1. Military tattoos refer to military performances of music or armed forces displays from the early 17th century Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the tap", where drummers or trumpeters would signal innkeepers to stop serving beer and soldiers to return to their barracks. 2. The area in Paris now called Montmartre was the site where Saint Denis, the first bishop of Paris, was executed by beheading in the 3rd century, leading to its christening as the "Mountain of Martyr". 3. In the late 19th century, barbershops and saloons served as community centers where men would gather and vocalize in spirituals, folk songs and popular songs, developing the bar

1. 1. It is a military performance of music or display of
armed forces in general. The term comes from the early
17th century Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the tap“.
Signal is sounded by drummers or trumpeters to
instruct innkeepers near the military garrisons to stop
serving beer and for the soldiers to return to their
barracks. What are such military performance called ?

3. Military Tattoo

4. 2. Id the Advertiser
Note : This is not a video game.

7. 3. Saint Denis was the first bishop of Paris, back in the third
century when Paris was still very much a Roman city. The
prodigious number of conversions Denis performed got
him on the bad side of the local pagan priests. So the
Roman rulers of Paris had Denis arrested and executed by
beheading him. Which area in Paris was thus christened ?

9. Montmartre which literally means
Mountain of Martyr

10. 4. In the last half of the 19th century, certain establishments
served as community centers, where most men would
gather. While waiting here, they would be vocalizing in
spirituals, folk songs and popular songs. This generated a
new style, consisting of unaccompanied, four-part, close-
harmony singing. Later, white minstrel singers adopted the
style and in the early days of the recording industry their
performances were recorded and sold.
Identify establishment and the genre where a typical
performance contains
a lead who generally carries the tune,
a bass who provides the bass line to the melody,
a tenor who harmonizes above the lead and
a baritone who completes the chord.

12. Barber shop / Saloon / Men’s Beauty Parlor
(not for Just Beauty Parlor)
Barber Shop Quartet

13. 5. This 2015 New York Botanical Garden’s exhibition
focuses exclusively on an artist's intense interest in the
botanical world. Visitors entering the exhibition will view
a re-imagined version of the artist's garden at Casa Azul
(Blue House).
Identify this artist who often incorporates plant imagery in
the artwork.

14. NYBG Artist’s Museum at Casa Azul

16. Frida Kahlo

17. 6. Complete this 1991 United States Postal Service Space
Exploration stamp series and what did this inspire ?
Earth1 Landsat
Moon Marnier10
Venus Marnier2
Moon Lunar Orbiter
Mars Viking Orbiter
Jupiter Pioneer 10
Saturn Voyager2
Uranus Voyager2
Neptune Voyager2
_______ “___________”

19. Pluto - Not Yet Explored
New Horizons

20. 7. FLAP is the first organization in the world to address a
certain issue. These artistic window tape installation falls
within FLAP Canada’s Visual Marker Standards.
They address which issue or problem?

23. FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Program) recommend these
tapes to make all windows visible to birds and prevent
birds death by collision. Every year, FLAP laid out dead
birds on the floor of the Royal Ontario Museum’s rotunda,
in the hopes of drawing attention to the plight of migratory
birds that meet their ends in cities.

24. 8. After World War II shattered Japan’s economy,
food was scarce. General Douglas MacArthur,
who effectively ruled Japan during the post-war
Allied occupation, decided that the Hungry
Japanese need to get protein. He eventually
started or revived what practice in a modern way,
that still has impact on Japanese's lunch boxes?

26. Whaling

27. 9. In October 2015, Bloomberg called him the world's worst-
performing billionaire. Until June 2015, 42-year-old Wang
Jing was worth $10.2bn (£6.7bn), making him one of the
world’s 200 richest people. By October 2015, his net worth
had to $1.1bn. The Chinese stock market crisis wiped out
nearly 85% of his fortune. This is attributed as a delay to
which 259.4 km long and $50bn (£33bn) project in western
hemisphere. Something that had interested people like
Napoleon III, Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan.

30. Nicaragua Grand Canal

31. 10. They are considered the longest man made
structure and were constructed between the
8th and 15th century as defense of the city that
was capital of a historical ----- Empire. It is in a
present day province called Edo in Nigeria. It
shares its name but has no connection to a
neighbouring country. What?

