Start of Semester Quiz,Keshav Kumar Jha

WEEKLY QUIZ
S02_E01
DATE: 19TH JAN 2020
VENUE: COMMON ROOM, OLD BOYS’ HOSTEL
QUIZ MASTER: KESHAV KUMAR JHA

• POUNCE (+20/-10) & BOUNCE (+10/0)
• 17 QUESTIONS CLOCKWISE & 17 ANTICLOCKWISE
• START FROM TEAM 1
• MOSTLY CURRENT AFFAIRS & SCI-TECH
• **NO REGRETS IF YOU FIND SOME QUESTIONS SHADY**
IITP QC | Keshav Kumar Jha

1. ID X & Y.
• "I FEEL A BIT LIKE A TIME TRAVELER BECAUSE I WAS SUPPOSED TO RECEIVE THE PRIZE LAST YEAR
BUT I’M RECEIVING IT THIS YEAR INSTEAD. SO I’M DONATING MY VERY PERSONAL DIARY FROM
LAST YEAR.” X WAS ASKED TO DONATE ONE OBJECT TO THE ______Y_____ MUSEUM IN
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. AS X RECEIVED HER PRIZE ONE YEAR LATE, IN 2019, SHE CHOSE TO
DONATE HER PERSONAL DIARY FROM A TIME WHEN SHE WAS UNAWARE THAT SHE WOULD BE
AWARDED THE _____ _____. BEFORE DONATING IT, SHE MADE SURE TO ERASE ALL PERSONAL PIN
CODES AND LOG-INS THAT SHE HAD NOTED IN THE DIARY.
HER DIARY IS NOW ON DISPLAY AT THE ______Y_____ IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

X - OLGA TOKARCZUK
Y – NOBEL PRIZE

2. WHO’S THE AUTHOR?

3.
WHO PLAY THIS GAME?
OR FITB
• ______ RELAY, A TYPE OF BAREBACK HORSE RACING PRACTICED BY X IN THE U.S. PLAINS STATES, BLENDS
HERITAGE AND DANGER. IN ITS TRADITIONAL FORM, EACH RACE FEATURES UP TO 8 TEAMS CONSISTING OF A
RIDER, 3 HANDLERS AND 3 HORSES. THE COMPETITORS RIDE BAREBACK, USING ONLY REINS AND A WHIP TO
STAY ON. AT THE END OF EACH LAP, THE RIDER LEAPS FROM A RUNNING HORSE ONTO A FRESH ONE. THE
SPORT IS DANGEROUS, ATHLETIC AND INTENSELY COMPETITIVE — AND FOR ONE FAMILY IT’S A SHARED
PASSION THAT MEANS EVERYTHING. RICHARD LONG FEATHER HAS BEEN RIDING IN THE ______ RELAY SINCE
HE WAS A TEENAGER AND NOW COMPETES ON A TEAM WITH HIS CHILDREN.

INDIAN

4.
WHAT WAS HIS
PROFESSION?
• “YOUR DAD WAS A SELFLESS MAN… AND HE ONLY LEFT US BECAUSE HE WAS A
HERO.” THAT'S WHAT SHANE FITZSIMMONS TOLD THE 19-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER
OF A VOLUNTEER ___________ WHO DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY LAST MONTH.
CHARLOTTE O'DWYER WORE HER FATHER’S HELMET AND HIS SERVICE MEDAL AT HIS
FUNERAL. ANDREW O’DWYER AND HIS COLLEAGUE GEOFFREY KEATON WERE KILLED
ON 19 DECEMBER, AFTER A BURNT TREE FELL IN FRONT OF THEIR …..

