LSD Facha Lit Week Quiz Finals

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In his memoir, A Book of Memory, Sudhir Kakar writes

about how his aunt almost decided to move to another

city because of the strains of the extramarital 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.

Q1

Kamala Chaudhary, the first research

director at IIM-A, Sarabhai was the first

director

The IIM being established at Ahmedabad,

instead of Mumbai

Q2.X and Y were classmates at St. Columba's High School in New Delhi. Despite being extremely successful and popular in his own right, X described Y as the "smartest guy" around and that Y was destined to be #1 in whatever he chose to do.

A very famous billionaire had this to say about X - "You will see a bit of X in every piece of technology around you". X died of a drowning accident in 2009.

Id X and Y.

X: Rajeev Motwani

Y: Shah Rukh Khan

Q3.

At France’s Bibliotheque National, you need to wear special gloves and enter a climate controlled room, after signing off a waiver of liability should anything happen to you when you’re about to witness certain artifacts / remnants that belonged to someone.

To view and scrutinize what would you have to sign the waiver of liability?

Marie and Pierre Curie’s notes and other personal effects.

Long after they passed away, their material is still radioactive and can potentially cause harm.

Q4. This is an exhaustive list of 43 buildings that includes:

- The Empire State Building

- The Metlife Building

- 666 5th Avenue

- Chrysler Building

- Woolworth Building

- Seagram Building

- A&D Building

- Graybar Building

What is unique about these and the 35 others on that list? Why will One World Trade Center not be a part of this list?

These 43 buildings have their own vanity ZIP codes.

Before they fell, WTC1 and 2 had their own ZIP codes, but the new One World Trade center will have to make do and share with other buildings in its vicinity.

Q5.

In Iran, even today many of the old Muslim Houses entrance doors have two door knockers.

Why?

One for men and one for women.

The bigger knocker is for men, and makes a louder noise.

So that the residents know if there is a man or a woman at

the door, thus enabling women to be properly veiled while

opening the door.

Q6

Legend has it that crops in Europe during the Middle Ages were plagued by pests, so the farmers began praying to the Blessed Lady, the Virgin Mary. Soon, the farmers started seeing these insects in their fields, and the crops were miraculously saved from the pests.

The farmers associated their good fortune with the insects and likened the red skin colour to the Virgin Mary’s cloak and the spots to her sorrows.

What insects, that still go by the name Marienkafer, meaning Mary beetles in Germany?

Ladybird/Ladybug

Q7.

Known as a Makisu, this cooking accessory is woven from thick or thin bamboo strips and cotton string and comes in various sizes.

While it may also be used to squeeze excess liquid or make compact omelets, it is used in the preparation of a certain food item.

What food item (generic term) and what purpose is it used for?

Rolling Sushi

Q8.

The 17688 Dharmabad-Manmad Marathwada Express connects many important towns such as Jalna, Parbhani, Nanded and Aurangabad. The train’s original up/down timings were set up so that people from Marathwada and neighbouring districts could arrive into Aurangabad at 09:40 hrs and then leave by 1810 hrs on the return train.

By what nickname is this train known, since it allows people from neighbouring districts to time their visits to the city with the opening and closing times of a particularinstitution they are visiting?

High Court Express

All neighbouring districts are attached to the Aurangabad bench of the Mumbai High Court.

Q9. 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 antibacterial 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 oneside of the Atlantic illegal in the other?

Eggs must be refrigerated in the US, while they are not in Europe.

Q10.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?

Aug 17, 1945 (17/08/1945) was Indonesia’s independence Date

The 2018 Asian games logo

Q11. 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 thavil players 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?

Kanjira/Ganjira

He used coins

Q12.

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?

A-list, B-list, C-list celebrities and so

on…

Q13. 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?

Avast

Q14.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.

Melee

Medley

Q15. 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?

Puerto Rico, Cuba

Adopted a Lone Star on their flags – based on

the original lone star Texas flag

Q16.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?

X- Jordan, Y - Saudi Arabia

Winston Churchill – Winston’s Hiccup/Churchill’s Sneeze

Written Round

6 Questions

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Extra +5 for getting more than 4 correct

Identify the album and the artist from these recreations

Pop ReferenceActual artist and

album

1

2

3

4

5

6

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWERS

1 - Demon Days, Gorillaz

2 – Appetite for Destruction, Guns N Roses

3– American Idiot, Green Day

4 – Random Access Memories, Daft Punk

5– Nevermind, Nirvana

6– Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins

Infi Pounce 2

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Q1.

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?

SachinTendulkar’s Bharat Ratna medal

SRT quit captaincy in the year 2000

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?

Q2.

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.

Q. 3*According to reports, X had been drinking heavily, smoked large quantities of hashish and had "misbehaved" with a guest, which resulted in his father, Y, telling his oldest son to leave the party. The drunken X was taken to his room by his brother Z and cousin W. One hour later, X returned to the party armed with an H&K MP5, a Franchi SPAS-12 and an M16 and fired a single shot into the ceiling before turning the gun on his father. Seconds later, X shot one of his aunts. He then shot his uncle U in the chest at point-blank range when he tried to stop X……Series of events led to the massacre of a royal family.

Identify X and Y.

