFK have used this phrase, it comes to us from Chinese philosophy that espouses positive action.
A famous use of the phrase in a public gathering was in a talk by English lawyer Peter Benensonat a Human Rights Day ceremony in 1961.
Benenson went on to setup Amnesty International that year and his phrase also may have inspired the logo of the organization.
What phrase?
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It is better to light a candle than curse the
darkness!
4 Often overlooked by the locals, yet strangely
conspicuous, southwest Ireland is often
dotted with these stone walls that were
neither built for division or property or as
barriers against livestock wandering off.
What is the real reason for these stone
walls, that is quite likely to bring back a
mixture of proud yet painful memories?
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During the famine, the starving Irish were
too proud to receive free food, so they were
employed by local churches and other
associations to build these famine walls to
receive food in return.
In 1951, X was sitting in an osteopath’s office, to be treated for various skeletal aches and pains that threatened his career when his eyes fell on a book.
He was referred to Y, a family guru, by Dr. Rustam Vakil’swife; word was sent to Y who would make a 7 hour journey everyday to meet X, initially for 5 minute sessions that soon became 3 hours – the sessions doing wonders to X’s posture and his sleep cycles.
In 1982, X stood on his head and conducted Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with his feet for the Berlin Philharmonic’s 100th jubilee celebrations; he termed the lessons he learnt from Y the best thing that happened to his technique, prolonging his career.
Who were X and Y – great friends till X’s death in 1999?
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X- Yehudi Menuhin
Y – B K S Iyengar
After disagreements with the producer forced him out, he moved to Amsterdam and began to tour using the group name, because the producer had not registered it yet.
On 30 December 2010, he was found dead in a hotel room in St. Petersburg, after complaining of breathing issues post the previous night.
In a strange case of life imitating art, his death was found to have occurred in the same city exactly on the 94th death anniversary date of an individual who gave him good cause for fame.
Name the two individuals who died on the same date.
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Bobby Farrell
Rasputin
The Crazy Horse Memorial, under construction since 1948, depicts a Sioux warrior responding to a white man’s query on where his lands are with “My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
However, many traditional Native Americans consider the memorial unethical and profane, drawing comparisons such as “How would the white man feel if Mt. Rushmore showed George Washington picking his nose?”
So what is profane/fundamentally wrong with the memorial?
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Pointing with Fingers is considered
rude/profane in Native American culture
One of the rare occasions where Amul got into trouble for its tongue-in-cheek ads, this 1979 print ad is remembered for the huge uproar it caused at home, prompting Amul to issue a public apology in the form of a follow-up ad (shown below the original).
The original print ad referred to something followed by the UK government, at places such as Heathrow Airport.
What was the practice?
Why was the UK government following such a practice?
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• Virginity tests on Indian women arriving into the
UK.
• Many women entered UK claiming to be bonafide
fiancees/married to Indian men working in the
country – the UK was worried this was causing
illegal immigration and resorted to this practice.
Well before T20 became the norm, this slam-bang 30 overs a side cricket tournament in Madras was instituted in 1950-51 with the evocative name “The Sports & Pastime Trophy” for companies and bankers.
The inaugural trophy was won by Binny Recreation Club, as a result of which many companies like Burma Shell, M&SM Railway, Parry, Phillips are said to have begun offering jobs to cricketers to win the trophy.
Through the decades names such as AG Kripal Singh, VB Chandrashekhar, K. Srikanth, Robin Singh and WV Raman turned up for this trophy.
What trophy, that was bought over by a firm, suspended briefly and revived recently?
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Hindu Trophy
Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed various Berlin structures such as the Schauspielhaus, the Altes museum, the Singakademie and residences/villas for King Frederick William III in nearby Potsdam.
Being an innovator, he often preferred to construct statues with hollow metals such as zinc and then give them a stone or bronze finish to make them look like sculptures.
Perhaps his biggest claim to fame is the honour he got of designing something, that, inspite of its name, has a little bit of zinc in it, in keeping with the designer’s love for the metal.
