General Quiz : Aura 2019, AIIMS Jodhpur

GEN QUIZ
AURA: AIIMS JODHPUR
SNEHASHIS PANDA

CREDITS
• The organising team at Aura 2019, AIIMS Jodhpur
• Anshul Sharma, for managing everything in the backdrop
• Atishay Jain & Sayantan Guha at MiQuest
• Sanjay Krishna, Antra Fuloria and Tanay Khare
• The Bombay Quiz Club, for inspiring as always

HOW WE ROLL
• 25 questions
• 1-20 are a point each, halves wherever applicable
• 21-25 are double pointers
• 30 points on offer
• Top 6 teams qualify

QUESTION 1
• Reddit has always worked on the basis of an upvote-downvote ecosystem,
generating a feedback loop.
• This is existing design language for posts across the website:
• The r/harrypotter sub-reddit which chronicles everything across the HP canon,
has a modified set of upvote-downvote buttons.
• What appropriate symbol has replaced the arrows for this particular sub-reddit?

QUESTION 2
• This is an illustration from Chicago-based author Barb
Rosenstock’s new book, titled A Secret Kingdom: ____
_______, Changing India and a Hidden World of Art.
• It is a visual rendition of someone’s vision for the divine
kingdom of Sukrani, hiding his work in a gorge near
Sukhna lake for 15 years before being discovered by the
authorities in 1975.
• FITB/Alternatively, whose work?

QUESTION 3
• Elevar is a next-gen cricket equipment firm, who’ve
been riding the wave on another context to market one
of their latest products.
• What is it appropriately called?

QUESTION 4
• On this fine day in 1985, ABC News anchor Peter
Jennings interrupted the afternoon’s episode of General
Hospital to break the news to viewers.
• U.S. Senator David Pryor announced the same on the
Senate floor parallelly.
• Most telling, however, was that the same hotline that
had been inundated with 1,500 angry calls a day
received over 30,000 calls in a two day window praising
the revert.
• What was all of this hullabaloo over?

QUESTION 5
• The lyrics are written from the perspective of a ______
champion, called "Local Lad" in the Tommy libretto
book, astounded by the skills of the rock opera's
eponymous main character, Tommy Walker.
• To lighten the load of the rock opera's heavy spiritual
overtones, the title character, a "deaf, dumb, and blind"
boy, should also be particularly good at a certain game.
• Which band and what game was this, leading to the
evolution of one of their most famous live songs?

QUESTION 6
• Edward "Ed" Smith was an American football running
back in the National Football League for the Boston
Redskins and Green Bay Packers. He played college
football at New York University and was drafted in the
third round of the 1936 NFL Draft.
• Playing for just two seasons, Smith never lived up to his
potential. However, he has been immortalized in
another context.
• How?

QUESTION 7
• Despite common perception that the protagonist of this
image was falling, the scriptwriter recently clarified
that the camera was upside down.
• So instead of falling, the character was rising with the
wind buffeting behind him.
• What fairly popular image from recent times are we
talking about?

QUESTION 8
• The 1971 military operation to liberate Bangladesh was
labelled X-Y, where X described India’s strong and
resolute approach with the West and Y described
India’s soft and fragile handling of the East.
• What was the operation titled?

QUESTION 9
• While studying at Howard University in the late '90s, this
2018 breakout star and some of his peers applied to a
prestigious summer theater program at The University of
Oxford. The group of students got in, but they couldn't
afford to go.
• One of their acting teachers at Howard, "The Cosby Show"
actress Phylicia Rashad got some celebrity friends to pay
for the group to go.
• When the star met his benefactor in question at the
premiere of his movie, the latter joked about the fact that
he owes him money & that he had come to collect.
• Who are the two folks we’re talking about?

QUESTION 10
• The reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II mandated ships
visiting to hand over all of their books for immediate
duplication, with the owners receiving a copy.
• To top it off, messengers were sent to buy items at the
book fairs of Rhodes and Athens and international
scholars often came on funded visits.
• What was all of this for?