FIREFIGHTER

5.
REASON FOR THIS
CROWD?

FUNERAL OF GENERAL QASEM SOLEIMANI

6.
WHOSE STATUE?
IN HONOR OF THE 250TH
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH,
VIENNA IS MOUNTING A YEAR-
LONG SHINDIG, WITH CONCERT
VENUES, OPERA HOUSES AND
MUSEUMS READY TO TEMPT
VISITORS WITH EVERYTHING FROM
ORIGINAL-INSTRUMENT
PERFORMANCES TO
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
WEIGHING IN ON THE GENIUS.⁠

BEETHOVEN

7.
ID X
• PICTURED HERE IS THE 'VALLEY OF THE X' - KNOWN AS
WADI EL HITAN IN EGYPT, HOME TO RARE ANCIENT X
FOSSILS.
THIS UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IS RENOWNED FOR
ITS PALEONTOLOGICAL FINDINGS ABOUT THE EARLIEST
ONSET OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY IN NORTH AFRICA.
UNDERNEATH ITS SANDS, PALEONTOLOGISTS ARE STILL
FINDING FOSSILS OF BASILOSAURUS ISIS, ONE OF THE
EARLIEST TYPES OF X ON RECORD.
THESE PREHISTORIC X ONCE SWAM THROUGH THIS
VALLEY, WHICH WERE ONCE AN OCEAN DURING EARTH’S
EOCENE EPOCH. TODAY, WADI EL HITAN IS HOME TO
THE FIRST FOSSIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE MUSEUM IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENTS OF
EGYPT, ITALY, & THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME (UNDP).

WHALE

8.
NAME THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER DUO
ALSO ID C
• A AND HER SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER B USED X-RAY TECHNOLOGY TO DIAGNOSE THE
WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE-FRONT BEFORE THEY RECEIVED TREATMENT AT THE HOSPITAL. THE X-
RAY TECHNOLOGY WAS INSTALLED INTO SMALL CARS THAT COULD BE USED AT THE BATTLE-
FRONT. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT A’S MOBILE RADIOGRAPHY UNITS TREATED ONE MILLION SOLDIERS.
THE UNITS WERE LATER NAMED “LES PETITES A”. IN ADDITION TO HER RELENTLESS EFFORTS AT
THE BATTLE-FRONT, SHE EVEN OFFERED TO DONATE HER TWO C WHEN FRANCE ASKED ALL
CIVILIANS FOR DONATIONS TO SUPPORT THE WAR EFFORT. HER OFFER WAS HOWEVER REFUSED.

A – MARIE CURIE
B – IRENE CURIE
C – NOBEL PRIZE

9.
WHICH CELEBRATION?
• ON NEW YEAR'S EVE IN NEW YORK CITY, CROWDS
GATHER TO WATCH A BEJEWELED, ILLUMINATED ____
____. THE NOW-ICONIC TRADITION STARTED IN 1904
AS A WAY TO CELEBRATE THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED
NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING IN TIMES SQUARE —
WHICH IS NAMED AFTER THE TIMES — AND
EVENTUALLY EVOLVED INTO AN EVENT TO WELCOME
THE NEW YEAR. "BUT THE MAGIC ISN'T IN THE BALL
EXACTLY," WRITES CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN. "IT'S IN
HOW ALL THOSE GATHERED IN TIMES SQUARE AND
ALL THOSE WATCHING AT HOME ARE UNITED, FOR
JUST ONE MINUTE, IN A FLURRY OF HOPE AND GOOD
WISHES THAT RISES LIKE CONFETTI, AND THEN IS
DISPERSED."

TIMES BALL DROP

11. ID X
• IN QATAR, THE BEST X ARE WORTH A FEW MILLION DOLLARS TO THE MEN WHO DEVOTE
FORTUNES TO A CENTURIES-OLD PASTIME. WHEN THESE TREASURED X ARE INJURED OR ILL, THEY
WIND UP AT A DEDICATED, STATE-OF-THE-ART HOSPITAL IN DOHA, WHERE MEMBERS OF THE
ROYAL FAMILY BEARING X GET TO CUT THE LINE. SOUQ WAQIF X HOSPITAL, SUBSIDIZED BY
QATAR’S RULER, TREATS ABOUT 150 X A DAY. MOST OF THE X COME FOR CHECKUPS, OR TO
HAVE WHAT STAFF MEMBERS NONCHALANTLY DESCRIBE AS A MANI-PEDI, THE X EQUIVALENT OF A
MANICURE. OTHERS ARRIVE TO HAVE RADIO TRANSMITTERS AND GPS DEVICES FITTED SO THEIR
OWNERS CAN KEEP TRACK OF THEM WHEN THEY TAKE THEM OUT TO HUNT.

