The Quiz Club and History Society of St Stephen's College present you with Dead Folks Tell No Jokes, a quiz on General History.

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The Quiz Club
in collaboration with
The History Society
St. Stephen’s College
presents
DEAD FOLKS TELL NO JOKES

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QUIZ CREDITS TO
Aditya Nath
Agastya Pulapaka
Avishi Gupta
Kshitij Jain
Lael John
Megh Mazumdar
Sagarika Chaudhary
Sashwat Panday
Shayanak Kundu
Soumya Singh
Suprabath Reddy
Suyog Raghuvanshi

3. RULES
The set has 24 questions and it will be conducted in 4 rounds with
6 questions each.
Each round will have one question for each team.
A pounce window of 20 seconds will be open for all teams before
the team to whom the question has been posed can answer.
If the team to whom the question has been posed is unable to
answer, question will be passed to subsequent teams, if and when
answered, bounce points will be awarded.
The next question will be asked to the next team in order.
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4. SCORING
Pounce +15 /-10
Direct +10/0
Bounce +10/0

5. Q1 - After the death of Kublai Khan, his great empire was divided into
five. Even these ones, were tbh bigger than what a lot people would
achieve in their lifetime. Most empires fell soon to local powers, but the
empire of the far west, that of X ensured that the Russians paid them
tributes for nearly 200 years. It was The Grand Duke of Russia, also
known as Y who eventually stopped paying the tribute. Meanwhile,
Constantinople had fallen to the Turks and the royal family driven out. Y
married a girl from this family and claimed to be the heir to the imperial
line of the old Byzantium. Thus the Russian Empire which finally ended
in 1917, started with the reign of Y. His grandson, who was very cruel
was called Z, sharing the first two parts of his name with Y, the last
changed to modify his behaviour. Identify X, Y, Z

7. Answer 1
X - Golden Horde
Y - Ivan the Great
Z - Ivan the Terrible

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Q2 - It is said that the political conditions in Europe during the prelude of the
Industrial revolution time actually helped England develop in wealth and
importance. It's home industries had developed chiefly because of the
immigration of foreign artists. Religious wars were at peak during this
period, and a lot of Protestants were flooding to England for safety. Almost
30,000 refugees from X, who were also fleeing because of the Spaniards
crushing the revolt there, settled in England. At the same time England
banned fabrics from X while they were involved in a conflict, and hence
established their domination in the market. Similarly the Walloons from Y
taught the English cloth making and Huguenots from Z taught them silk
weaving.
Identify X,Y,Z

10. Answer 2
X - Netherlands
Y - Belgium
X - France

11. Q3 - X was appointed at the Dewan of a princely state Y in 1947 by
the last ruler of the state, Z. During partition, Z had acceded to
Pakistan. However, due to protests by the local citizens, a plebiscite
was conducted, following which it was integrated with India. The
Nawab's family had fled from the state and took refuge in Pakistan,
from where they continue to claim that Y is a part of Pakistan. In the
absence of the Nawab, it was X who signed all the important papers
regarding the accession is his capacity as the Dewan. After this, he
also moved to Pakistan, where his successors would be important
players in the country's politics for many decades to come.
Id X and Z

13. Answer 3
X- Shah nawaz Bhutto
Z- Mahabat Khanji (Y is Junagadh)

14. Q4 - A was the lead ship of a class of battleship built by
country X before WWII. Supposedly it was the greatest
battleship in the world. However, on April 7 1945, the ship
was struck down by aerial torpedoes of a country Y, on the
opposite side in the war. X was trying to launch a
counteroffensive against Y, when this incident had
happened. A is also one of the old names of X. In c. 7th
century the name of the country was changed from A to B
Currently, the country is known as X in English and B in the
local language. Identify A and B

16. Answer 4
A - Yamato
B - Nihon

17. Q5 - Jacques Louis David in his painting The Death of X
paralleled X 's death with Jesus' crucifixion by painting him clad
in simple white clothes. The image of X as a messiah was widely
popularized during the Reign of Terror, almost projecting him as a
saint. X's newspaper The Friend of the People is comparable to
what we understand in modern terms as fake news propaganda
and comprised a series of exaggerated hot blooded slanders on the
royal family and projected a vision of free, equal French society.
The woman who assassinated X was executed 4 days after X's
death. ID X who spearheaded the Nationalist news-propaganda
during the French Revolution.