QUESTION 11
• The ability to generate a decent output completely
depends on tactile sensitivity. Obviously, blind people
have a strong advantage in this and so they have a
good chance of finding employment.
• This is the reasoning behind blind people having a
major monopoly over a particular profession in
countries like China and South Korea.
• What profession, that was originally a royal mandate to
provide employment to the blind?

QUESTION 12
• Simply, identify this Golden girl from her exploits at the
Gold Coast.

QUESTION 13
• On December 7th every year, a group of devotees
representing the Mevlavi order perform a celebration
by a tomb at Turkey’s Mevlana Museum.
• Take a look at the visual, and tell us the popular name
for this celebration.
• Which celebrated poet’s birthday do they celebrate on
this date, annually?

QUESTION 14
• Multimedia artist Max Siedentopf has installed six
speakers somewhere in the Namib Desert.
• The six speakers play a certain seminal work on repeat
and run on solar energy, so the music will never stop.
• The song will play for eternity in the middle of the
desert, beckoning all those who find it.
• Which song?

QUESTION 15
• Sheldon: I can’t take your money.
• Howard: What’s the matter, you _______ ?
• Sheldon: I’ve always found that an inappropriate slur. _______ are not, by nature,
at all timid. In fact, when I was young, my neighbour’s _______ got loose and
chased me up the big elm tree in front of our house.
• Raj: _______ can’t climb trees
• Sheldon: Thank God.
• This exchange from TBBT is later referenced to in the spinoff series – Young
Sheldon, where we can see Billy Sparks (neighbour) owning the blanked out
creature as his pet.
• Which creature is being talked about here?

QUESTION 16
• Pete Souza owns a fairly popular handle on Instagram
and is one of the most viewed photographers on Flickr.
• Having worked for the Chicago Times and the Chicago
Tribune, Souza was an assistant professor of
photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual
Communication.
• In 2008, he was called upon a particular duty for the
second time in his life. His 2016 book Shade: A tale of
two ___________ chronicles his work as well.
• What was Souza’s role?

QUESTION 17
• Upto 4 percent of the sand in this region is still made
up of sharpnel, hidden amongst the natural setting.
• This is evidence of the extreme amounts of bombing
and shooting in the area.
• Geologists report that waves, storms, and rust will
probably wipe this microscopic archaeology from the
area in another hundred years.
• Which location is this?

QUESTION 18
• CLUE takes the classic mystery game even further into
shrouded chaos as Bill Denbrough and his friends attempt
to unravel the mystery.
• Travel between the The House on Neibolt Street, the
Synagogue, Derry Public Library, and more to identify
various items used to lure the town’s youth, while avoiding
Red Balloons that will end the operation.
• A monopoly variant of the same includes buying, selling,
and trading places in and around Derry, Maine using tokens
of iconic items such as an Inhaler, Paper Boat, and Bicycle.
• What are both of these games inspired by?

QUESTION 19
• The word derives itself from the latin word for a
footprint.
• The word is used in anatomy to describe examples
from the past, a prime example being the nictitating
membrane.
• What is the good word?

QUESTION 20
• According to a popular legend, the territories were used as
stakes in card or chess games, centuries ago between two
regional kings, the Raja of Cooch Bihar and the Maharaja of
Rangpur.
• As far as historical records are concerned, the little territories
were apparently the result of a confused outcome of a 1713
treaty between the Kingdom of Cooch Bihar and the
Mughal Empire. Possibly, the Kingdom and the Mughals
ended a war without determining a boundary for what
territories had been gained or lost.
• What are we talking about?

QUESTION 21
• The etymology of the word is from "dubro" and "locus",
from the Gaulish dubrum, dubron – "water".
• The aforementioned word is also the title of a Belgian
town which is home to a heavy woolen cloth used to
make overcoats and luggage .
• A current member of the Manchester United football
team was born in the town but plies his trade for Brazil.
Who?

