Quizendramadhyamam (General Quiz)

ि वज़ेन्द्रमध्यमम्
बक्चो द रक्षि त र क्षितः

Rounds
1. Etymology
2. Music
3. Food
4. LVC
5. India
6. General
7. Connect

Rounds
1. Etymology
2. (Carnatic) Music
3. Food (more etymology)
4. (Fuckall) LVC
5. India Hindu Rashtra
6. General
7. (Fuckall) Connect
The answer to every question.

The word X entered English usage in 1922 via French. Unlike in
French where the word is rather unloaded, in English, it has erotic
undertones and is almost always used for certain objects designated
for women however in recent times, some manufactures now design it
also for men.
In French, X is derived from Y, which is of Latin origin. The Latin root
could be used for one of these multitude of things:
Flax, rope, string, linen cloth, thread, or net for hunting or ﬁshing.
Identify X.
1

In 1957, when Kerala suffered a rice crisis, the government tried to
replace the staple by X made from tapioca. This substitute was not
only easy to produce but also more nutritious than rice. However, it
did not fit well with the cuisine of Kerala.
Linguist G. Alessio argues that the word X can have two origins. The
first is the Medieval Greek word for dirge referring to the use of X as a
funeral meal. The second is from Greek word makaria meaning food
made from barley on adding the suffix -one.
What is X?
2

(Almost) all of us know the three names of this item. Here’s some etymology trivia:
1. Most Western English speakers would know it as X, a word of Igbo origin first
used in the US around 1670s, (via the trans-atlantic slave trade). To most Indians,
it sounds pretty pretentious (and my parents would be disappointed if I call it this).
2. The Indian English word for it, Y, refers to a (not-so-often sexualized) female body
part. Surprisingly, this word too was first used in the US, deriving from the
description of the shape of the object in question. However if you ask for Y today
in the US, you’d get sponge cake instead.
3. The Hindi word for it is derived from Tamizh (via Sanskrit). The first available
documentation of this object is in Sanskrit along with a description on how to
serve it to kings.
What the fuck am I talking about?
3

The word comes from John X Scotus (c.1266–1308), the Scottish Franciscan
scholar who, with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the
leading Scholastic philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. X’s treatises
were widely inﬂuential throughout West Europe, earning him the papal accolade
Doctor Subtilis (Subtle Teacher) and posthumous beatiﬁcation from Pope John
Paul II in 1993.
However, with the advent of Renaissance, the New Learning, and then the
Protestant Reformation, many of X's theories were challenged or rejected by
scholars, who used the term X in a pejorative sense to denote those who foolishly
clung on to outmoded doctrine. Gradually X-man or X was used more widely for
anyone stupid or dull-witted.
What is the derogatory term, X?
4

Historically, the left side, and subsequently left-handedness, was considered
negative in many cultures. The Latin word ________ originally meant "left" but
took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double
meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, and in the English word X.
The opposite, that is the right side or right-handedness were considered good,
auspicious, and right. The Latin word ___________ means right and gives rise to
the word for a skilled person.
Fuck the right wingers and the right handers. Just give me X.
5

As to how the word has come to be associated with disaster, some have
suggested that an empty wine bottle never pleases anyone.
Others advance the theory that whenever a glitch was discovered in the bulb of a
piece of glassware, the blower would simply turn it into an ordinary bottle, a
______ and, therefore, a disaster.
______ derives from Late Latin word which stems from the Old French ﬂacon and
Middle English ﬂagon. Since the act of ______ was said to be that of bottling, it
became _____ in Old French which ultimately led to the English synonym for a
bottle.
What are these synonyms for disaster and for bottle?
6

Sampaloor is a small village located in Kadukutty panchayat of Chalakudy
Taluk in Kerala. During the Portuguese rule, Sampaloor was an important
center of Jesuits. Give me the etymology of this village!
7

Kolstylz: Vande Mataram is composed in which ragam?
1

T.M. Krishna asserting that though he might
appear like a saﬀron clad right winger, but in
reality is truly a red blooded socialist.

