K Circle – Weekly Quiz
December 21, 2013
Cartik K Saravanamuthu

Format
• 1 – 15: Written
• 16 – 28: Infinite bounce
• 29 – 35: Connect (Written)
• 60 – 65: Connect (Written)
• 76 – 85: Written

Question 1 (W)
• Born in Kadapa in 1440, died in 1530. She was
named after the jasmine flower.
• Translated the Sanskrit Ramayan into Telugu,
using as few Sanskrit words as possible.
• Her translation of the Ramayan called _____
Ramayan is one of the simplest and easiest to
read versions of the epic in Telugu

Question 2 (W)
• There is no consensus on when this poet, philosopher,
and yogi lived. Maybe 15th, 16th or the 17th centuries
• He is said to have lived in Kondaveedu and the
Gandikota area of Kadapa, and his grave is in Kadiri
town in Anantapur district
• His poems were all just 4 lines long, and very simple to
understand and recite
• The last line of almost all his poems is
“Viswadhaabhirama Vinura ____”
• A large selection of his poems are part of high school
Telugu curricula across the state
• FITB or identify him

Question 3 (W)
• An exceptional scholar and artist, who lived in
the 14th century
• He incorporated the Natya Shastra into the
prevalent classical dance form in Andhra, the
Yakshagna folk dance dramas, and the refined
product is what we have in Kuchipudi today
• Identify

Question 4 (W)
• Born in Visakhapatnam in 1910, died in Madras in
1983, he was a noted Telugu writer
• Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award in 1972
• He moved poetry forward from classical mythological
themes to reflect more contemporary issues
• He introduced free verse into his socially themed
through his anthology called Maha Prasthanam
• He penned the lyrics for over 1000 soundtracks in
Telugu films starting with Ahuti in 1950
• Identify

Question 5 (W)
• Born in 1450 in Palakurthi mandal in Warangal district,
died in 1510, this Telugu poet is best known for
translating the Bhagvatha Purana from Sanskrit to
Telugu
• This work, Andhra Maha Bhaagavatamu, is also known
as ______ Bhagavathamu in his honor
• His first work, Bhogini Dhandakamu, is the earliest
available Dhandakam in Telugu
• His second work, Virabhadra Vijayam, narrates the
destruction wrought by Virabhadra, an avatar of Shiva,
at the yagna performed by Daksha Prajapati (+1)

Question 6 (W)
• An irrigation engineer and British general, born in Oxford,
1803, died in Surrey, UK in 1899
• He was involved in the construction of several anicuts all
over South India, including the Kaveri, the Godavari, and
the Krishna
• His most successful project at Dowleswaram near
Rajahmundry was completed in 1852
• A new barrage constructed upstream from Dowleswaram
was named after him and dedicated to the nation in 1982
• For his work, he was honored by the British with the rank of
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KSCI)
in 1877 (+1)

Question 7 (W)
• The last ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, X ruled Golconda from 1672 –
1687, known for his benevolence and tolerance of other religions
• The Brahmin brothers from Hanamkonda, Akkanna and Madanna, were
his most important ministers
• He hired Y as the Tehsildar of Palavancha taluk, who transferred public
funds without X’s knowledge to build the Rama temple in Bhadrachalam
• Y was jailed by X for this and subsequently, after divine intervention,
absolved and acquitted
• X’s defeat by Aurangzeb in 1687 ended the Qutb Shahi dynasty and he
died in prison in Daulatabad after 12 years in captivity
• Ironically, X’s name is the origin of an Urdu word for tyranny and
authoritarianism, because of the slander spread by his Mughal enemies
• X and Y, and the Urdu word (+3)

Question 8 (W)
• A distinguished Urdu poet and a Marxist revolutionary, (b.
1908, d.1969) he was antagonistic to the Nizam
• He founded the Progressive Writers Union in Hyderabad
• Founded the Communist Party of AP, MLC Andhra Pradesh
for 5 years, also known as Shayar-e-Inquilab
• A leading figure in the 1946 – 47 Telangana Rebellion
against the Nizam
• Sahitya akademi award for Urdu poetry – 1969
• Penned lyrics for several Hindi film songs, one of which
fetched a National award for singer Chhaya Ganguli in 1979
• Id the poet and the song (+2)

