Instincts '18 - General Quiz

Rules
• 25 Questions
• No negatives, feel free to guess.
• Part points wherever applicable.
• Googling is prohibited.
• 6-8 teams in the finals.

Question 1
• It was rumoured that XY's surname (Y) originated with a friend of XY's
father Yaakob Y, a Muslim freedom fighter who was imprisoned along
with XY's father by the British.
• In a BBC interview, XY said that his last name derives from the
Sanskrit word ‘hasya’, and although the Yaakob Y connection was
publicised by the media, it was only a story.
• ID XY

Question 2
• The project came about when Foodiggity founder Chris Durso's young
son suggested they make states out of food. Durso almost dismissed
the idea, until his son added, “But what if they like had funny names
like New Pork or New Jerky?"
• With this in mind, what is the name of this state-shaped piece of
food?
• <image on next slide>

Question 3
• In the mid-19th century, when firemen began to use heavy steam-
powered fire engines, spiral staircases became a staple feature of
most fire stations to prevent X stationed on the ground floor with the
engines from ascending to the living quarters of the firemen upstairs.
However, since these spiral staircases also slowed the firemen down
when responding to urgent distress calls, a clever workaround was
devised in the 1870s by a gentleman named David Kenyon in Chicago.
• What is X, and what was the workaround?

Answer
• X – horses
• Workaround - firehouse pole (that
firemen slide down)

Question 4
• The origin of this phrase lies in the French "venez m'aider", and not in
a certain public holiday / ancient spring festival. The senior radio
officer who coined this phrase proposed a shortened version of the
above French expression due to the frequent nature of
communications between the Croydon airport in London and the le
Bourget airport in Paris.
• What phrase am I talking about?

Question 5 (*)
• The Clink restaurant in London has been ranked No. 1 as a rehabilitation
restaurant in their area.
• Having barred windows and walls lined with buttons and rules like
leaving your phone at the door, the eatery is currently outperforming those
of celebrated chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.
• The charity restaurant chain aims to formally train _______ offering them a
chance at rehabilitation so that they can gain qualifications and support in
finding a job.
• Put Funda/ What's so special about it?

Answer
• The restaurant is run by prisoners
• (Clink from the sound of the prisoners’ chains)

Question 6
*August 12, 1944 - Joseph P. died when his plane exploded during World War II.
*May 13, 1948 - Kathleen Cavendish died in a plane crash in France.
*August 9, 1963 - Patrick Bouvier died in infancy.
*June 19, 1964 - Ted was involved in a plane crash.
*July 18, 1969 - Ted accidentally drove his car off a bridge which fatally trapped his
28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, inside.
*August 13, 1973 - Joseph II was the driver of a Jeep that crashed and left his
passenger paralyzed.
(cont.)

*April 25, 1984 — David died of a cocaine and pethidine overdose.
*April 1, 1991 — William Smith was arrested and charged with the
rape of a young woman.
*December 31, 1997 — Michael LeMoyne died in a skiing accident.
*July 16, 1999 — John Jr. died when his plane, crashed into the Atlantic
Ocean
*May 16, 2012 — Mary Richardson committed suicide.
Two instances have been intentionally omitted. Give a two-word term.

Question 7
• Financially X is one of the biggest winners from the growth of Android as a
platform, thanks to its wide range of patents. Samsung's royalty payment
to X in 2013 was for over one billion dollars ($1,041,642,161 and fifty
cents), roughly $3.41 per device. With roughly 300 million Android
handsets sold last quarter, that could be another billion coming to X.
• If you go with Android's total installed base of 1.808 billion smartphones,
at that $3.41 value, X's take from Android could easily reach six billion
dollars.
• While the money from Android will always be welcome, the access to
Android's user base is even more important to X's ongoing financial health.
X didn't need Nokia's gift of an alternative Android platform, it has
everything it needs in the original.
• ID X

Question 8
• Give a two-word term. <bigger image on next slide>

Question 9
• In the next slide, you will see an image of the last survivor from the
1950s of a particular disease. Which disease, and what is the
apparatus in the picture called?

