Flew quiz prelims 2019 (Food, Literature, Etymology, Wildlife), Quitzkrieg, the annual quizzing festival 2019 under Pulse 2019, AIIMS New Delhi

1. Quitzkrieg ‘19

2.  17 questions
 Questions 5,10 and 15 are star marked for ties
 No negatives

3.  In 1943, a group of American women whose husbands were
stationed in Eagle Pass (USA) at the Fort Duncan military base
crossed the bridge into the sister city Piedras Negras (Mexico) to go
shopping. Afterwards, they decided to stay for dinner, but all the
restaurants were closed except one: theVictory Club.The women
asked theVictory Club’s maître d', Ignacio Anaya, if they could
order food, but when Anaya went back into the kitchen, no-one
was there. So instead, Anaya tossed together whatever he could
find in the kitchen.
 Anaya took his invented snack out to the ladies, who asked him
what it was called it. Self-referentially , he quickly responded,
“_____’s Special!”
 Which food item was born here?

5.  Gyromitra esculenta is a
fungus found in coniferous
across North America and
Europe. Although
potentially fatal if eaten
raw, it is a delicacy in
Scandinavia.
 It develops winkles as a
result of aging, just like
human skin.
 What popular nickname is
it known by due to its
appearance?

7.  Pet rabbits are illegal in Queensland. Rabbits are
Australia’s most destructive agricultural and
environmental introduced animal pest, costing
up to $1 billion annually.They cause severe land
degradation and soil erosion and threaten the
survival of many rare and endangered native
species.
 There are the only two professions for which one
may obtain a permit to keep domestic rabbits.
One reason is for scientific and research
purposes.What is the other?

9.  According to the diary of H. J.Whitley, also
known as the “Father of X”, on his honeymoon in
1886 he stood at the top of the hill looking out
over the valley. Along came a Chinese man
hauling wood in a wagon.The man got out of
the wagon and bowed.Whitley asked the
Chinese man what he was doing. On hearing the
man’s reply H. J.Whitley had an epiphany and
decided to name his new town X.
 ID X.

11.  In ancient Greek theater, where actors who
were playing gods were brought onto stage
using a machine.The machine could be either
a crane used to lower actors from above or a
riser which brought them up through a
trapdoor.
 What often used plot device finds its origin
here?

13.  A fictional
depiction of whose
birth?
 (A case of wrong
etymology)

15.  With other attempts failing, in November 2017,
the Indian Railways came up with an alternative
strategy, X to prevent trains from hitting
elephants crossing tracks. X involves setting up
of devices near tracks, which emit a ‘buzzing’
sound simulating the natural nemesis of
elephants.
 This has reportedly been a huge success and has
reduced the number of casualties drastically.
 Put in some wordplay and give us the name of
this alternative strategy

17.  A and B are two characters that appear in multiple works by several
authors. In the very first work, A and B are in a race. Aristotle
recounts the premise of this race thus:
 ‘’In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest,
since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued
started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.’’
 In another work by Lewis Carroll, A and B are having a dialogue.
The dialogue is a discussion on the foundations of logic, where B
leads A into the trap of infinite regression.
 In the Pulitzer winning non-fiction work, Godel Escher Bach, A and
B are recurring characters in the same format of discussion as the
last, but with other companions to aid and abet such as the Crab.
 Who are A and B?

19.  A batacchio is a club-like object composed of
two wooden slats.When struck, the
batacchio produces a loud smacking noise,
though little force transfers from the object
to the person being struck.What term did
this device give rise to?

22.  On October 19, 2017, when RobertWeryk, a Canadian
astronomer, turned the Pan-STARRS telescope at the
Haleakala observatory in Hawaii towards the Sun, he
detected an object moving away from the star. Its peculiar
trajectory was immediately studied by astronomers,
which resulted in a major discovery: the object was the
first to enter the solar system from interstellar space. It
was first named ‘X’ after the asteroid like interstellar
spaceship from one ofY’s most iconic science fiction
novels. But, later it was named as ‘Oumuamua’ in
Hawaiian language as the object was first detected from
there. Oumuamua roughly translates to the ‘first
messenger or scout from the distant past to reach out’.

24.  The Kakapo is a species of large, nocturnal,
ground dwelling bird of the super-family
Strigopoidea native to New Zealand.
 It is also known as the ___ ______ owing to its
appearance. FITB. Imge follows.

27.  Amazon came up with a special edition of kindle to be released
primarily in a limited area where the special edition was most
needed. With upto 8 times increased storage, and 33 percent
faster page turning speed, (both of which were very necessary for
the special task) this new edition is aimed at facilitating something
at which kindle was previously poor at.
 Before this, the sole facilitators of this included third party
programs, and apps, one of which was Mangle – which describes
itself as having many features to optimize and sort files, convert
images to greyscale and maintain their visual quality and add
metadata to allow proper recognition and to ensure that the order
is maintained.
 What is the special edition for?

29.  In nineteenth-centuryAmerica, the belief
that X were usually made out of dog meat
was so widespread that they started to be
called Y, a word that survives to this day.

30.  X – Sausages
 Y – Hot dogs

31.  Lingaa is a 2014 IndianTamil language action drama film written
and directed by K.S. Ravikumar.
 The first scene of Rajinikanth’s character has him reading a book X
byY that is relevant to the plot of the film. According to the
director Ravi Kumar the hero has multiple facets to his personality
some of which are “a collector, a king, a civil engineer, a patriot, a
socially responsible citizen, a leader, a communist, and finally, a
common man.”The character arc is reminiscent(or not) of the
major theory in X, of how the hero journeys into an unknown world
where he encounters enemies and after the accomplishment of
the objective, leaves the world.
 ID X andY.

33.  Xs were known in India where they were known by the sanskrit word naranga.
The prefix 'nar' means aroma, perhaps reflecting that back then Xs weren't
eaten as food.They were just used for their aromatic properties.
 The X traveled west and was called the narang in Persia.When the fruit arrived
in France, it may have been pronounced un naranj, which doesn't sound very
different than un aranj from where X derives it’s English name.
 William of X led theY in revolt which led to the formation of theY republic.Y is
intricately linked to X with most of their sport uniforms heavily featuring X.
"Back then theY were known as Z farmers, you could get their Zs in white or
yellow or purple.Then in the 17th century a breed of Z was developed that was
X. And theY started growing this in great abundance in tribute to William of X
to such a degree that almost all other forms of Z had gone out of mass
agricultural production and in this very roundabout way our Zs are X because
our Xs are X.

34.  X- Orange
 Y- Holland
 Z- Carrot

35.  The name Coccinellids is derived from the
latin word Cocineus meaning scarlet.Their
common name originated in Britain, from the
Virgin Mary, who was depicted as wearing a
red cloak in Early paintings, and the seven
spots are said to represent Mary's seven
sorrows and seven joys.What are the
coccinellids?

37.  X Diaries, a web series aired on Youtube, is in the
format of a vlog narrated by the eponymous character
and is an adaptation of a famous work. It is set in
current time, as opposed to the source material. It
spurred the creation of three sequels, two of which are
adaptations of other works of the author of the original
work.
 The main character narrates the story mainly from
his/her bedroom for initial few episodes, with the help
of his/her best friend and occasionally his/her sisters,
by using props to imitate other people, family and
friends
 ID X and the work.

38. What is the original work on which the show is based?