QUESTION 22
• Boycotts at black schools started at Cape Town's
Hanover Park in February 1980. A month later, by then
protests had spread across the nation.
• South Africa's Directorate of Publications held sweeping
power in that era to ban books, movies, plays, posters,
articles of clothing and music, that it deemed
"politically or morally undesirable."
• People were driven into frenzy by one particular slogan.
Which one?
• Thus, what phenomenon did the directorate of
Publication ban at that time?

QUESTION 23
• The original business began as a mail-order sales business.
Most of products were identifiable by a set of numbers,
but the founder had trouble remembering the codes for
each product, which turned out to be the sign of his
dyslexia.
• So, instead of delegating those responsibilities to another
person and avoiding the issue, he used his disability to his
advantage by coming up with a more creative system for
organizing his products.
• Islands, Places to visit and men’s names were some of the
alternatives, which went on to become popular mainstays.
• Which business and who is the dyslexic founder?

QUESTION 24
• Sean Hape, or iOTA, as he is better known down under is an
actor and musician who has played Frank-N-Furter in
productions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig in
Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
• A particular role required Hape to hold a contraption made
of bed pans and a gas outlet.
• Which role did Hape famously play?
• Hape won Best Male Actor in a Musical at the Helpmann
Awards (which is sort of akin to the Tonys) in 2007.
• Who did he famously beat?

QUESTION 25
• It is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often
with the addition of pasta or rice, sometimes both. Common
ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and
tomatoes.
• The name derives itself from minestrare, "to serve" and cognate
with administer as in "to administer a remedy".
• The ancient Romans recognized the health benefits of a simple or
"frugal" diet (and thick vegetable soups and vegetables remained
a staple.
• The tradition of not losing rural roots continues today, and the
dish is now known in Italy as belonging to the style of cooking
called "cucina povera”.
• What is the name of the soup and what does cucina povera
translate to?

ANSWERS FOLLOW
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

ANSWER 1
The Deathly Hallows
Symbol

ANSWER 2
Nek Chand, of the Rock
Garden
fame

QUESTION 4
• On this fine day in 1985, ABC News anchor Peter
Jennings interrupted the afternoon’s episode of General
Hospital to break the news to viewers.
• U.S. Senator David Pryor announced the same on the
Senate floor parallely.
• Most telling, however, was that the same hotline that
had been inundated with 1,500 angry calls a day
received over 30,000 calls in a two day window praising
the revert.
• What was all of this hullabaloo over?

ANSWER
Launch and rollback of
the New Coke

ANSWER
Heismann Trophy (best
player in NCAA)

ANSWER
The film poster for
Spiderman: Into the
Spiderverse

ANSWER
Chadwick Boseman and
Denzel Washington

ANSWER
The Library at
Alexandria

ANSWER
Swirling Dervishes
Rumi

ANSWER
Official White House
Photographer for
Obama

ANSWER
Chitmahals/Pasha
Enclaves

ANSWER
We don’t need no
education
Another brick in the
wall

ANSWER
The Doof Warrior from
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hugh Jackman

ANSWER
Minestrone Soup
Poor kitchen

HOW WE ROLL
• 16 questions in a clockwise manner
• +10/0 on the bounce
• +10/-5 on the pounce

QUESTION 1
• The Kit Yamoyo (‘Kit of Life’) is an anti-diarrhoea kit that contains
4g/200ml sachets of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS), Zinc, Soap and
an instruction leaflet which carries the branding.
• The Kit Yamoyo packaging acts as the measuring device for the
water needed to make up the ORS, a mixing and storage device
and a cup.
• The packaging of the kit is such that it leverages an existing
distribution network of a global brand.
• How is it carried around?
• The kit is available in two formats: a screwtop which can be
manufactured locally and the original which makes use of the
network. The original version is a pun on a popular device from
the early 2000s.
• What is it called thus, logically?