Question 9 (W)
• Born 1862 near Yalamanchili in
Visakhapatnam district, died in 1915, he was a
noted Telugu poet, writer, and social reformer
• He wrote the first Telugu play, Kanyasulkam,
which is considered the greatest ever
• He is also referred to with his other titles,
Kavisekhara and Abhyudaya Kavita
Pithamahudu

Question 10 (W)
• The 23rd ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, he is
acknowledged as the greatest in the lineage
• He defeated foreign invaders, the Sakas and the
Yavanas, during his rule between 78 and 102 CE,
and his kingdom included Saurashtra, Kolhapur,
portions of Karnataka, and may have extended as
far south as Kanchi
• He established a calendar called the Shaka or the
__________ calendar which is still used by
Gujaratis, Marathas, Telugus, Konkanis, and
Kannadigas

11. Identify (W)
• An Indian film producer, actor, director, and cinematographer, born
1908 in Eluru, W. Godavari district, died 1994
• Recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award in 1982
• He played a small role in India’s first talkie Alam Ara in 1931
• Subsequently, he also played small roles in the first talkies in Tamil and
Telugu, Kalidas and Bhakta Prahalada
• He was associated with Prithviraj Kapoor’s Prithvi films. He directed his
first Hindi film, Sharda, featuring Raj Kapoor in the lead
• He directed Mana Desam in 1949, the debut for NTR
• He directed Sivaji Ganesan in Manohara in 1954, one of Sivaji’s
landmark films
• His production company, started in 1956, produced many hits in Hindi
such as Milan, Khilona, Sasural, and Ek Duuje Ke Liye
• A research institute/hospital which bears his name is a famous
landmark in Hyderabad
• Another famous lab, which was synonymous with color movies in the
70s and 80s, was inaugurated in 1974 by his son in Madras

12. Identify the speaker (W)
• Audio link

13. Ben-Jarvus Green Ellis (W)
Running Back: Cincinnati Bengals
Formerly with New England Patriots
Signed by Patriots in 2008
WHAT IS HIS NICKNAME? (+1)

14. Where is this located? (+1) (W)
• Picture on next slide
• Name the palace (+1)

15. Identify this person (W)
• B. 1868. D. 1908
• X is known as the father of South Indian cricket
• X started the Madras Union Club (MUC), the first cricket
club for Indians in the erstwhile Madras Presidency
– The Madras Cricket Club (MCC) was “Europeans only”
• X organized a series of matches between the MCC and the
MUC, in particular, “the annual Presidency match” that
started in 1908 (shortly after his death) and went on till
1952
• Because of the timing of this “annual Presidency match”, it
was also commonly known as the “Y” match
• X and Y (2 answers)

16. Politically Incorrect
• There are two pictures on the next slide
• The one on the top is the original
• And the one below is the modified version
• I have blotted out two words from the blurb in
the original picture on the top, that indicates
what is being taught
• Tell me what those two words are: __ _______

16. Answer
• La Belgique (Belgium will do)
• There is a map of Belgium on the blackboard
in the original
• To be politically correct, the map on the
blackboard was subsequently changed to
“2 + 2”

17. Answer
• This is MISTER MXYZPTLK
• He is one of Superman’s enemies
• An illusionist/jester who lives in the 5th
dimension
• He can only be beaten if someone gets him to
say or spell his name backwards: KLTPZYXM

18. Answer
• KerPlunk
• The sound when a marble or marbles tumble
when released by a straw being removed

19.
•Identify (+1)
•B. 1901. D. 1977
•He is known for pioneering
something in comics. What is
this? (+1)

19. Answer
• Royston Campbell Crane
– Roy Crane
• He was an American cartoonist
• He pioneered the use of onomatopoeic sound
effects in comics such as “POW”, “WHAM”,
“KER-SPLASH” to what had been a completely
visual medium
• Also known for creating characters such as Buz
Sawyer and Wash Tubbs

20. What’s the good word?
• X is a Yiddish term used in contract bridge and
chess
• X denotes circular commentating, a back and
forth conversation outside the main issue, in
which the people having the conversation
(called X’ers) are not directly participating
• An X’er is a non-participant person, offering
(often) unwanted advice or commentary
• X?

