SCB Open Quiz 2019

Trivieon
Prabodhan- Academic Society 2018-19
Student Union 2018-19
Volunteers, Participants and Audiences

This Quiz is dedicated to all the
Braveheart Heroes who gave their
life for protecting us.
And little sister, Vassavi. May She
be in Peace

Guinea Pig of the Quiz
I am the Danger
I am the one who knocks

Rules:-
 25 questions
 +2 for every question, no negative marks, so you can guess
 There are 7 starred questions in case of a tie. If still tie persists, sudden death
will be applied.
 Hint can be given at QM’s discretion. Don’t Use Mobile.
 Mention your team name, members and mobile no on the answer sheet
 The quiz has both easy questions and difficult ones perfectly balanced as
everything should be.
 Top 8 teams to final

1)
The village is located in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. It lies within the
Dandeli Tiger Reserve. For Many years, the village marked the frontier between
Portuguese-held Goa and British-held India. A metre gauge railway line used to
connect the towns of Vasco and Margao with the rest of the India and was the
only rail link in the state till Konakan Railway started services in early 1990s.
Dudhsagar Falls is located nearby to the railway station of the village.
What is the name of the village which will let you believe that it’s something out
of a Stephen King story?

2) The first X, the Organizer, was released in 1984 by Psion. But the term
X was first used on Jan 7, 1992 by then Apple CEO John Scully at the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada referring to the Apple
Newton. Subsequently IBM, Nokia came up with their Xs with various
improvements. They were largely discontinued in early 2010s due to
certain reason.
What is X, an acronym which will mean quite different to a medico and
totally different to youngsters? What was the reason Xs were
discontinued?

PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
Widespread use of Smartphones

3)* He was an American newspaper publisher and
founder of a media conglomerate. In 1878 with
loans from his half-brothers he went on to found
The Penny Press in Cleveland. With financial support
from sister Ellen, he went on to begin/acquire some
25 newspaper. This was the beginning of his media
conglomerate which is to Give light and the people
will find their own way. He died at the age of 71 on
March 12, 1926. As requested, his body was buried
at sea by being dumped overboard from his yacht.
What is the surname of this person which is
associated with certain ‘Nazis’?

Scripps
Scripps National Spelling Bee

4) Cleidocranial dysostosis(CCD) is a birth defect that mostly affects
bones and teeth, skull and collar bone. The condition is either
inherited from a person’s parents in an autosomal dominant manner.
It affects about one per million people. Treatment include supportive
measures such as a device to protect skull and dental care.
Certain individual has this disease which causes him to lisp and uses
dentures. He uses his fame to raise awareness of CCD and fundraise
for CCD Smile, an organization that helps cover costs of oral surgeries
for those with CCD.
Who is this person/ What is his fame which he uses for this noble
cause?

Gaten Matarazzo
Dustin from Stranger Things

5) The song was released by The Elton John Band as a single in 1975. The song
was fourth of his six number 1 US hits during early and mid 70s. The song was
written as a favor to a certain friend of Elton John. Bernie Taupin who often
collaborated with John was asked to write a song called X as a homage to
something his friend was associated with. But Taupin said “I can’t write a song
about ------” and did not. Taupin maintains that the lyrics bear no relation to ----
--, Philly Soul or even flag waving patriotism. The label on the vinly for this
record reads “with Love to ---(A 3 letter acronym for his friend) and the sound
of Philadelphia.
Who is the friend of Elton John who is responsible for altering perception in
certain field?

6) This memorial located in the town which is renowned from pirating days
and gives its name to a heavy metal supergroup founded in 2011. However
the town is famous for something for which certain personalities have to
travel roughly 700 miles based on information from the US Weather Bureau
and also valued the privacy provided by this location. This town is
supposedly Birthplace of something and another town located four miles
north of this was First in something; both of which are reflected in the seals
of the towns.
This memorial is dedicated to whom?

Wright Brothers
Kill Devil Hills – Birthplace of Aviation
Kitty Hawk – First in Flight

7) John Walker developed an interest in trying to find a means of obtaining
something. Several chemical mixtures were already known to achieve this but
in a pretty rapid and intense manner. While Walker was preparing a mixture in
one occasion and accidentally achieved the result by means of a necessary evil.
He then started making these things and selling for a price of 1 shilling
accompanied with a piece of sandpaper, folded double which was the quite
essential for functioning. He named it as Congreves in honour of inventor and
rocket pioneer, Sir William Congreve.
What did he make?

8) Eigengrau, literally meaning X gray, also called as Eigenlicht
meaning X light is the uniform dark gray background that many
people report seeing in the absence of light. The term dates back to
19th century, but currently more commonly it’s referred as ‘visual
noise’ or ‘background adaptation’.
It’s lighter than black object in normal lighting conditions because
contrast is more important to the visual system than absolute
brightness.
What does Eigen means i.e. X?

Own
Half points for other words similar to own,
like self/one’s

9) They were a class of mounted infantry. This regiments were
established in most European armies during late 17th and early
18th century. The name is derived from a type of firearm. The
first of these raised in France had their carbine’s muzzle
decorated with the head of an animal. It’s also sometimes
claimed a galloping infantryman with his loose coat and the
burning match resembled the animal.
Which animal? And what is the name of the regimen which has
one additional letter than the name of the animal?

10) It’s a semi-hard cheese originated in Netherlands and named
after a town in North Holland. It ages and travels well and doesn’t
spoil; only hardens. These qualities made it the world’s most
popular cheese between 14th and 18th century. In the novel All
Quiet on the Western Front, the main character believes its red
outer covering is a sign of impending death. It was tested by the
MythBusters in episode 128 for a certain believed suitability of it,
but it failed.
What is the name of this cheese which is made backwards?

11) There are 3 possible etymology related to it.
a) Some believed that it’s named such as it resembled the pattern of fur on
the certain animals face.
b)Another account claims that the term did not come from Latin directly, but
from the term for a French style of mask that affected people wore to hide
their condition.
c) In 13th century it was thought to appear like the animal’s bite, ragged and
punched out.
Which condition? Which animal? (Both one word answers)

12)* Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto
Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an
informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of
the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s. By the 1980s, his neo-
expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums
internationally.
In September 1968, at the age of seven, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in
the street. His arm was broken and he suffered several internal injuries; he
eventually underwent a splenectomy. While he was recuperating from his
injuries, his mother brought him a book to keep him occupied. This book would
prove to be influential in his future artistic outlook.
Look at his artwork carefully and deduce which book influences his artwork?