ANSWER
They’re inserted into the
empty spaces in Coca
cola crates
The AidPod

QUESTION 2
• The barb is covered with rows of sharp flat spines, composed
of vasodentin. Vasodentin is an incredibly strong
cartilaginous material which can easily cut through flesh.
• The undersides of the spines contain two longitudinal
grooves which run along the length of the spine and enclose
venom-secreting cells. Both the venom-secreting tissues
and vasodentin are enveloped in an epidermis that tears
open when the barb is plunged into a victim.
• Some spines may break off as the barb exits the wound and
stay within the victim causing prolonged envenomation.
• What is all of this science about?
• Who was only the 2nd fatality of such an event in Australia
since 1945?

ANSWER
Sting ray injuries
Steve Irwin

QUESTION 3
• “Our deodorant was designed to be a catalyst for
change. Life is filled with good, eustress moments where
we are looking for an edge to obtain an Epic Win. Plus
Five is that catalyst. Choose the fragrance you need, +5
Charisma, Wisdom, Dexterity or Vitality, apply it before
the big moment and see how our product can help level
up your game.”
• This is the product description for a deodorant named
Charisma launched on Kickstarter in October 2016.
• What serial issue is the deodorant trying to solve?

ANSWER
Pro Gamers smelling
intensely due to a lack
of bathing

QUESTION 4
• Despite the craze over it in the past few years,
encountering a double digit growth in usage, most
people do not account for the fact that 3-D Printing is a
30 year old technology.
• What is the reason for its current popularity?

ANSWER
Most patent licenses are
tending to expire
around now, allowing
for reproduction

QUESTION 5
• Chad Stahelski often gets questioned about his
similarity to Keanu Reeves, where he informs people
about the fact that he’s been Reeves’ stunt double all
these years.
• How did Reeves repay Stahelski in 2014?
• Stahelski also filled in as someone else’s body double
following the person’s untimely death during
production in 1993 .
• Who did he (in)famously fill in for?

ANSWER
Keeves was the
protagonist for John
Wick, which was
directed by Stahelski
Brandon Lee, who died
trying to catch a bullet

QUESTION 6
• On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy
Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson were killed in a
plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger
Peterson.
• What was this event (in)famously called?
• Whose reference in a particular song of his led to this
terminology?
• In Texas, a neighbor told Holly's mother to turn on the radio.
When the news report came out, she screamed and
collapsed. In Greenwich Village, Buddy Holly's pregnant wife
heard the news on television and suffered a miscarriage the
following day, reportedly due to "psychological trauma.”
• What policy did the occurrence incidents set in place?

ANSWER
The Day the Music Died
Don McLean in
American Pie
A policy of informing
families before releasing
the victims names in
public

QUESTION 7
• The sales of _________ had been declining for a while and had
turned into a real problem brand for parent company
Kellogg’s, until it saw a sudden surge in May 2016 because of
its mention in a famous TV series.
• In order to capitalise on the buzz, the brand allowed the
show-makers to repurpose one of its old TV commercials as a
promo for the second season of the show during the Super
Bowl of 2017.
• What lead was the highest ever mentions for the brand on
social media. The brand also launched special edition packs
with recipes tying in to every episode. The show turned the
brand’s fortunes upside down.
• Name the brand & the TV show.

ANSWER
Eggo Waffles, Stranger
Things

QUESTION 8
• An all-woman crew led by Lieutenant Commander
Vartika Joshi undertook an expedition on the INS Tarini
to circumnavigate the globe,sailing off on 10 September
2017 and completing the voyage on 21 May 2018.
• National Geographic is releasing a documentary Tarini
based on the expedition on the 8th of March on account
of woman’s day. How has the title of the docu been
stylized in line with its content?
• What sailing boat was the precursor to the INS Tarini
and who completed a similar journey using the same?