What did Schinkel design?
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The Iron Cross
In his article “Celluloid City” on the makings of the movie industry in Chennai, Theodore Bhaskaran writes
“Vincent Swamikannu, a railway draftsman from Tiruchirapalli, was one of the earliest travelling exhibitors in 1905. He showed short movies in a tent in Esplanade, near Parry’s Corner, using carbide jet-burners for projection, later importing equipment from Pathe. “
Movies of that time were short, silent films of 15 minutes each. After each movie, there were breaks with entertainment side-shows such as boxing bouts, magic shows, gymnastics for another 30-60 minutes before the next movie viewing.
Apart from the fact that these side-shows generated revenue, what constraint of that time mandated the necessity to host these shows?
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Projectors of that time used to get
heated up, so you needed to wait for half
an hour for the equipment to cool down
before you could show a new film.
The first known expedition across the Darien Gap – a break in the Pan American Highway was in 1960 by a Land Rover known as “the affectionate cockroach”. The first all land crossing happened in 1985, taking 714 days to travel 201 kms – an avg. speed slower than a garden snail.
Apart from the danger to indigenous populations and local flora/fauna, the US has stalled all efforts to build a land route through this jungle region, citing 2 reasons.
The first reason relates to a health related menace that affected the US last in 1954, leading to mass slaughters. The second reason could cause a potential law enforcement headache.
Give both reasons.
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Foot and Mouth Disease – the US believes
the disease can spread from diseased
migrant cattle in South America
Drug Trafficking – the US believes
Colombian drug traffickers will use the road
to enter American territory
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In 2004, oceanographer and explorer Fabian Cousteau, the son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, was asked to make a film on sharks.
Having already made two documentaries, Cousteau was hesitant but partnered with engineer Eddie Paul to build Troy – a submarine that can observe and film sharks in their natural habitat by becoming one of them.
Fabian credits his reading of a specific book in a series at the age of seven towards inspiring him to design Troy.
What book did Fabian credit?
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Red Rackham’s Treasure
Among the Satavahanas, there is observed a tradition of ruler names such as Gautamiputra Satakarni, Vasishtiputra Sri Pulumayi and Kaushikiputra Satakarni.
This has led to historians suggesting that the Satavahanakings would prefix their mother’s names and hence were a matriarchal clan, deriving from the female line, not the male line.
A contrarian school of thought contends that the matriarchal theory is untrue and the naming was a matter of convenience, in what was still a predominantly male driven line.
What is the explanation offered against the matriarchal theory?
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Satavahana kings married women from
different royal families and the naming
was easier to identify sons based on the
queens who delivered them.
In 1950, Alexey Brodovitch, the celebrated art director of Harper’s Bazaar, left to start a new magazine dedicated to graphic design, called Portfolio.
The first issue featured an article on the “gift drawings” of the Shakers, the mid-19th Century American religious sect, in which members recreated their spiritual visions as drawings on paper.
One of the early readers of the magazine was a creative executive, William Golden, who saw the drawings and felt he could repurpose it to represent “ ________ looking at the world”.
What did William Golden create?
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The CBS Eye Logo
On November 16, 2013, soon after the announcement went out, the Ministry of Home Affairs sent 2 samples that had been lying in its vault since the year 2000 for refurbishing at the Alipore mint in Calcutta.
The ministry gave no reasons except stating that ‘new ones take atleast Rs. 2 Lakh and 5-6 months to manufacture, while the standbys it had don’t take much time or costs in refurbishing. One of these could be used easily.’
Ironically, the year 2000, was when the individual at the center of the 2013 announcement, stepped down from the highest position that his country could offer him.
Who was the individual?
What were these objects?
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Sachin Tendulkar’s Bharat Ratna medal
SRT quit captaincy in the year 2000
The composer of this piece wagered his friend and another famous composer to play this piece. The friend said it would be impossible to play this piece, at which point the original composer showed him to do it, winning the bet.