Now I don’t remember what concert was this but sometime in November
2018, TMK rendered Gopalaka Pahimam, a composition of Swathi Thirunal.
He commented that his choice of the piece was because he wanted to sing
in raga Revagupti as a homage to a then recent incident. Here is the scale for
Revagupti. VC can tell us more about them:
arohana: S R₁ G₃ P D₁ Ṡ
avarohana: Ṡ D₁ P G₃ R₁ S
What was this a homage to? And why?
Don’t think Carnatic music. Think TMK!
2

T.M. Krishna checking a Class X NCERT History textbook to see if
his Great December Carnatic Revolution has replaced the pages
occupied by the Great October Socialist Revolution.

In January 2019, Chitravina N. Ravikiran created a new ragam called
Veetavanam (which means desired abundance or a desired forest). It draws
from the Carnatic raga Keeravani.
He suggests that this raga is a suggestive salutation to a particular individual
and he hopes that it would be welcomed by musicians and music lovers of
both the East and West. In the process of creating this raga, a challenge was
that Carnatic music does not employ harmony.
Who is this dedicated to?
3

Muthiah Bhagavatar is credited with creating raga Niroshth and composing
Raja Raja Radhite in it (set to Rupaka thalam). I’ll give you away the speciality
of the ragam. It doesn’t use Ma and Pa. So what makes this ragam (and the
mentioned composition) peculiar?
4

T.M. Krishna clarifying
that the microphone
might be from RSS, but
his voice is still
unadulteratedly
secular.

The Madras Music Academy has a fetish for punctuality, and TT Vasu, the
president of the Academy took it to the extremes. In 2002, Vasu tried his
terror tactics on a particular chief guest X at the inauguration of the music
season.
The event was running late, and no one had expected how well people will
receive X. The Academy lectern was too tall for him and a special platform
was placed behind it for him to climb on. He delivered his speech in English
and there was loud clapping at the end of every sentence. When the speech
came to an end, Vasu stood up, ready to get a Secretary to deliver the vote of
thanks. “Mr President,” X said. “I am aware that there are many people in the
audience who know only Tamil and so I have brought a Tamil translation of
my speech. With your permission sir, I will now read it.”
5

No one else could have gotten away with reading the same speech twice that
evening. After the reading of the Tamil speech, X said “This is a great
occasion Mr President Saar, and so I have composed a special song for it.
My __________ members will now perform it. But before that one of my
colleagues will read out the lyrics.”
The applause hit the rafters even as what looked like a minor army came on
stage bearing all kinds of musical instruments. Vasu had given up by then.
By the time the national anthem was sung, the event was 45 minutes late. X
then drove to MS Subbulakshmi’s house and presented her with the award in
person.
This was the most crowd the Academy has seen on any Season inauguration
day ever since at the opening of the Music Academy. Who is X?
5

T.M. Krishna showing the Indian Muslims how to
raise their voice against violence and terrorist
activities that are carried out in the name of Islam.

X and Y are the only two Indians to compose a full symphony with Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra.
X is one of the most popular Indian musicians outside India and is known for
his collaborations with artists from across the world. His inﬂuence on his
collaborators helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music.
Y on the other hand is known for integrating Indian folk music, Carnatic
music, and western classical techniques. He has worked extensively ﬁlm
music too.
Of course, both are ornamented with Padma Vibhushan and Sangeet Nataka
Academy Awards. Identify X and Y.
6

T.M. Krishna
undisputedly
establishing the fact
that the Red Hammer
and Sickle are indeed
only a minor variation
of the Thiruman
Sricharanam.