33. Walls of Benin (City)

34. 11. Gilmore T. Schjeldahl, an American inventor whose
knowledge of plastics, adhesives and electronics enabled
him to create the world's first communication satellite. After
the World War II, he started working with a new resin called
polyethylene, used in the making of tough lightweight
plastics. In a basement laboratory at home, he and his wife,
Charlene, found a way to cut and seal sheets of plastic with
hot knives. With a $100 investment he undertook his first
business, making polyethylene bags for packaging. These
bags were actually intended to store food and liquids for a
long period of time. However a different industry used these
bags to solve their biggest worry that were sometimes
triggered by fumes and the smell of gasoline.
As what were these bags famously used for ?

36. Barf Bag / Air Sickness bag / Vomit Bag

37. 12. What common name is given to this Shark Species
due to their hunting style with whip-like tail.

39. Thresher Shark

40. 13. Justin ______, a doctor from the Carl Hayden Bee
Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. Over the course of
decades, he has done field research on Hymenoptera—the
taxonomic order of insects that includes bees, wasps, and
ants. In 2015 , He shared IG nobel for Physiology and
entomology for which famous entity that he created ?

43. 14. This clade of small suboscine passerine birds contains
some 60 species distributed through the American tropics.
The species name is from Middle Dutch word for 'little
man'. The males have evolved adaptations to suit the
female's attraction towards sound which may be popping
like a firecracker, whooshing noises or the famous club-
winged species musical sounds.
Id the species and what is unique about the way Clubbed
Winged species makes sound compared to other Songbirds.

46. These Manakin species produce sound from their
Feather instead of vocal organ like syrinx

47. 15. If the smallest in India is Lakshadweep and
Largest in India is Malkajgiri, Telangana. What are
we speaking about?

50. 16. Medinan citizens helped the Islamic prophet,
Muhammad and the Muhajirun on the arrival to the city.
After their migration to Medina , they also fought in the
cause of Islam.
Which surname familiar to Indians, is a Nesbat derived
from an Islamic term that literally means "helpers /
Supporters" and indicate the Medinan supporters ?
(Nisbah/Nesbat is an adjective indicating the person's
place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry)

52. Ansari

53. 17. Deconstructed Innings, an exhibition conceptualized
by Kiran Desai and co-curated by Veerangana Solanki at
the National Gallery of Modern Art.
In the exhibition, Manjunath Kamat featured a work that
blended Indian _______ art, Nathdwara paintings,
German Oleographs and Renaissance Art.
Whom did Manjunath place as a subject who is being
watched by divine beings, which pushes his art to a cult
level?
Fill in the blank with a word which was used by the early
Churches for its register list of saints and their feast days.

56. Indian Calendar Art & Sachin Tendulkar
Manjunath Kamath Work is called ‘Arrival of Cricket God’

57. 18. A Gold Medalist in 1982 Asian Games and a Bronze
medalist in 1974 Asian Games. He was awarded
Dronacharya Award in 2009 and Padma Bhushan in 2015.
Identify the wrestler and how is he better known to Indian
Crowd since 2008?

59. Satpal Singh
Sushil Kumar Coach

60. 19. What’s the common claim to the fame associated
with these movies ?

62. Movies Watched by Mahatma Gandhi

63. 20. Ignoring a loud public opinion against the partition
proposal, the British Government announced partition of
Bengal in July 1905. Within days, protest meetings were
held in small towns all over Bengal. On August 7, 1905,
with the passage of Boycott Resolution in a massive
meeting held in the Calcutta Town Hall, a formal
proclamation of what was made?
On August 7 2015 at the Madras University Auditorium in
presence of around 3,000 artisan from various parts of
the country, Our PM Shri Narendra Modi declared
observance of what commemorative day as a
remembrance of the above event?