Name this piece. Name the two composers involved in the wager.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uh-ibYe7kU)
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Mozart By a Nose
Mozart & Haydn
The Chicago Lights Out program began in 1995, as part of which tall/multi-storeyed buildings including logos, clocks, lighted antennae and decorative tops are urged to turn off their lighting.
As part of the rules that govern buildings that choose to participate, residents are urged to turn out external lighting, use motion sensors for internal lighting, draw shades or blinds, and schedule cleaning crews before 11 pm.
While the program is active throughout the year, it is promoted actively through the March-June and August-November months.
What is the purpose of this program?
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Reduce migrant bird fatalities
Migrant birds get drawn to artificial lights
and lose their way, often colliding with
buildings
Which famous work of art, painted when the artist saw a parade pass through the town square in Wellington, Ohio is being referred to in this scene?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0q2lAggHI)
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Archibald Willard’s The Spirit of
76
Created by Othmar Motter in 1975, the MotterTektura typeface has been in use for a while and has been associated with various brands such as Trapper Keeper and Reebok – which have kept it in use in contemporary times as well.
Tektura’s biggest claim to fame was when a certain firm adopted it for its logo type and made a change to its logo to snugly fit the starting letter of the letterform.
The company no longer uses the font, but the logo changes lives on.
Which company and what specific logo motif, that lives on?
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The bite in the Apple
A few sites have started offering this product called “The Knee Defender” up for sale lately.
In “This American Life”, Ira Glass speaks to people in the 6ft or taller range about their use of this product and if it was within ethical norms or what educated, polite, accommodating individuals would do.
Most of the interviewees agreed it was a necessary device, well within their rights.
So, what does “The Knee Defender” do or rather prevent?
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Prevent the person in front of you in an
aircraft from reclining their seats
One of the early uses of this French phrase, now common in English, is in 1821 when French troops were deployed in the Pyrenees to block people from Spain crossing over.
Its use in a political sense is attributed to Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, who, in 1919, urged the newly seceded states from the Russian Empire/Soviet Russia to form a barrier and prevent the spread of communism, he called this alliance the ____ _____.
In literature, it finds usage as a plot device in a famous Albert Camus work and in real life, it has rarely been deployed in its original context since the 1900s, until now.
What phrase?
In what context has it come into public consciousness in 2014?
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Cordon Sanitaire (Sanitary Cordon) – people
inside the cordon are not allowed out
Ebola Outbreak
Marguerite Perey discovered an element in 1939, for which she proposed the name Catium because of its likelihood of forming highly reactive positive ions/cations.
When Catium’s name came up for consideration, an element discovered by the Manhattan project was given precedence in symbol naming over Catium.
Eventually Perey renamed Catium to another name – the new name possibly influenced the decision of her nation’s Academy of Sciences to elect her as its first woman member.
What element, named in honour of someone Perey had served under, fittingly got precedence in name over Catium?
What name did Perey eventually give to her new element?
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Curium
Francium
In January 2010, Albert de Villaine, the proprietor of Romanée-Conti, a legendary French vineyard that produces one of the most elegant and extravagantly-priced wines in the world received a threat to his livelihood, if not his life: Pay more than 1 million euros in ransom, or his Burgundy vines would be poisoned.
Maximillian Potter first wrote about this plot for Vanity Fair and has now authored a book called Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine.
When NPR published this story, it titled this story Plot To Poison Famed French Wine Makes For Gripping ____ ____.
What pun that cleverly refers to a movie genre fills the blanks?
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Pinot Noir
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Initially, when a regular source was not available, either a water-infield soil mixture, tobacco juice or shoe polish was used.
In 1938, when Lena Blackburne was a small-time coach, she received a complaint and set about looking for a permanent solution, finding it near Palmyra, New Jersey.
Today, the undisclosed location is said to be on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, from where 1000 pounds of the “very fine, chocolate pudding like” product is collected during winter and sold the next season.