X- Prince Dipendra

Y- King Birendra

In Iran, from which the word X ultimately originated, it

does not carry any special significance, as it is merely

the generic word for any kind of bread.

The earliest appearance of this word in English is from

1810, in a travelogue of William Tooke. X’s current

spelling first attested in 1979, has since become the

normal English spelling.

Identify X, which is really popular in India.

Q. 4

Naan

The word X has been in use in English since

the 1870s, replacing the word gammadion

from Greek origin. It was loaned from a

Sanskrit term meaning “any lucky or

auspicious object, and in particular a mark

made on persons and things to denote

auspiciousness, or any piece of luck or well-

being”.

However, it is stigmatized in some of the

Western countries. Identify X.

Q5

Swastika

Q6

Lake Balkhesh in Kazakhstan is fed by seven rivers and has been shrinking, like the Aral Sea, for many years now. Approximately 600 km long overall, the lake is divided into two sections, east and west, by a strip of land called the Saryesik Peninsula. The eastern section is narrower and deeper, while the western section is shallower. In spite of the two halves being linked by the Strait Uzynaral, this lake is unusual in that one half is useful, while the other half isn’t. What is this reason?

Answer

Freshwater and Saltwater – in the same lake

Q7Born in Baku to Iranian Azerbaijanis, Lotfi Zadeh was one of only 3 students to graduate from the University of Tehran in 1942, before entering MIT as a graduate student and then completing a PhD from Columbia in 1949. His moment came in 1965 when he published a paper on _____ sets which followed a membership function with a range of all possible values in the interval [0,1]. The paper went on to implement operations on these values, proposing that these were generalizations on existing Boolean and classical theory. What new field of research, that has found applications in electronics and medicine, did Lotfi’s paper open up?

Answer

Fuzzy Logic

Q8

X is a popular brand of meat product very popular in the United States. X is made by Hormel Food Corporation with pork as the main ingredient. There is a museum dedicated to this product in Austin, Texas and it shares its name with something which is often used for e-mail. The product has become part of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat, which has made it part of pop culture and folklore .Guess X ?

Answer

SPAM

Q9

He is the origin of an English word which means something that is mockingly out of reach. A chemical element which due to its difficulty of isolating the pure metal from the ore also got its name thus. Who is being depicted in the image below? Also provide the English word.

Answer

Tantalus, Tantalize

Q10

From the introduction of a 1939 novel: "The numerals caused plenty of trouble, none between six and thirty were available. When introducing young ladies into the story, this is a real barrier; for what young woman wants to have it known that she is over thirty? And this restriction on numbers, of course taboos all mention of dates."

Which novel? OR Why were these numbers not available for use?

Q11Black then white are all I see in my infancy. Red and ye low then came to be, reaching out to me, lets me see. There is, much, more and beckons me to look though to these, infinite possibilities. As below so above and beyond I imagine, drawn outside the lines Of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Song : Lateralus Artist : Tool Album : Lateralus Year : 2002

What is the big deal about these lyrics ?

Answer

Syllables of the verses form the Fibonacci series, ascending and descending

Q12

In 1890 pharmacist Lunsford Richardson took over the retail drug business of his brother-in-law Dr. Joshua X. The most popular remedy was Croup and Pneumonia Salve, which was first compounded in 1891 in Greensboro and rebranded as “Y” in 1912. The flu epidemic of 1918 increased sales of “Y” from $900,000 to $2.9 million in just one year. In 1985, the entire company was sold to Procter & Gamble and P&G has since marketed the product as “The only thing more powerful than a mother's touch”. “Y” is currently manufactured and packaged in India and Mexico.

Identify the brand name “Y”.

Vicks

Q13

In 1294, Pietro di Morrone was elected to the office, as no consensus had been reached for an appointment for the past two years. Despite his initial reluctance, he was forced to accept the post. Soon everybody realized he had no experience for a job of such a big magnitude. He himself acknowledged this lack of authority and quit the post after five months.

Before an unexpected event two years ago, Pietro di Morrone was remembered as the last person to ____________.

Answer

Pope Celestine V

Last person to resign the papacy.

Q14The word X is an eponym originating in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer named _________ (played by Walter Santesso).

In his book Word and Phrase, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect word that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. As Fellini said in his interview to Time magazine, “_________ ... suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging."

Those versions of the word's origin are confirmed by Treccani, the most authoritative Italian encyclopaedia, but sometimes contested.

For instance, in the Abruzzi dialect spoken by Ennio Flaiano, co-writer of La Dolce Vita, the term “___________" refers to the local clam

Answer

Paparazzi

Q15

X refers to a group of alleged verses that allow intercessory prayers to be made to three Pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt that were supposedly included in the Quran by prophet Muhammad, only to be removed later. References to the above incident can be read in biographies al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabarī, and Ibn Ishaq.

X is also the name of a book which has been described by a critic as the author’s “largest aesthetic achievement”. Id X.

Answer

Satanic Verses

Q21

The following interesting events happened after the release of something

The number plate of a certain Volkswagen Beatle with the number LMW 281F was repeatedly stolen

In 1986, the very car was sold at auction for E2,530 and in 2001 was on display in a museum in Germany

Paul Cole, an American fond of travelling, much to his surprise became popular worldwide

Fundae?

Answer