Separation of Lanthanides/ Lanthanides and Actinides
Food MIles
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2. Though it’s a Food and Travel quiz, due
to my poor set you people gonna feel it
like a general one.
Total 37 questions..24 on food and 13
questions are travel related.
Pounce will be followed
Please bear with me today
7. In 1921, Jesse G. Kirby and Rueben W.
Jackson opened the Kirby’s Pig Stand in
Dallas, Texas and changes fast food forever.
Kirby has been quoted saying, “People with
cars are so lazy, they don’t want to get out of
them.”
Why this restaurant is so special ?
13. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, wife of
deputy chief minister of
Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal was
elected to the 15th Lok
Sabha from the Bhatinda
constituency. She has started a
project named "Nanhi Chhan"
(means innocent lives), a
movement to save girl child and
trees.
She is currently holding which
post?
15. She is the Union Cabinet Minister
of Food Processing in the present
Government of India..
16. Which fast food chain ?
The first X outlet was opened in Gurgaon
in May 2003
Ashish Kapur, managing director of Moods
Hospitality recalls this memory as “We had
invited 200 people for the trial run. About
600 turned up. Even Kapil Dev had to
queue up for food”.
19. Which dish ?
This dish literally means “assorted pieces”, consisting of
meat (chicken, fish, beef, prawns or pork) and eggs that are
cooked quickly with vegetables (usually bean sprouts,
cabbage and celery) and bound in a starch-thickened sauce.
Rice normally accompanies this delicious dish.
As myth goes, a 1860′s Chinese restaurant cook in San
Francisco was forced to serve something to the drunken
miners after hours. To avoid a beating, having no fresh food,
he threw leftovers in a wok and served them. They loved the
dish, asked him what it was called to which he replied X.
A popular song also has taken the name from this famous
food..
22. X?
When the Russians invaded Paris after Napoleon I’s
fall in 1815, restaurant owners or their shills would
lure them into their places by shouting the Russian
word X, meaning “quick,” assuring them that they
could eat quickly here at a good price. They used the
word so often that it became altered to X, the common
French word for any small unpretentious restaurant
where cheap meals could be had, and from there the
word soon entered into English.
Now it means a small restaurant, serving moderately
priced simple meals in a modest setting.
Au X is also a famous work by French painter Jean
Béraud (Next slide)
29. Which shop?
In an unaired pilot episode, the shop was
called “Mrs. Hudson's Snax n' Sarnies”.
Their menu goes as –
Chicken, bacon, cheddar cheese (as sharp as
Sherlock’s tongue)
Cucumber, lettuce, peppers, and red onions,
topped with chilli sauce (hot enough to, as
Moriarty said, “burn the heart out of you”).
Sherlock wrap : wrapped up as tightly as
Sherlock’s personality.”
32. What did they declare and the funda
behind it?
Queen Elizabeth went to Saudi Arabia in 1979
and there were restrictions for them
Queen had to wear dresses covering from
wrists to ankle and had to attach scarves to
her hat
Prince Philip was asked not to sit cross legged
as turning sole of shoe towards a man’s face
considered as insult
Saudi Arabia declared something to make
dinner with King Khaled of Saudi Arabia
possible.
34. Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain was
declared an honorary man as women
eat separately in their country..
35. This fruit has been used to treat pains
like migraines, arthritis, muscle pain and
sinusitis. It contains Capsaicin, which is
said to ease digestion problems, lower
blood-pressure and boost energy levels.
Which famous fruit?
38. Name the movie and the phrase which
variations include "le client n'a jamais tort"
which was the slogan of hotelier César
Ritz who said, "If a diner complains about a
dish or the wine, immediately remove it and
replace it, no questions asked". Another
variation frequently used in Germany is "der
Kunde ist König”.
41. Give me the term
This term refers to the
distance food is transported from the time of its
production until it reaches the consumer.
The concept originated in the early 1990s in the
United Kingdom. It was conceived by Professor Tim
Lang, at the Sustainable Agriculture Food and
Environment (SAFE) Alliance and first appeared in
print in a report “The X Report: The dangers of long-distance
food transport”, researched and written by
Angela Paxton…
47. Give X
In Greek mythology and Roman mythology,
a X is a female monster in the form of a bird
with a human face. They steal food from their
victims while they are eating and carry
evildoers (especially those who have killed
their family) to the Erinyes. Their name means
"snatchers". The term is often used
metaphorically to refer to a nasty or annoying
woman. (pic in the next slide)
51. Name the rule
As folklore goes, food dropped on the ground will not be
significantly contaminated with bacteria if it is picked up
within a specific time of being dropped. Some may earnestly
believe this assertion, whereas other people employ the rule
as a polite social fiction that allows them to still eat a lightly
contaminated piece of food. In 2004, Jillian Clarke received
the Ig Nobel for her study on this rule. She found in a survey
that 56% of men and 70% of women surveyed, were familiar
with the rule. She also determined that a variety of foods
were significantly contaminated by even brief exposure to a
tile inoculated with E. coli. On the other hand, Clarke found
no significant evidence of contamination on public flooring.
54. Which popular dish?
A Pakistani chef, Ali Ahmed Aslam is credited for this
dish. His son described that story on BBC's Hairy
Bikers TV cookery program as "On a typical dark, wet
Glasgow night a bus driver coming off shift, came in
and ordered a chicken curry. But he sent it back to the
waiter saying it's dry. At the time Dad had an ulcer and
was enjoying a plate of tomato soup. So he said why not
put some tomato soup into the curry with some spices.