What product and what purpose is it used for? (no part-points)
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Baseball Rubbing Mud
Mud used for rubbing all new baseballs so they lose
their sheen before MLB games
Known as _____’s Hiccup or _______’ Sneeze, this anomaly in a country X’s border with Y is said to have come about when _______ , in his own words, boasted that he “drew it with the stroke of a pen one Sunday afternoon in Cairo”.
Popular legend has it that the border was created in 1921 after a particularly liquid lunch involving choice spirits, causing the acute border angle.
Political analysts point out that the border has resulted in a point in Y’s territory that is just 100 miles from Jerusalem, while others are amused at the irony that the border of a strictly teetotaler country Y may have been the result of a drunken scribble.
Name countries X and Y.
Who was the person responsible for this anomaly?
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X- Jordan, Y - Saudi Arabia
Winston Churchill – Winston’s Hiccup/Churchill’s
Sneeze
This country first sent its Naval forces to protect the Barbary coast from Arab pirates operating in Libya and Algeria in 1801.
The naval forces captured X – a city – by actually circling and entering it from the Sahara desert, rather than from the sea.
Which city X?
As a result of the story above, certain lines in what specific hymn, that refers to X, may be deemed slightly less accurate?
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Tripoli
US Marines’ Hymn – that refers to the shores of
Tripoli, when in fact the Marines fought on the
deserts of Tripoli
When John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X” was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1884, it caused a scandal due to the subject, Madame Gautreau’s expanse of pale shoulder and the implied sensual overtones.
However, the portrait we see today was a slightly modified version of the original studio painting, the original scandalized and inspired a fad among women called the “a la Gautreau”.
What did Sargent change in the original portrait to make it more acceptable to sensibilities of that time ?
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Adjusted the falling shoulder strap by
painting on it – the falling shoulder strap was
called the ‘a la Gautreau’
The Howard St. & Broadway section of a NYC walking tour is titled “The Two Wings of the Same Bird”, taken from a poem written by Lola Rodriguez de Tio and refers to the shared freedom movements of two islands that flourished in these suburbs in the 1850s.
Both freedom movements drew inspiration from Texas’ independence from Mexico – one of the movements was led by Miguel Terbe Tolon while the other was a section of the group called the Partido Revolucionario.
Which were these 2 islands, that eventually broke free from their common colonial ruler?
In what way did they commemorate the fact that they were inspired by Texas’ independence movement?
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Puerto Rico, Cuba
Adopted a Lone Star on their flags – based on
the original lone star Texas flag
While the name of this spirit gets bandied about a lot in drinking circles, the true origins are muddled and often relate to the Prohibition era when it was used as a synonym for “low quality or home made spirits”.
While it may have been near impossible to collect or distill spirit vapours inside a ______, the _____ may well have been conveniently used to mix a compound beverage with ethyl alcohol, water, juniper extract, sugar and other additives.
Today, most people would prefer sipping the spirit while relaxing in a ______.
What 2 word spirit name?
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Bathtub Gin
During his imprisonment in 1896, he witnessed the hanging of a certain Charles Woodridge, who had slit the throat of his wife.
After his release in 1897, he used the incident to write his last published work, a poem in which he juxtaposed the convict’s deeds with his own acts that led to alienation from his wife and kids :
“Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word.”
Name the poet OR the work he wrote.
The first line in the excerpt above is a reference to which other work of literature?
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Oscar Wilde/The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Merchant of Venice
The first rules for knights’ jousting were written down in 1066; early jousts were held in lieu of actual battles with combatants getting together and jousting to the death.
By the 12th century, these battles evolved into a format in which a group of knights charged into each other all at once, with the winner being the last guy on the horse.
Two words from the French root “mix/combine” were used for these free-form brawls – one word continues to be used in the confusion/fighting sense while another is primarily used in the context of music.
Give both words.
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Melee
Medley
Formerly known as ALWIL software, this company was founded in 1991 in Czechoslovakia by graduates from Prague’s Mathematical Machines Research Institute.
In 2010, the company analyzed the names of its 130 million registered users’ and not so surprisingly, there were 3000 pirate names.
While the company’s name itself is an acronym for its advanced security capabilities, most of us might have heard of it as a nautical interjection meaning “hold!stop!” in a 19th century work of fiction.