ANSWER
Replaced the I in Tarini
with a compass symbol
INS Mhadei using which
Lt Cdr Abhilash Tomy
conducted a solo,
unassisted non-stop
circumnavigation

QUESTION 9
• Prior to the games, sports timing specialists Swiss
Timing had approached the Olympic organisers to
double-check the requirements for each event.
• Daniel Baumat, now the vice-president of Swiss Timing,
was informed of the status quo . So when 35
timekeepers and eight tonnes of equipment were sent
to that summer, they were built to order with respect to
the old requirements.
• How did this lack of foresight come back to haunt the
officials?

ANSWER
Nadia Commenaci
couldn’t be afforded a 10
on the scoreboard

QUESTION 10
• The institution was founded by King Karl XIII on 13
December 1810 as an "academy for the training of skilled
army surgeons" after one in three soldiers wounded in
the Finnish War against Russia died in field hospitals.
• Since the beginning of the 20th century, the institution
has been responsible for tapping up a broad contact
network in the field of medical science.
• Which institution and what is this added responsibility?

ANSWER
The Karolinska Institutet
The Nobel for
Physiology/Medicine

QUESTION 11
• At the 2011 TED conference, a challenge was put up to software
developers to have a computerized voice master the inflections,
delivery, timing, and intonations of a speaking human.
• “If the computer can successfully tell a joke, and do the timing
and delivery as well as Henny Youngman, then that’s the voice I
want.”
• A Scottish company called CereProc, which custom-tailors text-
to-speech software for voiceless customers who record their
voices at length before losing them, and mined tapes and DVD
commentaries featuring him to create a voice that sounded more
like his own voice.
• He first publicly used the voice they devised for him in his March
2, 2010 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
• Who are we talking about?

QUESTION 12
• Although usually not taken seriously, FIDE enforced this
particular rule in what was a rare decision.
• Ivan Cheparinov lost his 8th round game against Nigel
Short because of a non-sporting . He defended himself
by stating that he felt insulted by Short earlier.
• Anyway, the game was replayed the following day, and
Short won.
• What rule did he default on?

ANSWER
The handshake before
the match

QUESTION 13
• In 2012–13, a proposal on the White House’s website urging the United States
government to build a __________ as an economic stimulus and job creation measure
gained more than 30,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official response.
• The official response was released in Jan 2013: “the cost of building a ___________ has
been estimated at $850 quadrillion by the Lehigh University, or about 13,000 times
the amount of mineable resources on Earth, while the International Business
Times cited a Centives economics blog calculation that, at current rates of steel
production, the ________ would not be ready for more than 833,000 years.”
• The White House response also questioned funding a structure "with a fundamental
flaw that can be exploited by a one-man ship" as reasons for denying the petition.
• FITB

QUESTION 14
• In 2004, a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School
posited that this particular artist was stereoblind: his
eyes were unaligned, so he was unable to see in 3D.
• Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the
article argues that the artist’s oil paintings and etching
self-portraits show that he had unilateral strabismus,
meaning that his eyes were not properly aligned with
each other.
• Who are we talking about, known for his innumerable
self portraits?
How did his stereoblindness help him as an artist?

ANSWERS
Rembrandt
It may have allowed him to
flatten images automatically as
he observed the world, and then
transfer that perspective onto
the two-dimensional canvas

QUESTION 15
• With the Russian and American female gymnastics
teams neck and neck for the gold, the American team
needed a good performance from their star on the vault
to ensure victory.
• On her first attempt she fell and hurt her ankle, but the
team needed her to land a second attempt to clinch the
gold. She landed it perfectly before lifting up her bad
foot.
• In what is an awe inspiring moment, her coach picked
her up and carried her to the podium.
• Who are the duo in question?

