Ignited minds

ARUN K PAVITHRAN
IGNITED MINDS

Sincere thanks to
Ajay C Anto
Rithwik Kiwthir
Abhijith AS

1
 Manthan was a 1976 film directed by Shyam
Benegal. The film was funded by five lakh
farmers donating Rs.2 each, making it the
rarest of rare examples across the world of a
film being financed at the ground level.
What was the theme of this film?

2
 This comic character was created by Vasant
Halbe and Luis Fernandes for the Tinkle
magazine in 1983. With his trademark
hunter's hat pulled down over his eyes, is
one of the flagship characters of Tinkle. It
was revealed in one of its issues that He fell
on a tiger and knocked him out. It was after
this incident that he got the name .

3
 It was author Tarek Fatah who first
suggested to rename ‘X’ during his visit to
India in early 2015. He suggested to rename
‘X’ in name Dara Shikoh. Later ‘X’ is
renamed to ‘Y’ and many welcomed this with
“now we have corrected the mistakes of
history”.
 Id X and Y.

 X- Aurangazeb
 Y-A.P.J Abdul Kalam

4
 It was in 1952 that Drs. Y.M. Bhende, C.K.
Deshpande and H.M. Bhatia of the Seth Gordhandas
Sunderdas Medical College, Mumbai published a
note in The Lancet (pp. 903-4, May 3, 1952) about
two patients (X, a railway worker and Y, a stab
wound victim) who needed blood transfusion. The
moment their blood samples were mixed with any of
the known types, the blood coagulated or clumped
up. The doctor trio tried the blood of over 160 donors
and found at last that one from Mr. Z, a resident of
_______, suited the type of both patients X and Y.
This donor blood type was then named by Dr.
Bhende and others as the ______Blood Type.’

5
 Pritish Nanday is an Indian poet, painter, journalist,
politician, media and television personality, animal
activist and film producer. He was member of Rajya
Sabha representing Shivsena.
 What was started by him at Hotel Leela Kempinski
in Mumbai in 1996 and was an accessable one those
who had atleast 1000 bucks to spare. What was thus
started and become a mass revolution?

6
 This island was first named Juan Fernandez Island
after Juan Fernández, a Spanish explorer who was
the first to land there in 1574.
 In 1704 the sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned
as a castaway on the island, where he lived in
solitude for four years and four months and is
thought to have inspired a 1719 novel.
 To reflect the literary lore associated with the island
and to lure tourists, the Chilean government
renamed it after the novel in 1966.
 Which island?

7
 It has been said that the gesture began in
medieval times. When approaching a senior
officer a man would lift his helmet visor so that
he could be recognised. By 1700 grenadiers
were wearing tall, conical hats held in place
with secure chinstraps that were difficult to
raise in greeting. The men began to merely
touch their hats as if intending to raise them.
Soon other soldiers adopted this strategy and
stopped raising the hat and instead merely
touched its brim. This is said to be the origin of
what custom?

8
 In 1988 ‘X’ started his career as a producer
in film industry with VAISHALI and went
with producing another 3 more films. In a
film called anandbairavi and have acted in
many more films in minor roles. In 2010 he
made his directorial debut with Holidays.
The film got a very negative review, and
failed miserably at the box office. Identify
the gentleman whom we remember in
another field for his particular sound.

9
 Nathan Sawaya is a New-York based artist who
builds custom 3D- sculptures and large scale
mosaics and his creations are very unique. He
has created a new dimension by merging pop
art and surrealism in inspiring and ground
breaking ways. His art consists of playing with
the mterial, color, movement, light and
perspective. His global exhibitions are named
‘ART OF THE BRICK’ feauturing large scale
sculptures using only one kind of material.
What material does he use for his artwork?

10
 Many people don’t know that Marine Biology was actually
X’s first love and continued to stay with him even through
his success was in another field. He majored in Marine
Biology at a California community college and was a huge
fan of Marine Biologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He went on
to join the Board of Directors of the Billfish Foundation in
2006 and went on to do many projects including the
National Geographic series “Expedition Great White” in
2010. ""Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of zen
experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful,
and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me
when I'm on a wave."",once he said.
 Id X whose 42nd B’day was today

11
 The logo of this company was introduced in
1904. it contains the name written horizontally
crossed with the same written vertically ,both
sharing ‘Y’ and enclosed in a circle.
 An illuminated version of the logo lights up the
skyline of Leverkusen, where the company is
headquartered. Installed in 1958, this is the
largest illuminated advertisement in the world

12
 The green of the flag represents Islam and the
sword stands for the founding dynasty of the
country,or the military strength.
 The flag is manufactured with identical obverse
and reverse sides, to ensure the shahada(lā
ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muhammadun rasūlu-llāh)
reads correctly, from right to left, from either
side. The sword points to the left on both sides,
in the direction of the script. The flag is sinister
hoisted, meaning that it is hoisted to the left of
the flagpole, as viewed from the front. Which
flag?