What company?
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Avast!
Anti-Virus – Advanced Set
In 1998, entertainment journalist James Ulmer began observing too many big-salaried stars were delivering small box office movies and vice versa.
He developed a survey based metric, the Ulmer Scale, to rank stars based on their bankability, willingness to travel and promote films, career management, professionalism, acting talent and acting range - defining actors and their career graphs.
What terms, now common in entertainment terminology, came about from ranking stars based on their scores on the Ulmer scale?
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A-list, B-list, C-list celebrities and so
on…
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Preserved in a Austin, Texas museum dedicated to an ex-Head of State-X, this Roman Catholic missal found its way into the museum via Judge Sara Hughes, who was involved in the context of its use and handed it to a Secret Service Agent afterwards.
When the missal was first discovered, X offered to return it to Y, to whom it had now passed on.
But Y declined saying the object was now part of X’s legacy and returning the missal would possibly only bring back unwanted memories.
Name X – the ex-Head of State and Y – the person to whom it passed on.
What is the historical significance of this Catholic missal?
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X – Lyndon B. Johnson, Y – Jacqueline
Kennedy
Used to swear in Lyndon B Johnson on the
plane when JFK died
Khutulun/Aiyurug was a Mongol princess, born in 1260, who grew up to become an excellent wrestler in a family of 14 brothers.
Marco Polo attests to her legend stating that she joined wrestling competitions, beating everyone, refusing to marry until a man could beat her at wrestling; men who lost gifted her 100 horses.
Many centuries later, her story was revived by playwright Carlo Gozzi, adapted into a play by Schiller before being composed as Puccini’s opera Turandot.
To this day, Mongol wrestlers honour her as the only undefeated wrestler in tradition and preserve her legacy in their traditional wrestling attire. How?
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Mongol wrestling dresses are always open
chested, so wrestlers can be sure they aren’t
wrestling a woman.
The first 20 years were so named because they were dirty enough to be compared to a kingdom adjoining the Dead Sea, that once threatened Israel, but was completely subdued to the point of being a receptacle for dirty water.
The next seven years are self-titled and focus on a fairly successful time period of rise in fame.
The latest in this sequence, while unrelated, shares its name with one of two Genesis songs in which Phil Collins sang during the Peter Gabriel era.
What are we talking about?
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Books in Stephen Fry’s autobiography series
Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles, More Fool
Me
Pudukottai Manpoondia Pillai is considered one of the earliest exponents of this instrument in Carnatic music, having introduced it for purposes beyond bhajans.
In his role as a lantern bearer in the Pudukottai palace, he is said to have been exposed to dholak and thavilplayers and went ahead and redesigned this instrument using the skin of the Bengal monitor lizard.
At that time, he also noticed that certain elements of the instrument were distracting singers and other musicians – so he replaced this element with commonly available objects that produced just the right amount of sound.
What instrument is he considered the father of?
What objects did he use in this instrument to generate the desired sound?
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Kanjira/Ganjira
Coins – that replaced the ghungroo pellet bells
Up until the 18th century, Parisian and to a large extent European road-side cafes were designed in a certain way for reasons of practicality and hygiene.
This changed with the arrival of the Russian-Cossacks, who conquered France.
A certain habit of the Russians, by virtue of them being descendants of Central Asian nomad horsemen, changed café layouts.
What was the original design feature of cafes and how did the arrival of the Russians change it?
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Café doors did not face the street because horse
manure and other odours would interfere with
patrons eating or the kitchen cooking.
The Russians being descendants of nomads
ordered while seated on their horses – so cafes
were forced to open up street facing doors large
enough for horses to enter.
What common misconception did this Edwin Landseer painting titled Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller popularize?
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St. Bernards carrying brandy-barrels around
their neck
St. Bernards never carried brandy barrels, in fact
feeding brandy to someone with hypothermia can
further aggravate the condition.