FALCONS

11.
FITB
• “WE HAD LOTS OF SLEEP,” ONE WOMAN SAID OF THE
11-HOUR JOURNEY THAT HAD LED HER AND HER
PARTNER THROUGH THE AUSTRIAN ALPS. THEY
SWAPPED A NIGHT IN A PRICEY HOTEL IN VENICE FOR
THE CHEAPEST FARE ON THE _____, TRANSPORTING
THEM TO VENICE FROM VIENNA, ALL WHILE THEY WERE
SLEEPING. ACROSS EUROPE, TRAVELERS ARE ESCHEWING
SHORT-HAUL FLIGHTS FOR NIGHT _____ TRAVEL. IN
RECENT YEARS, OPERATORS AROUND EUROPE WROTE
OFF NIGHT _____ AS UNPROFITABLE AND SHUTTERED
SERVICES, BUT AUSTRIA’S STATE-OWNED FEDERAL
_______, ÖBB, EXPANDED ITS NETWORK. THE
REVITALIZATION IS A RESULT IN PART OF TRAVELERS
WHO HAVE CAMPAIGNED FOR A EUROPE-WIDE EFFORT
TO REVIVE THE NIGHT ______ AS A MORE SUSTAINABLE
WAY TO TRAVEL.

TRAIN

12.
WHICH COUNTRY? & FITB.
• YOLANDA BALESTRINI, 85, SUFFERS FROM EPILEPSY AND WAS OFTEN LEFT ALONE, AS SOME OF HER CHILDREN AND
EVEN HER LONGTIME NEUROLOGIST WERE AMONG THE ESTIMATED FIVE MILLION X WHO FLED THE COUNTRY IN
RECENT YEARS. ⁠
HER SON, PEDRO, WHO LEFT YEARS AGO AND NOW LIVES IN ARGENTINA, SAYS HE CONSTANTLY WORRIES ABOUT
HER. RECENTLY, HE CONTRACTED A NEW SERVICE CALLED MI HIJO SUPLENTE, OR MY REPLACEMENT _____, WHICH
PROVIDES A COMPANION FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOLANDA. “OVER THE PHONE, MY MOM WOULD SAY EVERYTHING IS
FINE JUST SO I WOULDN’T WORRY, EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THINGS WERE NOT OK,” HE SAID.⁠
STAFF FROM MI HIJO SUPLENTEVZLA SPENDS TIME CHATTING AND GOSSIPING WITH YOLANDA OVER COFFEE,
HOLDING HER HAND AT THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE AND EVEN TAKING HER FOR A MANICURE. “IT’S BEEN A BLESSING,”
SHE SAID.⁠
LONELINESS AND DEPRESSION HAVE MADE SUICIDE MORE COMMON AMONG SENIORS, ACCORDING TO A RECENT
REPORT BY AN ADVOCACY GROUP THAT TRACKS MEDIA REPORTS ON DEATHS OF THE ELDERLY BECAUSE THE
GOVERNMENT DOESN’T PUBLISH OFFICIAL STATISTICS. THEY ARE BEING HIT ESPECIALLY HARD BY THE COUNTRY’S
ECONOMIC CRISIS, AS CHRONIC FOOD AND MEDICINE SHORTAGES PERSIST, AND THE GOVERNMENT, HOBBLED BY
CORRUPTION, ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS, HAS ROLLED BACK WELFARE
BENEFITS. ⁠

X – VENEZUELA
BLANK - CHILD

13.
WHAT DID HE INVENT /
LAID THE FOUNDATION
TO?
• "HUMANKIND EVENTUALLY WOULD HAVE SOLVED THE
MATTER, BUT I HAD THE FORTUNATE EXPERIENCE OF
BEING THE FIRST PERSON WITH THE RIGHT IDEA AND THE
RIGHT RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT THE RIGHT TIME IN
HISTORY." HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE INVENTOR OF THE
WORLD'S FIRST _________ - JACK KILBY!
AT AN EARLY AGE, THE AMATEUR RADIO SPARKED
KILBY'S INTEREST IN ELECTRONICS AND HE QUICKLY
DECIDED THAT THIS FIELD WAS SOMETHING HE WANTED
TO PURSUE. HE IS ALSO A BIG FAN OF BROADCAST
RADIO, AND LISTENING TO BIG BAND MUSIC. HE HAS
DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND
HIS INVENTION OF THE _________ LAID THE FOUNDATION
FOR THE ENTIRE FIELD OF MODERN _______________. HE
SHARED THE 2000 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR HIS
INVENTION.

