Lot of the Things (General quiz) mains 2019

 3 written rounds of 5 questions each; 10
points per question.
 2 dry rounds of 15 questions each.
 Infinite bounce with pounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

 X is a chess variant. ________ and
footmen move and capture the same
as knights and pawns in chess, except
footmen do not have a double-step
option on their first move.The
starting setup as shown.
 For each turn, each player secretly
writes down his move, then the
players simultaneously declare them.

 X chess is a variant where the capturing piece
remains unmoved on its original square,
instead of occupying the square of the piece
captured.
 This allows the players to maintain their
position even while capturing pieces at a
great distance on the board.

 X chess is a variant of chess where rules of
chess apply with the change that the piece
making a capture is removed from the board
together with the captured man.
 ID X which is also a ‘surprise’ hit album from
2018.

 X is a variant where captured pieces are replaced
with non-capturing counterparts and given back
to the player they were captured from, who
holds them in hand until choosing to drop one
on the board. When a non-capturing piece is
captured, it gets replaced with a regular piece.
 This provides an incentive to not capture non-
capturing pieces. Much like what happens to
an adolescent boy in a 1960s literary work.

 X is a variant which employs two chessboards
rather than one.
 The pieces move the same as they do in
standard chess, but a piece transfers at the
completion of its move to the opposite
board, similar to how the protagonist of an
1871 work is transported to an alternate
world.

 X is a variant where captured pieces are replaced
with non-capturing counterparts and given back
to the player they were captured from, who
holds them in hand until choosing to drop one
on the board. When a non-capturing piece is
captured, it gets replaced with a regular piece.
 This provides an incentive to not capture non-
capturing pieces. Much like what happens to
an adolescent boy in a 196os literary work.

 This is the coat of arms of
Ulster, Northern Ireland.
 One of the traditional
explanations for the coat of
arms comes from an
incredulous story about a
chieftain who employed an
unconventional strategy to
win, when his rival was
leading in a boat race. What
did he do?

 He cut off his hand and threw it

 The pelvis is often likened to X, in a
mechanical aspect, to remind people that a
fracture at one place (such as the symphysis
or the SI joint) is usually associated with a
fracture at another point of the pelvis.
Similarly, X very rarely breaks at a single
point, usually breaking at two or more places.
What is X?
 Image follows.

The highlighted part is the defining feature of X

•Super Carbon Arc Filaments to produce a
beam 100 times brighter than a normal
searchlight
•Bullet-proof glass; handground for clarity
•Yellow fog filter
These were the components of a piece of
equipment X, that revolutionized the security
of a city Y which is 30 minutes away from a
whaling town, Blüdhaven. ID X andY.

 Sun, not rain stopped play in the IndiaVs New
ZealandODI in Napier.
 This perhaps has happened due to a
problematic design in the McLean Park
stadium.What specific feature common to all
cricket grounds, done wrong in this stadium
has resulted in this problem?

 Normally, the pitches in cricket grounds are
positioned in a North-South direction
precisely to avoid this scenario, but at
McLean Park, the pitch is facing East-West

 In the movie “Popstar”,a comedy about the
life of Conner4Real ,singer Seal is attacked by
wolves and he protects Conner from one of
the wolves
S: How do you think I got these scars?
C: From wolves?
S: Fucking wolves
 The reason for Seal’s scars, however, is X. X is
linked to wolves but not in the overly
dramatic fashion as shown in the movie. ID X.

 Discoid Lupus Erythematosus

 There has been a spike in the sale of fake
phones in Mexico City.The “dummies”, which
cost about 300 to 500 Mexican pesos (£12-
£20) each, are convincing fakes with start-up
screens and bodies that mimic the real thing,
as well as a piece of metal inside to add
weight.
 Why are these fake phones in demand?

 To hand over in muggings as armed robberies
had become commonplace

 She was captured and held for ransom by the English
during wartime in 1613. During her captivity, she
converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca.
When the opportunity arose for her to return to her
people, she chose to remain with the English. In April
1614, at the age of 17, she married tobacco planter
John Rolfe, and in January 1615, she bore their son,
Thomas Rolfe.
 After few Investment-aimed tours , in 1617, the Rolfes
set sail forVirginia, but she died at Gravesend of
unknown causes (probablyTB ) , aged 20 or 21.
 By what name do we know her?

