Final of the General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College, 2018

The College General Quiz at
Reverie, Gargi College
Abhinav Dhar
The Finals
30th of January, 2018

Acknowledgements
• A big thanks to Soumya Ranjan Mohanty for lending
me a funda and to Abid Abdulla and Prithvi Raj for
Guinea Pigging this quiz.
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College

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Rules of the Game:
• 4 Rounds in this Quiz.
• Rounds 1 and 3 are written rounds with 8 questions
each.
• Rounds 2 and 4 are the dry rounds with 12 questions
each.
• Rules of individual rounds as we go along.

Round 1: Puns
• A written round of 8 questions on Puns.
• The question or the answer will have something to
do with a pun.
• Each correct answer will give a team n+3 points,
where n is the number of team who haven’t given the
correct answer.
• E.g. if Team 4 is the only one to get answer to Q6,
they get 10 points for that question.

But an audience question before that.

The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College AUD
Fill in the blanks. (3,3,2)

• In one of his comedic sketches, Robin Williams punningly
called George W. Bush’s disastrous 8 years at the office
with a reference to a late 18th century period in France of
almost a year.
• The pun shared its name with a Diane Ravitch novel in
which she talks about how the education system is
missing a lot of points, like the mistake of privatization,
and the danger to the American public schools.
• What’s the pun, da?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College ONE

• In Blackfoot, Idaho (the potato capital of the world),
brothers Carl and Leo Hobbs designed and developed a
machine (image), hence launching their a potato
equipment manufacturing business in 1958, just a year
after a famous first in world.
• It is now a part of the Grimme Group, the largest
potato equipment manufacturer in the world.
• Name this company, using the 1957 event as a hint.
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College TWO

Spudnik

• This American children’s television series ran for 10
seasons, from 2000 till 2010.
• Set in a puppet style similar to Sesame Street, the
series featured a line-up of educational segments, with
most sketches set inside a library taking the viewers
through the lives of these animals.
• What is the 3-worded title of this show?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College THREE

Between the Lions

• John Sutherland is a British literary critic and author who
specialises in Victorian fiction (1837-1901) amongst other
fascinations.
• To celebrate the bicentenary of the eldest of the 4
subject’s birth, he published a book in 2016 digging deep
into unexpected nuggets of family history, and throwing
light upon their world.
• Using the subtitle ‘An A-Z of......’ as a clue and combining it
with the family name, write down the umlauted name of
the book.
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College FOUR

The Brontësaurus

•On the 30th of November 2017,
Twitter user @Anjalaaay
noted how (from certain
angles) the shape of a certain
TV character mirrored a part
of the body.
•Often noted to be the brains
of her employer’s operations
and the logical thinker in most
situations, who is this?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College FIVE

Sara Bellum from PowerPuff Girls
(This is the Cerebellum)

• Though most theorists credit the Freemasons’ rigorous
questioning and examinations in the process of
becoming “master masons,” according to Ken Alder’s
2007 book The Lie Detectors, the naming behind this
comes from the violent and hardnosed questioning style,
infamous for getting under the skin of the questioned.
• According to Alder, its name was coined by the 19th
century New York City Police detective Thomas F. Byrnes,
as a pun on his name.
• What extreme method?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College SIX

The Third Degree
• Punning on “Third Degree Byrnes.”
• The television documentary Secrets of New York episode of
22 October 2013 credited Byrnes as “a man who invented
America's modern detective bureau.”

• Just like Zebra crossing, there are a variety of different
pedestrian crossings, most of which are named after living
creatures, such as the Pelican crossing (from Pelicon Crossing:
PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled Crossing) and the Puffin crossing
(from pedestrian user friendly intelligent crossing).
• In the UK, there exist another kind of pedestrian crossing,
which follows a similar naming protocol, a crossing in which
both pedestrians and cyclists can cross together, and so a
popular bird’s name was decided upon, punning on that fact.
• These are also wider at 4m instead of the 2.8m ordinary
crossings.
• Which bird’s name gives this crossing its name?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College SEVEN

Toucan Crossing (since ‘two–can’ cross at
the same time)

• A subsidiary of the country’s national oil company uses
a stylized dhow, a traditional Arab sailboat, in its logo,
with the 3 colours symbolising the desert, the sun and
the sea.
• The company has trademarked an alphanumeric for
this subsidiary, which also serves as its official web
address, a nice pun considering the country that it is
based in.
• Give me the trademark.
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College EIGHT

Q8 (pronounced Que-Eight, or Kuwait)
Website is <www.Q8.com>

End of Round, a look at the
scores please.