The literal dictionary meaning of this word is ‘entwined twins.’ It has been
used in many interesting ways. A Congress leader once said, “The Indian
economy was saved in 1991 by the Manmohan Singh-Narasimha Rao X.”
Kapil Sibal, commenting on the delay in the announcement of the Gujarat
election dates, referred to it as a Modi-CEC X! There is a dessert known as
‘prune-almond X.’ When Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting played for Mumbai
Indians in the IPL 2013, it was referred to as the ‘Sachin-Ponting X.’
What word, which is mostly used in the world of music am I talking about?
7

T.M. Krishna
enthusiastically
inviting the
Communist
Revolution with
open hands.

Pepper Water
hint: tamizh
sample

Pepper Water
hint: tamizh
Mulligatawny (Soup)

Lightly Touch the Heart
hint: cantonese
1

Lightly Touch the Heart
hint: cantonese
Dim Sum

Fort of Sweetness
hint: arabic
2

Fort of Sweetness
hint: arabic
Kalakand

Sacred Fraction
hint: gujarati (from sanskrit)
3

Sacred Fraction
hint: gujarati
Shrikhand

Rotten Beans
hint: mandarin
Tofu

Turning
hint: turkish
Shawarma

Salmon Juice
hint: hokkien
Ketchup

Red Stew
hint: persian
Rogan Josh

Long Visual Connect
seven slides. exhaustive.

Seven Hills of Seshachalam Range
Taurus Vrishabhadri
Garuda Airlines Garudadri
Hanuman Anjanadri
Blue Neeladri
C. S. Seshadri Seshadri
Narayan Murthy Narayanadri
Venkateswara Venkatadri

This place is known for many things. Among that are 34 sculptures of famous
national and cultural icons. They include Carnatic lyricists like Annamacharya,
Nannayya Bhattaraka, Thyagaraja, Bhadarachala Ramadasa and Kshetrayya.
Which place?
1

An Acte for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie was passed by an Act of
Parliament in 1533 under the reign of Henry VIII and was subsequently
introduced to the colonies. In India it was introduced and enforced after the
Mutiny through another Act replaced it and made certain changes to speed
up justice for some crimes while also making lives tougher for an accused of
a certain crime.
How do we know this piece of law on the subcontinent?
2

Bengali calendar, despite having started way before the Gregorian calendar,
runs behind it due to a certain adjustment that was made a few centuries
back.
The calculation is as follows:
Current Bengali year = Current Gregorian year + 963 - 1556
What do the values 963 and 1556 used to signify?
3

The following excerpt is from an essay titled ‘Musical Contests’ by Dr. Amlan
Das Gupta, an ex-professor at the neighbouring Department of English, JU.
“I probably need to justify my choice of X as an example. The reception of
the justly celebrated song “__ ______ ____ ____ _________” is clearly not in
the classical register, even though the song combines in itself among many
other elements, aspects of classical technique: it also contrasts purportedly
Hindustani and Carnatic styles of singing, and is technically superb. The
Carnatic intonation and stylistic ﬂourishes create a comic mismatch of style
and word.
4

The Silken Genius, Mr. RK Raman created this color at the backyards of
Angadi’s Weaving facility in the 1950’s using dyes from Switzerland that were
licenced exclusively to silk The House of Angadi in Thirucherai. Raman gave
the colour the name _________ in honour of his elite client as the ‘new blue’
was recognised most that day when this client donned it. Who is this client?
5

Members of the Teli caste in India, Nepal, and Pakistan were, regardless of
their religion, identified by virtue of their traditional occupation i.e. the
pressing of oil. A sub-group of the Teli caste, the Shanivar Teli, was made up
of members from a specific community in Maharashtra. Today, however,
most of them have migrated to their homeland. By what name do we better
know the members of this caste, many of whom we might remember from
the roles they played in the early films produced in Bombay? Why they were
called Shanivar Telis?
6

In a review of the book by Douglas Knight, titled ''Beatiﬁcation of the Erotic",
Sadanand Menon writes on Outlook,
"The real 'masala' of the book is a studio photograph some of us have seen
in private before, but now made public, of X and Y, both in their teens,
dressed in pajama suits, posing with cigarettes. It's a peach and captures
perfectly the insouciance of the book."
Who are X and Y, who came from a particular caste of artists, remained
lifelong friends and later became stalwarts in their ﬁelds?
6