For many years, people thought these were the embryos of geese, because at the same time that the Arctic geese arrived to breed in the British Isles, driftwood would appear on the sea coasts by coincidence.
The Irish church added to the confusion by letting people eat geese during fasting thinking they were a kind of fish, while Linnaeus didn’t help by classifying two species of these with the names Lepas anatifera (duck-bearing ___) and Lepas anasifera (goose-bearing ____).
While it has been established there is no connection with geese, their name retains connections to the Latin name for an Irish goose Anser hiberniculae.
What?
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Barnacles
Abbreviated as Monas (Monumen Nasional), the 132m National Monument tower at the centre of Jakarta, commemorating the nation’s struggle.
Symbolically, the monument represents the philosophy of Lingga and Yoni; the shapes being metaphorical of the male-female duality and a mortar-pestle needed for human subsistence.
President Sukarno requested the dimensions of the monument to be such that the height of the goblet yard is 17m, width of the plinth at the base is 8m, width of the goblet yard is 45m.
Why did he request these specific dimensions?
In what logo context, that will become relevant in the near future, will we see an image of this monument being used?
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Aug 17, 1945 (17/08/1945) was Indonesia’s
independence date
The 2018 Asian games logo
None of the characters in the 1812 novel –The Swiss Family Robinson – William, Elizabeth, Fritz, Ernest, Jack, Franz have the surname Robinson; their last names are not mentioned anywhere in the novel.
In fact, when it was first translated in English from German, it had a slightly longer title, that was shortened in later English translations.
Why was the novel published with this title, in spite of no characters sharing that name?
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It was called the Swiss Family Robinson
Crusoe - to identify that it belongs to the
Robinsonade genre of novels, spawned by
Robinson Crusoe
In 1999, he was called upon to offer a solution to a long-standing problem.
He said that there is zinc in yeast, but when one’s bread is unleavened, you have little or no zinc in your diet. As a result, the zinc deficiency makes one irritable and aggressive. Therefore, the solution: ship jars of Marmite in industrial quantities.
Speaking later, he said the classical problem solving approach rarely works in politics and diplomacy must think around to get to a suitable solution.
Who was this, called to provide his insights?
What problem was he trying to solve?
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Edward de Bono
The Arab-Israeli/Middle-East conflict
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He took refuge at the UN compound between 1992-1996, while his city was at siege and his safe passage to India was being negotiated.
In this period, he occupied himself watching satellite television, lifting weights and translating a book into Pashto.
A few months before his very public and brutal execution, he spoke about how events in the book held true time after time and had led to the current situation. He was quoted saying “Afghans keep making the same mistakes, we never learn.”
Who was this, whose translation of this book is considered the first such in Pashto?
What book was he translating?
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Mohammad Najibullah
Peter Hopkirk’s The Great Game
Although she never visited India, she took help from friends and put together the Indian Sanitary Report in which she recommended that the cities of India have _____.
When Robert Ellis, the President of the Madras Sanitary Commission, visited London, she showed him ______ at the institutions there. She then petitioned PM Lord Salisbury who told her “Madras doesn’t need _____, Constantinopole manages perfectly well with dogs.”
By 1881, she had lost all hope in the administration, but eventually found a friend in Lord Ripon who commenced work in George Town, that went on for 25 years, but eventually made her proposal a reality.
Who?
FITB.
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Florence Nightingale
Drains in Madras
During WWI, he was already a well known name in the business and had the chance to observe the Renault FT-17 on the frontlines of the war.
The FT-17’s long rectangular body, tall rotating turret and ability for quick assault inspired him and he decided to design something that mimicked the FT-17 from a bird’s eye view.
The result was so connected to the Allied Victory that its first prototype was presented to General John Pershing of the American Expeditionary Force.
Who designed it?
What iconic and best selling product resulted?
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Cartier
Tank Watch
In 1903, when this scientist’s (X) experiment proved that elemental atoms contained latent energy, his conclusions were on a crash course with another scientist’s (Y) views.