Round 2: Clockwise
• 12 Questions in this round moving clockwise i.e. from Team
1 to Team 8.
• Infinite bounce rules apply. No more than 2 continuous
unanswered questions will be a direct for a team.
• +10 on the direct or a pass.
• +10/-5 when pouncing.
• Just to be clear, I will not reveal half answers anywhere,
until I get the full answer, and give points on discretion.

• The Postal Museum in London in 1993 purchased a
collection of stamps coming from Great Britain,
Monaco, Aden and Zanzibar, collected by a
personality by him from a very young age, the
proceed of which went to an HIV/AIDS organization
set up in 1991.
• Whose collection?

Freddie Mercury

• Ancient Romans had their own unique ways of
executing criminals. They were not just hanged or
beheaded. Rather, their death was also put to a use,
to make something seem more realistic.
• How were such death sentences carried out?

• So, when a character was to be killed in a scene, a
real criminal was killed and a real killing took place
on the stage which also made the play look more
realistic.
The criminals were used as actors in plays
for the death scenes

• Rajballabh Ram, a chowkidar at the Faridpur panchayat is
feeling pressure he has never faced in the past 36 years
in the service, due to a new responsibility on him and his
colleagues following a government enforcing 2016
circular.
• One aspect of their jobs has them keeping an eye out for
gaping massive holes in the ground (image), as they see
these areas as hotspots for the activity.
• What additional work do they do?

They are ‘Liquor chowkidars’ in Bihar
• This following the Bihar Excise (Amendment) Act, 2016.
• ‘To enforce, implement and promote complete
Prohibition of liquor and intoxicants in the territory of
the State of Bihar and for matters connected therewith
or incidental thereto.’

• Created by brothers Mike and Chris Whyley, Zamzar is
an online file converter, which allows its users to
convert files without needing to download a software
tool, and supports various different conversion types,
with the option of putting in a URL or upload a file for
conversion.
• Apt to the purpose that it serves, what is the reference
of its naming etymology, which comes from a source
from more than 100 years ago from today?

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, where
the lead character’s name is Gregor Samsa

• Initially a low-paying job for teenage boys, Gottfried
Schmidt’s 1936 mechanical version was largely responsible
for doing away with this as a profession, hence also
speeding the process up.
• Today, one would see machines set up like this (image) in
the recreational establishments they inhabit, with a
small scanner camera locating each wooden item, and
giving the machine information about when the
replacement set of items should take over.
• What process is this?

Pinsetter in Bowling

• The piece you hear here is a snippet from the finale of
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 by Johannes
Brahms, the first symphony he ever composed,
something which took him 21 years, from 1855 to 1876.
• C minor wasn’t really Brahms key of choice, yet he
chose to compose this piece in that scale.
• What is usually seen as the reason which prompted
him go out of his way to compose the piece in C minor
and not in one of his pet scales?
• (play YouTube file from 4:16)

• It is said that he chose the C minor scale as a way to pay
homage to Ludwig van Beethoven, who is better
known to use C minor in his compositions.
• The tune you heard in the finale sounds like the one in
Beethoven’s 9th (audio) (“any ass can see that”,
Brahms had once responded to that observation).
• The conductor Hans von Bülow was moved enough in
1877 to call the symphony “Beethoven’s Tenth”, due to
perceived similarities between the work and various
compositions of Beethoven.

• Though there are tests in place which screen out most of
the candidates with this medical condition from army
recruitments, science backs that people with this defect
are the most useful candidates for a particular purpose.
• Findings also recall reports from WWII which suggest that
the U.S. Army had personnel for this very purpose.
• Some research even suggests that an evolutionary reason
for the high rate of this disorder, is the exact same
purpose in nature as has been used by the armed forces.
• What medical condition? (3) For what specific use are
these recruitments made? (7)

Colour-Blind candidates spotting camouflage

• There are hundred of different theories of why even
though the human race most likely originated in Africa,
the first large empires were on the continents of Asia
and Europe.
• But one of the plausible theories of the success of
empires here is because they are wide instead of tall,
and hence human history can be said to have been
shaped by the shape of the continents.
• Using your knowledge of geography, tell me why early
empires were wider than they were tall?