Answer
• Polio
• Apparatus – Iron Lung

Question 10 (*)
• It is the fourth time a filmmaker from Mexico has taken the prize in five
years, all with unconventional films.
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu won in 2015 for “Birdman,” the bizarrely hilarious tale
of an aging superhero actor trying to get serious on Broadway, and he did it
again in 2016 with “The Revenant,” a radically different western focused on
a quest for revenge in subzero temperatures.
• Alfonso Cuarón triumphed in 2014 with “Gravity,” a sci-fi story that many
said was impossible to make, before it made over $723 million at the
worldwide box office.
• The trio are together called as X, also the name of a book on the country’s
transnational cinema.

Question 11
• Joseph Hubertus X was a German self-defense instructor for detectives at
Scotland yard in the early 1910s. When WW1 began, X, along with other German
nationals in Britain at the time, was interned as an 'enemy alien' at a prison camp.
At the camp, he convinced his fellow prisoners to follow his training regime -
which he claimed was the art of using a set of controlled movements that made
you feel like you've had a workout - and trained them, even attaching springs to
hospital beds to allow bed-ridden patients to participate. An influenza epidemic
struck England in 1918, killing thousands of people, but not a single one of X’s
trainees died - X claiming that this was a testimony to the effectiveness of his
system.
• After his release, he went back to Germany and popularised his ideas, before
emigrating to the US in 1926.
• ID X.

Question 12
• In the latest episode of the Big Bang Theory, Howard and Bernadette's
second child was born, with the couple naming the boy 'X Michael
Wolowitz' - Michael being Bernadette's father's name, and X a reference to
three real world people -
• An iconic British author whose imagination has thrilled millions
• One of the biggest musicians of all time that Howard and Amy both found
to be the only common interest that they both have (in an earlier season)
• A person who carries on the space-related theme that influenced their first
daughter's name (Halley), with all three inspirations having the first name
X.
• ID the 3 people.
(+0.5 for 2 names right, +1 for all 3)

Answer
• X – Neil
• Neil Gaiman
• Neil Diamond
• Neil Armstrong

Question 13
• The requests for the proposals where :
1. Metropolitan areas with a population of over 1 million
2. A stable and business-friendly environment
3. Within 30 miles (48 km) of a population center
4. Within 45 minutes of an international airport
5. Proximity to major highways and arterial roads 1–3 miles (2–5 km)
6. Access to mass transit routes
7. Up to 8 million square feet for future expansion
• When it was announced, over 200 cities in Canada, USA, and Mexico submitted proposals. The
final shortlisted candidates were announced to be the ones marked in the image.
• What are we talking about?

Answer
• New Amazon Headquarters

Question 14
• One among the many similarities between Greek and Hindu mythology is
between X and Y.
• X was held by his mother, Thetis, at his ankle and dipped into the river Styx,
leading to his body becoming invincible, except at his heel.
• Y was instructed by his mother to come and stand before her fully naked,
saying that her gaze on his naked body would make him invincible.
However, Y wore a 'gamucha' or a small towel tied around his waist over
his thighs, which led to his mother's gaze falling on his full body except his
thighs, making it the only vulnerable part of his body.
• X and Y were both killed by blows to these vulnerable parts of their bodies.
• ID X and Y.

Answer
• X – Achilles
• Y - Duryodhana

Question 15 (*)
• Seen in the next slide is something that can be found near shops and
apartment complexes in the affluent neighbourhoods of London.
What purpose do they serve?

Answer
• To prevent homeless people from sleeping

Question 16
• A lot of workers in the West during the 1870s wore Denim, however, the
physical labour caused the workers' trousers to be torn apart easily,
especially near pockets. Stitching a lot of these torn trousers, a tailor
named Jacob Davis from San Francisco came up with a solution to keep
them from ripping apart so often by using ______ ______.
• Being a simple tailor, he could not afford the money to patent the idea.
However, he approached his fabric supplier, who offered the money
and set up business producing the new _______ denim. Jacob Davis also
started sewing a double orange threaded stitched design onto the back
pocket of the supplier's denim's to distinguish them from those made by
his competitors.
• FITB.