19. Answer 5
X- Jean-Paul Marat

20. Q6 - The X-Y rivalry like many others of the time was rooted in
the need to control the highly profitable trade on India. Companies
of both countries felt threatened by the growing influence of each
other and soon commercial rivalry turned into bloody warfare.
Subsequently, both X and Y reached a sort of compromise where
X was to enjoy it's monopoly in India and Y over another region
A, both agreeing to not interfere in each other's matters. An
important event within the period was the Battle of B, an event
which was simultaneously related to something happening in
Europe and in Eastern India. Identify Y and B

22. Answer 6
Y - Dutch
B - Battle of Chinsurah/Hoogly

23. Q.7- X is a process wherein historical accounts are reimagined and
reinterpreted. A historical figure to undergo X could be Y. During the
2017 Charlottesville riots, some participants in the White Supremacist
Rally were seen wearing merchandise associated with Y. This is
important because Y was historically known for his stanuch opposition
to the Third Reich and ideas of ethnic nationalism - culminating in his
"punching Hitler". This shift in attitude can be attributed to how people
started perceiving Y owing to how he was portrayed in recent historical
documents uttering the words, "Hail Z" with the dominant idea being
that Z represents a body practicing racial anthropology.
Id X and Y.

25. Answer 7
X- Historical Revisionism
Y- Captain America

26. Q.8- Besides being related due to their Indo-European nature, these
two historical legends X and Y have a particular part of the body play
a pivotal role in them, which ends up causing the demise of the heroes
who were divinely ordained for the epics. X was the second great
war fought at the particular place, and was fought after the dishonour
of a woman. It was finally compiled by the 28th man who held the
post which is commonly mistaken for a name. The cause of Y
interestingly, is also a woman and the book to date is used as strategy
for battle, and the exiles from the losing side are said to have found
the home of the Big Ben.
ID X and Y.

28. Answer 8
X- Battle of Kurukshetra/ Mahabharata
Y- Trojan War

29. Q.9- Made of a woven tweed fabric known as bouclé, the raspberry-
pink ensemble featured a quilted navy collar, gold buttons, and four
square pockets. Although the design was by X, the piece itself was
fitted and sewn for Y in New York by high-end Manhattan boutique,
with fabrics, buttons, and trim directly sent from the X atelier in Paris.
This was because Y's post put her in a position where it was
acceptable to wear nation-made clothing.
This dress is kept in the National Archives of the particular country
because of it being a part of a tragic event.
Id X, Y and the importance of the dress.

31. Answer 9
X- Chanel
Y- Jacqueline Kennedy
She wore this dress when JFK was shot and it has his bloodstains

32. Q.10- Tombs of X and her two children stand in alignment in a
walled garden today. The rift between X's son and husband motivated
her to commit suicide using Y. Her son rebelled against his own
father, finally ending up in the mausoleum. Y was also a cause of war
two centuries later. The walled garden also served as the headquarters
for Maulvi Liaqat Ali and his sepoys when they revolted against the
British in 1857. And gets it name from X's son whose first name
sounds similar to the last name of a famous singer of the Delhi
Sultanate and last name to another famous poet who died in Delhi.
Id X and Y

34. Answer 10
X- Shah Begum/ Manbai
Y- Opium

35. Q.11- Assassin's Creed Odyssey traced the inception of the Assassins cult in
Europe in the background of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and
Sparta in the fourth century BC. However to students of political science, this
event is also the inception of X owing to the accounts of Thucydides who
said that the war was caused because Sparta felt uneasy about the growing
power and influence of Athens. X as a doctrine gained prominence after
World War 1 owing to the efforts of the Cambridge Historian Y. Having
worked in the British foreign office, this Marxist historian was also involved
in the creation of the Treaty of Versailles which he famously denounced as
being too harsh on Germany. Due to his involvement, X came to rely a lot on
historical accounts for its theoretical justification with many of X's supporters
pointing to the historical outbreaks of war between states to support X. ID X
and Y.