Abbasid Caliphate
(750-1258 & 1261-1517 AD)
Mongol Empire
(1206-1368 AD)

• Because climate tends to change more when going
from North to South (or vice-versa), when an area is
wide, you have a lot of land which is on the same
latitude, and hence similar climate.
• So, when an empire expands in the East-West direction,
the climate is roughly the same and hence the empire
can use the same successful plants and animals, while
expanding vertically requires the domestication of new
flora and fauna.

• Playing for the New South Wales Blues, Aaron Bird
was a fast bowler who last played a Big Bash match
in 2010, where players often wear their nicknames
on their jerseys, and in a particular match he caused
a small controversy when he used his nickname ‘Flu’
on his jersey; a reference to bird flu.
• He was ordered by The Big Bash never to have his
nickname again, why?

KFC being the sponsors of the Big Bash,
wouldn’t have like the reference to bird flu

• Setting: Episode 25 of Death Note. After having a
conversation in the rain, Light Yagami and L come back
in and start to dry themselves, when L comes to Light
and starts cleaning and massaging his feet, a scene set
not long before L’s death, itself set up by Light.
• This scene to a first time viewer feels slightly missing in
tone, out of place and even excess to the always-so-
tight anime, but keen-eyed viewers always point this
out as a symbolism.
• Explain the symbolism.
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College NINE

• John 13:1-17: It was just before the
Passover Festival. Jesus knew that
the hour had come for him to leave
this world and go to the Father.
..<…>..... The evening meal was in
progress, and the devil had already
prompted Judas...<…>..... so he
got up from the meal, took off his
outer clothing, and wrapped a
towel around his waist. After that,
he poured water into a basin and
began to wash his disciples’ feet,
drying them with the towel that
was wrapped around him.
Jesus washing Judas’
feet when he knew his
time had come

• The choice of the animal symbolizes moderation, as it never
eats but once a day, and purity or innocence, for it would
rather let itself be captured by hunters than take refuge in a
dirty lair, in order not to stain its purity.
• Some see it as a juxtaposition with the main subject, as she
was a mistress and was anything but pure and innocent.
• And because the creator has been seen to have a penchant
for visual puns in some of his other works, the use of this
animal has also been suggested to be a pun with the
subject.
• Where would you find this animal?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College TEN

The Lady with an Ermine
(Leonardo da Vinci)
• The subject of the painting is Cecilia
Gallerani, painted at a time when
she was the mistress of Ludovico
Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo
was in the service of the duke.
• The Ancient Greek term for ermine,
or other weasel-like species of
animals, is galê or galéē, serving as a
possible pun.

• Vir Sanghvi in his weekly food column in the Sunday
magazine for Hindustan Times, Brunch, traces how a
certain practice evolved over time.
• He quotes food writer Colleen Taylor, who suggests that
the culinary evolution in hot climates developed over
centuries citing the powerful antibiotic chemical that can
kill and resist bacteria and fungi that spoil food (which
grow more in hot and humid climates), while people in
colder climates didn’t take the advantage of the newly
developed trade routes and stuck to their own tastes.
• What culinary evolution was he talking about?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College ELEVEN

Why hotter climates tend to have spicier food
• And colder climates have blander food.
• The antibiotic effects are even stronger when
ingredients such as onions, garlics and cumin are
combined with the (originally European) chillies.

• In the 1970s, in a bid to solve a plaguing problem in a rapidly
moving industry, James Kemper invented a system which
relied on a blue liquid called SkyKem, a non-stick surface
coating, along with a vacuum system.
• Debuting in 1982, the pneumatic vacuum swirled the contents
along with the SkyKem into a closed system which was dealt
with later.
• SkyKem is created by a company called Elsan, is manufactured
from vegetable extracts, and basically a cleaning and
deodorizing powder, which is available in sachets like the ones
you see in the image, and is liquefied before actual use.
• Where precisely would you find such a system?
The College General Quiz at Reverie, Gargi College TWELVE

On flight toilets
• The collected waste and liquid are later vacuumed into a
tank after the flight ends.

