Second Dry round of the QMQ conducted on 18/01/18 by Shreyan DC, and Pranav Iyer

1. DRIES
9 QUESTIONS

2. 1) WHAT ARE THESE?

3. ANSWER : RITCHIE BENAUD’S RULES OF
COMMENTARY

4. 2) ID X.
FITB.
The question of "Who is _ __?" has been described as one of the most-
asked queries on the Internet. The Sunday Times reported that online and
text-answering services rated it as one of the most popular questions of
all time, along with the meaning of life._ __ has been notionally "spotted"
in the wild in images collected for Google Street View. He was
photographed by a Street View car standing on the side of the A82 road in
Loch Ness, Scotland.[He was also captured by a Street View tricycle in
three locations within Legoland Windsor in Berkshire, including riding a
go-kart and sitting on a camel. A Street View image taken from the A40
Westway of _ __ apparently standing in a window of the office of X was
reportedly just a cardboard cut-out.

5. ANSWER : TOP GEAR.
BLANK – THE STIG

6. 3) ID X.
Mrs. Silence Dogood was a pen name used by X to get his work
published in Y, a newspaper founded and published by his brother
James.X never got anything he wrote published, so, at age 16, X
created the persona of a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood.
Once every two weeks, he would leave a letter under the door of his
brother's printing shop.The letters were published in Y fortnightly, and
amused readers. Some men wrote in offering to marry Ms. Dogood,
upon learning she was widowed. Eventually, James found out that all
fourteen of the letters had been written by his younger brother, which
angered him. The letters poked fun at various aspects of life in colonial
America.

7. ANSWER : BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

8. 4) In May 2016, West Ham signed up the player in the picture – the first such
signing of a player in English footballing history. He will get to wear the official
jersey during tournaments. What makes this signing unusual?

9. ANSWER : HE WILL REPRESENT WEST HAM
AT FIFA VIDEO GAME TOURNAMENTS.

10. 5) PUT FUNDA.

11. ANSWER: LITE BEER

12. 6) WHERE IS IT BEING
PUT UP?
The French consortium Novarka
is partnering with Vinci and
Bouygues to build a steel casing
arch that is 150 metres long and
about 105 metres tall. When this
project is completed in 2017, it
will be called the New Safe
Confinement.

13. ANSWER : CHERNOBYL

14. 7) ID THE CHARACTER.
• Net Worth: $1.7 billion
• Source: Banking, Investments
• Age: 63
• Marital Status: Single
• Hometown: London, England
• Education: University of
Edinburgh
Briefly distracted by philanthropic causes a few years
back, X is all business again. Came out of late '90s tech
bubble unscathed, refusing to invest in stocks with
"Humbug valuations." Sizable gold horde appreciating
rapidly; said to make $10 million every time price of
gold goes up by $1. Lifelong bachelor with few close
associates. Strong believer in the paranormal; insists
home is haunted by ghosts. X remains focal point for
anger over excessive executive compensation. Most
recent proxy discloses salary to be 927 times that of Bob
Crachit, his long-suffering number two. Member since
1843.

15. ANSWER : EBNEZER SCROOGE

16. 8) WHAT MODERN CITY IS ON THIS SITE?
The state religion of a civilization awaited the fulfilment of an
ancient prophecy: that the wandering tribes would find the destined
site for a great city whose location would be signalled by an Eagle
eating a snake while perched atop a cactus. The tribe found such a
site, founded a city and later, an empire that lasted 100 years until it
was destroyed in 1521.

17. ANSWER : MEXICO CITY

18. 9) WHAT IS THIS DESIGN?
While it originates in Christianity, the characteristic shift of
the centre is early modern, first described in the Danish
Koffardiflaget regulation for ships, 11 June 1748. It specified
the shift as "the two first fields must be square in form and
the two outer fields must be 6/4 lengths of those". The
Danish design was later adopted and altered by other
countries via politics and otherwise.

19. ANSWER : THE SCANDINAVIAN/NORDIC
CROSS