13) Identify the location in which this song ‘O Mere Raja’ from Johny Mera Naam starring
Dev Anand and Hema Malini

14)* This writer’s first name was the grandmother’s name spelled backwards and the middle
name was to honor pediatrician Dr. William of Selma, Alabama. At the age of 23, the writer
moved to New York City and took job as an airline reservation agent and writing fiction in
spare time. After several years, writer received a gift of a year’s wages from friends with a
note : “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry
Christmas.”
In the Spring of next year, a 31-year-old writer delivered the manuscript titled X to agent to
send out to publishers including J.B Lippincott Company which eventually bought it. At
Lippincott, the novel fell into the hands of Tay Hohoff. Hohoff was impressed and according
to her, “The spark of the true writer flashed in every line.” But it was by no mean fit for
publication. It was as she described it, “more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived
novel”. Over the next couple of years the book finally achieved its finished form and was
retitled.
What was the original title? What was it retitled?

Original Title:- Go Set a Watchman
Retitle:- To Kill a Mockingbird
Writer obviously Nelle Harper Lee

15) Strands of history, formed in 2016, produces high quality, hand-
crafted luxury items from a certain source. They design limited
edition or completely customized decorative and functional pieces,
including mementos, furniture, lighting, architectural pieces artwork
sculptures etc.(one such image is given on next slide)
The source of their material is actually from something that
happened between 1973-76 as a result of inspection by experts
from Amman & Whitney. These materials were 250 pairs and
spaced 50 feet apart.
What is the material used to make these items?

16) Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist and conductor in 19th
century. He enjoyed early success in Germany and revived interest in the
music of Johann Sebastian Bach, notably with his performance of the St
Matthew Passion in 1829. His one of the best known piece written in 1842 to
Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The first time it was used on
2 June 1847 when it was performed by organist Samuel Reay. However it did
not become popular at the specific events for which it’s known for until it was
selected for one such event on 25th January 1858. One of eminent person
involved in the event was Queen Victoria who loved Mendelssohn’s music and
for whom he often played while on his visit to Britain.
What is the piece known as (which is named after the event it’s most
frequently used in)?

17) Our Lady of Angels Church (also called Eglise de ----- ---- des Anges, White
Chapel, Kaps Koli) is the fourth oldest church in Puducherry. The original
structure was built by Napolean III in 1855 with architect being Louis Guerre. It’s
the only church that offers mass in three languages French, Tamil and English.
The original chapel was painted white in colour both from the inside and outside
giving the name White Chapel. Look at image of the Chapel carefully and FITB.
There is a statue of certain Maid donated to the church by the then Mayor of
Puduchery, Goubert. Whose statue?
(Image on next slide)

Notre Dame
Joan of Arc (nickname - The Maid of Orleans)

18) The area of this city was inhabited by the Ohlone people. In 1851 two Irish
immigrants, Dennis J. Oliver and his brother-in-law D.C McGlynn, purchased a
1,700 acre land. In 1854, they erected a gate with a wooden arch bearing the
inscription which is the current name of the city. The word is derived from the
owners’ former home in County Galway, Ireland and is the Anglicized version of
the original Irish name of the place meaning “middle lake”.
Which city that is the site of a very popular company’s main campus? The
name of the city will certainly remind you of a certain “wizard” of the later
part of 19th century.

Menlo Park
Company – Facebook, Thomas Edison –
the Wizard of the Menlo Park

19) In the Simpson’s episode Bart Gets an F, Bart is asked to present the book
report of a certain classic novel. Bart having never completed the assignment
nor read the book tries to give the report just looking at the cover of book, he
says, “It’s about these pirates. Pirates with patches over their eyes and shiny
gotee….”. Teacher finds out the he didn’t read the book as she asks the name
of the pirate and he says Bluebeard.
What should be the correct answer, the character that’s based on William
Henley as told by the author in a letter to Henley after the publication of the
book, ‘It was the sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness that begot
X…the idea of the maimed man, ruling and dreaded by the sound, was
entirely taken from you’?

Long John Silver
Treasure Island is the book

20)* This project won the Grand Prix for Creative Data at the 2018
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and was created by
Irish agency Rothco for the Times of London.
Rothco and the Times worked with CereProc, a British audio tech
company, to analyse recordings and text from 831 speeches and
build a database from them, and then used artificial intelligence
techniques to create the speech you will hear now. They were able
to produce 2,590 words from the 20-minute speech.
What is special about this speech?

the speech JFK was supposed to give at Dallas
On the day of his assassination

21) The most ancient recorded name of the city comes from the name of a
fortress built on the Manzanares River in the 9th century AD and means “Place
of abundant water” in Arabic.
According to legend, it was founded by Ocno Bianor and was named “Mantua
Carpetana”. Others contend that the original name of the city was “Ursaria”
(Land of bears) because of many bears that were to be found in the nearby
forests which together with the strawberry tree have been the emblem of the
city since Middle Ages.
Which city? It was specifically in the news in mid 2018 for a certain shift of
followers.

Madrid
CR7 transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus

22)* In straitened financial circumstances when he lost his job as an oil company executive
manager during the Great Depression, he turned to his latent writing to earn a living. He
taught himself to write pulp fictions by studying the Perry Mason stories of Erle Stanley
Gardner. His first professional work “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot” was published in Black Mas
magazine in 1933. In addition to many short stories, he has published 7 novels during his
lifetime; many of which have been made into motion pictures.
He also collaborated on the screenplay of Strangers on a Train (1951), a murder story based
on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, which he thought was implausible. He clashed with the director
to such extent that they stopped talking, especially after the director heard him referred to
him as “that fat bastard”. The director reportedly made a show of throwing his two draft
screenplays into studio trash can while holding his nose, but he retained the lead
screenwriting credit along with Czenzi Ormonde.
Who is the writer(full name required) who shares his name with first names of characters of
2 popular sitcoms?

Raymond Chandler
Raymond from Everybody Loves Raymond and Chandler from F.R.I.E.N.D.S

23) The company was in business for 2 years before chemist John T.
Dorrance invented a technique to remove certain unwanted thing
without losing the flavor. The company proudly shows off its gold
medallion for excellence that was won by it in Paris Exposition of
1900. The iconic colour pattern is inspired from the uniforms of
Cornell-Penn football game in 1898.
Which company known for a certain iconic product that became more
famous for another reason in early 60s?