Round 3: Geometry
• A written round of 8 questions on Geometry.
• The question or the answer will have something to do
with something from Geometry.
• Each correct answer will give a team n+3 points, where n
is the number of team who haven’t given the correct
answer.
• E.g. if Team 4 is the only one to get answer to Q6, they
get 10 points for that question.
• Don’t get too confused by the theme, just work shit out.

•In E109 of House M.D., there is the following
exchange between House and Wilson:
Wilson: You know, some doctors have the _______
complex. They need to save the world. You’ve got the
_____’_ complex. You need to solve the puzzle.
House: Are you done, or do you have more references
to 1980s fads?
•Fill in the 2 blanks, the first of which originates from
the Hebrew word mashah, meaning ‘the anointed
one’.

Messiah and Rubik’s

• In the gif here, you see
the formation of a plane
curve (in red).
• It gets it name from the
Greek for ______-shaped.
• Fill in the blanks with
something from the
human body.

Kidney-shaped (This is a nephroid)

• He was inspired by the headgears
of wizards and his belief that such
headgears act as a reverse funnel
for knowledge, with wisdom
flowing and spreading into the
brain below, gave his followers the
idea to create something which
very much like his own name has
metamorphosized from being a
signifier of high intelligence to
something of a disciplinary object.
• What headgear?

Dunce Hats/Caps
• This is the Scottish philosopher is
John Duns Scotus, from whom the
word dunce comes.
• The term dunce as we understand it
today appeared as early as 1624,
when a dunce-table was mentioned
in the John Ford play, The Sun’s
Darling, in reference to a place
where children or dullards were
seated apart from others.

• It was the brainchild of the British campaigner for the
disabled Sir John Wilson, who founded Impact India
Foundation; the charity which runs it, and has impacted
more than 6,00,000 individuals across the nation.
• A number of volunteers join the 6-man permanent staff
for projects, each of which lasts 4 weeks on average,
with each week having a different specialist team. It
has done 120 projects as of now.
• What is this, which began its life in July, 1991, and has
seen its name in the Limca Book of Records?

Lifeline Express

• Sponsors Poulain Chocolates
introduced something in
1975 which Richard Virenque
has owned for the most
number of time.
• What?

The King of the Mountains
jersey in Tour de France
(which is a Polka Dotted jersey)

• One of the subjects of Anis Bari’s 2013
book ‘Dreams of Mango People’
alongside the Franklin Roosevelts and
the Rahul Dravids of the world, is an
actor who shot to fame playing a
character almost a decade younger
than himself.
• To perfect the skill he so dextrously
displays, it took him 8 months of
practice, lest it become self-inflicting, all
for a mere 20-minute screen presence.
• Name the character and the movie.

Perpendicular from Gangs of Wasseypur

• A turpentine burn is essentially when turpentine (or any
kind of solvent) is applied to a canvas with a rag, such that
the painter is scrubbing the surface, re-dissolving those
paints that are already on the surface. This gives the forms
a feel of floating in space.
• A particular artist’s technique involved layering zone over
zone of paint, creating a buzzing sensation at the edges of
his geometric shapes. While at the corners, he extensively
employed the turpentine burn, softening a hard corner,
allowing the shape of float off even more.
• This became the hallmark of whose art?

What turpentine burn looks like.

Mark Rothko

• James Ireland Craig was a Scottish mathematician and
meteorologist, who in 1896 moved to Egypt to work
for the Egyptian government.
• Here in 1909 he created what is now known as the
Craig retroazimuthal projection, a projection of the
earth preserving the direction from any place to a
predetermined place.
• The purpose for which it was created also gives the
projection its other name.
• For what purpose did he create this projection?

To help Muslims find the Qibla

• A broad arrow is a type of arrow with a typically flat
barbed head, and two tapering blades. It is a symbol used
traditionally in a particular field, most notably in England,
and later by the United Kingdom Government to mark
government property.
• The use of broad arrows in a particular ‘automobile’
context can be traced to as early as 16th century.
• Where in the Indian ‘automotive world’ would you have
seen a broad arrow being used?

Armed Forces Number Plate
• Broad arrow is a heraldic device, is still used on assorted army
items.
• The first (or the third) character is an upward-pointing
arrow. The next two digits (or the two succeeding the arrow)
signify the year in which the Military procured the vehicle. The
next is the base code,
followed by the serial
number.
• The letter ending after the
serial number indicates the
class of the vehicle.

