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ROUND 1WRITTEN

TOPIC

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar compiled Bengali folk tales and published them in 1907. Name the anthology.

Question 1

In 2001, Dimple Kapadia started a line of designer candles, taking a name inspired by

an Enid Blyton novel. The name?

Question 2

Amar Chitra Katha comics in English start from no. 11 because 1-10 published in Kannada were what kind of

stories?

Question 3

Identify the 1992 Sahitya Akademi Awardee, who won it for ‘Our trees still grow in Dehra”

Question 4

What is the ‘official’ Harry Potter website run by J K Rowling called?

Question 5

This is a posthumous book by which well known children’s author that was just published in 2015?

Question 6

ANSWERS

Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar compiled Bengali folk tales and published them in 1907. Name the anthology.

Question 1

Thakurmar Jhuli

In 2001, Dimple Kapadia started a line of designer candles, taking a name inspired by

an Enid Blyton novel. The name?

Question 2

Faraway tree

Amar Chitra Katha comics in English start from no. 11 because 1-10 published in Kannada were what kind of

stories?

Question 3

Western fairy tales

Identify the 1992 Sahitya Akademi Awardee, who won it for ‘Our trees still grow in Dehra”

Question 4

Ruskin Bond(audience: Who designed the Sahitya Akademi trophy?)

What is the ‘official’ Harry Potter website run by J K Rowling called?

Question 5

This is a posthumous book by which well known children’s author that was just published in 2015?

Question 6

Theodor Seuss Geisel 

ROUND 2

Which fort in India has gates named after various invaders like Jahangir, Ranjit

Singh, Nawab Alif Khan, etc.?

Question 1

ANSWER

Kangra Fort.Audience: Which was the first battle the ruling dynasty

lost, as per their founding myth?

In 2009, with the Army closing in and the odds stacked against him, which Hollywood film did he choose to watch with his

inner circle?

Question 2

ANSWER

300

Ukai, 1300-year-old traditional Japanese fishing. Which bird?

Question 3

ANSWER

Cormorants

The largest civilian building in the world is now the seat of its country’s Parliament. Construction began in 1984 as a palace for someone.

Unfortunately he couldn’t get to enjoy it. A harsher fate awaited him instead.

Whom was it originally intended for?

Question 4

ANSWER

Ceaucescu.

The movie Boyhood was supposed to have a different title. What? Why was it changed?

Question 5

ANSWER

Twelve Years. Changed to avoid confusion with

Twelve Years a Slave

The replica of which ship went down in 2012 in Hurricane Sandy, leading to the death of which descendant of the original

ship’s crew?

Question 6

ANSWER

HMS Bounty, Claudene Christian

Who was the first person to break the one-minute barrier for the 100 metres swim?

Question 7

ANSWER

Johnny Weissmuller

In Nov 2013, Nabila Rehman toured the USA. Why was she largely ignored? (unlike Malala)

Question 8

ANSWER

Her family were victims/ survivors of a Drone Strike ( killed her grandmother)

This place has two creation myths. One, that a Parvati devotee called Kallu

Kumhar was given a boon that he would go to Kailas if he carved 1 crore Shiva images.

He fell 1 short.Another, that Shiva, with 1 crore gods and goddesses, rested here en route to Kashi.

All but one overslept, and Shiva turned them to stone.

ID place

Question 9

ANSWER

Unakoti, Tripura

In the aftermath of the Crimea referendum in May 2014, which city, founded by a

Welshman, John Hughes, saw its residents vote in an (jokey) online poll to join the UK?

Question 10

ANSWER

Donetsk, founded in 1869 as Hughesovka or Yuzovka

The term ---------- was used to describe the headgear on the left in the 1800’s. From the 1990’s it is used for the headgear on the right. FITB

Question 11

ANSWER

FascinatorAudience: where did she first wear this?

This leader had a mango thrown at him, with a petition from a homeless woman. He gave her a

home. Mangoes continue to fly…ID

Question 12

ANSWER

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

ROUND 4

Of all the kinds of roads we have in Kolkata - Streets, Saranis, Avenues, Roads, Places etc. there are two Bithis.

Name the three famous foreign personalities whom these two bithis are named after.

Question 1

ANSWER

Pablo Picasso(Picasso Bithi : Hungerford Street)

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels(Marx-Engels Bithi : Esplanade Row East)

In 2009, Ben Southall of the UK was selected from over 35,000 applicants to base himself out of a fancy villa in Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef, with a large salary, and be the caretaker of the Reef islands.