MICROCHIP (WHITE BLANK)
MICROELECTRONICS (RED BLANK)

14.
WHOSE PORTRAITS
DOES HE PAINT?
• NIKLAS ELMEHED STUDIED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ART AS
WELL AS KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN
STOCKHOLM. HE PAINTS THE PORTRAITS DURING A VERY SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME WITH GOLD FOIL AND BLACK VINYL PAINT. THE
PORTRAITS ARE DIGITALISED AND PUBLISHED IN THE
______________ IN CONNECTION TO THE ANNOUNCEMENTS. THE
PICTURES REACH AN ENORMOUS AUDIENCE. IN 2019, 15
MILLION INDIVIDUALS WERE REACHED EACH DAY WORLDWIDE.
THE PORTRAITS WERE ALSO USED BY MANY INTERNATIONAL
NEWS PLATFORMS TO SPREAD KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
__________________
• THE STRATEGY BEHIND THE PORTRAITS HAS BEEN TO CREATE A
UNIFIED AND WELCOMING GRAPHICAL EXPRESSION THAT
WEAVES TOGETHER THE DIFFERENT ________ CATEGORIES AND
ALSO WORK IN SMALL FORMATS FOR MOBILE PHONES.
• TO ILLUSTRATE ___________ HAS BEEN A PART OF THE
PUBLISHING STRATEGY FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
• THE PORTRAITS ARE ON DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE
MUSEUM UNTIL 2 DECEMBER.

NOBEL PRIZE
WINNERS

15.
MITTENS FOR?

KOALA

16.
ID HER

SERENA WILLIAMS

17.
ID X & Y
• MICHELSON AND MORLEY BUILT A DEVICE CALLED AN INTERFEROMETER, WHICH USES WHAT'S
ESSENTIALLY A ONE-WAY MIRROR TO SPLIT A BEAM OF LIGHT, REFLECTING HALF OF IT AT A 90-
DEGREE ANGLE DOWN ONE TUNNEL AND ALLOWING THE OTHER HALF TO PASS THROUGH DOWN
ANOTHER TUNNEL. BOTH LIGHT BEAMS ARE THEN REFLECTED AGAIN AGAINST MIRRORS PLACED AT
THE END OF EACH TUNNEL. AT THE END OF IT ALL, THEY'RE MEASURED BY A DETECTOR. IF
MICHELSON'S AND MORLEY'S HYPOTHESIS ABOUT X WAS CORRECT, CURRENTS IN THE “X"
WOULD HAVE LED THEM TO TRAVEL AT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT RATES, SO THEY SHOULD STRIKE THE
DETECTOR AT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TIMES. YET, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THEY'D ARRIVE AT EXACTLY
THE SAME TIME.
• ADVANCED VERSIONS OF INTERFEROMETER DETECTED Y FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN 2015.

X – ETHER
Y – GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

HALFWAY
SCORES

18. ID X
• THE X SEEMS TO HAVE COME INTO FASHION AROUND 1883, WHEN A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE
EXPLAINED HOW AN INCREASED DEMAND FOR XS LED TO A DECREASE IN CHRISTMAS TREE SALES.
APPARENTLY, THE "X" STARTED OUT AS A SIMPLE SOCK THAT CHRISTIANS USED TO RECEIVE GIFTS,
BUT WENT OUT OF STYLE WHEN IT DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE THE SPACE FOR PACKAGES. AROUND
THE 1880S, THE X MORPHED INTO SOMETHING MORE FESTIVE . THE TIMES ARTICLE READS:
"WHAT WAS NEEDED TO BRING ABOUT THE REVIVAL OF THE CHRISTMAS X WAS THE INVENTION
OF A VARIETY OF X ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THE RECEPTION OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS. ... THE
CHRISTMAS TREE, DROPPING MELTED WAX UPON THE CARPET, FILLING ALL NERVOUS PEOPLE WITH
A DREAD OF FIRE; BANISHING THE JUVENILE DELIGHT OF OPENING THE WELL-FILLED X IN THE DIM
MORNING LIGHT, AND DIFFUSING THE POISON OF RATIONALISM THINLY DISGUISED AS THE
PERFUME OF HEMLOCK, SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR BELOVED LAND. IT HAS HAD ITS DAY,
AND THE GLORIOUS REACTION IN FAVOR OF THE SACRED X WILL SWEEP IT AWAY FOREVER."