Despite being reportedly disgusted by his anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner’s
daughter-in-law, Winifred remained a true friend to Adolf Hitler even after his
death. However, out of the fear of public persecution, she used an ironic
cryptic code while referring to Hitler in her personal conversations after the
war. The abbreviation which she used expanded to mean “Our blessed
Adolf” in German. Given that the ﬁnal letter of the three-lettered abbreviation
was A for Adolf, what were the ﬁrst two letters?
1

This connects Frederick the Great, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, and Ioannis
Kapodistrias. Revolutionary Wars in Europe were terrible, however, the
population was determined not to trust tasteless and ugl tubers from
un-Christian soils. The peasants starved on grain mush and herbs, and the
royal courtiers overindulged in foie gras. When the recommendations of
scientiﬁc societies fell deaf on the demography, what did these three kings
do in their respective kingdoms to promote the devil’s apple? Theorize.
3

More potatoes: In 2012, Boeing used 9,000 kg of potatoes for something
unusual. Passenger seats on a decommissioned plane were loaded with
huge sacks of the tubers for several days. The choice of potatoes was
because of two reasons, the second being that spuds - unlike humans -
never get bored. What was Boeing doing? Alternatively, what was the
primary reason of using potatoes?
4

In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron
saint of the X. Saint Isidore wrote a 20 book opus Etymologies,
also known as the Origins, in which he tried to record everything
that was known. Published after his death in 636, it was for a
thousand years considered the encyclopedia of all human
knowledge. Written in simple Latin, it was all a man needed in
order to have access to everything he wanted to know about the
world but never dared to ask, from the 28 types of common noun
to the names of women’s outer garments. What is X?
5

Certain marks on streets and other public spaces in this European cities are a
relic of an important event in the past. Stare at the photos in the following
slides and give me the funda around this thing.
6

The diagonal slice in the tittle on letter i in Gillette’s logo serves two
purposes. The ﬁrst is that it gives a sense of speed. What is the second?
6

X is a is a Hindu religious group and is one of the fourteen akharas
recognized by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad. It owns many
temples, mathas, and martial arts training centers in North and West
India.
In 1949, X filed a suite to reclaim the disputed site of Babri Mosque.
They were also one of the first to file a suite in 1985 seeking consent
to construct a Rama temple next to the mosque. Apart from the Sunni
Waqf Board and Ram-Lalla Deity, X was the third partner to receive a
division of the property. The first half of X goes into the connect.
1

X is a philosophical idea conceptualized by a community of mystic
minstrels from South Asia. The mystics believe that music is a tool to
probe the inherent divinity (which resides within the human body) and
search meaning within the self and discover X. This inherent divinity is
free of all labels and identities.
The concept mirrors the ideas of self-actualization and humanism,
and contrasts the idea of a universal divine, hence developing
tangential to other belief systems of the region.
The term X goes into the connect.
2

X is a tadbhav term meaning "holder of four" (four denoting a measure
of land). It is used as a title for the head of a community or caste, and
these title holders were usually zamindars during the British Raj.
Interestingly, this is one of those rare titles common among the
Hindus and Muslims. The title goes into the connect.
3

X is a 2016 social thriller film that did not perform well on the box
office. Due to some recent events, it has gained attention. The
headlines for the release of the film read:
“X teaser: Ssshhh! The nation is sleeping and ______ ____ doesn't
want to wake us up!”
The name of the film goes into the connect.
4

This poem ﬁrst appeared in a publication in July 1901, and was
translated into English in 1911. It is the most translated poem of the
author and almost synonymous with him (in popular circles). It is one
of the most famous poems in India, and also read in neighbouring
countries of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
In one of the lines, the poem says may the Father should strike the
________ ______ without mercy. This allusion to corporal punishment,
although commonplace in the context in which the poetry originated,
is omitted from every translation. The poem goes in the connect.
5