13
 This institution was set up in 1986 under the aegis of
the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and is
an institution of design, management and technology
for a certain sector of the international business.
 With HQ in Delhi it has got 16 centres in India (one
in Kerala). Which institution am I talking about?

14
 This oil painting is a vibrant, cubist depiction of
nude courtesans, and is part of a 15-work series
the Spanish artist created in 1954-55
designated with the letters A to O.
 Inspired from Eugene delacroix painting of the
same name, it was created as a tribute to his
friend and close competitor Henry Matisse who
had been famous for his images of languid,
voluptuous women known as odalisques.
 Id the painter, painting and the significance it
holds.

• Women of
Algiers
• Picasso
• The most
expensive
painting
sold in
auction

15
 This EDM (electronic dance music) festival
is considered to be Asia's largest music
festival. The festival is an amalgamation of
Music, Entertainment, Food and Shopping,
and was ranked by CNN in 2009 as the 9th
Best Festival in the World.
 The festival is organised by Percept and
continues since its inception in 2007.

16
 In Golf, what is the name given to such a score of “8”
on any individual hole due to its resemblance to
something.

17
 Which is the first historic monument in the world to
get a Twitter handle?

18
 A changeup is a type of pitch in baseball
usually thrown to look like a fast ball but
arriving at much slower ball.
 Shown in pic is Ian Kennedy who is an
American Proffessional baseball pitcher for
San Deigo Padras, throwing ‘X’ changeup.
X?

19
 ‘The King’ is a 1995 Malayalam political thriller film
directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Renji
Panicker with Mammmooty in the lead role. Renji
Panicker had spent about 10days with a very famous
IAS officer while scripting the film to develop the
character of Joseph Alex(Mamooty). Which IAS
officer am I talking about?

20
 This is a gum that helps smokers to quit tobacco
smoking. It works on the proven principle of NRT. It
helps you reduce withdrawal symptoms that arises
with sudden quitting of Smoking. It provides the
nicotine that you normally get from cigarettes , but
in a lower quantity than cigarattes. It allows your
body to gradually adjust to having less nicotine until
you no longer need and thus helps you quit smoking.
 Which product am I talking about?

21
 He created a "uterus" from a football bladder by punching a
couple of holes in it, and filling it with goat's blood mixed in
an additive to prevent it clotting too quickly - but it didn't stop
the smell. He walked, cycled and ran with the football bladder
under his traditional clothes, constantly pumping blood out to
test hi sanitary pad’s absorption rates. Everyone thought he'd
gone mad.
 It had taken two years and three months for him to discover
that sanitary pads are made of cellulose. But the machine
required to break this material down and turn it into pads was
very costly. Four-and-a-half years later, he succeeded in
creating a low-cost method for the production of sanitary
towels which revolutionised the menstrual health for rural
women in developing countries.

22
 X is a video messaging application for iOS and
Android created by Jonas Drüppel, Roland Grenke
and Daniel Taschik. The app's creators had
previously made two other apps which were not as
successful. Their last app prior to X was called
Starlize, which aimed to allow users to create music
videos. Finding out that this app was too complex for
users, the creators decided to move on to shorter
length videos with an emphasis on ease of use,
creating X. X?

23
 Patients suffering from this may experience either
micropsia or macropsia. Micropsia is a condition in which
affected persons see objects as being smaller than those
objects actually are.Macropsia is a condition where the
individual sees everything larger than it actually is
 This syndrome is named after a famous 19th century novel
. In the story, the title character experiences numerous
situations similar to those of micropsia and macropsia.
 Speculation has arisen that the author may have written the
story using his own direct experience with episodes of
micropsia resulting from the numerous migraines he was
known to suffer from
Name this syndrome whis is named after this novel

24
 ICWAI National Award of Excellence in Cost
Management-2009
 • "Genius of the Web Award 2007" by CNBC •
 QCI- D. L. Shah National Award on Economics of
Quality on 19th Feb, 2010. •
 Indian Restaurant Awards 2014 •
 Who got all these?

