X is the Dutch pronunciation of "Karimanal", a village in Sriharikota island in north Andhra Pradesh. The first Dutch ship stopped here for water and spelled the name as X. Today X refers not just to the village but more broadly. ISO was formed after WWII to standardize terms and conditions across countries, with English, French and Russian as official languages. It is not an acronym and was derived from the Greek word for equal.

1. Salt & Pepper
ExHiBIT
A General Quiz
By: Atharva D Ghadge
PRELIMS

2. 1. Two Pointer
During WWII, a trade embargo was established against Nazi Germany –
making the import of X difficult. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of
X Deutschland decided to create a new product for the German market,
using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including whey
and apple pomace—the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled.
The name of the new product was the result of a brief brainstorming
session, which started with Keith's exhorting his team to "use their
imagination".
What was X and the new product?

3. 2.
DUMBO is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The
area known as DUMBO used to be known as Gairville.
Jerry Seinfeld referred to Dumbo on a late-night talk show appearance,
joking that it stands for "____ _____ _________ ______", but that New
Yorkers added the "O" at the end because they did not want to live in a
neighborhood called "Dumb"
The neighborhood is parodied in Grand Theft Auto IV as BOABO
("Beneath the Off-ramp of the Algonquin ______ ________")

5. 3
The term was first found in English from 1696, where it was used to
describe the dwellings in India for English sailors of the East India
Company. Later it became used for the spacious homes or official
lodgings of officials of the British Raj, and was so known in Britain and
later America, where it initially had high status and exotic connotations.
The style began to be used in the late 19th century for large country or
suburban residential buildings built in an Arts and Crafts or other Western
vernacular style—essentially as large cottages, a term also sometimes
used. Later developers began to use the term for smaller buildings.
The term derives from a particular region in Southeast Asia.
What term? What region?

6. 4. Who?

7. 5. Give Funda

8. 6. Gimme X
US graphic design writer Steven Heller shows how it was
enthusiastically adopted in the West as an architectural motif,
on advertising and product design.
"Coca-Cola used it. Carlsberg used it on their beer bottles.
The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls' Club of America
called their magazine X. They would even send out X badges
to their young readers as a prize for selling copies of the
magazine," he says.

9. 7. What word?
According to Katherine Connor Martin, the Head of Content Creation at
Oxford Dictionaries, this word is traditionally said to come from Greek
______‘wise’ and _____‘fool’ (the same root from which we get the word
moron), making it particularly apt for the combination of arrogance and
ignorance evinced by young people emboldened by the completion of
something.
The word originated at the University of Cambridge, where it is now
obsolete, but by 1726 it had crossed the pond to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, when it was used at Harvard, and to Yale by 1764.

10. 8. Two Pointer
In relation to this
practice, X issued an
apology in March
2016.
Name any one of the
two condemned
“crimes” committed
by X?
Also ID X.

11. 9.
Its three official languages are English, French, and Russian.
It is not an acronym.
During the founding meetings of the new organization, the Greek word
explanation was not invoked, so this meaning may have been made
public later.
Because ‘it’ would have different acronyms in different languages (___ in
English, ___ in French), the founders decided to give it the short form X.
X is derived from the Greek ____, meaning equal. Whatever the country,
whatever the language, the short form of the name is always X.

12. 10.
WHEN Neil Armstrong returned from the moon, he was showered with
congratulatory messages. One, from _______ (country), sent by ____,
stood out from the rest. It was a drawing showing the American astronaut
emerging from the lunar module ready to take that first small step onto the
moon. But there, in bright orange space suits waiting to greet him, was
some sort of reception committee. A bald-pated man with spectacles was
holding out a bunch of roses. A rough-looking fellow held a placard saying
‘Welcome’. And striding forward were two others. “Welcome to the moon,
Mr Armstrong,” he said.
The similarities between their moon mission and NASA’s were uncanny –
and all the more remarkable because when they went to the moon, the
space race had not even started and space travel was still in the realm of
fantasy.

13. 11.
Swedish dairy technologist Edward ________ arrived in India in 1889. In
1894, he took over the ailing Aligarh Dairy in the United Provinces,
modern Uttar Pradesh, and turned it profitable. In 1925, he opened a
sprawling dairy farm in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area, marking the
genesis of the brand. In the late 1960s, he even began supplying milk
powder and condensed milk to the Indian Army.
This firm was resurrected in 2014 with a complete makeover.
What are we talking about?