Question 17
• X is a two-word term used in the UK to refer to large synchronised
surges in national electricity consumption that occur due to the
boiling of kettles and the opening of fridge doors by millions of
people at the same time.
• The largest surge typically occurs everyday at 9 pm, and each one
imposes anywhere between 200 and 800 MW of demand, depending
on the duration of the causative factor.
• What causes these surges (or) identify X.

Answer
• X – TV Pickup
• Caused by commercial breaks during/inbetween television
programmes

Question 18
List of what?
• a diamond necklace
• a 12-night Tanzania trip for
two worth $8,000
• an option to donate $10,000
to an animal shelter
• Edible pieces of chocolate
jewellery
• Pepper sprays
• A DNA test
• Underarm patches to
prevent sweating
• Week-long stay at the
Golden Door spa
• Six-night and seven-day
stay at Koloa Landing
Resort at Poipu in Kauai
• Bath bomb
• Levitating Bluetooth
speaker
• Luxury false lashes

Answer
• 2018 Oscar Giftbags to nominees

Question 19
• The Four Pests Campaign (also known as the Kill a X Campaign) was one of
the first implemented directives of Mao Zhedong's Great Leap Forward in
1960s China.
• It featured the eradication of rats, mosquitoes, flies, and X's. Mao justified
this campaign by claiming that X's depleted the grain supplies of
warehouses and paddy fields.
• However, the forced extermination of X's had adverse effects; with no X to
feed on them, locust populations shot up, and frequent locust swarms
drastically depleted rice yields, causing famine in many rural areas of China.
• ID X.

Question 20 (*)
• When a child was born in 1991 to Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding, they
did not register the child’s name, protesting the strict naming law in the
country.
• The law was enacted in 1982, with the government wanting to prevent
non-noble families from giving their children names of noble families.
When the child turned 5, they were summoned to the local district court at
Halmstad, where they were fined about 750$.
• Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the
name ‘Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116’ (pronounced as
Albin), claiming that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that
we see as an artistic creation."
• What country?

Question 21
• The Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst
syndrome is a rare medical condition that induces uncontrollable X in
response to specific stimuli, such as looking at bright lights and or
peri-ocular injection, that wouldn't affect people without this trait.
• The condition affects 18-35% of the population in the United States,
but its exact mechanism of action is presently unclear.
What is X?

Answer
• Sneezing
• ADCHOO Syndrome

Question 22
• In response to the disastrous floods that hit Chennai in December 2015,
residents of the city (especially from low-lying areas like Madipakkam)
came up with an innovative solution to rise above the misery.
• Since they had no control over the rate at which roads were (re)laid and
were living in buildings that were essentially constructed on reclaimed
wetland, these residents decided to hire independent contractors and
engineers to implement their solution.
• This has resulted in contractors from places as far away as Haryana opening
branches for their business in Chennai.
What is this innovative solution?

Question 23
• The name of the disease X has its roots in the obsolete Miasma
theory, which held that epidemics such as cholera and the bubonic
plague were spread by miasma, a noxious form of "bad air" that
emanated from rotting organic matter.
• X was believed to be caused by inhaling the unwholesome
atmosphere of swamps and marshes until the Miasma theory was
replaced by the modern germ theory, which is when people realised
that it was a certain unwelcome inhabitant of the aforementioned
swamplands that was responsible for the spread of X.
What is X?

Question 24
• In medieval England, shires were divisions of land governed by a reeve, a
senior official (such as the chief magistrate of a town) who answered
directly to the Crown.
• Over time, this position evolved into the modern-day X (which also derives
its name from the above two terms) that is most commonly associated
with the United States.
• Today, X's are typically elected law enforcement officers whose duties
include the maintenance of jails and the enforcement of civil law within
their jurisdiction.
What is X?