ANSWER
Bela Karolyi and Kerri
Strug at the ‘96
Olympics

QUESTION 16
• Before a diver’s descent, the 12 o’clock bezel marker on
the watch is aligned with the minute hand, allowing the
elapsed time, up to 60 minutes, to be read on the bezel
(which is why quite a few dive watches come with a
particularly prominent minute hand).
• Why is the bezel’s movement unidirectional, mostly
counterclockwise, in nature?

ANSWER
If the bezel is bumped accidentally during
a dive, it will only move in one direction,
subtracting time from the dive and
providing the diver with a safety reserve for
his now more imminent ascent

PORT-MANTOS
4 questions on portmanteaus and their origins
+10 for each
A bonus of 10 for getting all

QUESTION 1
• The Race of Two Worlds, intended as an exhibition
event, was a 1957 race allowing American teams from
the United States Auto Club (USAC) National
Championship to compete directly against teams from
the Formula One World Championship based in Europe.
• Due to the extreme similarity of the venue with a
popular American speedway, a portmanteau was
developed to describe the event.
• What?

QUESTION 2
• The story of this fangame centers on the characters inability
to come to terms with the lack of narrative in the original
game.
• The controls for the game are "Left" and "right" control "walk
around," while "up" for "ruminate" and "down" for "smoke.”
• The player cannot "jump" as, according to the game,
"Jumping is not consistent with X!”
• The title is a portmanteau of X, the french word for
annoyance and Y, an often ignored fraternal twin.

QUESTION 3
• Traditionally, a witch or wizard's ______, like their wand, is buried with
them, as it is considered an intensely personal artefact; anything left
inside the _______are likewise interred with their owner, unless he or she
has requested otherwise.
• The Hogwarts __________, however, belongs not to any individual but
to the school. It has been used by a long line of headmasters and
headmistresses, who have also left behind their life experiences.
• This forms an invaluable library of reference for the headmaster or
headmistress of the day.
• What are we talking about?

QUESTION 4
• He adopted the move following a television appearance
in May 2012 opposite sports presenter Clare Balding, on
the panel game show A League of Their Own.
• The host James Corden suggested to the panelists that
they should think of a new dance to mark his winning
celebration, and Balding subsequently came up with
the gesture.
• While demonstrating it for the first time, she indicated
that the part of the move was inspired by the dance to
"YMCA", a popular song by the Village People.
• Whose celebration?

ANSWERS FOLLOW
PLEASE EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWER
Monza+Indianapolis=Mo
nzanapolis

HOW WE KEEP ROLLING
• 16 questions in an anti-clockwise manner
• +10/0 on the bounce
• +10/-5 on the pounce

QUESTION 17
• Truecaller recently updated the app to prevent pop-ups
during a particular activity, which had several users
across the globe laud the change, choosing one unkown
over the other.
• What coerced this particular consumer experience
design change?

QUESTION 18
• The New Orlean Saints have had a history of losing. Aside
from some anomalous years in the Jim Mora and Sean
Payton eras and even an improbable Super Bowl win, there
have been many more years of the Black and Gold.
• In the late 1970s, the Saints were so bad that the fanbase
started a trend that has endured in the NFL and even in
other sporting leagues and college athletics.
• That trend was fans coming to games with paper bags over
their heads, eye holes and mouth holes cut out, sometimes
blinged up and with some statement of futility scrawled in
magic marker or painted on a bag.
• What is the name usually written on these bagheads?

QUESTION 19
• In Cambodia, nearly two-thirds of women and children are
iron deficient, and a Canadian firm looked to plug this gap
by distributing iron ingots. Unfortunately, women simply
used the iron lumps as doorstops.
• Canadian physician Christopher Charles had a hypothesis in
mind and asked the firm to change the shape of the ingots
to something integral to Cambodian culture and the use of
the lucky iron skyrocketed.
• What was the shape of the lump changed to?
• The use of the iron also necessitated another ingredient for
enhanced absorption of the mineral. How did Cambodian
cuisine cater to this need?