20. Answer
• X – KIBITZ
• A person kibitzing is called a KIBITZER

21. Identify the animal
• Native to Southern and Eastern Africa
• Its horn is used as a musical instrument
sometimes in Jewish festivals such as Rosh
Hashanah
• The horn is also used in the Scouting
movement’s Wood Badge training program,
which when blown, signals the start of the
Wood Badge training course or activity

I
21. Native to Eastern and Southern Africa

21. Answer
• (Greater) Kudu (Tragelaphus gen.)

22. Vehicle Test
• The X test known in Swedish as the Älgtest and in
German as the Elchtest
• It is used to determine how well a vehicle can avoid a
suddenly appearing obstacle.
• As such, it was first called the Evasive Maneuver Test
• Its more popular name, the X test, was coined in 1997
by the German Süddeutsche Zeitung after the Swedish
motor magazine Teknikens Värld flipped a Mercedes
Benz A class in a test ostensibly made to measure the
car’s ability to avoid hitting an X.
• What is X?

23. Answer
• Temple of Jupiter
• Built during the reign of Augustus
• Damascus, Syria

24. Relative sizes
• In the next slide are the images of the teeth of a
modern day predator X and its long extinct and
much larger ancestor Y which lived about 1.5
million years ago
• Y’s common name in Latin translates to “huge or
mighty tooth” for obvious reasons
• Identify X and Y (+2)
• Teeth are almost exclusively the only fossils that
remain of Y (and X too, only they aren’t known as
fossils). Why is this? (+1)

24. Answer
• X – Great white shark
• Y – Megalodon (Carcharodon Megalodon)
• Sharks have cartilaginous skeletons. Teeth and
some vertebral centra are all that remain of
them

25. Delicate balances
• From the 30s to the 90s, park rangers at Yellowstone National Park
in the United States noticed a marked deterioration in woodland
habitat, eroding land, dying plants, and loss of wetlands
• After several measures (including massive culling of elks and
coyotes) to remedy the situation, which did not help, populations of
this apex predator (X), which had long since been extirpated (in the
20s) were reintroduced in the area in 1995
• The ecology improved dramatically, and these animals (X) were
removed from the endangered list in 2008
• Typically, species such as X are known as Y species, Y is an
architectural term that denotes the critical importance of species
such as X to an ecological habitat (Y is critical to the architectural
feature that it is a part of)
• X(+1), Y(+1)

25. Answers
• X – Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf
(Canis lupus irremotus)
• Y – Keystone species

26.Identify
the person
(with mic)
and where
are they?
(Jan 1960)

26. Answers
• Jacques Piccard
• The Bathyscaphe Trieste after the first ever
dive into the Challenger Deep in the Mariana
Trench on January 23, 1960

27. A phrase in Hindi
• The currency of a neighboring nation is part of
a common derogatory Hindi phrase that is
used to indicate the low financial status of the
addressee
• What phrase?

27. Answer
• Do takey ka aadmi
– A man worth two takas
– Taka: The currency of Bangladesh

28. Lakes
•This is Lake Nyos in
Cameroon
•What is the purpose of
this fountain?

28. Answer
• Lake Nyos has a very large concentration of Carbon
Dioxide in its water (carbonic acid, soda water)
• The Carbon dioxide comes from the volcano on which
this crater lake sits
• When the Carbon dioxide is released suddenly, it
causes widespread death of livestock and people by
poisoning
• This phenomenon is called limnic eruption
• The fountain is used to release the dissolved carbon
dioxide (which is under high pressure at the lake
bottom) and alleviate the danger

Connect (W)
• Identify each person (+1)
• If you get connection (+6)

29. Image 1
30. Image 2

31. Image 3
32. Image 4

Connect.
33. Image 5
34. Image 6

35. Connection for the 6 people
• +6

36. Lazarus taxon
• In 2013, researchers at the University of
Newcastle in Australia, resurrected the genome
of a frog that had gone extinct in 1983
• The embryos lived only for a few days but the
team is optimistic of better results in the future
• Rheobatrachus silus frogs or ______ ________
frogs were very, very unique
• How?

