This document provides the rules and questions for a quiz called "Apropos of Nothing - An Option 44 Quiz". It consists of 16 written questions in two parts, with each question worth points based on how many teams answer correctly. There are also 40 main round questions. The first written question asks for the common name of the European viper. Subsequent questions provide passages of text and ask for identifications, names, or other short answers.

1. APROPOS OF NOTHING – AN OPTION 44 QUIZ
April 2012 - Hari Parameswaran

2. RULES OF THE GAME
16 (relatively easy) written questions common to
everyone in 2 parts
Each question gets you (10 – number of teams to
answer correctly) points
40 “regular” questions
10 points for all questions
Infinite bounce
No part points anywhere – if the answer has two
parts, both parts must be given. Exceptions to this
rule will be explicitly specified
This is not a “rounded” quiz - there’s a heavy lit.
bias, a fair amount of etymology, and almost no
sports/biz stuff
We’ll make up the other rules as we go along 2

3. WRITTEN – 1.1
The vipera berus, or the “true viper” can be
found all over Europe. The name by which it
is more commonly known by has nothing to
do with any mathematical abilities it may
have, but is rather a rebracketed version of
the old English word for “snake” (early
English versions of the bible used this word
for the serpent in the garden).
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4. WRITTEN – 1.2
John Watson Hawd arrived in Calcutta in July 1901 on
behalf of his firm to investigate the prospects for their
business in India. He quickly determined that there was a
market here, although he felt that the local art form was
“worse than Turkish but as long as it suits them and sells
well, what do we care?”
The company sent Fred Gaisberg to help, and with his help
the first attempt was made on 8th November, 1902 – using
two nautch girls, Soshi Mukhi and Fani Bala.
Generally though, most people count the one on 12th
November by Gauhar Jan as the first one.
What “first” are we talking about?
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5. WRITTEN 1-3
The meaning of the word that appeared in
the title of this 1983 book was given as “A
book, the contents of which are totally belied
by its cover. For instance, any book the dust
jacket of which bears the words. 'This book
will change your life'.”
Incidentally, the dust jacket of said book bore
the words “This book will change your life”
Give me the word or the book…
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6. WRITTEN 1-4
After his successful books “The Black Swan”,
and “Fooled by Randomness”, Nassim Taleb
wrote this book that "contrasts the classical values
of courage, elegance, and erudition against the
modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and
phoniness.“
The title of the book refers to a character from
Greek Mythology, specifically to the object that
is associated with his name.
The name of this character can also be found in
statistics, where “________ analysis” refers to
the analysis of the distribution of a set of
shapes, by optimally superimposing the shapes
on each other to obtain a similar placement and
size, by minimizing a measure of shape
difference called the ________ distance
between the objects.
Name the book.
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7. WRITTEN 1-5
VIDEO
This is a scene from the TV Serial “Castle”. It depicts a
fictitious “thriller writers” Poker Game. The two people
already sitting are real-life bestselling authors.
They go on to discuss movies based on their books.
One of these authors had a movie based on their work
directed by Clint Eastwood.
The other had a movie based on his book directed by Martin
Scorsese.
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8. WRITTEN 1-6
The picture below shows the dried berries of a small, seedless
grape, the Vitis Vinifera, produced almost exclusively in Southern
Greece.
It takes its name from the Greek harbor from where it was
exported.
The Americans tend to prefix the term Zante to denote these, due
to the fact that by the 17th century, the trade shifted towards the
Ionian islands, particularly Zakynthos (Zante).
By what name is this dried berry commonly known?
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9. WRITTEN 1-7
In 1892, Margaret Isabella Stevenson,
mother of Robert, wrote the following about
being able to celebrate the 4th of July twice in
one year, that “Surely now I have been
round the world, since at last I have done
that to which I used to look forward, I have
‘gained a day.“
Where was she on this date?
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10. WRITTEN 1-8
That Ytterbium, Terbium, Erbium and Yttrium
were discovered from Ytterby is well known.
Three other lanthanide elements were
discovered from the mines – one of them
was named after a mythic name for
Scandinavia, one after Stockholm, and the
third after a chemist who was instrumental in
the discovery of these. Name 2 of the 3?
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11. MAIN ROUND
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12. 1
The UNESCO Collection of Representative works was a
project that ran from 1948 to 2005 with an aim to translate
masterpieces of world literature).