Campbell Soup Company or Campbell’s

24)* Henry Brown was a 19th century Virginia slave. The story of how he escaped slavery is quite
unique. With the help of James C.A. Smith, a free black man and a sympathetic white shoemaker
Samuel Smith Brown devised a plan to save himself. He paid $86 to Samuel. Samuel went to
Philadelphia to consult members of Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society on how to accomplish the
escape.
To get out of the work the day he was to escape Brown burned his hand to the bone with sulfuric
acid. While escaping he carried only a small portion of water and a few biscuits. The trip began on
March 29, 1849 and completed in in 27 hours which involved a number of methods of
transportation including wagon, railroad, steam boat, ferry etc. A certain company that was
involved in the escape later marketed it for its confidentiality and efficiency.
Brown later became a well-known speaker for Anti-Slavery Society. He was nicknamed after
something which was very crucial in his escape. In later part of life he became a professional
which children mostly found quite amusing and these are the kind of individuals who often do
similar deed.
In what way he escaped?

He mailed himself in a box
Henry “Box” Brown

25)* Hemanth Rao (a friend of Sriram Raghavan) suggested in 2013 that he
watch L’Accordeur (The Piano Tuner), a 2010 French short film about a blind
pianist. Raghavan liked the film, and decided to work on a script based on it.
After reading about Kaabil when he was about to start writing, he stopped:
“It would be a bit crazy to have two movies about visually impaired people.”
He later resumed the script, taking a different approach.
The idea of a blind pianist performing while a body is being dumped and a
crime scene cleaned up fascinated him. A similar scene was previously
present in another movie when a blind pianist performs surrounded by
mayhem.
Which scene is being talked about?

Stay Tuned for the Finals
Starting ASAP

Congratulation to Top 8 Teams!!

 2 Written Rounds(4+6) and 2 Direct Rounds(15+15)
 +10/0 on Direct, Bounce and Written rounds, +10/-5 on Pounce

I can’t pounce,
But you can!

 4 questions
 Theme: The Simpson references
 +10/0 for each question, additional +10 if anybody gets all 4
correct
WRITTEN ROUND

1) ---- ---- ---- --------- is the 17th episode of the 7th season. It originally aired on 9
April 2006. The episode features guest appearance by Richard Dean
Anderson who played MacGyver.
In the episode Homer learns that the nuclear power plant is being shut down
and outsourced to India. After Homer is sent to train the new employees, he
becomes power-hungry. Look at the video carefully which character from a
series of movies is being referred?
The name of the episode is taken from a 2005 comedy crime film which is
based on novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them. The movie title of consist of
2 set of words repeated. The title is also name of various songs. The episode
name is slightly modifies one word from the movie title to give the name of
an Indian city. Give the name of the episode.

2) In the episode “Lisa on Ice” first broadcast in 1994, Kearney tell fellow bully
Dolph to take memo to beat up Martin on a certain device. When Dolph writes
“Beat up Martin” with the device’s stylus, it changes to “Eat up Martha”. So
Kearny just hurls it at Martin’s head. It was one of the major reasons of the
failure of the device in the real world.
Years later the development team of the company used this Simspons
reference as a mantra to get their keyboard perfect. “In the hallways and
while we were talking about the keyboard, you would always hear the words
‘Eat Up Martha’”, said a certain Nitin Ganatra. “If you heard people talking and
they used the words ‘Eat Up Martha’, it’s basically a reference to the fact that
we needed to nail the keyboard. We needed to make sure the text input works
on this thing, otherwise, ‘Here comes the Eat Up Marthas.’”
Which device Dolph had?

3) The 8th episode of S02 Bart the X, is mentioned as the
favorite episode of the series by the creator Matt Groening
and is also considered among the series’ best by television
critics.
In the episode Lance Y is a professional stuntman who does
a stunt by jumping a pool filled with Great White Sharks,
Electric Eels, a school of piranhas, alligators and one lion.
Although he got through the stunt in one piece, he ended up
clumsily falling in while basking in the glory afterwards and
injured badly. This inspired Bart to become a X.
Give X and what’s Y, quite apt surname of Lance.

4) Treehouse of Horror V is the 6th episode of S06. It features 3 short stories titled The
Shining, X and Nightmare cafeteria. In the segment X, Homer gets his hand stuck in the
toaster twice and breaks it. In an failed attempting to fix it, he accidentally turns it into a time
machine. He then transported into prehistoric times, where he realizes he must be careful
not to do anything to change history. But he swatted a mosquito which turned the present
into a dystopia. He travels back in time again in attempt to set it right however accidentally
kills a walking fish which turns Bart and Lisa into giants. He repeatedly tries to change the
time and ending up with different alternate realities, even one in which Maggie is voiced by
James Earl Jones.
The title of the episode is a pun on the classic novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky with the first
word changed but with a rhyming word important to the plot. Give the title, X.
The plot of the segment is a parody of a short story first published in June 28, 1952 which is
often credited as the origin of certain term which was actually introduced by a guy Edward
Norton Lorenz. Give Short story and Author

1) ---- ---- ---- --------- is the 17th episode of the 7th season. It originally aired on 9
April 2006. The episode features guest appearance by Richard Dean
Anderson who played MacGyver.
In the episode Homer learns that the nuclear power plant is being shut down
and outsourced to India. After Homer is sent to train the new employees, he
becomes power-hungry. Look at the video carefully which character from a
series of movies is being referred?(5)
The name of the episode is taken from a 2005 comedy crime film which is
based on novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them. The movie title of consist of
2 set of words repeated. The title is also name of various songs. The episode
name is slightly modifies one word from the movie title to give the name of
an Indian city. Give the name of the episode.(5)

Mola Ram from Indiana Jones Temple of Doom
Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore, Kiss kiss bang bang
being the original movie

Daredevil
Murdock as in Matt Murdock

Time and Punishment
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Butterfly effect is the term

CLOCKWISE ROUND
15 Questions
+10/0 on Direct and Bounce, +10/-5 on Pounce
No Pounce on Direct Question
Points will be conserved during the Bounce
Hints on QM’s discretion

1) In the gemstone trade, it means ‘highest quality’. The clarity of diamonds is assessed by
their translucence; the more like X, the higher the quality. The 1753 edition of Chambers’
Encyclopedia states “The Y X in Diamonds means the greatest purity and perfection of their
complexion, which ought to be that of clearest ----- -- X. When Diamonds fall short of this
perfection, they are said to be of the subsequent of Y till the stones may be properly called a
colored one”.
The comparison of diamonds with X dates back to at least early 17th century and Shakespeare
alludes to it in Pericles, 1607.
Heavenly jewels which
Pericles hath lost,
Begin to part their fringes of
bright gold.
The diamonds of a most
praised X
Doth appear, to make the
world twice rich.
What is X to which diamonds are
compared for their quality?