Visiting England in the spring of 1904, he was invited to address an audience which he recounts thus:
“I came into the room, which was half dark and presently spotted Y in the audience and I realized I was in trouble for the last part of the speech dealing with the age of the earth. To my relief, Y fell asleep, but as I came to the important point, I saw the old bird sit up, open an eye and cock a baleful glance at me. Then a sudden inspiration came to me and I said Y had limited the age of the earth, provided no new heat source was discovered. That prophetic utterance refers to what we are considering tonight, radium! Behold! The old boy beamed upon me.”
Who were X and Y?
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X- Rutherford
Y – Lord Kelvin
These 3 famous posters were printed in April 1939 to keep up motivation in England during WWII, of which the more famous “Keep Calm and Carry On” and “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness and Your Resolution will Bring Us Victory” are well known.
The third poster’s tagline was re-used in a newspaper’s cartoon in November 1939, and then sent to Jawaharlal Nehru via an acquaintance of his.
An inspired Nehru would go on to use the tagline as part of a cherished venture; the tagline later being misattributed as a Nehru coinage.
What was the tagline?
How did Nehru used it in his venture that was indefinitely suspended in April 2008 and has seen controversy in terms of funds misuse?
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Freedom is in Peril. Defend it with all Your
Might
Used in the masthead of the National Herald
None of the old school journalism books spell this word this way, but it seems to have become accepted usage in American journalism in the last few decades.
While popular theory has it that this alternative spelling was necessary to distinguish it from the metal which was used in typesetting, it may have been the invention of romanticists when linotype slowly moved out of newsrooms in the late 1970s.
What word (alternate spelling), that relates to the most important/eye-catching piece of information that must hit the reader early in a journalistic piece?
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Lede, the alternate spelling for the lead
paragraph
A grave robber who loved studying the human anatomy, he was initially a big admirer of Galen but found more than 200 mistakes in the latter’s understanding of the body.
Vowing to reform the science of anatomy, he composed one of the most beautiful science books published – De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)that represented dissected human forms in poses like Classical Statues.
While historians still differ, it is strongly believed that he went to Padua, Italy in 1543 where a famous artist and his school of students helped him bring the human forms to life in his book.
Name this famous physician/anatomist
Name the artist believed to be linked to his work.
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Anders Vesalius
Titian
The people you see in the video are part of a fashion cult that dates back to the return of African soldiers after fighting for France in the First World War.
When X came to power and tried to affect a return to traditional clothing in the 1960s, it instigated a revival by soukous musician Papa Wemba and an awakening that espoused cult-like devotion to European fashion in open defiance of X’s despotic rule.
The people shown spend their own money to stitch bespoke clothing & accessories, competing in informal contests to decide the best dressed individual.
What movement is this – which has adherents in Kenya and South Africa as well?
Who was X, who is said to have indirectly kick-started this movement? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk
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La Sape/Sapeurs
Mobutu Sese Soko
ANTI-CLOCKWISE
8 Questions
Pounce (+10)/
Part Pounce (+5)
This convention utilizes either a Lower Quadrant (LQ) or an Upper Quadrant (UQ) mechanism.
In the LQ variant, the Two-Aspect LQ(2ALQ) mechanism allows only the horizontal position or the 60 degrees position. The disadvantage of limited information that can be conveyed in the 2ALQ is somewhat redeemed in the Modified Lower Quadrant mechanism that a warner pole, followed by a distant pole around 180m away –each with 2 positions.
On the contrary, in the Multiple Aspect Upper Quadrant (MAUQ) mechanism, there are 3 positions – the 12 ‘o’ clock, an intermediate 45 degree , and the horizontal position.
What technology, that is close to getting replaced completely in India, uses this convention?
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Railway Semaphore Signalling
In 1348, at the peak of the Black Death, a group of scholars at the University of Paris published an opinion about the cause of the disease.
This opinion caused mass hysteria and made people avoid baths like the plague itself – kings openly advocated oils, powders and scents to keep clean and people were judged positively based on how long they had not taken a bath.
It wasn’t until the 18th century that these notions were disproved for bathing to make a fashionable return.
