The document discusses a range of cultural and historical topics including art, literature, food, and animals. It mentions Charles Blackman's paintings inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland,' the Australian outback exhibit at San Diego Zoo, and the origin of various dishes like rasam and pretzel. Additionally, it references notable figures and events such as Truman Capote, the naming of sirloin steak, and the four-horned antelope in India.

2. 1)
• These are few paintings of a series by Australian painter Charles
Blackman who died on August 20 this year.
• What are these works based on?

5. Alice in Wonderland

6. 2)
• The Australian Outback Exhibit at the San Diego Zoo, is very aptly named
(imo), it being a pun on the name of the home state California, using the
name of a marsupial.
• What is it called?

8. 3)
• Traditionally prepared using tamarind juice as a base, with the
addition of tomato, chili pepper, pepper, cumin and other spices as
seasonings, this South Indian soup derives its name from a Tamil word
for ‘juice’.

9. Rasam

10. 4)
• Shown in the following image is a common ____ or a Eurasian ____.
What tertiary colour derives its name from that of this bird? Blank
length indicative.

12. Teal

13. 5) *
Adjacent is Gustav Dore’s
interpretation of confusio
linguarum, which is the origin
myth or the fragmentation of
human languages described in
the Book of Genesis 11:1–9, as a
result of Y. Genesis 11:1 claims
that prior to the event, humanity
spoke a single language. In the
Confusio Linguarum, this
language was split into seventy or
seventy-two dialects, depending
on tradition. X, a famous item in
the world of literature, derives
it’s name from Y. ID X and Y

14. Babel Fish

15. 6)
• The image shows Guru Sweet Mart, which packs in quite a bit of history in that,
being run by the descendants of its inventor, it holds the original recipe to an
iconic sweet that was first made in the place over 100 years ago.
• The story goes thus: The Maharaja of the place, Krishnaraja Wodeyar was a
great food connoisseur with quite a sweet tooth.One day as he was about to
have his lunch, his chef Kakasura Madappa, realised that he had prepared lunch,
but there was no dessert.With time running out and no options, the desperate
Madappa began experimenting, and ultimately by putting together gram flour,
ghee and sugar, he came up with something, which was presented to the king as
a hot, fudge like sweet, which ended up delighting the king immensely. On being
asked what this new dessert was called, Madappa said the first thing that came
to his mind, the ______ ___!

17. Mysore Pak

18. 7)
• This is the self portrait of
which 16th century Italian
artist , a more subtle , simple
& stylistically different
drawing compared to the
imaginative portrait heads
he's known for?

19. Giuseppe Arcimboldo

20. 8) *
Iyobinte Pusthakam (The Book of Job) is 2014
Malayalam period thriller film set in 1900 in Munnar,
Western Ghats in British occupied India.
It follows the life of Iyob and the sibling rivalry between
his sons Aloshy, Ivan and Dimitri who are named after
the characters from a classic, although the plot isn’t
related to it. Which one?

21. • The brothers Karamazov
• Alexei became Aloshy

22. 9)
• Truman Capote
• E M Forster
• Selma Lagerlof
• Walt Whitman
• Vikram Seth
• Marcel Proust
• Gertrude Stein
• Non exhaustive list of?

23. • Gay writers

24. Xs are large with a very straight back
They have curved ears and can carry a pack
They’ll guard your sheep while you’re asleep
They descend from A if you go far enough back
Ys are short and they like to hum
Their back is sloped towards their bum
They’re bred for their fleece (which doesn’t have grease)
They come from B, in the Andean sun
…….
X are taller, Y are smaller
They have more in common than difference between.
• X,Y?
10) *

25. llama alpaca

26. 11)
• A number of legends (inaccurately) claim its name came from it being
'knighted' by a monarch, although it is variously ascribed to Henry
VIII, Elizabeth I and James I.
• According to one version, King James I is said to have been very
impressed by a particularly tasty bit of beef during a meal at Hoghton
tower in Lancashire in 1617, and, drawing his short sword, he ordered
the pages at the tower to bring the meat to him. As everyone went
down on their knees, he proceeded to knight it, saying, “Arise, ___
____”.
• What was said to have got its name thus?

27. • Sirloin steak

28. 12)
• The four horned antelope(Tetraceros quadricornis) is a small antelope
found in India and Nepal, differing from most other bovids in the
number of horns it has.
• The swamp deer(Cervus duvaucelli) is another deer species found in
the Indian subcontinent. It differs from other Indian deer species in
that the antlers carry more than three tines. Because of this
distinctive character it is called __________ in Hindi.
• Give me the Hindi names of both species.

30. • Chousingha and barasingha

31. 13) ID the grave

32. • Edgar Allan Poe

33. 14)
• Whose version of Death of Marat?

34. Edvard Munch

35. 15) Connect, each image represents a book.

36. Books on Trump Govt.
• Fear (Bob Woodward)
• A Higher Loyalty (Comey)
• Unhinged (Omarosa)
• Fire and Fury (Michael Wolff)

37. 16) *
• Whose works is this photoshoot based on?

38. • Whose works is this Photoshoot based on?

40. Egon Schiele

41. 17)
• There are numerous unreliable accounts regarding the origin of this food
item, as well as the origin of the name; most assume that they have
Christian backgrounds and were invented by European monks.
• According to legend, in 610 AD "... an Italian monk invents ________ as a
reward to children who learn their prayers. He calls the strips of baked
dough, folded to resemble arms crossing the chest, 'pretiola' ("little
reward[s]")”.However, there is no known historical evidence to verify this
claim.
• It may also be related to a Greek ring bread, derived from communion
bread used in monasteries a thousand years ago. In Germany, there are
stories that these were the invention of desperate bakers held hostage by
local dignitaries.
• Which food item?

42. Pretzel

43. 18)
• This is a Channing Tatum-ized version of which iconic artwork?

44. Venus de Milo