2) Francois X was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer. Artillery service was his
ambition and in 1804, he received the appointment of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He
then worked with Jean-Baptiste Biot to complete something which was started by a certain
J.B.J Delambre. He and Biot left Paris and began operations along the mountains of Spain.
After Biot’s departure to Paris, X was arrested because people suspected of his movements
and his lighting of fires on the top of Mount Galatzo as the activities of a spy.
He did research in different fields ranging from pressure of steam, velocity of sound, magnetic
observation. He discovered rotatory magnetism which is named after him. His name is on of
the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel tower. An inner ring of Neptune, a lunar crater and
Martian crater are also named in his honor.
In 1994, Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets was commissioned to create a memorial to him.
He came up with the idea of 135 no of somethings which is 12 centimeter in diameter and
span across roughly 10km.
What is being talked about?

3) Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley. It’s set
in a futuristic World State of genetically modified citizens and an intelligence
based social hierarchy. The name of the novel is taken from The Tempest by
Shakespeare.
The World State is built upon the principles of a certain individual’s vision: mass
production, homogeneity, predictability and consumption of disposable
consumer goods. The individual is revered as the creator of their society but as a
deity and characters celebrate a day and swear by his name. The traditional
religion are present with a bit modification as in Christian crosses with their tops
cut off.
The World State calendar years are also based on the individuals iconic deed in
1908. Which individual? Which iconic deed marks the beginning of their calendar?

Henry Ford
First Model T rolled off his assembly line

4) The Crimson Wing is a 2008 British-American nature documentary that
explores the massive gathering of certain species in Tanzania. It was the very
first movie released under the then-new Disneynature label.
Other than being the smallest species, the clearest difference between it and
another species, is the much more extensive black on a certain part of the
body. Size is less helpful unless the species are together, since the sexes of
each species also differ in height.
Presence of these near water bodies is indication of sodic alkaline water
which is not suitable for irrigation use. But it helpful for the species which is
actually kind of reason of their one of the most characteristic feature.
Which animal species?(Specific answer)

Lesser Flamingoes
No points for only flamingo

5) James Riddle Hoffa was an American labor union leader who served as the President of
International Brotherhood of Teamsters(IBT) union from 1957 until 1971. Hoffa became
involved with organized crime from the early years of his Teamsters work, and this connection
continued until his disappearance in 1975. He was convicted of jury tampering, attempted
bribery and fraud in 1964, in two separate trials. He was imprisoned in 1967 and sentenced to
13 years.
Hoffa disappeared on Wednesday, July 30, 1975 from the parking lot of Red Fox restaurant in
Bloomfield Township. In a first season episode of MythBusters titled “The Hunt for Hoffa”, the
location in Giants Stadium where he was rumored to be buried were scanned . But no trace of
any human remains were found.
In the new Martin Scorsese 2019 film The Irishman, Hoffa will be portrayed by Al Pacino.
In 2003, a certain guy miraculously discovered Hoffa’s body which led to a breaking news.
Who was the guy? Or give funda

6) Ivan Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest
masters of a certain type of art.
Aivazovsky’s painting The Bay of Naples at Moonlit Night made a lasting impression on
another painter who is also known for his work in the same type of art. He even wrote a
poem dedicated to Aivazovsky:
“But even that moon is always beneath thee
Oh Master most high,
Oh forgive thou me
If even this master was frightened for a moment
Oh, noble moment, by art betrayed…
And how may one not delight in thee,
Oh thou young boy, but forgive thou me,
If I Shall bend my white head
Before thy art divine
Thy bliss-wrought genius…”
Identify the other painter.

The Bay of Naples at Moonlit Night
The Brig Mercury in Moonlight
Storm over The Black Sea

7) Dr. Katherine hall, a Senior Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine,
recently added a horror movie twist to this age-old mystery: X may have been
buried alive before his death. She has based her theory on one source that
said that X’s “body” remained undecomposed for six days, which was mistaken
as a sign that he was a God. She said that X may have been suffering from
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), contracted from a Campylobacter pylori
infection. These difficulties along with the type of paralysis of his body (most
commonly cause by GBS) and lowered oxygen demands, would reduce the
visibility of his breathing which instead of pulse was the diagnostic criteria for
death in those days.
Who is the person being talked about?

8) Timothy Peake is a British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut. At UK National Student
Space conference in early 2014, he expressed his for a certain initiative. According to him,
“It has been one of the most incredible international partnerships…it has really brought
many nations together through difficult times and continues to do so.” This partnership
was formed more than 15 years ago and this initiative will encourage other governments
to come together. This partnership has also set an exemplary standard for international
cooperation, helping ensure that peaceful, civilian effort in the field remain the norm. It
also shows that it’s possible to overlook political differences and work together toward a
truly global and uplifting goal. Which initiative was this, which in reality didn’t happen?
Timothy Peake was regularly referred to the media as something in direct reference to a
certain “junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all-time low”. Author Clive Gifford
wrote a book aimed at children about Peake’s time in space to inspire people.(Image of the
book on next slide) Give what is the title of book? It’s related to something a Canadian
astronaut Chris Hadfield done on board ISS in 2013 creating one of first.

ISS for Nobel Peace Prize 2014
Ground Control to Major Tim

9) Simon Wiesenthal began searching for this guy in 1958 upon being challenged by some
guys to prove existence of something. He considered contacting a guy who suffered
tremendous loss due to this person, but learned that he was speaking out in favor of
forgiveness and reconciliation. Wiesenthal, however, was determined the discredit the
growing movement and continued his search for this guy whose name was wrongly put.
In late spring 1963, after ruling out similar names, he was loaned a telephone book by
Dutch investigators and during a two-hour flight from Amsterdam to Vienna, he found the
name. He immediately contacted Dr. Josef Wiesinger who contacted Vienna Police. On June
2, 1963, Wiesenthal submitted a detailed request but was told for months that the Vienna
police were not yet ready to release their findings. But in reality, they have identified the
guy almost immediately. But when he had admitted his role is certain incident, the
department was terrified of bad press. They suspended him and told to keep his mouth
shut. But he told a colleague about this, which was later leaked.
What he did which was the reason for search for him and fear by the Vienna police?