This 1956 novel was translated as part of this project into
Hungarian as “A tenger törvénye”
Dutch as “Karoethamma en de Zee”
Macedonian as “Krutama i Parikuti”
Spanish as “Muralla de redes”
Polish as “Prawo morza”
Serbo-Croat as “Racici”
French as “Un amour indien”
Which book?
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13. 2
This two word term denotes an area that is
approximately 14.1% of the Earth’s land surface area,
and that has a population of ~600 million people.
The term started with Michel Chevalier, who
postulated that the people and the culture of this part
originated from the ancient Romans. Napoleon III
saw a political opportunity and popularized the term,
as he believed it would give him some sort of
historical backing in his attempt to make France a
cultural and political leader of the area, and to install
an Emperor in one country of that region.
What term?
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14. 3
These paintings were part of a set of 4 that
were done for the backdrop of a ballet called
Aleko, based on Aleksander Pushkin's 1824
poem "The Gypsies.“. The music for the
ballet was given by Tchaikovsky.
The artist, who also did the costume design
for the ballet, was a great fan of Pushkin’s
and agreed to work on it when asked by the
producer Leonide Massine.
The ballet premiered in Mexico city, and
among the audience were Diego Rivera and
Jose Orozco. When it premiered in New
York, a newspaper wrote the artist’s work
“has turned into a dramatized exhibition of
giant paintings... It surpasses anything ____
has done on the easel scale, and it is a
breathtaking experience, of a kind one hardly
expects in the theatre”
Who was the artist?
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16. 4
Among the early works of Science Fiction, the I foresaw very well, that the
book called “The States and Empires of the vacuity that would happen
Moon” talked about the journey of the narrator in the icosahedron, by
Drycona to the moon. According to Arthur C reason of the sunbeams,
united by the concave
Clarke, the description (shown on the right) of glasses, would, to fill up the
one of the machines he uses in his attempt is space, attract a great
actually a good description of the ramjet – the abundance of air, whereby
author had in effect espoused the principle of my box would be carried
up; and that proportionable
the modern ram-jet engine. Clarke also felt as I mounted, the rushing
the author was the first to propose rocket wind that should force it
travel to space. through the hole, could not
rise to the roof, but that
Said author is now better known because of furiously penetrating the
the works of fiction which have been “inspired” machine, it must needs
by his life, most notably an 1897 play. This force it upon high.”
play in turn has inspired multiple movies,
plays, TV shows, and songs.
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17. 5
Legend goes that there was a mystic who lived
near Bikaner during the 14th century. She was
supposedly an incarnation of Durga, and when
one of the children in her clan died, she tried to
bring the child back to life. Yama told her that
the child had already been reincarnated. At that
point she made a deal with Yama.
In what form is this commemorated in that area
today?
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18. 6
In 1527 Marcus Hieronymous Vida, the bishop of Alba, published his
poem called “Scacchia Vidus” in which he described a competition
between Apollo and Mercury, watched by other gods.
In it he says
“Tum geminae velut extremis in cornibus arces
Hinc atque hinc altis stant propugnacula muris,
Quas dorso immanes gestant in bella Elephanti “.
Translation
"Then twin, as if at the ends, citadels in the corners,
here and there stand ramparts with high walls,
which, immense, are carried into war on [its] back by an elephant.".
What was the competition about, and what term can be seen as the
result of this poem?
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19. 7
The USPTO granted the
patent number 219584 on
Dec 29, 1970 for a new
variant of the bucket seat
specifically for racing cars.
The inventor had found the
existing seats to be extremely
uncomfortable and decided to
invent his own.
Who was the inventor?
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20. 8
In popular culture, the excesses of the Roman culture were,
among other things, typified by having a specific room for
vomiting (or barfing, for the lowbrow types). The story goes that
the good folks would eat till they could eat no more, then go to the
vomitorium, throw up, and then saunter back to the festivities and
gorge up again.
Alas, real life is much more mundane – “vomitaria” did exist, but
they were passages situated below or behind a tier of seats in an
amphitheatre, to allow the crowds to exit easily after an event.
All that was a buildup to the actual question - the current
association of the term came from a 1923 novel by Aldous
Huxley.
Name the book, which takes its title from the following lines in
Edward II by Marlowe
"My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawn, shall with their goat feet
dance an _______ _____"
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21. 9
AUDIO
Two part question (part points)
1. Two of the voices you hear are that of Manna Dey and
Kishore. Who are the other two singers?