36. Answer
• R. silus are also
known as gastric
brooding frogs
• They swallowed
their eggs and gave
birth to live young
frogs through their
mouths

37. Play
• The play “Camping with Henry and Tom” written by Mark St
Germain was released in 1995
• It won the Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards, including
Outstanding Play of the Season
• It is set around an actual event that took place in 1921,
when the three main characters (X, Y and Z), men of much
influence, went camping in the Maryland woods to escape
civilization and their concerns
• In the play, X (who is neither Tom nor Henry) is not very
happy with his job and declares he would gladly resign so
that W (his deputy who actually took over after X’s term
ended) could take over
• X, Y, Z, W? (+4)

37. Answer
• X – Warren Harding
• Y – Thomas Alva Edison
• Z – Henry Ford
• W – Calvin Coolidge

38. National Park
• In 1883, Joseph Thompson was the first European to
penetrate the feared Maasai region known as Empusel
(dry, dusty place in the vernacular)
• He was astonished by the variety of fauna
– 400 species of birds, apart from elephants, cheetahs,
hyenas, lions, impala, cape buffalo, wildebeest, giraffes,
and zebras
• This was set aside in 1906 as the “Southern Reserve”
for the Maasai, and a game reserve in 1948
• In 1974, this place, with spectacular views of the
Kilimanjaro, became a National Park
• Which National Park?

38. Answer
• Amboseli National Park

39. Scottish sport
• This sport in Scotland involves throwing an X as far as
possible from atop a platform (usually a whiskey barrel)
• X is a savory pudding made by encasing a sheep’s heart,
liver and lungs (pluck), minced with onion, oatmeal, spices,
sugar, and stock, in a sheep’s belly and simmering it for ~ 3
hours
• X is usually served with “neeps and tatties”
• In the sport, one of the objectives is that X should still be
edible (unbroken) AFTER it has been hurled. Otherwise, the
throw is not legal
• The current record stands at 217 feet, set in 2011.
• However, the Aussie cricketer Tom Moody (coach of the
Hyderabad Sunrisers) is said to have hurled one over 230
feet in 1989
• Rahul Dravid is also said to have tried a hand at this sport
without much success
• What is X? (+1) What are Neeps and Tatties? (+2)

39. Answer
• X – Haggis
• Neeps – Turnips, Tatties - Potatoes

40. Who wrote this about who? (+2)
“For the first time in the history of the world, a
young girl climbed into a tree one day a
Princess, and after having what she described
as a most thrilling experience, she climbed
down from the tree next day, a Queen”

40. Answer
• Jim Corbett wrote this about Elizabeth R
spending a day at Tree Tops in Kenya in
February 5 - 6, 1952 when her father King
George VI died

41. Precious stone
• This is a deep blue semi precious stone that was
prized in antiquity because of its intense hue
(picture coming up)
• Mined in Badakshan province of Afghanistan as
early as the 7th millenium BCE
• It was used to make the eyebrows of
Tutankhamun’s funeral mask
• It was used by Renaissance and Baroque painters
such as Titian, Vermeer, and Masaccio to shade
the clothing of the central figure of their
paintings, such as the Virgin Mary (coming up)

42. Government of Tamil Nadu
Identify the temples from both emblems. Where are
they located? (+2)

42. Answer
• Government of Tamil Nadu emblem has
Srivilliputtur temple of Vishnu (Vatapatrasayi)
• Government of Madras emblem had the
Western tower of the Meenakshi temple in
Madurai

43. Of Ponytails
• This question was first posed by Leonardo da
Vinci
• As an answer in 2012, researchers from the
University of Cambridge came up with a ‘Ponytail
Shape Equation’ to predict the shape of any
ponytail
• The equation factors in gravity, the springiness of
hair, with a constant known as the X Number to
predict if ponytails will be pointed or fan like
• What is X?