Karl Silberbauer
He was the guy who arrested Anne Frank

10) Donald Griffin was an American scientist. While at Harvard in the late 1930s, Griffin
worked with Robert Galambos on his studies for which he is mostly known. Griffin
conducted preliminary tests during the summer of 1939 when he was a research fellow at
Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station in New York. He set up a
minimal facility in a 9-by-7 square-foot room in a barn and then measured the ability of
certain thing by presenting a barrier of metal wires suspended from a ceiling.
The remaining work was done at Harvard’s Physical Laboratories. Using a certain
technology that had been developed by physicist G.W. Pierce, Galambos and Pierce were
able to determine the generation of something which is not perceivable by humans and
other animals. Griffin later coined a term in 1944 to describe the phenomenon which
many physiologists of the day couldn’t believe was possible. During WWII, Griffin
worked for National Defense Research Committee where he supported the approval of a
type of bomb based on his discovery.
What he discovered or what term did he coin?

11) Anna Anderson was born in 16 December 1896. In 1920, she was
institutionalized in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt in Berlin. In 1922,
for first time the thing caught in news for which she is well known. Though
several members of family said she was an imposter but others were
convinced about her claim. In 1927, a private investigation funded by Ernest
Louise, identified Anderson as Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish factory worker
with a history of mental illness. After a lawsuit lasting many years, the German
courts ruled that Anderson had failed to prove her claim, but through media
coverage, her claim gained notoriety.
What was her claim about, which is one of the most popular historical
mysteries of 20th century provoking many books and films, which was
disproved approximately 90 years later in 2007 by DNA testing?

She claimed that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia

12) The Benevolent and Protective Order of X, also known as X Lodge or Simple The X is an
American fraternal order founded in 1868 originally as a social club in New York City. The
original qualification for membership included male, 21 years old, of sound mind and body, a
citizen of US and not a member of Communist Party, and belief is a Supreme Being (which was
substituted to God in 1946).
It has been traditionally an all-male fraternal order. Unlike many other male orders, it has
never had an official female auxiliary. But a judgement by Utah Supreme Court ruled that
while Freedom of Association allowed it to remain a men only organization, but they can’t
avail a certain benefit as long as it violated Utah State Civil Rights Act. Faced with losing the
benefit if they didn’t admit women, X lodge of Utah voted to become unisex in June 1993
which was followed by a vote at their national convention in July 1995 to remove the word
“male’ from the membership requirement. What benefit they were afraid to lose that led
them to allow women?
Give X which is the official state animal for Utah and also found on the state flag and seal of
Michigan along with another animal with which it’s often confused.

X – Elk
They were told if they didn’t allow women they would loose
their liquor license.

13) Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in
Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in an European Country, where she befriended a
certain guy. He and the guy had a long period of collaboration. They had much in common:
they shared similar tastes in art and literature, came from affluent backgrounds, had studied
painting in Italy, and both were independent, never marrying. The degree of intimacy
between them cannot be assessed now, as no letters survive, but it’s unlikely they were in a
relationship given their conservative social backgrounds and strong moral principles.
He introduced Cassatt to pastel and engraving, both of which Cassatt quickly mastered, while
for her part Cassatt was instrumental in helping him sell his paintings and promoting his
reputation in America. Both regarded themselves as figure painters and they might have been
influenced by Louis Edmond Duranty’s appeal: “Let us take leave of the stylized human body,
which is treated like a vase. What we need is the characteristic modern person in his clothes,
in the midst of his social surroundings, at home or out in the street.”
Who was Cassatt’s friend?

Mary Cassatt self Portrait
Portrait by his friend

14) This 2010 book is written by Judyth Vary Baker. She was a student at Manatee High school in
Bradenton Florida. Among fellow students who remember her, opinion is about evenly split
between remembering her as ‘intelligent’ and ‘weird’, but she appears to have an excellent
science student who conducted cancer research with mice. But her life took an important turn
when she came to the attention of Dr. Canute Michaelson. Michaelson targeted her for future
use.
In an ‘interesting’ time in her life, when she was in New Orleans, she began an affair with a
certain individual in spite of having been recently married to Robert Baker, a student and future
petroleum geologist who was working for an oil company. What brought Judyth and the person
together was an idea centered in New Orleans.
In the forward of the book written by a certain Edward T. Haslam who received a 2006 book from
Judyth that also dealt with similar context. The book was withdrawn after only 85 copies had
been printed. This book gave the idea to Haslam for his own book Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the
Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey
Viruses Are Linked to….
(Question continues on next slide)

The book’s dedication page reads:
“To X, my dearest friend, who gave his life for Y
and to his family, who need to know that their husband and
father was a brave, good man, a patriot and a true American
hero of whom they can be proud.”
What’s the book all about?

15) This is the final scene of My Family 1995 American Drama film. The final scene is
inspired from final scene of one of the greatest films of all time.
Name the movie.

 6 questions
 Theme: Human body parts
 +10/0 for each question, additional +10 if anybody gets all 6
correct
WRITTEN ROUND

1)In S06E17 of Supernatural, Sam and Dean investigate a series of seemingly unconnected
Final Destination style deaths. When they check out the scene of death, they find no clue
other than a thread of pure gold which also was found in all other scenes. Later they find the
only common factor that all of victims ancestor’s are linked by their time of arrival in
America.
They later learn that angel Balthazar went back in time and changed course of history of one of
the events because he hated an entertainment adaptation based on it and one of the things
associated with it. But in reality almost everyone loves both of these and to be frank the
adaptation made the event more popular among the people.
The gold thread is revealed to be act of Fate who is doing all the killings to maintain balance.
Sam and Dean force Balthazar to re-change the history.
What is the event that Balthazar changed in the first place? What is the 5 word title of the
episode that is very much associated with the entertainment adaptation of it?