2. This is a form of singing where there are four
singers/groups singing, with the audience in between. This
form was once popular in MP. What is this form of singing
called?
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22. 10
After James Watt came up with the steam engine, he formed partnership
with Matthew Boulton to capitalize on it. At that time, the major use of
steam engines was for things like pumping of water from the mines, or to
remove water from fields and canals. The business agreement was that
Boulton and Watt would design the machine and make the parts. It
would then be assembled at the site, and they would take 1/3rd of the
cost the site would save on coal using the new engines.
However, when it came to a new customer – a brewer called Samuel
Whitbread, who wanted to use them at his Chiswell Street
establishment, which was the first mass-production brewery in England.
Their existing process did not use coal, so they needed to figure out a
way to compute the savings. Watts examined their existing process for
some time, and then used these observations to calculate that their
existing method could raise 33,000 lbs of water one foot per minute. He
then worked out the royalty based on this.
What term, used commonly all over the world, resulted from this?
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23. 11
John Tenniel started to work for Punch in 1850, and slowly built up his
reputation. By 1859, he was their top artist.
Lewis Carroll was looking for an illustrator for his books in 1860, and
wanted to try out Tenniel. He was unknown in literary circles at the time,
so he wrote to a friend of his who worked at Punch, asking if they could
be introduced. It was from here that the famous collaboration started.
This friend was a then well known playwright, and in 1874 became an
editor of Punch. He had also worked as a public servant, and was
professor of English literature at the University College, London. Besides
his plays, he was also known for his biographies of English Artists.
Unfortunately his fame in the world of arts and literature did not last
anywhere near those of the two people he introduced to each other,
though his name is still recognized in certain circles.
Who?
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24. 12
The original in Tamil (titled “Aramavara
Vilaccam”) has been lost – what’s on the
right is an English translation of the start
of the text. It goes on to a discussion
between Dhanvantri and Shakti (Shiva’s
spouse) where the goddess talks about a
new (and 6th) gavya (purifying product of
the cow) she has created - the five
traditional ones being milk, ghee, curd,
cow urine, and dung.
Francis Whyte Ellis (who’ll reappear in
this quiz), a British Civil servant working
in the Madras presidency did the
translation shown to the right.
What was his intent behind this?
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25. 13
Let’s continue with F W Ellis.
He wrote the preface to the
book on the right written by A
D Campbell. In it he was the
first to propose something
that was later attributed to
Robert Caldwell, an
evangelist missionary and
linguist.
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26. 14
AUDIO
This is “T’ain’t no sin” from Tom
Waits 1993 album “The Black Rider
Album”. This features songs that
Waits wrote for his play “The Black
Rider: The Casting of the Magic
Bullets”. The voice in this song is
that of one of his co-authors on the
play. This co-author has been
called “one of the greatest and
most influential writers of the 20th
century”.
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27. 15
There are two tales of how Orion became a constellation –
the more “popular” one (from Hesiod) is that during his stay
in Crete, he boasted to Artemis that he would kill every
creature on earth. Artemis (or Earth) then sent this animal to
kill Orion, which it did. After his death, the goddesses asked
Zeus to place him among the constellations.
The creature that was sent to kill him was also added to the
sky by Zeus. The constellation has 18 main stars, including
Antares. Which constellation?
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28. 16
Gellett Burgess coined a
word (blanked out, and
named after the character
shown). He gave the
meaning of the word as “a
flamboyant advertisement;
an inspired testimonial“.
The word stuck, and the act
it describes has thrived
since then, despite being
denigrated as “disgusting
tripe” by George Orwell. 28

29. 17
The type of headgear
shown here is made from
the pelt of a type of lamb.
The headgear takes its
name from that of the
sheep, which in turn takes
its name from a city in the
Bukhara province of
Uzbekistan. Name the hat.
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30. 18
This Sicilian pastry dessert
takes its name from its shape,
and literally means “little tube”.
It consists of tube shaped
shells of fried pastry dough
with a sweet creamy filling.
They became extremely
popular after a scene in
Godfather where Peter
Clemenza tells Rocco “Leave
the gun. Take the ______”.
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31. 19
The word is traditionally translated as “feeling” or
“sensation” in Sanskrit and Pali. Originally, all sensations
(when our sense organs interact with external objects) was
labeled thus. In Buddhism, the craving for, or attachment to
this concept is what leads to suffering. The Buddha teaches
that there are three modes for this – Sukha, Dukha and
Adhukkam-Asukkha. The Pali canons go into various
classes and modes for this term.