25
 These two often confused buttons find their origin in
the device ‘Anita Mk VII’ manufactured by BELL
Punch Co., Uxbridge, England in 1961. They stood
for ‘Clear Register’ and ‘Clear Keyboard’ functions.
This schema was continued in later models, where
one button served to clear just the input buffer, and
another cleared the contents of the entire register.
The prevailing common confusion between the
buttons is what leads people to doubt their efficacy,
leading users to press it numerous times. What
aspect of a common technology is being talked about
here?

C and CE buttons in calculator

 10 questions
 POUNCE AND BOUNCE
 +10 / -5

1
 One of the most familiar images of the NYSE on
the evening news is the loud ringing of a
bell,signalling the opening or closing of the
days trading. Trading floor bells are more than
just a colorful tradition. They are critical to the
orderly functioning of the marketplace,
assuring that no trade takes place before the
opening or after the close. The first guest to
ring the opening bell was 10 year old Leonard
Ross, in 1956(pic in the next slide) even before
Regan, Bon Jovi ec. Why did they choose that
10 year old boy?

He won a quiz on stock
exchanges

2
 Legend holds that a former wife of an emperor,
known as Yeshe Tsogyal, willingly became a
disciple of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambahva) in
Tibet. She transformed herself into a tigress and
carried the Guru on her back from Tibet to the
present location of the Taktsang in Bhutan. In one
of the caves here, the Guru then performed
meditation and emerged in eight incarnated forms
(manifestations) and the place became holy.
Subsequently, the place came to be known as the
“X”,which is one of the biggest tourist attraction of
Bhutan.

3
 The phrase X was first used during the Battle of
Albuera (1811) in the Peninsular war. During the
battle, Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis of the 57th
(West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot was wounded by
canister shot. Despite his injuries, Inglis refused to
retire from the battle but remained with the
regimental colours, encouraging his men with the
words "____ 57th, _____!" as they came under
intense pressure from a French attack.'

 'The ______' subsequently became the
West Middlesex’s regimental nickname. The
term was later used to deride several senior
officers of the Army who sought to maintain
the system bequeathed to them by the Duke
of Wellington and who strenuously resisted
military reforms enacted by Parliament
starting in the late 1860s.which phrase?

4
 This disease is the second-largest parasitic
killer in the world (after malaria).
 The disease is named ‘X’ for the darkening of
the skin on the extremities and abdomen that is
a symptom of the Indian form of the disease
 The agent of the disease was also first isolated
in India by Scottish doctor William Leishman
who observed the parasite in spleen smears of a
soldier who died of the disease in _______,
Calcutta, hence the name Y.
 Give me either ‘X’ or ‘Y’.

Kala-azar/black fever/Dum
dum fever

5
 The reason is that they are born with a helmet
for the brain, which is formed of strong, thick
muscles and sponge-like bones in their skull.
Its body is too specially designed to absorb the
impact of the hit.
 A millisecond before it strikes, dense muscles in
neck contract. Some of the force radiates down
the neck muscles, and protect the skull from a
huge impact. A compressible bone in the skull
offers a cushion effect too.
 What is this the reason for?

Why woodpeckers don’t get
headache???

6
 Last year China saw an outbreak in two decades
with more than 47,000 cases of dengue being
reported almost all in Guanghzou province. A
team of scientists from Guangzhou,China has
come up with a new remedy to fight dengue.
The team is releasing more than half a million
mosquitoes into small island from plastic bots.
And the families on the island are welcoming
the new set of mosquitoes. Why? How does it
help reduce dengue?

They created sterile mosquitoes

7
 During World War II Nazis would loot the gold
inorder to finance war. So two Nobel lauretes Max
von Laue and James have quietly sent their medals
to Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics, for
protection..
 Bohr's institute had attracted and protected Jewish
scientists for years. The Nazis knew that, and Niels
Bohr knew that he was a target. He had no idea what
to do.
 On the day the Nazis came to Copenhagen, a
Hungarian chemist named Georgy de Hevsey who
was working in Bohr's lab come to his help?

 The modern-day construction, have an
almost flat roof, with the perimeter being
slightly higher than the center. The roof is
divided into three concentric rings: The
bodies of men are arranged around the outer
ring, women in the second circle, and
children in the innermost ring.