14. 12.
Who (making his first appearance in 2003) is described here?
● Based on a combination of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith
Richards and Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew.
● Claims to have a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature”,
although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him.
● Is a trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to
end disputes verbally instead of by force.
● Walks with a slightly drunk swagger and has slurred speech and
flailing hand gestures.

15. 13.
X is the Dutch pronunciation of "Karimanal", a village in the
Sriharikota island in the north of Pazhavercadu (Pulecat Lake).
Pazhavercadu (Pulecat) was an early Dutch settlement along with
Masoolipatnam in present-day Andhra Pradesh. There is a Dutch
Cemetery belonging to the seventeenth Century at Pulecat. It is
said that the first Dutch ship stopped here for fresh drinking water,
and upon asking the name of the place Karimanal was spelled as
X.
Today, X refers to not just the village, but a lot more.

16. 14. (1+1) Not a Jon Snow question
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the _____
Conference or ____ ______ Conference, was convened for a
particular reason during the New Imperialism period and coincided
with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
The conference was organized by X.
The conference ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity
by European powers, which eliminated or overrode most existing
forms of ______ autonomy and self-governance.
What did the conference lead to and who was X?

17. 15. Connect
● George Herbert, 5th Earl of
Carnarvon
● George Jay Gould I
● Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey
● Colonel The Hon. Aubrey
Herbert, MP
● Sir Archibald Douglas-Reid
● Sir Lee Stack,
Governor-General of Sudan,
● A. C. Mace
● The Hon. Mervyn Herbert
● Captain The Hon. Richard
Bethell
● Richard Luttrell Pilkington
Bethell
● Howard Carter

18. 16. Connect
Dogma
Getting a fix
Vital statistics
Impediment
Cacophonic
Geriatrics
Unhygienic
Bacteria
Fully Automatic

19. 17 (1+1)
To ensure commonality of terms and conditions of service, a
Memorandum of Agreement was signed in 1947 between the
Governments of UK, India and Nepal, in which the
Government of Nepal agreed to a particular arrangement.
This also resolved a conflict between a particular British
organisation and its Indian counterpart, by means of mutual
division. This agreement came to be known as the
Britain-India-Nepal Tripartite Agreement.
What was the arrangement? What was/were divided?

20. 18. Exhaustive- Kaafi Khatraa
● Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir
● Tulsishyam, Amreli, Gujarat
● Kalo Dungar, Kutch, Gujarat
● Flyover ahead of Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR),
Mumbai

21. 19. “Trivial” Trivia
Feb 22nd, 1937
TIME cover: “World’s
Richest Man”

22. 20.
Percival Christopher ____ was born in Deptford, South London, England,
the son of a schoolmaster. In 1903, he joined the Indian Education
Service as headmaster of Karachi High School.
During the British Raj, the children of British officers studied in Indian
schools built by the Englishmen. With the lack of quality books available in
India on the subject, X, along with Y, wrote these books and published
them in 1935.
Written primarily for the children of British officers residing in India, these
books were widely adopted by Indian and Pakistani schools in the
post-colonial era and missionary schools in Burma.

23. 21.
The logo is stylized to make the first two letters look like a
sine wave and the last two letters like binary digits 1 and 0,
the combination representing the merging of analog and
digital signals.
The sound some models make when starting up is derived
from the melody created when pressing a telephone keypad
to spell the letters in the name.

24. 22.
The creator was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name
of Y apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. By
sheer coincidence, the Japanese word Y (乱暴) means
"violent" or "rough". He was granted the first name "X" as a
reference to the American patriotic song, “Johnny came
marching home”.
Who are we talking about?

25. 23. Exhaustive
1. Dharwad Pedha
2. Tirupathi Laddu
3. Ratlami Sev
4. Bikaneri Bhujia
5. Bardhaman Mihidana
6. Jaynagarer Moa

26. 24.
Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian
bodhisattva associated with compassion and
venerated by Mahayana Buddhists and
followers of Chinese folk religions, also
known as the "Goddess of Mercy" in English.
The Chinese name Guanyin, short for
Guanshiyin, means "[The One Who]
Perceives the Sounds of the World".
Which Multinational corporation derives its
name from this goddess?

27. 25. Obligatory
The master plan was conceived as a post war one wherein
vertical and high rises were ruled out, keeping in view the
socio economic-conditions and living habits of the people.
The metaphor of a human being was being employed in the
plan – the ‘head’ contained the capital complex, the ‘heart’
the commercial centre, and the ‘arms’, which were
perpendicular to the main axis, had the academic and leisure
facilities.
What is being talked about here?