X is a Sanskrit eulogy that became popular due to its broadcasts on
AIR and usage in Bharatanatyam performances. Although nothing is
known about its author, it is conjectured to be either Adi Shankara or
Tenali Rama. Many may recognize it through the first line of the poem.
In 1931, AIR West Bengal started an 89 minute program with the
same title. Due to its popularity, it is aired every year and also
available as a CD version. In 1959, B. S. Ranga directed a film by the
same title. This is the first pan India movie with release in 8
languages. The first line of the poem goes into the connect.
6

Y is an acclaimed Indian ﬁlm and theatre actor, music director, lyricist,
singer and scriptwriter. In 2012, he penned X, a Hindi/Urdu song
describing the separation of two lovers (one of whom is called X). It is
set in the backdrop of the 1947 partition. X lives in Lahore while their
beloved is now in Delhi.
The word X literally means beautiful, and is perhaps used as an
endearing term for the beloved. X goes into the connect.
7

X is a is a Hindu religious group and is one of the fourteen akharas
recognized by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad. It owns many
temples, mathas, and martial arts training centers in North and West
India.
In 1949, X filed a suite to reclaim the disputed site of Babri Mosque.
They were also one of the first to file a suite in 1985 seeking consent
to construct a Rama temple next to the mosque. Apart from the Sunni
Waqf Board and Ram-Lalla Deity, X was the third partner to receive a
division of the property. The first half of X goes into the connect.

X is a philosophical idea conceptualized by a community of mystic
minstrels from South Asia. The mystics believe that music is a tool to
probe the inherent divinity (which resides within the human body) and
search meaning within the self and discover X. This inherent divinity is
free of all labels and identities.
The concept mirrors the ideas of self-actualization and humanism,
and contrasts the idea of a universal divine, hence developing
tangential to other belief systems of the region.
The term X goes into the connect.

X is a tadbhav term meaning "holder of four" (four denoting a measure
of land). It is used as a title for the head of a community or caste, and
these title holders were usually zamindars during the British Raj.
Interestingly, this is one of those rare titles common among the
Hindus and Muslims. The title goes into the connect.

X is a 2016 social thriller film that did not perform well on the box
office. Due to some recent events, it has gained attention. The
headlines for the release of the film read:
“X teaser: Ssshhh! The nation is sleeping and ______ ____ doesn't
want to wake us up!”
The name of the film goes into the connect.

This poem ﬁrst appeared in a publication in July 1901, and was
translated into English in 1911. It is the most translated poem of the
author and almost synonymous with him (in popular circles). It is one
of the most famous poems in India, and also read in neighbouring
countries of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
In one of the lines, the poem says may the Father should strike the
________ ______ without mercy. This allusion to corporal punishment,
although commonplace in the context in which the poetry originated,
is omitted from every translation. The poem goes in the connect.

where the mind is without fear

X is a Sanskrit eulogy that became popular due to its broadcasts on
AIR and usage in Bharatanatyam performances. Although nothing is
known about its author, it is conjectured to be either Adi Shankara or
Tenali Rama. Many may recognize it through the first line of the poem.
In 1931, AIR West Bengal started an 89 minute program with the
same title. Due to its popularity, it is aired every year and also
available as a CD version. In 1959, B. S. Ranga directed a film by the
same title. This is the first pan India movie with release in 8
languages. The first line of the poem goes into the connect.

Y is an acclaimed Indian ﬁlm and theatre actor, music director, lyricist,
singer and scriptwriter. In 2012, he penned X, a Hindi/Urdu song
describing the separation of two lovers (one of whom is called X). It is
set in the backdrop of the 1947 partition. X lives in Lahore while their
beloved is now in Delhi.
The word X literally means beautiful, and is perhaps used as an
endearing term for the beloved. X goes into the connect.

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