Today, however, the term is mostly associated with the
feeling of “pain”.
Which Sanskrit term?
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32. 20
He served the nation as a member of
IPS, and as an additional director of
RAW. However, he is also known for his
poetry – indeed, he won the Sahitya
Academy award in 1984 for his
collection “The keepers of the dead”.
It has often been said that J P Dutta’s
“Refugee” has been inspired by his
short story. Said story is familiar to
generations of NCERT students as it
appeared in the 12th standard textbook.
Who?
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33. WRITTEN ROUND – 2
Eight questions
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34. WRITTEN 2-1
Originally the term meant a figurative or
metaphorical use of a word or expression. In
medieval music, it meant additions of new music
to pre-existing chants. In the 20th century, the
meaning in music has been that of an
unordered collection of different pitches.
All the meanings are based on the Greek word
that mean “turn, direct”.
Of late, it has come to mean a recurring motif in
a genre, or a cliché. What word?
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35. WRITTEN-2.2
In 1974, a music producer was looking for a singer to record “I
want to give you everything” written by Steve Weiss. The
producer recruited a transplanted Jamaican singer he had met a
year earlier for this task. He then asked the singer if he had some
ideas on what should go on side B. As he recalled
He rattled of about four to five songs…one had the lyrics for
_____ ______ ______. Since it was going to be on the B side I
said ‘Fine, we’ll have a song called _____ _____ _____. So I
started working out a melody for it. Nothing was taken very
seriously. We put a lot of ‘hoos’ and ‘haas!’….
As it turned out the song on side B topped the charts, eventually
selling nine million copies.
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36. WRITTEN 2-3
Identify the person (Was a video Q, a
snapshot is given here)
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37. WRITTEN 2-4
I first heard of this word in a newspaper
article about a DOB quiz. The story was that
the person in the audience who answered
this had mugged up a list of some 500
phobias, and was waiting for some QM to
ask this. The word was invented here. What?
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38. WRITTEN 2-5
The rationale behind the development of the
product, launched in 1929, was to go
Swadeshi. The name of the product was taken
from a combination of and the
Latin word for oil
The elephant was chosen as the symbol
because of the association with Ganesha.
What product?
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39. WRITTEN 2-6
Some rice cookers,
especially those in
eastern asia has a
setting for “Congee”.
What exactly is
“Congee”? The word for
the dish in Bangladesh
and in most of south
India is phonetically
similar to “Congee”.
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40. WRITTEN 2-7
What was Marco Polo talking about when we
wrote “There is also a vegetable that has all
the properties of true saffron, as well as the
smell and the color, and yet it is not really
saffron”.
This was also called “Indian Saffron” in
medieval Europe. The English word for it
may have been derived from the French for
“worthy earth”.
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41. WRITTEN 2-8
For some reason, now forgotten, the man
shown below – a Dhobi called Panchem Lal has
always been the first to vote in this constituency.
People just do not vote till he has voted at the
Ram Nagar Primary School polling centre.
Which constituency?
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42. MAIN ROUND
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43. 21
The highest rank in the Royal Malaysian
Navy (the equivalent of the Admiral of the
fleet) is that of _________ Armada. The
equivalent in the Indonesian navy is ______
Besar.
The common word there (also used for
admiral in both navies) is taken from a
character in Indian mythology. Who?
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44. 22
Life Savers, now owned by Wrigleys, can be considered to
be a original version of candies like Poppins and Polo. In
1912, a Cleveland based chocolate, faced with the problem
of selling chocolates in summer, thought of manufacturing
and selling mints. He used a pill making machine, and
accidentally found the process worked better if the mints
were stamped with a hole in the middle.
His name is largely forgotten, but his estranged son (who
considered his childhood to be a “bloody battleground”) is
considered to be among the greatest American poets. He
wrote his best known work (inspired by one of the oldest
suspension bridges in the USA) as a counterpoint to the
bleak imagery in TS Eliot’s “The Waste Land”. Name the
son.
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45. 23
Cadbury (at that time Cadbury Schweppes
plc) had filed a case in 2007 against a rival
firm Darrell Lea, based out of Australia.
Cadbury alleged that Darrell Lea indulged in
misleading/deceptive conduct when they had
used Pantone 2685C.
What exactly is Pantone 2685C?