28. 1. Two Pointer
During WWII, a trade embargo was established against Nazi Germany –
making the import of X difficult. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of
X Deutschland decided to create a new product for the German market,
using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including whey
and apple pomace—the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled.
The name of the new product was the result of a brief brainstorming
session, which started with Keith's exhorting his team to "use their
imagination".
What was X and the new product?

29. Coca Cola; Fanta

30. 2.
DUMBO is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The
area known as DUMBO used to be known as Gairville.
Jerry Seinfeld referred to Dumbo on a late-night talk show appearance,
joking that it stands for "____ _____ _________ ______", but that New
Yorkers added the "O" at the end because they did not want to live in a
neighborhood called "Dumb"
The neighborhood is parodied in Grand Theft Auto IV as BOABO
("Beneath the Off-ramp of the Algonquin ______ ________")

32. Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass

33. 3
The term was first found in English from 1696, where it was used to
describe the dwellings in India for English sailors of the East India
Company. Later it became used for the spacious homes or official
lodgings of officials of the British Raj, and was so known in Britain and
later America, where it initially had high status and exotic connotations.
The style began to be used in the late 19th century for large country or
suburban residential buildings built in an Arts and Crafts or other Western
vernacular style—essentially as large cottages, a term also sometimes
used. Later developers began to use the term for smaller buildings.
The term derives from a particular region in Southeast Asia.
What term? What region?

34. Bungalows

35. 4. Who?

36. Helen Keller

37. 5. Give Funda

38. Daylight Saving Time

39. 6. Gimme X
US graphic design writer Steven Heller shows how it was
enthusiastically adopted in the West as an architectural motif,
on advertising and product design.
"Coca-Cola used it. Carlsberg used it on their beer bottles.
The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls' Club of America
called their magazine X. They would even send out X badges
to their young readers as a prize for selling copies of the
magazine," he says.

41. 7. What word?
According to Katherine Connor Martin, the Head of Content Creation at
Oxford Dictionaries, this word is traditionally said to come from Greek
______‘wise’ and _____‘fool’ (the same root from which we get the word
moron), making it particularly apt for the combination of arrogance and
ignorance evinced by young people emboldened by the completion of
something.
The word originated at the University of Cambridge, where it is now
obsolete, but by 1726 it had crossed the pond to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, when it was used at Harvard, and to Yale by 1764.

42. Sophomore

43. 8. Two Pointer
In relation to this
practice, X issued an
apology in March
2016.
Name any one of the
two condemned
“crimes” committed
by X?
Also ID X.

45. 9.
Its three official languages are English, French, and Russian.
It is not an acronym.
During the founding meetings of the new organization, the Greek word
explanation was not invoked, so this meaning may have been made
public later.
Because ‘it’ would have different acronyms in different languages (___ in
English, ___ in French), the founders decided to give it the short form X.
X is derived from the Greek ____, meaning equal. Whatever the country,
whatever the language, the short form of the name is always X.

46. ISO
International Organization for Standardization
Organisation internationale de normalisation
Международная организация по стандартизации

47. 10.
WHEN Neil Armstrong returned from the moon, he was showered with
congratulatory messages. One, from _______ (country), sent by ____,
stood out from the rest. It was a drawing showing the American astronaut
emerging from the lunar module ready to take that first small step onto the
moon. But there, in bright orange space suits waiting to greet him, was
some sort of reception committee. A bald-pated man with spectacles was
holding out a bunch of roses. A rough-looking fellow held a placard saying
‘Welcome’. And striding forward were two others. “Welcome to the moon,
Mr Armstrong,” he said.
The similarities between their moon mission and NASA’s were uncanny –
and all the more remarkable because when they went to the moon, the
space race had not even started and space travel was still in the realm of
fantasy.

48. Belgium; Herge

49. 11.
Swedish dairy technologist Edward ________ arrived in India in 1889. In
1894, he took over the ailing Aligarh Dairy in the United Provinces,
modern Uttar Pradesh, and turned it profitable. In 1925, he opened a
sprawling dairy farm in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area, marking the
genesis of the brand. In the late 1960s, he even began supplying milk
powder and condensed milk to the Indian Army.
This firm was resurrected in 2014 with a complete makeover.
What are we talking about?

51. 12.
Who (making his first appearance in 2003) is described here?
● Based on a combination of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith
Richards and Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew.
● Claims to have a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature”,
although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him.
● Is a trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to
end disputes verbally instead of by force.
● Walks with a slightly drunk swagger and has slurred speech and
flailing hand gestures.