 16th century Japan had a wardrobe problem. Citizens of all classes
wore kimonos , which were functional and elegant but lacked a
crucial element rather helpful for everyday life: pockets.
 To carry small objects such as medicine, they crafted sagemono—
generally, “hanging things”—that were suspended on a cord from
an obi and to keep them in place, men fastened small carved
ornaments, netsuke, to the loose end of the cord.The totems
acted as counterweights that helped cradle the pockets between
the wearer’s waist and hip.
 The first observed netsuke were simple, natural paperweights,
frequently a chunk of wood or a dried gourd , but gradually they
shifted from functional items to must-have accessories made of
items like ivory amber, antelope horn, persimmon, narwhal tooth
etc. , a way to flaunt wealth and birthed it's own artform which has
followers even today.

 But Netsuke disappeared as a functional item
and status symbol when foreign trade reopened
for the first time in over two centuries in 1853.
 One reason was - Japanese men began dressing
inWestern clothing which had pockets.Another
reason was introduction of a better alternative
to use an item which was earlier stored in
Netsukes , the use of which was banned by the
shogun in 1608 , only to be repealed in 1716 in
the hope that it would help lift the economy.
 Give the second reason.

 In the commercial “The Future is Built” for Ford
Motors, an instrumental version of a song was used as
a subtle nod to Henry Ford’s famous comment: “Any
customer can have a car _______ any colour that he
wants so long as it is _____.”
 The ad mocks a SiliconValley tradition pioneered by Y
that has been copied since for nearly every software-
upgrade announcement.
 ID the song. IDY.
 Video follows
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVlfclOpsK8

 X- Paint it, black
 Y- Steve Jobs

 Bill Mahaney ofYork University inToronto, began pondering this puzzle almost
two decades ago by looking at geographical and environmental references in the
classical texts.
 In 2004 Mahaney found from field trips and aerial and satellite photography that,
of the various passes along the proposed routes, only the Col deTraversette had
enough large rockfalls above the snowline to account for the obstruction
mentioned in the classical texts - But to find more definitive evidence , they
started looking in a peaty bog just below of the Col de laTraversette.
 The peaty material was mostly matted with decomposed plant fibres. But at a
depth of about 40cm this carbon-based material became much more disturbed
and compacted, being mixed up with finer-grained soil - suggesting that the bog
became churned up when the layer was formed. And on Radiocarbon dating , the
age of the soil came out spookily close to 218 BC , the year attested to this event.
 Other experts said if he could find Chemical or Microbial fingerprints of faeces
produced by one of the main assets of the laborious adventure being
investigated , the puzzle can be considered solved.
 Which much talked about question from History was he trying to solve?

 An unexpected consequence following the resignation of forest
minister, Lal Singh of BJP - after his involvement in the Kathua
rape case, was that a certain industry breathed a sigh of relief.This
was because he was tirelessly pushing for a removal of a certain
ban imposed by the local government in 2002 to protect local jobs.
 This ban forces people to buy finished products from the local
manufacturers or resort to smuggling. In 2017,The Mint reported
that over 25 lakh of these items are smuggled out each year,
leading to severe losses for the industry. Depending on the quality,
the finished product can cost ₹ 2,000-4,000 but can go up to
₹10,000 in other parts of India because of the illegal trade
 What industry am I talking about, a major source of employment
for the youth of the area?

 In the 1960s companies began selling steel
plates coated with green porcelain-based
enamel instead of the traditional X.The new
material was light and less fragile, so they
were cheaper to ship and more likely to
survive the journey. The new product was
easier to use. Plus, the enamel left less of a
glare and the color was nicer to look at.
However despite the colour change, the
original name has stuck.What is this item?

 Nosepass is a Rock
type Pokémon introduced
in Generation III.
 What is its overly large
head inspired by?

 Reuniclus is a Psychic-
type Pokémon
introduced in
GenerationV.
 Reuniclus has a strong
resemblance to a X,
due to its larger ears,
mouth, and hands.

 Tyranitar, the only Pokémon
to have the Rock Dark
typing is believed to be
based on X, which itself was
designed by combining
three dinosaurs:
Tyrannosaurus, Iguanodon
and Stegosaurus, along with
a crocodile and an alligator.
 ID X

 Krookodile is a dual-
type Ground/Dark Poké
mon introduced
in GenerationV.
 Which animal native to
the northern part of the
Indian Subcontinent
inspired its design?