37. Answer 11
X- Realism or Political Realism
Y- E.H. Carr

38. Q.12- X was inducted into the Hollywood walk of fame in 1960.
Beginning his career as a child actor, he was famous for playing
characters of Indian and middle eastern origin, that are still very
popular today in children's literature. Despite being Indian, X never
got the opportunity to star in bollywood films and lost his role in what
could've been his debut in one of the most well known bollywood
films in history owing to the denial of work permit. X also served in
American air force during the second world war. ID X

40. Answer 12
Sabu Dastagir

41. Q.13- ‘Steady, Dickie, steady!' said the deep voice in his ear, and the grip
tightened. '________ ___ ___ ________, old man, and don't let them think you're
afraid.' The blanked out phrase was first recorded to be use in its well-known form
in this dialogue from a 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed.
Several origins are attributed to this phrase. Since it refers to having a stiff upper
lip and just doing the unpleasant task with courage, it has an origin associated with
the Revolt of 1857. However, a more likely origin could have been America.
During the Civil War, this phrase might have originated from what wounded
soldiers would do to tolerate surgery without anaesthetic. The earliest form of this
phrase comes from the 1796 book 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'
while defining 'nightingales' as those soldiers who would cry out loud when being
operated on, which was a point of dishonour. It recommends a variation of the
phrase to prevent crying out. What is the phrase?

43. Answer 13
Bite the Bullet

44. Q14 -Sometime during a particular year of great political instability,
X stopped being a family name/nickname and became a title or
honorific of imperial character, derived from the family nickname of
a famous dictator.In the Austrian Empire, and the German Empire,
the emperor was called the Y, also derived from X. The British
monarchy, usually content with “Emperor of India" were also called
”Y__ ” in Urdu which translated to the same thing. Finally Z was
another derivation of X that was the title used for a certain line of
monarchy which were displaced by a famous uprising that established
a certain type of polity not seen in an undiluted form since then.
Identify titles X, Y, Z.

46. Answer 14
X - Caesar
Y - Kaiser
Z - Tsar/Czar

47. Q15 - It is almost unnatural to imagine our photographs without X,
however it is only a recent phenomenon. The beginnings of
photography in the 1820s until early 20th century were marked with
an absence of X. Historians attribute to two different reasons. First,
the widespread poor ________ health created an aesthetic issue and
therefore ______ were best kept hidden. A second reason was that
since the exposure was so long (the fastest camera in 1839 took 15
minutes to take a photograph) it was recommended to the subject to
take a position that would be comfortable for long periods of time.
What are we talking about? Fill in the blanks.

49. Answer 15
X - Smiles,
FITB - teeth and dental health

50. Q16 - Mario Savio, an American activist and member of the Berkeley
Free Speech Movement is known for his passionate speeches, most
notably when he likens the oppressive state to an inanimate object, and
proposes a solution for lay people to end the cycle of oppression. His
speech may have indirectly contributed to the formation of a band X,
who are quite annoyed at said inanimate object, given their name. The
band is quite popular in the nu metal genre, and some of the songs in
their first album are quite angst-y. ID the band, and the quote by Mario
Savio, given in 1964, towards the waning of the civil rights movement

52. Answer 16
X- Rage against the Machine
Quote- put your bodies upon the gear

53. Q17 - On 15th February 2021, archaeologists in Egypt unearthed
what could possibly be the world's oldest beer factory . It was found
in an ancient burial ground by a team of American and Egyptian
archaeologists. If the dates are accurate, then this brewery dates to the
time of X, who is said to be the first ruler of unified Egypt. Three
millennia later, Dynasty A, longest and final Egyptian dynasty of
ancient origin, ended with the death of Y.
Identify X,A and Y

55. Answer 17
X - Narmer
A - Ptolemaic Dynasty
B - Cleopatra

56. Q18 - X the First, also known as X the Great was a legendary
ruler of a certain island nation, that he brought together under his
unified dominion, as it is in modern times, in the early 19th
century, becoming its first monarch. X's lineage then continued to
rule the island nation until the tiny island nation was annexed and
added to the territory of a larger power. X's impressive
multisyllable name however might be well known by fans of a
certain children's tv show where it is a signature offensive move
of one of the protagonists.
Identify X