44. Identify
• Referenced in Seinfeld when Elaine draws a
cartoon for the New Yorker and inadvertently
plagiarizes this Tom Wilson creation X
• The day after the publication, in the show, the
New Yorker receives a complaint from X, saying
“The New Yorker is stealing my ideas”
• First appeared in 1968 in the book “When you
were not around” published by American
greetings
• Picture coming up

45. Great minds
• He received the Nobel peace prize in 1962,
which put him in a special bracket with Marie
Curie and another unique bracket all by
himself
• Who are we talking about? (+1)
• What are the unique brackets? (+2)

45. Answer
• Linus Pauling
• He won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1954
• After the Nobel peace prize in 1962, he
became the
– only person to win two unshared Nobels
– only person other than Marie Curie to win Nobels
in different fields

46. Medical phrase
• This 2-word phrase arose in 1984 after a study by the
Center for Disease Control (CDC) into the origin of AIDS
• CDC studied the practices and sexual liaisons of
homosexual men in California, New York, and some
other states
• They found a Canadian flight attendant, Gaetan Dugas,
to be the hub of a network of sexual partners and
therefore, they dubbed him _______ ____, the first
person to be referred with this phrase
• Later studies showed that they may have been unfair
to poor Gaetan, who died in 1984
• What phrase?

47. Noodling
• Noodling is a rather bizarre fishing practice
that is common to the Southern and
Southwestern parts of the United States: such
as Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama,
and Mississippi
• It has been legalized in Texas
• It is used primarily to catch catfish but can be
used for other fishes also
• What is bizarre about noodling?

47. Answer
• Noodling: Is a fishing technique where
fishermen wag their fingers in the water as
bait to lure fish. They don’t use a line and a
conventional bait
• The catfish actually bite the fingers and hand,
and are then hauled out with the same hand

48. Identify
•Actor, playwright
•He is most famous for playing
Mahatma Gandhi in Lage Raho
Munnabhai (2006) and Shankar
Dada Zindabad
•On the Marathi stage, he is
famous for a funny character he
portrayed in a (partly)
eponymous television serial
_______ _________ on
Doordarshan in the 80s
•The TV series was based on a
series of short stories by C. V.
Joshi
•To popular demand, he reprised
this character in his play Hasva
Phasvi
•Identify (+1)
•The character or the name of
the TV series (+1)

48. Answer
• Dilip Prabhavalkar
• Chimanrao was the character
• The TV series was called Chimanrao
Gundyabhau

49. Royal Canadian Dragoon
• An armored regiment of the Canadian army
• The most senior cavalry regiment of Canada
• Colonel-in-chief is HRH Prince Charles
• In Commonwealth countries where the British
monarch is the head of state, most army
regiments feature the St Edward’s crown on their
cap badge
• The RCD is markedly different (picture coming up)
• Identify the animal on the cap badge (+1)
• Why is this animal featured here? (+1)

49. Answers
• The animal is the Springbok
• In the 1903 Boer war, the RCD was advancing
on Pretoria and set up camp in a field
• They were about to be ambushed by Boer
forces sneaking upon them through the fields
• The erratic behavior of the springboks grazing
nearby alerted them of the danger
• The Boer forces were then defeated

50.
“To preserve this superb specimen of old Indian
architecture, the interior was filled in.
By order of The Hon’ble J.A. Bourdillon C.S.I
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF BENGAL
A.D. 1903”
• Where will you find this inscription? (+1)

50. Answer
• Sun temple, Konark, Odisha

51. Where is this tomb?
• This is the tomb of Y, built in the Indo-Afghan
style out of red sandstone located in X
• X was also the birthplace of Y
• X is also famous for the Rohtasgarh fort built
by Raja Harishchandra for his son Rohitaswa
around the 7th century AD
• Identify X and Y (+2)

51. Answer
• X – Sasaram, Bihar
• Y – Sher Shah Suri (1486 – 1545)

52. Confusing title
• Born 1904 in Mughalsarai
• He was born ___ _______ Srivastava
• Educated at East Central Railway Inter college in Mughalsarai and
Varanasi
• He graduated with a first class degree from Kashi Vidyapeeth in
1926
• He was given a title, meaning scholar, along with the degree,
according to the institution’s practice
• This title stuck and eventually became a part of his name, replacing
his original surname of Srivastava
• He has a connection to a place in which the monument shown on
the next slide is located
• Who? (+1)