STOCKINGS

19.
WHERE? & FOR WHAT?
• THE _____ PROGRAM NEEDED TECHNOLOGY THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE LIGHTWEIGHT BUT ROBUST ENOUGH TO
AVOID BEING DESTROYED BY EXTREME TEMPERATURES OR POWER FAILURES. THIS IS WHY THEY TURNED TO CORE
ROPE MEMORY, A FORM OF MEMORY MADE BY HAND-WEAVING WIRES THROUGH TINY MAGNETIC RINGS.
• THE WORKERS WHO WOVE CORE ROPE MEMORY ENCODED ONES BY PASSING A WIRE THROUGH A MAGNETIC
RING AND ZEROES BY PASSING THE WIRE AROUND IT. SINCE THEY LITERALLY ENCODED EACH ONE AND ZERO BY
HAND, THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS WAS SLOW, TEDIOUS, AND PRONE TO ERROR.
• ____ ENGINEERS WOULD SOMETIMES REFER TO THIS MEMORY AS "LOL MEMORY," FOR "LITTLE OLD LADY." AS
_____ SPECIALIST JACK GARMAN EXPLAINED, "WHAT THEY TOLD US WAS THAT THESE WERE ALL LITTLE OLD
WOMEN THAT WOULD WEAVE THE ROPES. I TRUST IT WAS MORE MECHANIZED THAN THAT. I ACTUALLY
REMEMBER GOING TO SEE IT ONCE, AND I DON'T REMEMBER — THE MYTH GOT AHEAD OF THE FACT, I'M SURE."
• REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE, HOWEVER, THE WORKERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SOFTWARE THAT HELPED THE ______
WERE MOSTLY WOMEN — AS WAS THEIR LEADER, THE NOW-LEGENDARY COMPUTER SCIENTIST MARGARET
HAMILTON. HAMILTON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE _____ SOFTWARE MAY HAVE SAVED MISSIONS, IN FACT. IT
WAS HER IDEA TO PROGRAM IN EMERGENCY WARNINGS AND ERROR CORRECTION IN CASE OF A COMPUTER
MALFUNCTION.

NASA
APOLLO 11

20. FITB
• ON FEBRUARY 2, 1851, FOUCAULT SENT A NOTICE TO ALL OF THE SCIENTISTS IN PARIS WITH THIS
SIMPLE STATEMENT: "YOU ARE INVITED TO SEE THE _____ ____." THE NEXT DAY, THE CITY'S
SCIENTISTS ASSEMBLED IN THE MERIDIAN ROOM OF THE PARIS OBSERVATORY AND WATCHED THE
SUCCESSFUL FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. FOUCAULT REPEATED THE
DEMONSTRATION FOR THE PUBLIC A MONTH LATER IN THE PANTHEON, WHERE HE HUNG A 62-
POUND (28-KILOGRAM) BRASS BOB FROM A 220-FOOT (67-METER) LONG WIRE AND LET IT
SWING THROUGH A THIN LAYER OF SAND ON THE BUILDING'S ELEGANT MARBLE FLOOR.

"YOU ARE INVITED TO
SEE THE EARTH
TURN."

21.
EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPH
OF?
THIS IS THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPH OF X
TAKEN IN 1845 BY LEON FOUCAULT AND
LOUIS FIZEAU.