58. Answer 18
X- Kamehameha

59. Q.19- In 1973, Indian government issued a commemorative stamp honoring
a miniature painting from the Kishangarh region of Marwar School. Often
mistaken as Radha, this miniature is of a lady from the 18th century. She
was a singer and poet, and is said to be a mistress to the king of Kishangarh.
She is adorned in Rajasthani attire, with very sharp facial features.
The painting is titled X, literally, a well dressed, fashionable, lady. This
painting is also compared to a world famous art piece and is referred to as
Indian Y.
ID X and Y

61. Answer 19
X- Bani Thani
Y- Monalisa

62. Q.20- The XY is an artificial flower that has been used since 1921 to
commemorate military personnel who have died in war, and
represents a common or field Y. It was inspired by the World War I
poem "In Flanders Fields", and promoted by Moina Michael and the
“Originator of the Y Day” Madame Guérin.
Today, the symbol is present in a plethora of places, notably on the
jerseys of British football teams in the run up to X day, observed in
November. In ancient times, a member of the Y family was used to
produce narcotics drugs and analgesics.
Identify XY

64. Answer 20
XY Remembrance Poppies

65. Q21- Krishna Kumari was a princess of Udaipur. To win her hand in
marriage, the princely states of Jaipur and Jodhpur were at war. The Sindhias
and the Holkars tried to intervene, as did the states of Tonk and Bikaner. To
save herself and her family from any further disgrace, the princess poisoned
herself to death at the age of 16 in 1810. The Udaipur state sought help of the
British to end the rift, and within a decade of her death, other princely states
of Rajasthan, too, fell under British dominance.
This tragic story of Krishna Kumari has made some historians to refer her as
X of India. X is someone from a very different region and very different
time, who was at the centre of a very popular rift in history. Though unlike
Krishna, X did not have a tragic death.
Id X.

67. Answer 21
X- Helen of Sparta/ Helen of Troy

68. Q22 - This historical figure's favourite movie is said to be Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs which somewhat explains their obsession with ____.
They also liked the fact that the movie had a title that long since initially,
they wanted to name their autobiography "My Struggles against Lies,
Stupidity and Cowardice". While they weren't the nicest to humans, their
love for animals made them abstain from eating meat and they even had an
aversion to alcohol and smoking.
Who is being talked about here?

70. Answer 22
Adolf Hitler

71. Q23 - In 1902, Maharaja Madho Singh of Jaipur attended the coronation of
Edward VII in London. He arrived with two gigantic silver urns, which are now
placed on display in the City Palace of Jaipur. These are claimed to be the largest
silver vessels in the world. A third urn was dropped somewhere near the Red Sea.
The story behind these urns is quite interesting.The Maharaja was very
conservative in terms of religious practices. He believed in the scriptures and was
very particular about them. As per the Dharmasutras, crossing the ocean or
entering the foreign waters, was considered a sin and would lead to the loss of
one's caste; colloquially referred to as X. Therefore, to avoid any such misdeeds,
the Maharaja carried Y in these urns, along with other arrangements made to
retain his sanctity. X was also used to refer to the stranding off to an island as a
form of confinement during the colonial rule in India.
Id X and Y.

73. Answer 23
X- Kala Pani
Y- Ganga jal

74. Q24 - There are various claims about the origins of the delicacy X. Some claim that
it originated during the Mughal rule when a certain ruler decided to move the
capital westwards though on the banks of the same river. The water there was very
alkaline and the physicians advised to add more spices and tanginess in the food.
Others say that X was used to increase the immunity of the people when there was
an outbreak of cholera. Spice-rich X helped in killing the bacteria. The area
adjoining the capital fort continues to be famous for its X to this date. There have
also been claims made by historians of cuisine that some of the key ingredients of
X find mention in texts as old as 500 BCE and in the travelogues of people who
visited India before the advent of Mughal rule. Whatever be the origins, it goes
without saying that X is finger-lickingly delicious. Id X.

76. Answer 24
X- Chaat

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