They sent it back to the table and the bus driver
absolutely loved it. He and his friends came back again
and again and we put it on the menu.”
57. X?
X is a Japanese super-soldier serum that
causes enhanced physical strength, speed,
endurance, durability, agility, stamina, reflexes,
and an accelerated healing factor once injected,
however its use is dangerous, as the serum can
easily prove fatal if not correctly administered.
It was created by the Imperial Japanese
Army during World War II, in hopes of creating
an army of super soldiers. They transported
their only supply by submarine, and when it
was under heavy fire by the Allied Forces, it ran
aground on Lian Yu island.
60. Which drug and why it so controversial?
X is a hallucinogenic inhalant. In the mid-
1990s, it was reported to be a popular street
drug among Zambian street children. In
November 2007, anecdotal American media
reports created the false impression that X was
a popular drug in American schools which
causes much controversy. Several sources
reported that this report was based on
a hoax and "on faulty Internet research.
63. Which term ?
In America the term is used to
describe a small, usually hand-operated
elevator used to carry
food and drink. The British,
however, use the word to mean
what Americans call a lazy
susan. “The X” is also famous
play by Noble prize winning
playwright Harold Pinter.
69. Fill in the blanks
This is an excerpt from a famous book –
“Harry ran up the hall into the kitchen and felt
his stomach disappear.
___________’s masterpiece of a pudding, the
mountain of cream and sugared violets, was
floating up near the ceiling.”
72. This fruits are generally edible
and tasty. In taste, the berries
range from tart to sweet, with a
flavor similar to that of
a blueberry, especially in blue-and
purple-colored varieties.
However, many kinds of this
particular fruit have a
noticeable, distinct taste
different from blueberries, and
some have noticeably larger
seeds.
Identify it with the help of a
classic children book.
75. Who contributed to a 1935 cocktail book as:
“Pour one jigger absinthe into a champagne
glass. Add iced champagne until it attains the
proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to
five of these slowly” ? This drink is known
as death in the Afternoon or X champagne.
Other cocktails invented by him includes Death
in the Gulf Stream (a mix of gin, lime and
bitters), the X daiquiri (made with grapefruit
juice instead of sugar and with a splash of
maraschino liqueur) and the X Hammer
(Bacardi and various fruit liqueurs).
78. Which term?
Gerardus Mercator was
a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician
.He is best known for his work in cartography,
in particular the world map of 1569 based on a
new projection known as Mercator
projection which takes all meridians as straight
lines at right angles to the parallels of latitude,
and is the basis of mapmaking today.
He used a very popular term for the first time to
denote something.
81. The origin of the festival's name based on the cult TV
show X, which was filmed largely on location
at Portmeirion. This famous British television series of
the 1960s is composed of 17 episodes. The main
character is called "Number 6", and was played by the
actor Patrick McGoohan. This TV show made the
village famous internationally. The character "Number
6" embodies a free thinking spirit, an ideal adopted by
the festival. (picture in the next)
Which famous tv series ?
86. This term describes the transformation of
something, usually society at large. The terms
are generally used in a negative way, and they
imply homogenization
of consumption, merchandising, and emotional
labor. It is derived from a famous park as their
environment are not natural though they look
beautiful.
Term ?
89. Which city?
X is the largest city of Morocco as well as of
Africa, is located in the western part of the
country on the Atlantic Ocean. X, a Latinized
Portuguese word literally means “White House”
X is also a 1942 classic romantic movie which
went on to win 3 academy awards.
95. Name the strait
A Strait is a narrow waterway connecting two
larger bodies of water. X, is the only natural
connection between the Atlantic ocean and the
Mediterranean sea. It is well known for the
Barbary Apes, who live on the Rock of
Gibraltar. The strait is about 984 ft (300 m)
deep, about 37 mi
(60 km) long, and about 8 mi (13 km) wide.
(picture follows)
99. ______ is a district of Panama City, located at
the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
The town of _____, founded by the United
States during the construction of the Panama
Canal, was named after Vasco Núñez de
_____, the Spanish conquistador credited with
discovering the Pacific Ocean.
It is also a dance that originated in Southern
California during the 1920s and 1930s which
is now refers to a fusion of dances that
originated from that era.
Name the place with the help of a main
character of a famous movie series ..
105. Name of the train
Named after the Stone Chariot in the Vitthala
Temple at Hampi this is a luxury tourist
train that connects the important tourist spots
in the Indian states
of Karnataka, Goa, Kerala &Tamil Nadu as
well as Pondicherry. The 19 coaches on the
train are coloured purple and gold, carries the
logo of a mythological animal with the head of
an elephant and a body of a lion. (picture
follows)
109. The work consists of 66 chapters, most of them
about the length of a long paragraph in English.
For instance, the short Chapter 9 reads in its
entirety:
"From Malao (Berbera) it is two courses to the
mart of Moundou, where ships anchor more safely
by an island lying very close to the land. The
imports to this are as aforesaid and from it
likewise are exported the same goods and
fragrant gum called
mokrotou (Sanskrit makaranda). The inhabitants
who trade here are more peaceful.“
Excerpt from which work or how this first type of
travel guides are commonly known ?
111. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and this
type of works are known as Periplus
112. This Hindu temple which attracts approximately
70 percent of all tourists who visit Delhi, was
officially opened on 6 November 2005.It holds the
Guinness World Records for the World's Largest
Comprehensive Hindu Temple.
Identify..