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46. 24
The century of the self was a 2002
documentary by Adam Curtis, in
which he described how the ideas
of the man shown here, along with
those of his uncle, and his cousin
influenced the way corporations
and governments have analyzed,
dealt with, and controlled people.
The documentary stated that the
man on the right was the father
of modern PR. Identify him.
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47. 25
This famous first novel was released in 20 parts over a period of
19 months. (The last part was a “double issue” that included parts
19 and 20). Each part contained 32 pages of letter press, 2
illustrations, various advertisements, and came wrapped in a
flimsy green-paper front and back cover. The price for each part
was one shilling (except for the last "double issue," which was
two).
The Obesity hypoventilation syndrome, a condition in obese
people in which poor breathing leads to lower oxygen and higher
carbon dioxide levels in the blood is also named after the
protagonist of this book.
The full name of the book is “The posthumous papers of ____
_____ _____”, it is popularly known by a shorter name.
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48. 26
The manuscript catalogued under call number MS 408 at
Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The provenance of the document before 1912 is scattered,
but it is known that the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II
owned it for a while. C14 dating seems to indicate that it
was created between 1404 and 1438.
A Polish revolutionary, who also happened to be the son-in-
law of George Boole bought it in 1912, and it has been
known by his name since then.
Which document?
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49. 27
Dhivehi-bas is a language that is spoken by
approximately 3,75,000 people today. The
writing system for the language is called
Thana, and is written from right to left. The
first nine letters are derived from the Arabic
numerals for 1-9, and the next nine letters
are taken from the indic numerals.
Where is this language spoken?
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50. 28
The philosophical question of whether these two
terms can be defined absolutely plagued Kant
(in his Prolegomena), and Wittgenstein
(Tractatus), among others.
Science too seemed to have no answers, till
physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-
American physicist conducted an experiment in
1958 that demonstrated an asymmetry when
atoms of Cobalt-60 are cooled close to absolute
zero and placed it in a power magnetic field.
What are the two terms?
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51. 29
The current association of this phrase started
with Rudyard Kipling. His 1888 short story
“On the City Wall” describes a character thus
“Lalun is a member of the most ____ ____
____ ____ …. In the West, people say rude
things of Lalun’s profession, and write
lectures about it and distribute the lectures to
young persons”
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52. 30
VIDEO
The video of the Indigo commercial about them going
international. The tune is from a comic opera that made it’s debut
in New York on 31 December 1879. The librettist and the music
director (who worked together) decided to debut in New York,
because at that time USA did not provide copyright protection to
foreigners. When their previous opera was a hit, hundreds of
American companies put up unauthorised productions without
paying copyright. They decided that they would put it up in USA
themselves first to avoid this. The title was a reference to those
Americans that they felt had robbed them of the money for their
previous opera.
Which opera are we talking about?
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53. 31
The Tulip chair (later
made popular by its use
in Star Trek) was
designed for the Knoll
company in 1956 by a
famous Finnish-
American architect and
industrial designer who
was responsible for the
design of the Gateway
Arch in St Louis, The
TWA terminal at JFK,
and the Dulles airport,
among others.
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54. 32
In 1961, this famous Jewish comedian received a letter from
someone (also famous) known to be an anti-semite. The letter
asked for an autographed photo. When he sent one out, he got a
second one asking for a photo with the iconic moustache and a
cigar. When this was sent, he got a reply that thanked him, stating
that “This is to let you know that your portrait has arrived and has
given me great joy and will soon appear in its frame on my wall
with other famous friends such as W.B. Yeats and Paul Valery.”.
The correspondence continued, culminating in dinner together at
the London flat of the first correspondent.
In his letters, the comedian was clearly in his element, writing
things like
“My best to you and your lovely wife, whoever she may be”, and
the name Tom fits many things. There was once a famous Jewish
actor named Thomashevsky. All male cats are named Tom—unless
they have been fixed.”
Name both of them.
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55. 33
This 1886 painting by George
Frederick Watts was the subject of a
sermon by Reverend Frederick G.
Sampson where he said "with her
clothes in rags, her body scarred and
bruised and bleeding, her harp all but
destroyed and with only one string left,
she had the audacity to make music
and praise God ... To take the one
string you have left and to have
the ____ ____ _____”.
What book took it’s title from this
sermon?