What title was this job given, which was also the peg on which the applicants were induced?

Question 2

ANSWER

BEST JOB IN THE WORLD

A common misconception about the etymology of a word, and its actual etymology can both be explained in the following painting.

Explain everything, and for a free CD, name the painter.

Question 4

ANSWER

THE NIGHTMARE

THE ‘MARE’ IN NIGHTMARE REFERS TO AN INCUBUS, NOT A HORSE

PAINTED BY HENRY FUSELI

Some years back, a 12 year old girl named BridgeAnne d’Avignon of California came up with a

family tree that shows King John of England (of Magna Carta fame) to be an ancestor of everyone in a

particular list of people, barring one person, who was shown to have been of Dutch descent (as his name

might indicate).

What list of people was this?

Question 5

ANSWER

ALL THE PRESIDENTS OF USA(EXCEPT MARTIN VAN BUREN)

What are these kinds of? (Non-exhaustive)Question 6

ANSWER

BATON MOVEMENTS BY CONDUCTORS

One of the theories to explain mass extinction of species, as has happened in our geological past, is the destruction of the earth’s surface and its inhabitants by comets and meteors.

This is known as the ____ Hypothesis, derived from a religious belief, as propounded by Michael Rampino of NYU.

Question 7

ANSWER

THE SHIVA HYPOTHESIS

In 1955 an exhibition match pitted Stage XI vs Politicians XI.Politicians XI boasted Harold Macmillan, Stage XI boasts Richard Attenborough, with Denis Compton as the star player.Compton came out to huge applause and expectation… and found himself back in the pavilion for a second ball duck!

Yet he managed to score 32 runs that day, though through questionable tactics.

How did he manage it?

Question 8

ANSWER

THE STAGE XI MAKE-UP ARTIST DISGUISED HIM AND HE CAME OUT TO BAT UNDER THE NAME

DENIS PASTRY!

The Eiffel Tower, WTC, Empire State Building and countless hotels and buildings across the world over 150 years have used Otis for their elevators and escalators.

Otis’ biggest contract came in 2013 in India, when it was contracted to supply 670 elevators and escalators.The project is still in progress.

What project?

Question 9

ANSWER

HYDERABAD METRO

What is the key difference between a swamp and a marsh?(Reminder: Points given at my discretion!)

Question 11

ANSWER

A SWAMP HAS WOODY TREESA MARSH HAS REEDS/PLANTS BUT NO

TREES

Look at the New York Times front page in the next slide. Which story got significantly less coverage than the big one?

Question 12

ANSWER

ORVILLE WRIGHT’S DEATH

ROUND 5

This Rainbow flag is the flag of a city, supposedly originating from the civilization that was conquered in 1532. ID city and

civilization

Question 1

ANSWER

Cusco, the Incas

Titled, ‘Respecting Women?’, circa 1916. Who is the cartoonist ?

Question 2

ANSWER

Gaganendranath Tagore

During WW2, the Allies had captured German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. The Germans offered an

Allied PoW in exchange for Paulus.When the concerned Allied leader heard who was

being offered, he refused, replying “I will not trade a Field Marshal for a Lieutenant!”

Who was the Lieutenant being held captive by the Germans?

Question 3

ANSWER

YAKOB DZHUGASHVILI

STALIN’S SON

The Yazidis of Iraq practise a 6000-year-old monotheistic religion, with an Archangel called Melek Taus. What is his

alternative name in local popular lore?

Question 4

ANSWER

Shaytan

This little reflection in one’s eyes gave rise to which word, from the Greek for ‘little doll’?

Question 5

ANSWER

Pupil, from Pupa (little doll in Greek)

As per legend, a queen from the Mallabhum dynasty of Bishnupur wanted to try beef. The king caught her. She hid the beef in her clothes and prayed to Ma Durga. The beef turned into a hibiscus flower.

How is this form of Ma Durga known?

Question 6

ANSWER

Bipodtarini.The Puja is on Ashada Shukla Panchami

Make a Wish Foundation helps kids with cancer live out their dreams. What did they help this child do?

Question 7

ANSWER

Batkid

ID this rockstar. Supporter of the Meher Baba trust. And Amnesty. Which

medical condition does he have, and is speaking up about?

Question 8

ANSWER

Pete Townshend.Tinnitus/ Hearing loss from loud concerts.

What is this sleeve called?