 According to their tradition, dead body is
considered nasu, unclean and contaminates
eveything that came in contact.To preclude
the pollution of earth or fire, the bodies of
the dead are here and exposed to the sun
and to scavenging birds, thus, preventing
"putrefaction”(decomposition) with all its
concomitant evils.

 In India, due to decline in bird population
the communities have started captive
breeding of vultures and the use of "solar
concentrators" to accelerate decomposition.
 Which community and what is this
construction?

Tower of Silence of Parsi
community

9
 The acute shortage of silver during WW-and the
contribution of this princely state to the British war
effort led the British to grant permission for them to
issue currency notes. The currency was designated
Omancia Sicca.
 In 1950, Indian Rupee was introduced alongside the
local currency with relationship 7____= 6INR. It
was the only princely state to contine issuing its own
notes after joining Dominion of India in 1948 and
republic of India in 1950. in 1950 it ceased to be
issued and was demonetized in 1959. which
currency?

10
 According to VASTU concept which is associated
with the engineering of building and other
engineering structures,each directions are denoted
by specific terms named after hindu gods such as
Prachi -east
Pratichi -West
Udichi -North
Avachi-South
South east-??

 10 questions on buzzer
 +10/-10

3
 This bicycle designed by Tomislav Zvonaric, was
inspired by which famous sporting personality?

4
 He served as the secretary of the indian
Football Association from 1900 to 1902 and
is also credited with the first hattrick in an
open football tournament in India, for Saint
Xaviers against Sovabazar in July 1987.
who?

5
 In this procedure, doctor inserts one, two or
more ______ into the woman’s vagina to
determine the elasticity of the orifice. If the
doctor is able to insert two or more _____ , it
ostensibly indicates that the woman has had
prior intercourse. The rationale behind this
“test” that if two ______ can pass through the
vagina, a body of the size of an erect penis could
have passed through it at an earlier point in
time.
Name this test.

 10 questions
 Pounce and Bounce
 +10/-5

1
 X is a brand name in its category, Y an Italian
machinery which own the right of this trade
name all over the world. The name of X derived
from a river which run adjacent to it production
site. In 1970's Govt. of India bought the
machinery design copyright and started
manufacturing it under the name 'Vijay' and
improved version which fall in different
segment under the name 'Vikram' for domestic
market. Id what I am talking, which was
designed by D'Ascanio and brought the
revolution in the industry ?

X- Lambretta
Y- Innocenti

2
 Collosus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek
titan-god of the sun Helios, erected in the city
of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same
name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. It is one
of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It
was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory
over the ruler of Cyprus.
 It was an inspiration for something in a 2015
movie. Which movie?

Rana Daggubatta’s statue in Bahubali

3
 When Sri Aurobindo was requested to give an
emblem to this Institute, he gave the emblem
with a Garuda, the mythical eagle in the centre
and a quotation from the Upanishad:Ya Aeshu
Suptaeshu Jagruti ("a person who is awake in
those that sleep“).
 Because of its active participation in
formulation economic legislation, it has been
designated by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam as a
"Partner in Nation Building".

4
 Ranger 7 (1964) was the first successful Ranger
mission (a series of unmanned space missions
by the United States in the 1960s whose
objective was to obtain the first close-up images
of the surface of the Moon) which occurred
while a JPL(Jet Propulsion Laboratary) staff
member was doing something. The staff
jokingly decided that it must have been “good-
luck” to them and continued the tradition
thereafter. What tradition?

Eating peanut before all critical
missions

 The person conducting the test (the experimenter)
picks up a card in a shuffled pack, observes the
symbol on the card, and records the answer of the
person being tested, who would guess which of the
five designs is on the card in question. The
experimenter continues until all the cards in the
pack have been tested
 This was discredited for several reasons. For what
test was this Zener cards used for?

6
 This 61 cm tall bronze statue made in 1619
is the landmark statue of Brussels. The
statue is dressed in costume several times
each week and the dressing of statue is a
colorful ceremony. His wardrobe consists of
several hundred different costumes.

 The most famous legend behind this statue is the one
about Duke Godfrey III of Leuven. In 1142, the
troops of this two-year-old lord were battling against
the troops of the Berthouts, the lords of Grimbergen,
in Ransbeke (now Neder-Over-Heembeek). The
troops put the infant lord in a basket and hung the
basket in a tree to encourage them. The boy did
something on the troops of the Berthouts, who
eventually lost the battle.
 Which statue and what is something referred above

Mannekan Pis
The boy urinated over the
troops and they eventually lost
the battle.