Answer
• Sheriff (shire + reeve)

Question 25 (*)
• John Punch was a 17th-century resident of the colony of Virginia who
was hired by a wealthy landowner named Hugh Gwyn to work on his
plantation.
• Punch fled to Maryland in the company of two other indentured
workers from Europe, but all three of them were caught and returned
to Virginia for trial. Interestingly, while the Europeans merely received
an extension of 4 years each to their respective terms of indenture,
Punch's indenture period was extended to the entirety of his lifetime.
• What distinction does Punch thereby hold in the eyes of historians?

Answer
• First black slave in the English Isles

Rules
• 10 Infinite B/P, +10, 0/-10.

Question 1
• Vladimir Arutinian, who attempted to kill US President George W. Bush during his
2005 visit to the Republic of Georgia, was an obsessive reader of the novel and
kept an annotated version of it during his planning for the assassination.
• A copy of the Hebrew translation to X was found in possession of Yigal Amir, the
Israeli who in 1995 assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel.
• The method for acquiring a false identity and UK passport detailed in the book is
often referred to as the “X fraud” and remained a well known security loophole
in the UK until 2007.
• This novel was also the inspiration for Malayalam film named August 1 starring
Mammootty.
• What novel? Name the author as well.

Answer
• Day of the Jackal
• Frederick Forsyth

Answer
• International Men’s Day Searches

Question 3
• Prisencolinensinainciusol is a song composed by Adriano Celentano, and
performed by Celentano and his wife, singer/actress-turned-record
producer Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972, and a popular
performance of the song was broadcast on RAI ( Radiotelevisione italiana)
• The song performed fairly well, reaching fourth and fifth spots in the
Belgium and Italian charts respectively.
• The songs lyrics are utter gibberish; what was Celentano intending to do
when making this song?
• <video>

Answer
• The gibberish is meant to sound like a typical American song. It was
an experiment to test the extent of the blind love that Italians had at
the time for all things American.

Question 4
• A commonly used gag in comedy routines, X is a classic example of a
Wellerism (from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers) - a phrase
that exposes a second meaning of what precedes it. Indeed, X is itself
derived from an older British expression "as the actress told the
bishop", which might have been used as far back as in Edwardian
times. However, there have been arguments against the use of X in
mainstream media, suggesting that it actually humorizes and even
legitimizes sexual misconduct.
• What is X?

Answer
• “That’s what she said”

Question 5
• Named after the Anglo-South African politician who created it, X's
main goals were to promote civic-minded leadership among "young
colonists with moral force of character and instincts to lead" and
thereby "bring the whole of the uncivilised world under the British
Empire". This scheme wanted to make Y the educational centre of the
English-speaking race, but ever since its creation, controversy has
surrounded it on multiple occasions due to its exclusion of specific
social groups and the Anglo-supremacist beliefs that X espoused.
• Give me X (the scheme) and Y.

Answer
• X - Rhodes scholarship
• Y - Oxford University

Question 6
• ___ were first brought into Australia in the 19th century, and their
population has multiplied since then.
• Half-a-million feral __ now roam Australia, and in 2002 they started
exporting __ to Y.
• The vast majority are destined for restaurant tables in Y.
• Peter Seidel, who heads the Central Australian __ Industry Association,
told BBC Online that Ys need to import __ for meat production is because
they focus on breeding animals for domestic and racing purposes only, and
the association’s primary focus is catering to Muslim countries worldwide.
ID Y, and FITB.

Answer
• ______ - Camels
• Y – Saudi Arabia

Question 7
• If you try to book a cab in China on Didi Chuxing, you might find your
cab driven by people like in the image, labelled as 'ghost' or 'zombie
drivers'.
• Why are drivers using these photos?
<images on the next slide>

Answer
• They scare the customers into cancelling the ride, giving them the
free cancellation charges.

Question 8
• In late 2016, the Oxford University Press announced that all upcoming
editions of their 'Complete Works of Willam Shakespeare' will be
updated to reflect the findings of a research team who identified the
three parts of Henry VI, All's Well That Ends Well, and 15 other plays
where these changes need to be made. Big data analysis was used to
analyze a large repository of English plays from Shakespeare's time,
with the results confirming what was long suspected by many English
literary scholars.
• What did the research team prove?