What opinion had the scholars published about the cause and spread of the Black Death?
How was bathing linked to helping the plague spread?
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• Plague spreads through noxious
fumes in the air that enter the pores of
the skin
• Bathing would open up the pores of
the skin and in turn make you
vulnerable to these fumes/air.
Called Eunice aphroditis, this aquatic predatory floor dweller buries its long body into the ocean bed where it waits patiently for one of its 5 antennae to pick up some stimulus of an approaching prey.
At the right moment, it attacks and often slices its prey into half or drags the entire creature under the bed where it may use toxins to neutralize and consume it.
The popular name, ________ worm, seems to have been coined in 1996 by Dr. Terry Gosliner, who, seeing the ferocity of its attack, compared it to a case in public consciousness during that time.
What is the popular name of this worm, that may be a tad inaccurate considering there is no such animosity between genders of the species itself?
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Bobbit Worm
For its Prosum 2015 Summer show in London, Burberry chose to present a collection inspired by a real-life individual.
Bright bucket hats recalled an archaeologist’s staple in the field, the leather bound notebook models seemed like cartoon versions of old travelogues, while the loudly-coloured sneakers encapsulated a certain British quirkiness and eccentricity.
A handful of shirts were also printed with book covers, that paid homage to the individual as well as the debate on whether history is fashion or fashion is history.
Who was the enigmatic individual being honoured thus?
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Bruce Chatwin
These opposite practices on both sides of the Atlantic relating to a food product go back to the US’ decision to not mandate vaccination of chickens for salmonella.
Due to no vaccination, US food processing agencies use a process that involves soap/shampoo and hot water, that then ends up washing away the ‘bloom’, a natural anti-bacterial protective cuticle on the product. As a result, an oil coating and then _______ must be done to prevent bacterial issues.
None of this is mandated in Europe and hence in many Commonwealth countries such as India.
What opposite practices, that makes products on one side of the Atlantic illegal in the other?
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Eggs must be refrigerated in the US, while they
are not in Europe.
Completed in 1863 in the midst of the Civil War, Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom was designed to be an allegorical female figure with a pole and cap, inspired by Libertas, the 18th century image of freedom.
Crawford’s original design had an element that ran into trouble with Secretary of War Jefferson Davis saying that the “<design element’s> history renders it inappropriate to a people who were born free and would not be enslaved”. He suggested that Walter replace this element to suggest that “Liberty’s conflict is over, her cause is triumphant and that her people are free”
What was the original design element that was replaced?
Where can one see the Statue of Freedom, although with a little difficulty due to its location?
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REVISED
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The original had Liberty wearing a Phyrgian
Cap – a symbol of the freed slaves of Rome,
which was replaced with a helmet.
Atop the Capitol Dome
In 1997, the Linnaean Society issued a posthumous and slightly late apology to this lady, who submitted a paper On the Germination of Spores of Agaricineae in 1897, but was ignored because she was a woman.
Among the first to propose the theory that lichens were a partnership between fungi and algae, she was also ignored by the Kew Gardens and the Royal Society.
Fungi were inextricably linked to her eventual choice of career as her autobiography states “And so it was that on 4 September, the very day after discovering the rare pine cone fungus, <person> sat down in the sunshine on the lawn of Eastwood and wrote a picture letter with the words’. ‘I don’t know what to write to you…so I shall tell you a story about… four little _____ whose names were..“
Who?
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Beatrix Potter
In his memoir, A Book of Memory, Sudhir Kakarwrites about how his aunt almost decided to move to another city because of the strains of the extra-marital affair she was having with the man shown.
However, he tried to keep her in the same city, lobbying for posts she could hold, before successfully influencing the Indian government to take a decision in favour of a certain location; the decision ensured both of them stayed together.
What decision was taken and in favour of which location?
Name the lady, who has a first to her credit as a result of this decision.
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Kamala Chaudhary, the first research
director at IIM-A, Sarabhai was the first
director
The IIM being established at Ahmedabad,
instead of Mumbai