Question 9

ANSWER

Leg of mutton

What traditional food item is marketed as Himalayan Dog Chew/ Yeti Dog Chew,

with sales of USD 10 mn in 2014?

Question 10

ANSWER

Churpi(Yak cheese)

Watch the clip. The child shown is Akbar’s step-step-son. What was child’s claim to fame in adulthood?

Question 11

ANSWER

The poet RahimAudience: Why was he in the news?

Lukla airport. 500 m runway.One of the world’s most dangerous. Still has 50 flights/ day in

season. Where is it?

Question 12

ANSWER

Near start of trek to Everest Base CampAudience: Official name?

ROUND 6

ConnectQuestion 1

ANSWER

RENAMED TOWNS IN WB

SILIGURI : TEESTAGARIA : UTTAM CITYBOLPUR : GITABITAN

ASANASOL-DURGAPUR : AGNIBINA

Mondegreen and Soramimi are closely related terms in the world of music.Websites like kissthisguy.com and Youtube users like Buffalaxed have popularised Mondegreens and Soramimis respectively.

What is the main difference between a mondegreen and soramimi?

Question 3

ANSWER

MONDEGREEN: MISHEARD LYRICS IN SAME LANGUAGE

SORAMIMI: LYRICS SOUND LIKE WORDS IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

The actor’s debut film. Who, and which real life character was he playing?

Question 4

ANSWER

SADASHIV AMRAPURKARAS

BAL GANGADHAR TILAK

Key to the understanding of why Pluto was demoted from being a planet is the difference between dwarf planets and planets. It is not enough for a body to be near-spherical in shape and in orbit around the sun.

What is the key criterion that differentiates planets from dwarf planets, and is the reason why Pluto failed?

Question 5

ANSWER

A PLANET HAS TO HAVE ENOUGH MUSCLE POWER TO CLEAR ITS

ORBIT

This dance was developed by plantation slaves, who’d dance for a prize. The dances typically would be exaggerated, with swaggers, noses in the air, a mimicry of white arrogance.

Which dance, which gave its name to an English word/phrase?

Question 6

ANSWER

CAKEWALK&

TAKE THE CAKE

My friend Mr P recently claimed he’d done a grand Euro tour. I suspected he was lying about it all, given his earlier bluff about an Any Tropic Under The Sun

Biker Trail.

When I looked carefully at his tour highlights, my knowledge of geography confirmed to me that he’d

been lying.

On the next slide is the ‘tour’. Identify what gave away the lie.

Question 7

Flew New Delhi to Istanbul for the Turkey tourDrove to Sofia for a Bulgaria tourEurorailed to Zagreb for a Croatia tourDrove north to Vienna for an Austrian tourFlew to Zurich for a Swiss TourDrove to Prague for a Czech tourDanube Cruise to Belgrade for a Serbia tourFlew to Athens for a Greek tourFlew back to New Delhi via Dubai

ANSWER

THE DANUBE DOESN’T FLOW THROUGH THE CZECH REPUBLIC

The gravestone of the Pakistani physicist and Nobel Laureate Abdus Salaam was defaced. Fanatics objected to one word in and scratched it out. Which word and why did they object?

Question 8

ANSWER

THE WORD ‘MUSLIM’

HE WAS AN AHMADIYA AND FANATICS CLAIMED THAT HE COULD NOT, THEREFORE, BE CALLED A MUSLIM

BBC Radio 4 ran a show from 2011 till recently called Warhorses of Letters, an “epistolary equine comedy-romance.”

Voiced by Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby, the show was a fictionalised exchange of letters, between two historically famous names.

Who are the two characters voiced by Fry and Rigby?

Question 10

ANSWER

MARENGO AND COPENHAGEN

NAPOLEON AND NELSON’S HORSES

Alphabet could not use alphabet.com because that belongs to a fleet management division of BMW.

Nor could it use abc.com because that belongs to the television network.

What is currently the official website of Alphabet?

Question 11

ANSWER

abc.xyz

In Februrary 2013, a full 50 state ratification of something was achieved. It happened when Missisippi realised that though they had voted on it years before, a clerical oversight led it to remain unratified. They corrected the error at once.

This all happened after a teacher at the Univ of Mississippi saw a film, researched the relevant issue, and discovered the clerical oversight, immediately bringing it to public notice.

Which film did he see, and what was finally ratified?

Question 12

ANSWER

THE 13TH AMENDMENT ABOLISHING SLAVERY

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