65. Swadeshi Movement
National Handloom Day

66. 21. This magnificent residence was designed by Major
Mant, who also designed palaces at Kolhapur and Darbhanga
and it was completed by Robert Fellowes Chisholm.
Maharaja of this princely state got Raja Ravi Varma to
execute more artistically ambitious works on themes drawn
from Puranic legends, Sanskrit classics and mythological
epics to decorate this newly built palace.
Id this palace that was named after Maharani Chimnabai’s
maiden name, a princess from Tanjore.
Watch this song that was shot at its Durbar Hall

67. You Tube Video

69. Maharani Chimnabai’s maiden name is Lakshmibai
after whom Lakshmi Vilas Palace in Baroda is
named.

70. 22. For this Family it’s always the horse that wins the race—
literally and metaphorically. A third-generation family
member who started a collection that is dominated by
products from the equestrian universe picked up from all
over the world. These collection are housed in the same
building as the brand’s flagship store in Faubourg Saint
Honoré. Some items from this arresting collection were
exhibited in Mumbai, as part of a show curated by Philippe
Dumas, a fifth-generation family member. The exhibition has
150 pieces, including paintings, sculptures and art pieces.
India is the second country it has travelled to and the first
was Shanghai, China, in 2014. Identify the Family.
In 2014 ,the Shanghai exhibition coincided with the opening
of brand store and what other relevant local Celebration?

75. 23. Much like comedies associated with Ealing Studios, this
British film studio is best remembered for the melodramas
it produced in the 1940s.
Id the Production House or the distinct feather hat featured
in the video ?

77. Gainsborough Hat or Gainsborough Picture

78. 24. Id the title of the movie that is a reference to act of
forfeiting your weakest piece on the Chess board. Who are
the real Life persons portrayed by Tobey Maguire and Liev
Schreiber?

81. Pawn Sacrifice
Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer

82. 25. The name and importance of this street in
London comes the plot of land granted to
goldsmiths and moneylenders from a particular
region in another country by Edward I in the 13th
century. It continued to host and be known for
similar institutions till the 1980s. What?

84. Lombard Street, from Lombardy

85. 26. Id the movie.
The people dancing behind the music are
part of the tradition of New Orleans –
they follow the band to enjoy the music –
“a jazz funeral without the body”. What
are they called or what is it called?

87. Live and Let Die
Second Line

88. 27. It was written by the reggae group The
Melodians in 1970 and featured in the 1972
film The Harder They Come. Adapted from
Psalm 19 and especially Psalm 137 of the
bible, the geographical entity in the title
refers to a government that is unjust or
oppressive in Rastafari lore.
The best known version of it comes from a
German band from 1978. What song?

90. By The River of Babylon

91. 28. The oldest national anthem in use was
composed in the late 16th century but was
officially adopted as the anthem of the country
only in 1932. It consists of 15 verses of 8 lines
each.
The English translation of the first verse and the
first lines of the remaining verses are show in
the next slide. Which country’s national
anthem is it? What is it called?

92. Verse 1:
X, scion
Of a Y and ancient line,
Dedicate undying
Faith to this land of mine.
A prince I am, undaunted,
Of ------, ever free,
To the king of Spain I've granted
A lifelong loyalty.
1st lines of remaining verses:
I 've ever tried to live in
Let no despair betray you,
Life and my all for others
I, nobly born, descended
A shield and my reliance,
My God, I pray thee, save me
O David, thou soughtest shelter
Fear not 't will rain sans ceasing
Nothing so moves my pity
A stride on steed of mettle
Surely, if God had willed it,
Steadfast my heart remaineth
Alas! my flock. To sever
Unto the Lord His power

94. Dutch National Anthem, Het Wilhelmus
First letters of each verse spell out Willen van
Nassov in Dutch and William of Nassau in the
English translation.

96. 29. The word X has its origin in arabic for “fine
metallic powder”, especially of a mineral called
stibium. X was later used to mean “a
sublimated substance, a pure form of
something”, including liquids. It has been in
use by organic chemists for a class of
compounds since the 1850s.
Y, from the same root, is used for a fine powder
by women in Middle East, South Asia to darken
their eyelids.
What are X and Y?. What is the chief element
in Stibium?

98. X = Alcohol, Y = Kohl, Element is Antimony

99. 30. While one reason is that the Hebrew
alphabet doesn’t have any, the main reason
given for an absence from the Torah is that the
words in the Torah have many meanings that
the reader can get by supplying the missing
element – having these in the Torah would fix
the meaning and close it to interpretations.
What are we talking about?

101. There are no vowels in the Torah.

102. ALL THE BEST
May the Alagar Cutoff be below you