52. (Captain) Jack Sparrow

53. 13.
X is the Dutch pronunciation of "Karimanal", a village in the
Sriharikota island in the north of Pazhavercadu (Pulecat Lake).
Pazhavercadu (Pulecat) was an early Dutch settlement along with
Masoolipatnam in present-day Andhra Pradesh. There is a Dutch
Cemetery belonging to the seventeenth Century at Pulecat. It is
said that the first Dutch ship stopped here for fresh drinking water,
and upon asking the name of the place Karimanal was spelled as
X.
Today, X refers to not just the village, but a lot more.

54. Coromandel

55. Reason: Division of
Africa among
European colonial
powers (Scramble for
Africa)
Chancellor: Otto von
Bismarch

56. 15. Connect
● George Herbert, 5th Earl of
Carnarvon
● George Jay Gould I
● Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey
● Colonel The Hon. Aubrey
Herbert, MP
● Sir Archibald Douglas-Reid
● Sir Lee Stack,
Governor-General of Sudan,
● A. C. Mace
● The Hon. Mervyn Herbert
● Captain The Hon. Richard
Bethell
● Richard Luttrell Pilkington
Bethell
● Howard Carter

57. Deaths attributed to the Curse of the Pharaoh:
Uncovering King Tutankhamen’s Mummy

58. 16. Connect
Dogma
Getting a fix
Vital statistics
Impediment
Cacophonic
Geriatrics
Unhygienic
Bacteria
Fully Automatic

59. Characters in ‘Asterix and Obelix’

60. 17 (1+1)
To ensure commonality of terms and conditions of service, a
Memorandum of Agreement was signed in 1947 between the
Governments of UK, India and Nepal, in which the
Government of Nepal agreed to a particular arrangement.
This also resolved a conflict between a particular British
institution and its Indian counterpart, by means of mutual
division. This agreement came to be known as the
Britain-India-Nepal Tripartite Agreement.
What was the arrangement? What was/were divided?

61. Services of Gorkhas in Indian and British Armed
Forces; Division of Gorkha Regiments

62. 18. Exhaustive- Kaafi Khatraa
● Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir
● Tulsishyam, Amreli, Gujarat
● Kalo Dungar, Kutch, Gujarat
● Flyover ahead of Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR),
Mumbai

63. Magnetic (Gravity) Hills in India: Optical Illusions

64. 19. “Trivial” Trivia
Feb 22nd, 1937
TIME cover: “World’s
Richest Man”

65. Mir Osman Ali Khan
(The Nizam of Hyderabad)

66. 20.
Percival Christopher ____ was born in Deptford, South London, England,
the son of a schoolmaster. In 1903, he joined the Indian Education
Service as headmaster of Karachi High School.
During the British Raj, the children of British officers studied in Indian
schools built by the Englishmen. With the lack of quality books available in
India on the subject, X, along with Y, wrote these books and published
them in 1935.
Written primarily for the children of British officers residing in India, these
books were widely adopted by Indian and Pakistani schools in the
post-colonial era and missionary schools in Burma.

67. X: P.C. Wren;
Y: Martin

68. 21.
The logo is stylized to make the first two letters look like a
sine wave and the last two letters like binary digits 1 and 0,
the combination representing the merging of analog and
digital signals.
The sound some models make when starting up is derived
from the melody created when pressing a telephone keypad
to spell the letters in the name.

70. 22.
The creator was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name
of Y apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. By
sheer coincidence, the Japanese word Y (乱暴) means
"violent" or "rough". He was granted the first name "X" as a
reference to this song.
Who are we talking about?

71. John Rambo

72. 23. Exhaustive
1. Dharwad Pedha
2. Tirupathi Laddu
3. Ratlami Sev
4. Bikaneri Bhujia
5. Bardhaman Mihidana
6. Jaynagarer Moa

73. Foodstuffs with Indian Geographical Indicators

74. 24.
Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian
bodhisattva associated with compassion and
venerated by Mahayana Buddhists and
followers of Chinese folk religions, also
known as the "Goddess of Mercy" in English.
The Chinese name Guanyin, short for
Guanshiyin, means "[The One Who]
Perceives the Sounds of the World".
Which Multinational corporation derives its
name from this goddess?

76. 25. Obligatory
The master plan was conceived as a post war one wherein
vertical and high rises were ruled out, keeping in view the
socio economic-conditions and living habits of the people.
The metaphor of a human being was being employed in the
plan – the ‘head’ contained the capital complex, the ‘heart’
the commercial centre, and the ‘arms’, which were
perpendicular to the main axis, had the academic and leisure
facilities.
What is being talked about here?

77. Chandigarh Master Plan