Answer
• Proved that plays of Shakespeare were co-authored

Question 9
• What is the common name of the Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, an
unusually shaped citron variety, used as religious offerings in China
and Japan due to it's resemblance to something?

Question 10
• Neil MacGregor, a former director of the British Museum, wrote in “A
History of the World in 100 Objects” that the boats reflected
frightened fishermen of an insecure, cloistered country being forced
to open its ports for trade, while local critics state that they represent
the serenity and stillness in the face of danger, and a delicate balance
with nature - the fishermen have a job to do, and will not stop at
anything to deliver the fish to the market.
• What are we talking about?

Written Theme 1
• Words etymologically inspired by animals
• 6 questions, +5/0 for each.
• +10 if you get all right.

Question 1
• Italian goats, known as capros, are notoriously hard to manage at
farms near the countryside.
• Their love for frisking and frollicking whimsically through the
countryside leads to farmers having a tough time getting them back
into their enclosures once let loose.
• Their inconsistent behaviour led to the italian term _______, from
which we get the English word.

Question 2
• While training falcons, it is important for the trainers to cover the
heads of the falcons with a leather ____ to calm them.
• This is because falcons have a range of vision that is ten times that of
a human, leading to them often spotting targets far away that a
human cannot see.
• By repeatedly doing this, the trainers don’t allow the falcons to focus
their vision for too long, thereby making it appear as if there are no
more targets around.

Question 3
• In medieval England, ________s rode along with their masters in
processions and the like, mounted on a male horse (Old English -
hengest, from the name of a Saxon king).
• While initially being only attendants, over time they became closely
trusted confidants. Sir Walter Scott introduced the word in his works
as "personal attendant of a Highland chief".
• The negative connotation today is supposed to have arisen due to a
misunderstanding of Scott's use of the word.

Question 4
• Literally meaning 'goat song', the word is said to have originated from
Ancient Greece, where men and women dressed in goatskin as satyrs
(half man-half goat) sang and performed in honor of the God
Dionysus.
• Aristotle claimed that these 'goat songs' were popular among
Athenian audiences due to the feeling of carthasis that the members
of the audience feel.

Question 5
• It was first used in the 1400s to describe a small, active horse used to
pull carts. It later lent it's name to the toy you see in the picture on
the next slide.
• The word as it is used to day is similar to the toy - 'both are fun but
they dont go anywhere'.
• <image in next slide>

Question 6
• Literally meaning 'little donkey', it is said to have got it it's name from
a man named Juan Mendez, who went around the region carrying his
food supplies in a donkey cart.
• While travelling at night, Mendez used to wrap the cooked food
tightly to keep them warm.
• Another story claims that it gets it's name from the appearance of the
bedrolls and packs that donkeys carried.

Answer
• Hoodwink
• ____ - Hood

Answer
• Hobby
• Toy is called a Hobbyhorse

List It
• List all countries with the word ‘and’ in their name.
• 6 in total
• +3 for each right
• +7 if all are right

Answer
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• St. Kitts and Nevis
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Sao Tome and Principe

B/P Round 2
• 10 Infinite B/P, +10, 0/-10.

Question 1
• VoxWeb is an Indian based startup company founded in 2015. It is
special purpose messaging and social networking application
developed around speaking pictures or "voxies". In addition to
mainstream online communication usage, users can augment their
photos by adding a voice caption of up to 11 seconds in lieu of a text
caption. They were in the news recently over something. Pictured
above is their mobile webpage.
Put funda

Answer
• Baba Symbol, Rajinikanth

Question 2
• In 1977, Brazilian geologists Gert Woeltje, Frederico Guimarães Cruz and
Roland Stevenson were travelling in northern Brazil. At a point, they found
that on all the surrounding hillsides a horizontal line appears at a uniform
level approximately 120 metres (390 ft) above sea level.
• This line registers the water level of an extinct lake (referred to as Lake
Parime) which existed until relatively recent times. Researchers who
studied it found that the lake's previous diameter measured 400 kilometres
(250 mi) and about 700 years ago this giant lake began to drain due to
tectonic movement. In June 1690, a massive earthquake opened a bedrock
fault, forming a rift or a graben that permitted the water to flow into the
Rio Branco River. These geological changes were inferred to be the reason
for something.
• What were the geologists trying to do?