ANSWER 19
They were shaped like
Fish
Ascorbic acid is
necessary to enhance
absorption of Iron and
most Cambodian dishes
contain lime juice

QUESTION 20
• Samir Mondal is an award winning water colour artist
who has had multiple exhibitions across the country,
apart from a stint with the Illustrated Weekly of India.
• A little over a decade ago, he was commissioned to
make 2 artworks – one being a vivid portrait and the
other one being the scene of a child sitting by a lake.
• Where would you have seen these works of art?

ANSWERS
The paintings by Ishaan and
Ram in Taare Zameen Par

QUESTION 21
• When a series of murders stuns a small Native American
reservation, the FBI sends in agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) to
investigate. While Ray is relatively inexperienced, he is one
quarter Sioux, and the FBI hopes that will make it easier for them
to gather information from the locals.
• While the reservation police officer (Graham Greene) views the
agent as an outsider, the tribal elder (Chief Ted Thin Elk) believes
him to be the reincarnated spirit of Thunderheart, a Native
American hero.
• This is the synopsis for the 1992 movie Thunderheart. What
famous uprising is it loosely based on?
In 1973, the afromentioned uprising had its first major
representation in mainstream media. Who was the spokesperson
for the same?

ANSWERS
Operation Wounded
Knee
Sacheen Littlefeather
who collected Marlon
brando’s Oscar on his
behalf

QUESTION 22
• Project Habakkuk was a WW2 secret mission to develop an aircraft carrier out
of a totally new material given the short supply of steel and aluminum.
• This rather ambitious project, envisioned by Geoffery Pyke would have enabled
the Allies to go against the German U-boats who were creating havoc in the
Atlantic.
• A 1,000-ton scale model measuring 30 by 60 feet was built on Patricia Lake in
Alberta, Canada. In the end, Project Habakkuk was scrapped thanks to a
confluence of circumstances.
• Its increased steel and insulation demands were too high, new airfields and
longer-range fuel tanks had reduced the need for carriers. It took 3 years for
the test vessel to completely breakdown in the water. Its remains can be found
at the bottom of Patricia Lake in Jasper National Park, marked by an
underwater plaque.
• What was the material in question?
• Also, who commissioned it originally?

ANSWERS
Pyrekete (Ice+Sawdust)
Winston Churchill

QUESTION 23
• On April 1, 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement
in seven leading U.S. newspapers announcing that the
company had purchased something to "reduce the country's
debt” and renamed it .
• Thousands of people had called Taco Bell headquarters and
the National Park Service before it was revealed at noon on
April 1 that the story was a hoax.
• White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry responded that
the federal government was also "selling the _________
__________ to Ford Motor Co.”
• What had Taco Bell jokingly purchased and thus renamed?
• What did the jest sale by the government involve?

ANSWER
The Liberty Bell became
the Taco Liberty Bell
The Lincoln Memorial

QUESTION 24
• In the 23rd episode of the Simpson’s 7th season, a
referendum is created that will require all illegal immigrants
from Springfield to be deported.
• After learning that his friend Apu Nahasapeemapetilon will
be deported, Homer decides to help Apu prepare for a
United States citizenship test so that he can become a legal
citizen.
• The original title for the episode was a reference to a Led Zep
Song.
• It was later changed to a reference to another popular
literary work.
• Gimme both puns for full points.

ANSWER 28
Anti-Immigrant Song
Much Apu About
Nothing

QUESTION 25
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September
1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the
first American expedition to cross the western portion of the
United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and
passed through the Continental Divide of the Americas to reach
the Pacific coast.
• What particular event in 1803 led to this expedition taking place?
• During that era, calomel was a go-to drug for several conditions.
Lewis and Clark’s journals mention their men taking a popular
remedy called Dr. Rush’s Bilious Pill which contained 10 g of
calomel per serving.
• How did this choice of drug help modern experts pinpoint the
locations of their campsites?