2) ------- ------ (officially the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway) is a section of freeway
in downtown Boston, Massachusetts; it’s designated as Interstate 93, US 1 and
Route 3. The original road constructed in 1950s was named after John F.
Fitzgerald. Its reputation for congestion inspired the local nicknames “The
Distressway”, “The largest parking lot in the world”, “the other Green Monster”.
These types of roads is a high-capacity urban road. The primary function of
these type of roads is to deliver traffic from collector roads to freeways or
expressways, and between urban centers at the highest level of service
possible. Traffic Engineering Handbook that describes these type of roads as
being either principal or minor. Both classes serve to carry longer-distance flows
between centers of activity.
FITB

3) Beatrice Cenci was the daughter of Count Francesco Cenci, a violent and dissolute man.
According to historical details leading to the legend, Francesco Cenci abused his first wife i.e.
the mother of Beatrice and his sons and raped Beatrice multiple times, thus being guilty of
incest. He was jailed multiple times, but due to leniency with which the nobles were treated,
he was freed early. Beatrice tried to inform the authorities about frequent mistreatment, but
nothing happened. The four Cencis decided they had no alternative but to kill Francesco. They
tried to drug him, but this failed to kill him. Then they bludgeoned him to death with a
hammer and threw the body off balcony to make it look like accident, but no one believed
this.
The plot was later discovered and they were arrested and sentenced to death. The common
people of Rome protested against it, obtaining a short postponement of execution. Pope
Clement VIII fearing a spate of familial murders showed no mercy. At dawn on 11 September
1599, they were executed on Sant’Angelo Bridge.
Somebody who witnessed Beatrice’s public execution and may be used the details of the
execution in certain work of his.
What work? Also name the person

4) This novel was first published in 1907. It’s generally considered as “the earliest of the
modern dystopian” fiction. It chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in USA. The
book is unusual among the writer’s writings, also in the literature of the time in general,
being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man.
The novel is based on the fictional “Everhard Manuscript” written by Avis Everhard which
she hid and subsequently centuries later. The novel also has an introduction and a series
of footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Antohony Meredith. The manuscript
itself covers the years of 1912- 1932 in which the oligarchy arose in USA. Author
extrapolated the real events from Cripple Creek, Telluride and Russia to produce a
speculative novel in which a ruthless capitalist “Oligarchy” gives birth to repressive “—
the title of the book—” a violent counterrevolutionary army of militia, spies and mobs
who crush all the political resistance to a capitalist dictatorship.
The novel is cited by a certain Michael Sheldon as having influenced another more
famous creation of 20th century.
What is the tile of the novel? Which other novel did it inspire?

5) ----------- ---- or Chance in History refers to a deterministic view of history that
suggests that history, by large is a chapter of accidents. The theory itself was first
suggested by a Harvard paleontologist, Steven Jay Gould, who wondered what
would have happened of on the day that life on this planet started it had been
raining instead of sunny.
The term is originated from writings of French mathematician, Blaise Pascal. His
posthumously published writings, titled Pensees(meaning ‘thoughts’) remarked first
about this. He believed that if a certain thing about a personality would have been
smaller, she would have lacked dominance and strength of character that an
impressive thing granted in her times and that, if it had been different, great men
like Caesar and Antony would not have fallen under her spell and we might still be
speaking Latin.
FITB which is also the name of the book by Daniel J. Boorstin?

6) A certain Kevin Feige admits that, “So I’m obsessed with it and it didn’t start out as
intentional, but it became intentional.”
These are some of instances of it:-
In the final showdown between antagonist and protagonist.
It happened as a part of grand visual illusion.
It’s seen in a flashback during a certain fall.
When the four main characters meet for the first time.
Done to another guy by the antagonist.
When someone disappears, it happens first happens then the complete disappearance.
What is being talked about and what are these homage to, a certain very famous and
groundbreaking older thing?

crashing of Titanic
My Heart Will Go On

3) Beatrice Cenci was the daughter of Count Francesco Cenci, a violent and dissolute man.
According to historical details leading to the legend, Francesco Cenci abused his first wife i.e.
the mother of Beatrice and his sons and raped Beatrice multiple times, thus being guilty of
incest. He was jailed multiple times, but due to leniency with which the nobles were treated,
he was freed early. Beatrice tried to inform the authorities about frequent mistreatment, but
nothing happened. The four Cencis decided they had no alternative but to kill Francesco. They
tried to drug him, but this failed to kill him. Then they bludgeoned him to death with a
hammer and threw the body off balcony to make it look like accident, but no one believed
this.
The plot was later discovered and they were arrested and sentenced to death. The common
people of Rome preotested against it, obtaining a short postponement of execution. Pope
Clement VIII fearing a spate of familial murders showed no mercy. At dawn on 11 September
1599, they were executed on Sant’Angelo Bridge.
Somebody who witnessed Beatrice’s public execution and may be used the details of the
execution in certain work of his.
What work? Also name the person

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Carvaggio

The Iron Heel by Jack London
1984 by George Orwell

5) ----------- ---- or Chance in History refers to a deterministic view of history that
suggests that history, by large is a chapter of accidents. The theory itself was first
suggested by a Harvard paleontologist, Steven Jay Gould, who wondered what
would have happened of on the day that life on this planet started it had been
raining instead of sunny.
The term is originated from writings of French mathematician, Blaise Pascal. His
posthumously published writings, titled Pensees(meaning ‘thoughts’) remarked first
about this. He believed that if a certain thing about a personality would have been
smaller, she would have lacked dominance and strength of character that an
impressive thing granted, in her times and that, if it had been different, great men
like Caesar and Antony would not have fallen under her spell and we might still be
speaking Latin.
FITB which is also the name of the book by Daniel J. Boorstin?

6) A certain Kevin Feige admits that, “So I’m obsessed with it and it didn’t start out as
intentional, but it became intentional.”
These are some of instances of it:-
In the final showdown between antagonist and protagonist.
It happened as a part of grand visual illusion.
It’s seen in a flashback during a certain fall.
When the four main characters meet for the first time.
Done to another guy by the protagonist.
When someone disappears, it happens first then the complete disappearance.
What is being talked about and what are these homage to, a certain very famous and
groundbreaking older thing?

Every MCU Phase 2 movie has an arm chopping scene homage to
Luke’s arm getting chopped in the Empire Strikes Back

ANTI-CLOCKWISE ROUND
15 Questions
+10/0 on Direct and Bounce, +10/-5 on Pounce
No Pounce on Direct Question
Points will be conserved during the Bounce
Hints on QM’s discretion

1)“Here is what I was able to note immediately after it: the eyelids and lips worked in
irregularly rhythmic contractions for about 4 to 6 seconds. I waited several seconds longer. The
spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half-closed in the eyeballs, leaving
only the white of conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see
every day…It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: ‘Languille!’ I then saw the eyelids
slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contraction – I insist advisedly on this peculiarity – but
with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in every day life with
people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next, Languille’s eyes very definitely fixed on
mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not dealing with a vague dull look, without any
expression that can be observed in any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing
with undeniable living eyes looked at me.”
This was a report by a certain Dr. Beaurieux. This and a study much later in 1956 helped
debunk which medico-political myth that is associated with certain names such as Regretful
Climb, Fanlight, Necktie, Half-Moon and so on?