52. Answer
• Lal Bahadur “Shastri”
• Monument of courage is in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

53. Where in the world?
• Pictures on next slides
• First picture is a French painting of this place
from around 1839
• The second picture is a photograph of this
place as it exists today
• The last picture is iconic, a doorway looking
out to the ocean
• Where is this place? What is its significance?
(+2)

53. Answer
• This is a museum called House of Slaves
• Situated on Goree Island just 3 km off the
coast from Dakar, Senegal
• A memorial to the Atlantic slave trade
• The doorway is called the Gate of No Return
from where African slaves bound for the
Americas were boarded into waiting cargo
ships

54. Hindi short story I
• ____ ___ ______ is the name of a city and the tehsil of the
district of the same name in Punjab province of Pakistan
• The name comes from the name of a Sikh saint prefixed
with the Punjabi word for “pond”
• The same name is also the title of a short story by Saadat
Hassan Manto about the lives of the inmates of a Lahore
mental asylum set in the Partition era
• The story is a satirical look at the reactions of the inmates
to the news of Partition vis-à-vis the madness that engulfed
the “sane” world
• Recently, there have been calls by sections to change the
name of the city, given its Sikh origins
• What? (+1)

55. Hindi short story II
• This short story ____ ____ ___ by
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri narrates the story
of two Punjabi soldiers fighting in World War II
in France and a childhood sweetheart
• This was made into a movie of the same name
in 1960 starring Sunil Dutt and Nanda,
directed by Moni Bhattacharjee
• Song clip from movie

56. Identify the town
• Located in Koderma district in Jharkhand
• It was once a major mining center for mica and its residents
included several prosperous businessmen who owned mansions,
luxury imported cars, and thoroughbreds
• Had the most telephone connections and phone calls made in India
at one point
• Became famous in 1957 because of its association with All India
Radio’s Vividh Bharati programme
• Most of the song requests came from this town
• Many Indian listeners doubted the existence of this town and a
legend began to grow around it
• The name became synonymous with any insignificant or lesser
known place
• References to this town are found in several Hindi movies and songs
• Which town? (+1)

57. German legend
• This rock (picture on next slide) lies on the Rhine gorge
between Koblenz and Bingen in Germany
• A legend of a siren combing her hair on this rock and
causing distracted sailors to wreck their boats originated in
a ballad extension of a novel by Brentano in 1801 and by a
later adaptation of the same concept by Heinrich Henne in
1824 in a poem
• In 1837, Friedrich Silcher set this poem to music in a song
titled X that is now well known in German speaking lands
• Plenty of musicians including Franz Liszt have set this poem
to music as well
• X? (+1)

58. Moviemaking
• In Hollywood, shooting requires the assistance of people
known as X’s (plural or as a/an X in singular) who are
lighting and rigging technicians
• One of the main functions of these people is to work
closely with the camera department to provide camera
support
– Especially if the camera is mounted on a dolly, a crane, or in an
unusual position such as a ladder
• The second main function is to work with the electrical
department to create necessary lighting set-ups for a shot
• In the second role, X’s work closely with Y’s (another group
of people) who are electricians responsible for the
electrification and sometimes, even design, of the lighting
plans for a particular shot
• X and Y? (+2)

58. Answers
• X – Grip
• Y – Gaffer

59. Sea life
• Flounder are demersal flatfish, they typically inhabit the
bottom of estuaries in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans
• Their bodies are heavier than water, and they ambush their
prey which includes small fish, fish spawn, and some tiny
crustaceans
• They typically lie on the bottom of the ocean floor, and
conceal themselves as protection from predators
• The larvae of flounder are no different from the larvae of
other common fish
• However, during development, between the larval and the
juvenile stage, something remarkable happens
• What? (+2)

59. Answer
• As a larva, flatfish has eyes on both sides of its
head
• As it grows, the eye migrates across the snout
and finishes up on the same side as the other
eye
• Since it lies on the ocean floor as an adult, it is
better served by the eyes in this manner

Connect coming up (W)
• 5 images. Identify the person in each (+1)
• Get the connection (+5)

Connect
60. Image 1
61. Image 2
62. Image 3
63. Image 4
64. Image 5
65. Connection? (+5)