ANSWER
President Thomas Jefferson
commissioned the expedition
shortly after the Louisiana
Purchase in 1803 to explore
and to map the newly
acquired territory, to find a
practical route across the
western half of the continent,
and to establish an American
presence in this territory
before Britain and other
European powers tried to
claim it.
The drug contained huge
amounts of mercury and the
mercurial deposits from their
poop were tracked

QUESTION 26
• The mundane truth is that Helsinki was looking to make
budget cuts in 1977, and decided to cancel comic book
subscriptions for youth centers.
• That's a story that normally wouldn't even make the
local paper, let alone international news. But when the
politician who proposed the idea stood for reelection, his
opponents, desperate to dig up any kind of dirt, made a
big deal out of how he wanted to kill fun by depriving
children.
• What did the uproar about this story lead to?

ANSWER
The myth about Finland
banning Donald Duck
because he didn’t wear
pants

QUESTION 27
• When the Brooklyn Bridge opened up to the public in
1883, there were several doubts about the stability of the
bridge.
• Six days after the bridge opened, at least 12 people were
killed in a stampede caused when thousands of
pedestrians, skittish about the stability of the bridge,
became panicked after hearing a scream.
• A year later, someone and his ‘troops’ walked across in a
fitting show of strength to assuage all fears.
• Which group?

ANSWERS
PT Barnum and his
elephants

QUESTION 28
• Five athletes reached the final stage of the men’s pole vault
at the 1936 Olympics, having cleared the then impressive
height of 4m 15cm.
• Earle Meadows took gold with 4.35 leaving Shuhei Nishida &
Sueo Oe to compete for silver, with the others crashing out.
However, the Japanese did not want to compete any further
and share the honours. Their request was rejected and
Nishida was granted the silver on the basis of a technicality.
• On returning to Japan the duo decided to take matters into
their hands.
• What did they do and what was the outcome labelled?

ANSWER
They had both medals
cut in half and then
fused into two hybrid
medals, each half-silver
and half-bronze
(although the “bronze”
was actually copper).
The medals became
known as “The Medals
of Friendship”

QUESTION 29
• Every word on this mural on a New Delhi wall in Lodhi
Colony-- season, balance, order, past, present, future --
reflect time, motion and change, concepts which the
artist Daku says he often explores in his work.
• This particular work required him to make a few
calculations using Google Maps.
• Take a good look at the visual and weave a story about
how Daku built this mural.

ANSWER
Shadow art created by
leveraging the Sun’s
movement

QUESTIONS 30
• What was the primary reason for pilots pulling high g-
forces combat turns blacking out often in the 1940s?
• Why could Squadron leader DRS Bader stay conscious
longer than most pilots in the forces?

ANSWER
the flow of blood from the brain drained to
other parts of the body, usually the legs. As
Bader had no legs he could remain conscious
longer, and thus had an advantage over more
able-bodied opponents

QUESTION 31
• Nataliya Kosmyna, a post-doc student at the MIT Media Lab,
has created what she calls the “Thinking Cap,” a device made
up of noninvasive electrodes that can capture a person’s
brain activity and then use machine learning to detect and
analyze what they’re imagining in real-time.
• The main purpose of the Thinking Cap, which is still under
development, is to help students build self-esteem and
improve their academic performance.
• Kosmyna added another element to the device, where
participants undergo a phase training involving images and
their reactions to it.
• What is the Thinking Cap based on and what is this
additional phase training supposed to do?

ANSWER
A sorting hat for sorting
people into Hogwarts
Houses

QUESTION 32
• A common trend observed amongst Pandas is the fact
that almost 50% of the newborns tend to be abandoned.
What is the specific reasoning behind the same?
How do Panda caretakers try to ensure that the mother
doesn’t abandon them?

ANSWER
Most Pandas give birth
to twins of which one is
abandoned
Caretakers tend to swap
babies from time to
time to ensure both
receive attention

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