Guillotine deaths are swift and painless

2) Based upon Frenchman Jean Antoine Houdon’s marble version, originally commissioned
in the 1790s, this bronze statue of George Washington was a gift from the Commonwealth of
Virginia to Great Britain and unveiled in June, 1921. It’s on the lawn in front of the National
Gallery in Trafalgar Square.(image on the next slide)
The statue shows Washington resting upon a fasces, which represent a symbol of authority,
and the number of wooden rods in the fasces considered to be symbolic of 13 original
colonies.
As Commander in Chief during the War of Independence and later as President of the
United States, Washington is rumored to have taken an oath, as a result of which, when this
statue was presented, the Virginians also sent something along with it to ensure
Washington’s oath would not be broken.
What did they send along with the statue so as not to break oath of Washington?

American Soil to place the statue
Washington vowed never to set foot on British Soil

3) This word first arose in the stage name of Paul Boyton in the 1870s, The Fearless X and
was later claimed by John Spence, an enlisted member of the US Navy to have been applied
to him while he was training in a green waterproof suit. The term is occasionally used to
refer to a civilian who also indulge in a certain sport/adventurous activity. Some clubs
associated with it include this word in their names. The preferred term is another one, but
this epithet persists in informal usage by non-professionals especially in media.
Paul Boyton’s stage name included X as he since 1870s broke records in such field to
demonstrate a new invented rubber suit, with inflated hood shaped like something which
gave to the word X. The first modern X were the WWII Italian commando of Decima
Flottiglia MAS which formed in 1938 and was first in action in 1940. Originally these were
called “Uomini Gamma” because they were members of the top secret special unit called
“Gurppo Gamma” which originated from kind of Pirelli rubber skin-suit. Later they were
nicknamed “Uomini ----” Italian for X, because of they style or their fins looked like
something.
Give X.

4) There are three origin explanation for this event.
1) Once Lord Narada wanted to marry a beautiful princess; so he wanted ‘unique look’
from Lord Vishnu. But in turn to rescue Narada from maya, Lord Vishnu gave him a quite
different ‘unique look’ which Narada actually desired. Narada was humiliated and
became angry and cursed Lord Vishnu.
2) When Lord Vishnu was fighting demons, some fled and got shelter from wife of a sage.
When Lord Vishnu approached, she refused to give them. Lord Vishnu didn’t want to kill
her. But she voluntarily died. But when his husband returned he was sad because of
separation from his wife & angry and cursed Lord Vishnu.
3) While X was awaiting her marriage, one day as she was roaming around the garden, saw
a loving pair of Mynaa. The male one was describing the features of Y. To listen more
about Y, X confined the pair in cage though they hesitated and requested. The pair was
separated and died and cursed X.
Which event is being talked??? No need to give X and Y

5) Henriette Theodora Markovitch, also known as X was a photographer, painter and poet. At the
end of 1935, she was hired as a set photographer on the film The Crime of Monsieur Lange. On
this occasion she was introduced to a certain guy. Their liaison would last nearly nine years, during
this time the guy didn’t end his relationship with Marie-Therese Walter, mother of his daughter.
The story of their first encounter was told by the writer Jean-Paul Crespelle, “the young women
serious face, lit up by pale blue, yes which looked all the paler because of her thick eyebrows;a
sensitive uneasy face with light and shade passing alternately over it. She kept driving small
pointed pen-knife between her fingers into he wood of the table. Sometimes she missed and a
drop of blood appeared between the roses embroidered on her black gloves..He would ask her to
give him the gloves and would lock them up in the showcase he kept for his mementos.”
Her liaison with him, who physically abused her and made her fight Marie-Therese Walter for his
love. She went through nervous breakdown ad even had to receive electroshocks.
She documented successive stages of something very iconic that he did and he used those in his
creative process. Who is the person and what she documented?

6) DC comics has announced a new event series from Tom Taylor with art by
Trevor Hairsine, James Hareen and Stefano Guadiano. Taylor has been teasing
the event for sometime and suggesting that it’s going to be even more brutal
on DC’s heroes than his Injustice comic. Here is the event’s synopsis:
“A mysterious techno-virus has been released on Earth, infecting 600 million
people and turning them instantly into violent, monstrous engines of
destruction. The heroes of DCU are caught completely unprepared for a
pandemic of this magnitude and struggle to save their loved ones first..but
what happens to the World’s Greates Heroes if the world ends?”
What is the title of the series with one letter drop from a common English
word?

7) A university city since 1575, it has been one of Europe’s most prominent scientific centre for
more than four centuries. Many important scientific discoveries have been made here, giving rise
to it’s motto: ‘City of Discoveries’. The name of the city is derived from a Germanic word roughly
meaning ‘at the canals’. But the real German means a human-modified natural river, partly
natural, partly artificial. Some of the famous resident of this city include, Rembrandt(born and
educated), Willem Einthoven(ECG fame), Albert Einstein(worked at University in the city for some
time), Pieter Zeeman, Hendrik Lorentz. Which city is this?
A certain project which was funded by Tegen-Beeld foundation of Ben Walenkamp and Jan-
Willem Bruins (the project’s two artists) and several corporations and the city itself. It began in
1992 with contribution of certain Marina Tsvetaeva and finished in 2005 with Frederico Garcia
Lorca. Other people’s contribution included in the project are E.E. Cummings, Langston Hughes,
Du Fu, Jan Hanlo etc.
Based on the success of this project several other cities of the country followed it. In 2004, a
similar project was launched by embassy of this country to Bulgaria in Sofia. Other similar
instance include 2012 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and in Berlin. What is the project?

8) X scalpels are used by medical researchers and a small number of surgeons performing
very delicate surgery. Although not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in
the USA, these scalpels are used incases where a patient may have an allergy to steel or
another metal used in conventional scalpels.
‘The blades are around 100 times sharper than surgical steel so are appropriate when you
need a very fine incision without a jagged edge’, says Christina Callanta, product manager a
Fine Science Tools, a US-based medical implements company that exports these scalpels
around the world.
In reality, X blades have been used for thousand of years and were valued in the Stone Age
because they could be knapped, just like flint, to make fine arrow heads and blades. Aztec
priests used to these to cut the beating hearts from sacrificial victims. Which material, that
may really come handy in April and May?
One of the ancient source of this material was an island in Aegean Sea which is most
commonly known because of something that was found on this island in 8 April 1820 by a
peasant named Yorgos. What did he found?