 Kingdra dual type
Water/Dragon Pokémon in
troduced in Generation II.
 It is described to dwell on
the sea floor while
creating whirlpools
capable of destroying
small ships.
 What is the inspiration
behind this description?

 Moeen and Murad are best friends who grow
up together in the slums of Dharavi in the
2019 film Gully Boy.
 In one scene, Moeen calls Murad by an
alliterative name that is a play on his idol’s
alter ego – Since Murad is a Muslim , he
slightly tweaks the first part of the name.
 What name?

 In the movie Gautamiputra Satakarni, there is a scene
where Satakarni, changes his name to Gautamiputra
Satakarni and names his son as Vasishthiputra
Pulumavi as a tribute to the greatness of women.
However, according to historians this isn’t the real
reason for such matronymics.
 What is the real reason?

 The real explanation for matronymics seems
to be that since the rulers married a number
of wives from different royal families, a prince
was best identified with reference to his
mother.

 This multipanel image shows how different
wavelengths of light can reveal different
features of a cosmic object. On the left is a
visible light image of the Whirlpool galaxy.The
next image combines visible and infrared light,
while the two on the right show different
wavelengths of infrared light.
 What alliterative two word title did NASA use for
this panel, due to its similarity with a famous
grid of images rendered in different colors.

 This doll known as the Resusci Anne doll is a
model of training used for teachingCPR.
 This name was also used in the context of a
fictional account X (documented byY) of CPR
performed, after an effortless attack, on a
woman by a certain delinquent.
 ID X andY

 X- Smooth criminal
(Annie are you Ok?)
 Y- Michael Jackson

 This scare, now mostly forgotten, was a frantic panic during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries that certain borrowed items
could spread deadly diseases.The panic sprung from the public
understanding of the causes of diseases as germs and a distaste
for certain relatively new institutions from the conservative junta.
 This led to legislation which hampered the progression of these
institutions and the items were subject to disinfection and
incineration. But eventually reason took hold because people
started to notice the fact that individuals working full-time in
these institutions were not reporting higher illness rates as
compared to other occupations, and In Britain, experiment after
experiment by doctors and hygiene professors reported this
theory to be just fake news and the panic came to an end.
 What was the whole scare about?

 A certain feature of playing cards quite common
today, stems from the 17th century, when James I and
later Queen Anne imposed laws requiring X to bear an
insignia of the printing house. Stamp duty, an idea
imported to England by Charles I, was extended to
playing cards in 1711 by Queen Anne. Over the years a
number of methods were used to show that duty had
been paid. From 1712 onwards, one of the cards in the
pack, usually the X, was marked with a hand stamp. In
1765 hand stamping was replaced by the printing of
official X by the Stamp Office, incorporating the royal
coat of arms.
 ID X and the feature being talked about.

 "It has been described as the most exclusive
Club in the world, but the entrance fee is
something most men would not care to pay
and the conditions of membership are
arduous in the extreme."-Archibald McIndoe
 Only around 15 of the original club members
are alive now.What club is this and what was
its purpose?

 The Guinea Pig Club
 WWII Airforce people who sustained burn
injuries and underwent experimental plastic
surgery.

 Given below is a passage from one of X’s letters to a friend, Belknap
Long, in which he describes living in NewYork City and having to
encounter the immigrant population passing him in the streets:
“The organic things—Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid—inhabiting that awful
cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human.They
were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and
amoebal; vaguley moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s
corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out
of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting
worms or deep-sea unnameabilities.”
 As Michel Houellebecq points out in his biography/assessment of X , the
author’s “descriptions of the nightmare entities that populate his
universe spring directly from this hallucinatory vision.” In short, his racial
hatred went hand-in-hand with his imagination.
 Who was this talented racist?

 Farmers in many coastal communities of
Bangladesh have switched to rearing ducks
instead of chicken.This is part of a duck-
farming program introduced by a local
nongovernmental organization, BRAC.The
switch has resulted in better income for the
farmers.
 What is said to be the rationale behind this
switch?

 Coastal areas of Bangladesh are flood prone
 Ducks can swim and fly, so have better
survival than chicken during floods.

 ‘The problem we all live with’ is an iconic image of a
young black girl on her way to first day of school- an
all white school.
 The picture became iconic of the Civil Rights
movement because, in the image the girl is
surrounded by US deputy marshals to protect her due
to threats of violence.
 This image served as inspiration to a shot in a music
video released 2 years ago, directed in South Africa.
Here a similar but joyful school going girl is
surrounded by ‘cool people in cool outfits’, to show
that the racism problem is getting better.
 Which song/ music video?