Answer
• Trying to explain why El Dorado was not found

Question 3
• Phil McCrory came up with this novel idea in 1989 when he was
watching coverage of the Exxon Valdez supertanker oil spill. He
realised that the surface area of X, and the nooks and crannies along
each, made it highly adsorbent, meaning X wouldn't swell up like a
sponge. The USEPA tested and approved this technique (despite the
associated yuck factor) - X is stuffed into nylon tights to make
sausage-shaped booms that can be strung out along beaches, and
since X soaks up oil fast, these booms will bob just below the
waterline, making it easy to retrieve and dispose of them later.
•
What is X?

Question 4
• A 1957 Associated Press piece refers to the question as "a riddle which
beats the Sphinx, since it's still unanswered". A more concrete answer was
published by the Associated Press in 1988, which reported that a New York
fish and wildlife technician named Richard Thomas had calculated the
volume of dirt in a typical 25–30-foot (7.6–9.1 m) long burrow and had
determined that if the XY had moved an equivalent volume of X, it could
move "about 700 pounds (320 kg) on a good day, with the wind at his
back". Another study, which considered Y to be the opposite of disgorging,
determined that a XY could ingest 361.9237001 cm^3 (22.08593926 cu in)
of X per day.
ID XY.

Question 5
• James Gillray is known today as the 'father of the political ______'.
Napoleon famously said that Gillray "did more to bring me down than
all the armies of Europe". Following a 20 year career, Gillray's eyesight
began to fail. He began wearing spectacles but was unable to work to
work to his previous high standards. This led to depression,
alcoholism, and later, insanity.
What was his work?

Answer
• Political Caricatures

Question 6
• Ashioto Analytics is a tech startup by Nilay Kulkarni, an 18-year old
self-taught programmer. Their flagship product is a footfall-counting
sensor mat that indicates the rate and direction of the movement of
people in a given area. This data is converted into a heat map that can
be used by police to enforce routing decisions and predict the
possibility of a --------.
• Kulkarni devised this mat as a novel solution to a certain notorious
periodic issue. What am I talking about?

Answer
• Stampedes at the Kumbh Mela

Question 7
• "Ode to the Sea: Art from X" was a recent exhibition of sculptures and
paintings created by the residents of X that was in the limelight for all
the wrong reasons. Many people felt that this exhibition, held at the
John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, was highly
insensitive. However, the curator justified it by saying that the
exhibits, whose authors termed it as "a therapeutic way to express
their pain", served as "a window into the souls of people we need to
understand."
What is X?

Question 8
• Aliyah is a Hebrew term that can roughly be translated as "the act of
going up". It constituted one of the most basic tenets of the Zionist
movement established in the late 19th century, but only came to
fruition 50 years later. In recent times, however, a similar term
Yeridah (meaning "descent") has seen a rise in usage, with advocates
of yeridah justifying it citing the ongoing Palestinian political violence
and professional / academic ambitions.
What exactly do aliyah and yeridah refer to?

Answer
• Aliyah - immigration of Jews to Israel; Yeridah - emigration of Jews
from Israel

Question 9
• Pied-noir (literally "black feet" in French) is a term that was used to
refer to Europeans in general and expatriate Frenchmen in particular
residing in X during its period of French rule. There are two
contrasting theories for its origin. One suggests it came from the
black boots worn by French soldiers in X. The other claims that it is
actually a pejorative term for natives of X who often worked barefoot
in the coal rooms of ferry ships plying on the Mediterranean Sea.
What is X?