7
 This movie is inspired by the story of Aravinda
Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi, the NRI
couple who returned to India and developed
the pedal power generator to light remote, off-
the-grid village schools. They founded
AID(Association for India’s Development) in
1991.
 This was the first Indian film to be shot inside
the NASA research center at the Launch Pad
39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

8
 This item originated in a certain village in
thrissur district and is named after the village
itself. It is cultivated on the banks of
Bharatapuzha river and other places within the
Thrissur district.
 It is the kazchakula to the Guruvayoor
Sreekrishna Temple. The average bunch bears
20 to 25 fruits per hand.
 Recently it got GI registration from the
Geographial Indication Registry, Chennai.
What specefic item am I talking about?

Chengalikodan nendran banana

9
 Presidential speech writer willian saffire
wrote this sombre memo to President
Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman.
 Put funda

Speech Richard Nixon would
have given if Appollo 11 was a
failiure

10
 During the Victorian era, it was fashionable for wealthy
gentlemen to own a billiard table and a set of billiard
balls crafted of the finest and most perfect ivory. But 19th
century hunters had virtually decimated the elephant
herds of Africa and India, the source of ivory. By 1863,
the ivory shortage had become so critical that a New York
billiard-ball manufacturer offered a $10,000 prize to the
person who could create a useful substitute. The winners
were John Wesley Hyatt, a young printer in Albany, New
York, and his brother, Isaiah. They never received the
money. But they did change history — by inventing
X,which not only resembled ivory, it had astonishing
properties.id X

6 questions on buzzer
+10/-10
The answer begins with the
letters of ‘AGNEYA”

1
 Shown in pic is the outrageous building
project - a 4,000-acre complex of towers
that is to be set up in Dubai next year. It has
been said that the towers will be “icons of
legends of the past with a touch of beauty
and tourism characteristic of the city.” Give
its name.

2
 X was born on 20 July 1969 in Orsett, Essex to a
Kannada doctor father and a British mother. From
the age of 18, she got trained in Bharatanatyam. She
completed a doctoral thesis in Integral Yoga
Philosophy and Indian spiritual psychology from
Cardiff University in 2003. She spends as much time
as possible at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in
Puducherry.she is currently a writer based in
London.

 Previously working for a medical technology
newsletter, she is now writing for a shipping
magazine.A booklet of haiku poetry entitled
"This Year, Daffodils" was published by
Survivors' Poetry and the Esmee Fairburn
Foundation, 2011. Popularly known as an
actress and have just acted in 6 released movies
which included 1 in malayalam,1 in tamil,2 in
telugu and 2 in hindi. Id X or The more famous
charecter she portrayed in malayalam movie.

 Girija shettar, GADHA, Vandanam

3
 Dimensions of the vessel: 300 cubits by 50 by 30–in
modern Western measurements, approximately
137m long by 22m wide by 13m high (450 feet long
by 75 feet wide by 45 feet high). It had three internal
divisions (which are not actually called "decks",
although presumably this is what is intended), a door
in the side, and a sohar, which may be either a roof
or a skylight. It is made of "gopher" wood,and is
divided into qinnim, a word which always refers to
birds' nests elsewhere, leading some scholars to
amend this to qanim.What am i talking about?

4
 ‘X’ is the scientific discipline concerned with
the understanding of interactions among
humans and other elements of a system, and
the profession that applies theory,
principles, data and methods to design in
order to optimize human well-being and
overall system performance. • Quite a big
requirement in technological designs today,
identify X

5
 Traditions place its origin in a pre-
Revolutionary War song originally sung by
British military officers to mock the
disheveled, disorganized colonial fellows
with whom they served in the French and
Indian War. It is believed that the tune
comes from the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket.

 One version its lyrics is "generally
attributed" to Dr. Richard Shuckburgh,a
British Army surgeon. According to one
story, Dr. Shuckburgh wrote the song after
seeing the appearance of Colonial troops
under Colonel Thomas Fitch, V, the son of
Connecticut Governor Thomas Fitch .Which
nursery ryhme and is the state anthem of
Connecticut

6
 X, also known as X Prison, built in the 15th
century and in use as a prison since 1718, is a
fictional prison on an island in the middle of
the North Sea. It serves the community of Great
Britain as a penitentiary for convicted criminals
of a different kind. The prison is believed to be
unplottable and is thought to be bigger on the
inside. As of 1730s or 1740s, a graveyard had
been established on the island to accommodate
those who died of despair. Which place is this?

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