SUN

22.
WHICH PLANT?
• THE PLANT STAYS GREEN WHILE THE VEGETATION AROUND IT WITHERS AND DIES. _________ GROWS
ON THE BRANCHES OF TREES, WHERE IT SURVIVES BY TAKING WATER AND SOIL MINERALS THE TREE
NEEDS. THERE ARE MORE THAN 1,500 SPECIES OF _________ THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND MANY
ARE TOXIC, PARTICULARLY THOSE FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA.
• MANY ANCIENT CULTURES USED _________ AS A MEDICINAL HERB AND CELTIC DRUIDS WOULD USE IT
TO RESTORE FERTILITY. (IT'S EVEN BEING USED TODAY IN CANCER THERAPY.) IN NORSE MYTHOLOGY,
_________ WAS USED ON AN ARROW AS A SORT OF NORSE KRYPTONITE TO KILL THE INVINCIBLE GOD
BALDUR. WHETHER IT CAME FROM THE MAGIC, THE MYTHOLOGY, OR THE GROSS FACT THAT THE
BERRIES OF SOME PLANTS SECRETE A SEMEN-LIKE SUBSTANCE, BY THE 18TH CENTURY, IT HAD BECOME
A HOLIDAY DECORATION ASSOCIATED WITH KISSING.
• ACCORDING TO HISTORY, THE CUSTOM OF MEN STEALING A KISS FROM WOMEN STANDING UNDER THE
_________ FIRST CAUGHT ON AMONG ENGLISH SERVANTS BEFORE SPREADING TO THE HIGHER CLASSES.
AS PART OF SOME EARLY TRADITIONS, YOU HAD TO PLUCK A BERRY FROM THE _________ WITH EACH
KISS.

MISTLETOE

23.
WHAT WAS USED FOR THE EXPERIMENT?
• PHYSICISTS AT THE UK'S LANCASTER UNIVERSITY FROZE X TO -273.15°C TO SEE IF THEY CAN
HELP IN DEVELOPING QUANTUM COMPUTERS. THE TEMPERATURE WAS 2,00,000 TIMES COLDER
THAN ROOM TEMPERATURE. "WE FOUND CLAMPING ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN X CAUSES X
STRUCTURES TO BEHAVE AS AN EXTREMELY GOOD THERMAL INSULATOR AT CRYOGENIC
TEMPERATURES," SCIENTIST WHO LED THE TEAM SAID.
• THE USE OF PLASTIC STRUCTURES, SUCH AS X, INSTEAD OF THE SOLID MATERIALS CURRENTLY IN
USE, MEANS THAT ANY FUTURE THERMAL INSULATOR COULD BE PRODUCED AT A SIGNIFICANTLY
REDUCED COST

LEGO

24.
WHO’S ANTHONY?

ANTHONY GONSALVES

25.
WHAT DO THEY
GUARANTEE?

26.
WHOSE HANDWRITTEN NOTE?

DONALD
TRUMP

27.
WHICH OTHER
PAINTING?
• SOME ART SCHOLARS BELIEVE THAT VAN GOGH
INTENDED HIS MASTERPIECE "CAFÉ TERRACE AT NIGHT"
AS A REALISTIC INTERPRETATION OF X. THE VAN GOGH'S
LONG-HAIRED, WHITE-CLAD WAITRESS PLAYING THE
ROLE OF _____, STANDING IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF A
CROSS IN THE ADJACENT WINDOW. THIS
INTERPRETATION SEEMS TO PLAY OUT ACCORDING TO
VAN GOGH'S OWN LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER THEO
FROM THAT PERIOD OF TIME, WHERE HE REFERENCES THE
PAINTING AND EXPRESSES A MYSTERIOUS NEED
FOR RELIGION IN HIS LIFE.

THE LAST SUPPER
• ALSO, BOTH PAINTINGS
HAVE 12 PEOPLE

28.
WHICH PAINTING?
• ACCORDING TO THE TEAM OF METEOROLOGISTS MADE UP OF FRED PRATA FROM THE UNIVERSITY
OF OXFORD, ALAN ROBOCK OF RUTGERS, AND HISTORIAN RICHARD HAMBLYN OF BIRKBECK, THE
BACKGROUND OF X RESEMBLES NOTHING SO MUCH AS NACREOUS CLOUDS, ALSO KNOWN AS
MOTHER-OF-PEARL CLOUDS. THESE RARE FORMATIONS WERE ONCE SEEN ONLY AT THE
UPPERMOST LATITUDES (ALTHOUGH HUMAN IMPACT HAS CAUSED THEM TO APPEAR MORE
FREQUENTLY AND CLOSER TO THE EQUATOR IN RECENT YEARS). THEY'RE LONG, WAVY, AND FILL
THE SKY WITH LIGHT IN MANY STRANGE COLORS. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE
THE BRIGHT-RED AND GUNMETAL-BLUE BACKGROUND IN THE PAINTING.