Obsidian/volcanic glass
The April and May use refer to GOT and dragonglass
Venus de Milo
Island being Milos

9) Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure was a concept for vehicles which
are designed to tackle everything from natural disasters to global conflicts
without a drop of gas and often without a driver. It contains Hydrotec fuel cell
system with autonomous capability on four wheel drive truck chassis giving it
the ability to operate autonomously in scenarios where human drivers may be
put in danger. The platform can even be turned into a massive electricity
generator or mobile emergency room. Which company came up with it?
It’s also named after a certain ‘Syrian’ thing which is last of 37 of similar things
used. According to certain instance it wore a red cloth and may also have
carried a red shield and a howdah(a construction on it) which served as
platform for its user who had difficulties overlooking the battlefield after
losing one eye from infection. What was this thing?

General Motors
Surus, war elephant of Hannibal

10) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger, was born in Cordoba in Hispania and
was raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. He was a tutor and later
an advisor to certain famous guy.
Gaius Calurnius Piso, a leading Roman statesman intended to do a crime. He enlisted the aid of
several prominent senators, equestrians and soldiers etc. The conspiracy was put in jeopardy by
a woman named Epicharis, who divulged parts of the plan to a fleet captain, Volusios Proculus.
But she committed suicide before she could tell the whole plan.
On the morning that the conspirators’ plot was to be carried out a freedman named Milichus
and his wife discovered it and reported it to Epaphroditos. Later Piso, the satirist Petronius,
Seneca and his nephew Lucan was killed in a certain way. But in reality Seneca was likely to be
innocent. What was the conspiracy all about?
Second part of the question is in the next slide

A double Herm of Seneca the Younger on one
side and another famous guy on another side is
shown here. It’s important to scholarship since
it’s the only image that can certainly be said to
depict Seneca. Both men have usual cloak of a
philosopher or orator above their left shoulder.
Seneca is depicted as clean-shaven with receding
hairline whereas the other person is depicted as
bearded form as in literary description and other
portraits. The combination is thought to has to
do with the fact that both died (‘killed’) in a
same way. Who is the other person?

Conspiracy to kill Emperor Nero
Socrates, both were forced to commit suicide

11) Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo was hired to compose music score for this
project. Elfman was worried, as he had never worked on a production this large in
budget and scale. In addition, producer John Peters was skeptical of hiring Elfman,
but was later convinced when he heard the opening number. Peters and Peter
Guber wanted Prince to write music for one of the character and Michael Jackson
to do the romance songs. Elfman would then combine the style of Prince and
Jackson’s songs together for the entire score.
The director protested the ideas, citing “my movies aren’t commercial like Top
Gun”. It was one of the first films to spawn two soundtracks. One of them featured
songs written by Prince while other showcased Elfman’s score. Both were
successful.
Which movie was this? The compilation of Elfman’s opening credits were used in
something similar 4 years later the movie. Where was it used?

Tim Burton’s Batman
Batman The Animated Series

12) Author and engraver Samuel Ireland announced a discovery of something by his son
William Henry Ireland. Upon release of these, respected figures such as James Boswell and
Henry James Pye pronounced them genuine as did various antiquarian experts. Edmond
Malone, widely regarded as the greatest in this specific field conclusively showed that the
language orthography and handwriting were not those of the times and persons to which they
were credited. William Henry Island, then confessed to the fraud.
William even produced a deed to prove that one of his ancestors, coincidentally named William
Henry Ireland had saved a person from drowning and that he had rewarded him all these.
However Samuel Ireland is often thought as a victim rather than the perpetrator in this fraud.
British writer Peter Ackroyd provides an imaginative account of it in his novel The Lambs of
London. It’s also broadcast in BBC Radio 4 program about similar frauds.
What was the fraud all about? Or what was the supposed discovery made by William Henry
Ireland?

Ireland Shakespeare forgeries
He claimed to discover Shakespearean manuscripts

13) The Associated Press has verified 21 instances of possible of a certain company’s service in it.
Some of these include Moby Dick is ‘the embodiment of evil’ and ‘Captain Boomer can’t accept
Ahab’s lust for vengeance’ are some which are not present in original work by Melville but
rather from this company’s website.
The persons who have investigated this possible borrowing was quick to point out how on-brand
– or at least unsurprising- such light plagiarism would be. The person associated with it have
swiped from sources as wide-ranging as folk traditions, travel brochures and Japanese
Literature. It’s also said that he has also made various dubious biographical claims- of being
heroin addict, a prostitute and so on. A certain Joni Mitchell told The Los Angeles Times in 2010
that he is not authentic at all. He is a plagiarist, and everything about him is a deception.
Who is the person? What iconic thing of his was supposedly borrowed from a company started
by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 and was
acquired in 2001 for $3.5 million by a more famous company started in 1886 as Arthur Hinds &
Company?

Bob Dylan
His Nobel speech was plagiarized from Sparknotes

14) Before Loewi’s famous experiment, it was unclear about certain transmissions and in the
early 20th century this controversy divided most prominent scientists. Loewi’s experiment,
published in 1921, largely answered to this question.
According to him, the idea for his key experiment came to him in his sleep. He woke up,
scribbled the experiment onto a scrap of paper on his night-stand, and went back to sleep.
The next morning, to his terror he found that he couldn’t read those scribbles. That day,
according to him, was the longest day of his life, as he could not remember his dream. That
night however he had the same dream. This time, he immediately went to his lab to perform
the experiment. Thirteen years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this.
It’s believed that Loewi was fortunate in his choice of experimental preparation. In the
specimen he used, there was chance of duality (normally seen in one nature). But in winter
only a certain type is present, so he was fortunate enough to perform his experiments in
February or March.
What did he discover, the first in a series of things to be identified?

Acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be identified
The debate if the whether the signaling across synapse was bioelectrical or chemical

15) John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a
World War II fighter pilot and poet,
who was killed in an accidental mid-
air collision over England in 1941.
Magee's posthumous fame rests
mainly on his sonnet High Flight
written a few months before his
death.
Some excerpt from this poem was
used in conclusion of speech on a
certain occasion 4 decades after
Magee’s death?
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and
swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

Challenger Disaster
“as they prepare for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the
surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God’ ”

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