Round 4: Anticlockwise
• 12 Questions in this round moving clockwise i.e. from Team
8 to Team 1.
• Infinite bounce rules apply. No more than 2 continuous
unanswered questions will be a direct for a team.
• +10 on the direct or a pass.
• +10/-5 when pouncing.
• Just to be clear, I will not reveal half answers anywhere,
until I get the full answer, and give points on discretion.

•In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1973 book, what, rather
appropriately, is the name of the unmanned
space probe launched from Phobos to intercept
the titular alien starship and photograph it?

Sita

• Sources leaves us in no doubt that it happened, a 1941
Soviet archeological team confirming the bone fusion, but
there is uncertainty about exactly how. It probably
happened in the Dasht-e-Margo desert.
• Clavijo, a Castilian traveller and writer of the time writes:
At this time X had with him a following of some 500 horsemen
only; seeing which the men of Sistan (from Iran) came together
in force to fight him, and one night that he was engaged carrying
off a flock of sheep they all fell on him suddenly and slew a great
number of his men. Him too they knocked off, wounding
him.........
• What is being talked about?

The injury to Timur, which gave him the name
“Timur the Lame”

• When in 2006 Jeff Koons was looking at creating a perfect replica
of an artifact, he was given after-hours access to conduct a
structured light scan (image). The yoke was analysed by
metallurgists, which could be discerned only through historical
drawings.
• For the wooden yoke dried red elm was used, and 18th century
wood finishing experts created the requisite patina (a thin layer
that forms over time on metal and alloy surfaces).
• The data was then stitched together and converted into a 3D
computer rendering at Koons’ studio and soon it was machined
by Arnold AG, a metal-work mill in Germany.
• The artwork completed only in 2014, what object is this?

Liberty Bell
• When he first began
working on the
monumental piece in
2006, it was not yet
possible to machine-mill
bronze from a 3D
rendering with the
precision Koons has
finally achieved. “In many
cases Jeff has had to wait
for technology to catch
up with his vision.”

• John C. Babcock, a member of the secret service for the Union
Army during the Civil War in 1857 became responsible for one
of the most important advancements in a certain sport.
• He created a 10 inch-square wooden structure covered in
leather, rested atop grooved brass tracks greased with lard to
permit about twelve inches of smooth displacement. By 1870
he had almost perfected the device, and its impact on the
sport was such that even the technique of the sport has
changed, switching the focus from the upper body and
shoulders to the legs and the hips.
• What is Babcock, by most accounts, thought to be the
inventor of?

A Print of Babcock’s invention from 1871

Sliding seats in Rowing

• Thanjavur Thalaiyatti Bommai are traditional terracotta
dolls made with a half spherical base or bobblehead in
such a way that centre of gravity is focussed on the
bottom-most point, as a result of which the doll
oscillates along that point.
• It is said that Raja Raja Chola was inspired from
something from his own kingdom to create this now
G.I. tagged product.
• What inspired the creation of Thanjavur Bommai?

Krishna’s Butterball

• Trying to come to grips with the changing nature of
Mathematics, this Euclidean mathematician chose satire
as his vent, touching on topics like limits and base
notations.
• One of these examples is when the titular character in
one of his works encounters an animal, a metaphor for
classical algebra, and giving it a quality which is seen as a
symbolism of how, similar to abstract algebra, it
originally seems dependent on the animal, but is
separated conceptually from its physical object.
• Name the work in question (4). What is this quality? (6)

Alice in Wonderland and Cheshire Cat’s grin

• One of the most famous exponent of this is Robert McCall, who
worked mainly for Life magazine in the 1960s, so much so that
his work can be found even on U.S. postage stamps.
• His line of work has many facets and encompasses realism,
impressionism, sculpture, hardware art, abstract imagery, even
zoological art, and even after so many years of its inception, it is still
said to be in its infancy.
• What kind of work did McCall and others like him do, which requires
them to visualize things no one has and while working other experts,
to develop their concepts about what they do? (6)
• Though the layman may not have heard of McCall’s name, they would
have most famously seen his creations as promotional work for what
late 1960s venture? (4)

Space Art
This is one of the U.S. Stamps by
Robert McCall
This one is by Chesley Bonestell,
called the Father of Modern Space Art.