Question 10
List of what?
• The Tempest: Ariel, Miranda,
Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero,
Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo,
Francisco, Ferdinand
• King Lear: Cordelia
• Hamlet: Ophelia
• The Taming of the Shrew: Bianca
• Troilus and Cressida: Cressida
• Othello: Desdemona
• Romeo and Juliet: Juliet,
Mab
• The Merchant of Venice:
Portia
• As You Like It: Rosalind
• Much Ado About Nothing:
Margaret
• The Winter's Tale: Perdita
• Timon of Athens: Cupid
• A Midsummer Night's
Dream: Titania, Oberon,
Puck

Answer
• Moons of Saturn named after Shakespeare plays

Written Theme 2
• Famous foreigners with connections to India
• 6 questions, +5/0 for each.
• +10 if you get all right.

Question 1
• ID the person in the picture, conducting Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
• Also, name the Indian we associate with him.

Question 2
• In 2002, she won 5 Grammys for her album 'Come Away with Me'.
She sparked a minor controversy when she did not thank her father in
any of her acceptance speeches.
• She later said of it, "I thanked everybody – my mom and my entire
family. My dad is included in that. My mom was involved in the daily
stress of making this record. We talk every day on the phone, no
matter what. I talk to my dad every five months, so it's not like I
dissed him by not singling him out. I didn't think it was appropriate
for me to thank him, because he didn't help me with the record. It's
not that he isn't supportive – it's just that I don't talk to him that
often.“
• Who, and who is the father?

Question 3
• "On the way to ______, by and by, we happened there just in time to be in at the
birth of a marvel and memorable scientific discovery… that in certain ways the
foul and derided Ganges water is the most puissant purifier in the world! This
curious fact, as I have said, had just been added to the treasury of modern
science. It had long been noted as a strange thing that while Benares is often
afflicted with the cholera she does not spread it beyond her borders. This could
not be accounted for. Mr. Henkin, the scientist in the employ of the government
of Agra concluded to examine the water. He went to Benares and made his tests.
He added swarm after swarm of cholera germs to this water; within the six hours
they always died, to the last sample. For ages and ages the Hindus have had
absolute faith that the water of the Ganges was absolutely pure... The Hindus
have been laughed at, these many generations, but the laughter will need to
modify itself a little from now on.”
• Who, and FITB.

Question 4
• In 1972, X and Y landed in Mumbai and were driven to the Taj Mahal hotel, after
which they went to 'Blow Up', the hotel's fancy club. Finding it dull and boring,
they left and walked over to the other club nearby - 'Slip Disc', a grungy joint,
where the watchmen stopped them from entering, saying that 'hippies were not
allowed'. A man who was entering at the same time recognised them and took
them in, where one of them is supposed to have remarked 'Back to sanity at last',
after smelling the marijuana smoke.
• Nandu Bhende, a singer who was at the club, recalls “There was a nightclub
downstairs at the Taj hotel where we used to perform as a rock band, and X and Y
walked into our rehearsal. I remember X sat on the drum set and nearly broke it,
because he was hitting it so hard. He was all over the place. He wanted to
connect. But Y was very quiet, just sitting around and not communicating too
much. I thought they looked quite effeminate, which was really odd to me,
because they were so strong in their music and sound. It felt like a macho act, but
in real life they weren’t like that at all.”
• ID X and Y

Question 5
• The man in the video on the next slide first visited India in 1922, working
for the New York Globe.
• His first report from India said, “I have traveled 20,000 miles and have seen
no place which so baffles description as this. Cows are sacred, little girls are
married at the age of three, the dead are fed to vultures, holy men sleep
on beds of nails, and a man may marry as many wives as he wants.”
• He documented everything he saw, as he toured North India, before
travelling to China and Japan .
• Who?

Question 6
• ID the person speaking

Answer
• Yehudi Menhuin
• BKS Iyengar

Answer
• Norah Jones
• Pandit Ravishankar

Answer
• Mark Twain
• _____ - Kumbh Mela

Answer
• X – Robert Plant
• Y – Jimmy Page

Question 6
• ID the person speaking.

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