 Asaduddin Owaisi, took oath as a Member of
Parliament amid chants of 'Jai Shri Ram’,
'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and ‘Vande Mataram.’
 Owaisi immediately gave it back and said, “Jai
Bheem, Jai Meem,TakbeerAllahuAkbar, Jai
Hind.”
 What is Jai Meem?

 Meem is the Urdu alphabet for M, standing
for Muslims. Coined by MIM to rhyme with
bheem to appease both Dalits and Muslims
with one slogan.

 Contracting tuberculosis as a young botany student, Hermann
Brehmer journeyed to the Himalayas to study plants and to rid
himself of the disease. When he returned cured, he decided to
study medicine and wrote a doctoral dissertation, "Tuberculosis is
a Curable Disease," that outlined plans for a treatment facility
featuring proper nutrition, fresh air, exercise, rest, and good care.
 In 1859 he established a sanitorium among the fir trees of
Gorbersdorf, Silesia, in central Europe. Brehmer’s therapy
included supervised exercise and walks on mountain trails.
However, this exercise was found to be too intense for the sick
patients. So, Brehmer installed resting areas at regular
intervals along the walking trails.These were quickly copied by
landscape artists and are now an ubiquitous feature in the modern
world. What feature is this?

 Before Buzz Aldrin’s mom, Marion, married
Edwin EugeneAldrin Sr., she was known as
Marion __.When asked byThe NewYorkTimes
to confirm the veracity of that fun coincidence,
Aldrin responded with an emphatic: “Yes. I didn’t
feel NASA needed to know that. Somebody
would think I was trying to get favored
treatment because my ancestors had this name.
And that’s a joke.”
 What was this speculated prophetic surname?

 Due to the high risk nature of being an
astronaut, the Apollo 11 trio were unable to
obtain adequate life insurance. All three had
families, though, who had to share in their
risks, so the astronauts had to find some
measure of security for their wives and
children should the worst happen beyond the
surly bonds of Earth.
 What innovative solution did they come up
with?

 The uncrewed Apollo 5 was designed to test the operation of the
lunar module, and it was mostly a success (there were concerns
with the water boiler temperature). Apollo 6 was also unmanned,
but had many more issues. For 30 seconds it experienced
something called the “pogo effect” (which Popular Science
explains is “almost like the rocket is bouncing on a pogo stick”)—
something that NASA pointed out “would have been very
uncomfortable for any crew.”Then two of the engines shut down,
and the third stage wouldn't restart. Despite all these setbacks,
Apollo 6 never made national headlines because of another
incident which occurred on the same day (1968 April 4) - “About
the only explaining that NASA had to do, therefore, was to the
congressional committees on space activities, who seemed
satisfied with what they heard,” - NASA says.
 Which unfortunate event overshadowed Apollo 6's faulty
operation in the next day's news?

 What you see here is the Mission patch of Apollo 11.Jim Lovell
suggested the eagle, the national bird of the United States, as
the focus of the mission patch. Running with that proposal,
Michael Collins found a picture of an eagle and traced it using a
piece of tissue paper. He then sketched in a field of craters
beneath the eagle’s claws and the earth behind its wings.This
preliminary design did not satisfy the crew.Armstrong and
Collins believed that it did not represent all they wanted it to
convey.The addition of Olive branch was suggested byTom
Wilson, a computer expert and the Apollo 11 simulator instructor,
as a symbol of the peaceful expedition.
 But there is something factually wrong in this image , the correct
form of which was immensely popularised courtesy a man
named BillAnders.What is the inaccuracy being talked about?

 It was December 1972, the last of NASA’s manned
moon missions, and astronauts EugeneCernan and
Harrison “Jack” Schmitt had just finished a successful
survey of theValley ofTaurus-Littrow, a spot on the
southeastern “coast” of the Moon’s Sea of Serenity.
They had returned to the landing module with their
spacesuits caked in moondust. Upon returning to the
landing module, Schmitt had a bout of X. Listening in,
men stationed back on Earth began to bust Schmitt’s
chops over the radio transmission. “It’s funny they
don’t check for that,” said Joseph Allen at Mission
Control.What is X? (Which is difficult to check for)

 They signed hundreds of postal covers (called
Insurance covers) before they left, on the
presumption that they would become highly
valuable in the event of their death.

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