THE SCREAM

29.
PARTS OF WHAT?
• ABOARD THAT APOLLO 11 MISSION WERE ASTRONAUTS NEIL ARMSTRONG, EDWIN "BUZZ"
ALDRIN, JR., AND MICHAEL COLLINS. ALL THREE HAD AN AFFINITY FOR AVIATION, HAVING BEEN
MILITARY PILOTS, BUT IT WAS ARMSTRONG WHO HAD THE IDEA TO BRING ALONG A PIECE OF …….
UNDER A SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE U.S. AIR FORCE MUSEUM, HE BROUGHT A PIECE OF
WOOD AND A PIECE OF MUSLIN FABRIC. HE KEPT THEM IN HIS PERSONAL PREFERENCE KIT (PPK),
LIKELY ALONGSIDE AN OLIVE-BRANCH PIN EACH ASTRONAUT BROUGHT FOR HIS WIFE AND
VARIOUS OTHER MEMENTOS — THOUGH THE WOOD AND CLOTH STOOD OUT IN ARMSTRONG'S
MIND. "HE IS MOST CLEAR ABOUT, AND MOST PROUD OF, THE PIECES OF THE HISTORIC ………
THAT HE TOOK TO THE MOON," JAMES R. HANSEN WROTE IN "FIRST MAN," HIS AUTHORIZED
ARMSTRONG BIOGRAPHY.

FIRST EVER AIRPLANE

30.
WHICH BUILDING?
• THE X IS POSITIONED BETWEEN THE ARNO AND SERCHIO RIVERS, MAKING THE GROUND LOOSE AND
SOFT, BEING COMPOSED OF SILT, CLAY, FINE SAND, AND SHELLS.
• IT'S EASY TO SEE HOW A 14,500-TON BUILDING COULD GET STUCK IN THAT SUBSTANCE. BUT THE
SOFTNESS OF THE SOIL IS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL TO THE BUILDING'S LONGEVITY. IT'S ALL DUE TO AN
EFFECT CALLED DYNAMIC SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION (DSSI), WHICH DESCRIBES THE WAY THAT
STIFF BUILDINGS BUILT IN SOFT SOIL HANDLE MAJOR VIBRATIONS. YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE
EXPRESSION ABOUT BUILDING YOUR HOUSE ON SAND — YEAH, IT'S GENERALLY A BAD IDEA UNLESS
YOU HAVE SOME PRETTY GROUNDBREAKING TECHNIQUES. THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE X DIDN'T HAVE ANY
OF THOSE TECHNIQUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL, THOUGH. WHAT THEY HAD WAS A STROKE OF INCREDIBLE
LUCK, BUT WE'LL LEAVE IT UP TO YOU TO DECIDE IF IT WAS GOOD LUCK OR BAD.
• THE SITE OF THE X IS ACTUALLY INCREDIBLY SOFT SOIL. AND THE MATERIALS OF THE X ARE
THEMSELVES QUITE STIFF. THE RESULT IS THAT THIS PARTICULAR BUILDING EXPERIENCES DSSI EFFECT
FAR BEYOND ANY OTHER STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD. IT DOESN'T ACT LIKE OTHER BUILDINGS BUILT ON
SOFT SOIL, BECAUSE ITS EFFECTS ARE SO EXTREME. INSTEAD, IT SIMPLY BEGAN SINKING UNTIL THE
GROUND AROUND IT HAD SWALLOWED ENOUGH TO HOLD IT MORE SECURELY.