• The Burj Al Arab is home to the tallest atrium (180
meters) in the world along with the largest fabric wall
ever built.
• During the construction phase, as a preventive measure,
several air nozzles were set up from the top of the
ceiling, blasting a 1-meter air pocket down the inside of
the sail.
• For what purpose was this set up in place for 6 months,
during the building stage of the building? What did it
prevent? (5 points each)

Cooling of the Hotel
• Due to the high temperatures of Dubai, the building was
cooled continually by ½ or 1 degree increments each day
for 6 months.
• Had this not been done, large amounts of condensation
or in fact even a rain cloud forming from the change in
temperatures rapidly would’ve become a big problem.
• This also created a buffer zone, which controlled the
interior temperature without massive energy costs.

• Before technological advancements came to this sport in
the 1980s thereby changing scoring methods, the judges
had to go to each of the participant to score.
• And a sure sign of cheating this scoring method could be
found when a referee went to the competitor to check,
and the players would be smelling of vinegar.
• This scoring method is also why the contestants are seen
in white, while the referees are dressed in black.
• Which sport is this? (4) How was the scoring done? (6)

Fencing

• Fencing was conducted with red dye on the tip of the
sword, easily seen on the white uniform. As a bout went
on, if a touch was seen, a red mark would appear.
Between the halts of the director, judges would inspect
each fencer for any red marks. Once one was found, it was
circled in a dark pencil to show that it had already been
counted.
• The red dye was not easily removed, preventing
any cheating. The only way to remove it was through
certain acids such as vinegar. Thus, épée fencers became
renowned for their reek of vinegar until the invention of
electronic equipment.

• In all the posters of the 1974 classic The Towering
Inferno, you can see a staggering in the names of the 2
main actors in the cast, Steve McQueen and Paul
Newman (image), with Newman’s name being placed
slightly above McQueen’s.
• 2008’s Righteous Kill starring Robert De Niro and Al
Pacino saw a similar arrangement, for the exact same
reason.
• Why was this done in both cases?

•In both the movies, both the big stars wanted top
billing, but unable to decide who to give the top
billing to, the producers decided on the idea that
the one of the names would be furthest left, and
another further up, which pretty much calmed the
egos of both the stars, since both of them could
now be said to have top billing.

3 Questions to go, let us take a
look at the scores once.

• Meerut has been in the trade since 1885, when a certain Nadir Ali
went into the import business, and by the 1920s Nadir Ali and Co.
began manufacturing the items at location, and Jali Kothi lane
sprung up in the next few decades. Both WWII and the partition
were a boost to the trade.
• Today 79-year old Aftab Ahmad heads the operations, having
apprenticed in Turkey in the late 1950s to better understand the
chemical composition of the metal. And now, you would even
find tailors in the lane to support the trade.
• Though they now export as well, this street is now the provider
of 90% of what to establishments across the country since
independence, which most ceremonies cannot do without?

(Brass) Instruments for Wedding Bands

• An American Army psychiatrist of WWI, Walter B. Cannon,
set out to explain the neurobiological effects of extreme
stress, and coined the phrase “fight or flight.” One of his
lines of inquiry was the phenomenon known as “______
death” which he saw as the phenomenon of sudden death
as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear.
• Cannon named it so because he found a commonality
between such an outside force (as to say, not a physical but
an emotional one), and the ancient rituals which are said to
use a system of a comparative inexplicable outside force
occurring in ‘primitive societies’.
• Fill in the blank with a 6-lettered word.

Voodoo Death
• And just to act as a mythbuster, although the use of the
term “Voodoo doll” implies that the practice has links to
either the religion of Haitian Vodou or Louisiana Voodoo,
in reality it does not have a prominent place in either.

• In 1943 Bud Collyer played a certain character on air, a time
when radio shows had to be performed live. Once, he
wanted to take a vacation from the series, but because he
was the title character, it wasn’t possible for him to.
• Until someone came up with a brainwave, and this marked
the introductory point of something in the series.
• The character now trapped, had a stand-in groaning in
pain for several episodes until Collyer was back.
• Making its print debut only in 1949, though not in the
colour you’d expect, what?

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