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56. 34
Books specifically meant for children were rather rare
at the time, and this 1883 fairy tale, although targeted
at children, also talked about the hard realities of life,
including the need for food and shelter. Indeed the
author had not originally intended for it to be a
children’s book – the original version had the
protagonist hanged at the end of it. However, he had
the “fairy with the turquoise hair” rescue the
protagonist and added 20 additional chapters to give
it a happy and positive ending.
The best known film adaption of the book was by
Disney.
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57. 35
AUDIO
Identify the two voices (Song from “The
Millionairess”)
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58. 36
A 780 line anonymous Latin love poem became
extremely popular throughout Europe. The poem had
the title “______, seu de Amore”. The name of the hero
of the poem was from the Greek for “Friend of
everyone” By the second half of the 13th century it was
read, quoted and anthologized in England, Provance,
France and Italy. It reached Holland, Germany and
Norway soon after.
By the 14th century, the name of the poem was being
used as a generic term for any text shorter than a book.
It is still a widely used word in a narrow version of that
meaning.
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59. 37
When Nixon died, who wrote the obituary in Rolling Stones that started
with
“Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing
-- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous
enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same
time. ”
and went on to
“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket
would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that
empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a
man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he
needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his
funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should
have been burned in a trash bin.”
The writer of this “eulogy” committed suicide in 2005 at the age of 67.
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60. 38
As a shape, the term is often used as a
synonym for rhombus (in general, it means a
thin rhombus). In heraldry, it refers to a diamond
shaped charge (for example, Pippa Middleton’s
coat of arms). The coat of arms of unmarried
women and widows are shown in this form.
Cough tablets often used this shape earlier, due
to which the term is today almost always
associated with them.
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The Athiratra Agnichayana is a 3000 year old Vedic ritual
that is considered to be the oldest surviving ritual of
mankind. This 12 day ritual, conducted by the
Namboothiri Brahmins of Kerala, was never seen by
outsiders before 1975. The altar of the Agnichayana was
a 5 layer bird shaped structure dedicated to Agni.
In 1975, he, along with Robert Gardner, convinced the
Namboothiris that this tradition should not be lost and
should be documented. The ritual was performed from
12th-24th April 1975. He then wrote an acclaimed book
‘Agni – The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar’ on the ritual.
He was also among the first to argue that Panini has
mastered the formal methods of linguisitics centuries
before people with Emil Post and Chomsky.
Name this scholar, who passed away a couple of months
back in Thailand.
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63. 40
“The mill and the cross” was considered to be
one of the standout films at Sundance 2011.
Directed by Lech Majewski, and starring
Rutger Hauer, it is set in the world of a painting
by a Flemish renaissance painter and
printmaker.
Another of his paintings was the subject of two
poems – one by Auden, and another one by
William Carlos Williams.
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Written 1
Common Adder
The first gramophone recording in India
Liff
The bed of Procustes/Procustes
Michael Connelly (Blood Work) and Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island)
Currant (from Corinth)
American Samoa
Thulium, Holmium, Gadolinium
Clockwise
Chemmeen
Latin America
Chagall
Cyrano De Bergerac
Karni Mata, She made a deal that people from her tribe would be reborn as rats till such time as they are
reborn back into the clan. Whence the rat temple
Chess. Term Castle/Castling came into vogue
Steve McQueen
Antic Hay
Bhupinder and Anand Bakshi. This is the song from Sholay. Chaar Bandh
Horsepower
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Clockwise (con’t)
Tom Taylor
- He fabricated this tract to encourage the local folks to take the smallpox vaccine. Since the original ones came
from the cowpox virus, he wrote this to convince them that this was a gift from the gods
- That these languages were from a separate family of “Dravidian” languages
- William Burroughs
- Scorpio
- Blurb
- Karakul
- Cannoli
- Vedana
- Keki Daruwalla
Written 2
1. Trope
2. Kung Fu fighting
3. Theremin
4. Arachybutyrophobia
5. Boroline
6. Kanji, Rice gruel, Rice porridge
7. Turmeric
8. Amethi
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Clockwise (con’t)
Laksmana
Hart Crane
The purple color in the logo and on the wrapper of Dairy Milk etc.
Edward Bernays
The Pickwick papers
Voynich Manuscript
Maldives
How to tell left from right
Prostitution being the oldest profession
The pirates of Penzance
Eero Saarinen
Groucho Marx and TS Eliot
The audacity of hope
Pinnochio
Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers
Pamphlet
Hunter Thomson
Lozenge
Frits Staal
Peter Bruegel the Elder (The procession to Calvary)
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