LEANING TOWER OF PISA

31.
WHAT ARE BATS USED FOR?
• THOUGH THE LIBRARIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA AND THE PALACE OF MAFRA ARE BOTH BUILT
IN HEAVILY ADORNED BAROQUE STYLE, AND THE ONE AT THE PALACE WAS PLASTERED IN EVEN MORE
ELABORATE ROCOCO ORNAMENTATION. THEIR OSTENTATIOUS AESTHETIC AREN'T THE ONLY THINGS THE
LIBRARIES SHARE, EITHER — BOTH WERE BUILT IN THE 18TH CENTURY, BOTH ARE IN PORTUGAL, AND
EXPERTS AT BOTH HAVE ONLY A HAZY IDEA OF WHERE THE BATS CAME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
• THE LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY, CALLED BIBLIOTECA JOANINA AFTER THE KING AT THE TIME IT WAS
BUILT, WOULDN'T TRADE THE BATS FOR ANYTHING, EVEN IF GUANO IS A PROBLEM. THEY'RE BASICALLY
BUILT INTO THE LIBRARY'S IDENTITY AT THIS POINT, ANYWAY. AS DIRECTOR CARLOS FIOLHAIS TOLD
SIGNS OF THE TIMES, "BATS HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE LIBRARY SINCE EVER. THE LIBRARY TABLES ARE
PROTECTED WITH [ANIMAL] HIDE EVERY NIGHT, BECAUSE THEY ARE ALSO ANTIQUES AND THE BATS FLY
FREELY, ______ ___ ____." IN FACT, THAT HIDE IS PROOF OF HOW OLD THE LIBRARY'S BAT COLONY IS.
RECORDS DATING BACK 200 YEARS SHOW ORDERS FOR THOSE EXACT SAME CUTS OF HIDE. THESE BATS
HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE.

EAT BUGS ON BOOKS

32.
WHOSE APARTMENT? OR WHERE?
• UPON COMPLETION, THE APARTMENT SERVED AS A LABORATORY FOR ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS,
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS, AND PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS. CAPTAIN GUSTAVE FERRIÉ USED THE
_____ FOR THE FRENCH ARMY'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS IN 1903. THE _____ WAS ABLE TO
BROADCAST WIRELESS SIGNALS AS FAR AS NORTH AMERICA, MAKING IT INDISPENSABLE TO THE CITY
THAT WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE TORN IT DOWN ONLY SIX YEARS LATER.
• WRITER HENRI GIRARD DECLARED THAT X'S APARTMENT WAS "FURNISHED IN THE SIMPLE STYLE DEAR
TO SCIENTISTS," IN CONTRAST TO THE "WROUGHT IRON MODERNITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROWESS"
OF THE _____. AS ONE MIGHT IMAGINE, HIS ENCLAVE WAS THE TALK OF THE ELITE, AND MANY
REQUESTED TO RENT HIS SPACE. X'S APARTMENT REMAINED PRIVATE, HOWEVER, AND HE ONLY
ENTERTAINED GUESTS, SUCH AS THOMAS EDISON, ON OCCASION.

EIFFEL TOWER

Q33.
• तत्र स्वर ाः –
षड्जश्च ऋषभश्चैव ग न्ध रो मध्यमस्तथ ।
पञ्चमो धैवतश्चैव सप्तमोऽथ निष दव ि् ॥ २१॥
— NATYA SHASTRA, 28.21
• WHAT IS BEING EXPLAINED HERE? ALTERNATIVELY, WHAT ARE THESE?

SEVEN SWARAS

Q34. WHICH ELEMENT WAS FOUND THUS?
• FRENCH ASTRONOMER PIERRE JULES CÉSAR JANSSEN CAMPED OUT IN GUNTOOR, INDIA, TO
WATCH AS THE MOON PASSED IN FRONT OF THE SUN AND REVEALED THE SOLAR PROMINENCES.
LIKE OTHER SUN-GAZERS THAT MORNING, JANSSEN DISCOVERED THAT THE PROMINENCES WERE
MOSTLY MADE OF SUPER-HOT HYDROGEN GAS. BUT HE ALSO NOTICED SOMETHING EXTRA: USING
A SPECIAL PRISM INSTRUMENT CALLED A SPECTROSCOPE, HE DETERMINED THAT THE LINE OF
YELLOW LIGHT EVERYONE HAD ASSUMED TO BE SODIUM DIDN'T MATCH UP TO THE WAVELENGTH
OF ANY KNOWN ELEMENT.

HELIUM

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