66. Chemist
• He was in the employ of Carlsberg brewery,
where he was head of the Chemistry department
between 1876 and 1900
• He was given the job to determine the amount of
protein in the grain used in the malt industry
– Less protein meant more beer
• Unsatisfied with the existing methods in
analytical chemistry to try and determine the
answer, he made a breakthrough
• Standard chemistry textbook method (Class XII)
• The chemist? (Picture on next slide)

66. Answer
• Johan Kjeldahl
– Kjeldahl’s method for the quantitative
determination of nitrogen in compounds (1883)

67. Number plate
• The vehicle registration number plates in
Canada’s largest territory (equivalent of Union
Territories in India) of Nunavut are unique.
• In what way are they unique? (+1)

68. Adaptations
• When Disney adapted Kipling’s novel The
Jungle Book for Hollywood in 1967, the
character King Louie was included
• Why was King Louie not featured in the novel?
(+1)
• Disney initially considered X to be the voice
for King Louie but chose Y to avoid
controversy.
• X and Y? (+2) Video clip of King Louie coming
up

68. Answer
• Reason why King Louie does not feature in
Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book
– Orangutans are not native to India
• X – Louis Armstrong
• Y – Louis Prima

69. What are these?
• BOXN, BCNA, BTPN, BOBYN, BLCB, HCPV,
NMG, BVZI

69. Answers
• Designations of freight wagons (most common) in Indian
Railways
• BOXN – Open top box car for transporting coal etc
• BCNA – Closed wagons for transporting cement etc
• BTPN – Oil tanker wagons
• BLCB – Flat cars used for transporting rails, girders, coils, etc
• BOBYN – Open top hopper wagons used for transporting
gravel
• HCPV – High capacity parcel vans for transporting parcels
etc
• NMG – For transporting automobiles
• BVZI – Caboose, last car for the guard of the train

70. Hyderabad connection
• Given are two sets of place names. Give me the two places in the
Greater Hyderabad area that belong to these sets resp. and
complete them
• Set 1: Ludhiana, Lucknow, Tughlakabad, Izzatnagar, Bhagat ki Kothi,
Ratlam, Mughal Sarai, Jhansi, Abu Road, Vatva, Kalyan, Itarsi, Katni,
Samastipur, Gonda, Andal, Siliguri, Barddhaman, New Guwahati
City, Malda Town, Howrah, Jamalpur, Patratu, Bokaro Steel City,
Raipur, Bondamunda, Kharagpur, Visakhapatnam, Pune,
Krishnarajapuram, Vijayawada, Gooty, Kazipet, Guntakal, Hubli,
Erode, Ernakulam, Golden Rock, ___________ (+1)
• Set 2: Ludhiana, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Mughal Sarai, Gomoh, Howrah,
Angul, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Arakkonam, Erode, Kazipet,
Royapuram, Vasai Road, Tata, Bhilai, Kalyan, Vadodara, Ajni, New
Katni Junction, Itarsi, Jhansi, Asansol, Bhusawal, _________ (+1)

70. Answer
• Set 1: Maula Ali – Diesel Loco Sheds (BG)
• Set 2: Lallaguda – Electric Loco Sheds (BG)

71. John Lawrence
• John Lawrence ______ (1899 – 1944) was a
general manager of Tata Steel
• A stadium was built in 1939 by Tata Steel to
honor him
• It hosted its last international cricket game in
2006
– Unlikely to host any future games because of a
very new stadium in a nearby town
• What stadium?

71. Answer
• Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur
• Named after John Lawrence Keenan
• Hosted its last international cricket match in
2006, an ODI
• Because of the new Jharkhand State Cricket
Association (JSCA) stadium in Ranchi, Keenan
may have hosted its last international cricket
match

72. Faulty Meme
• In 1901, a physician named Duncan MacDougall
recorded the weights of 6 of his patients as they were
dying from tuberculosis in Massachusetts, USA
• He came up with a “finding” that has since been
refuted in the scientific literature several times over
• However, this finding has given rise to a meme __ ____
that lives to this day
• This meme is also the title of a 2003 Hollywood movie
starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro
• FITB(+1)

72. Answer
• 21 grams
– Purportedly the weight of the human soul
• The movie “21 grams” starred Sean Penn,
Benicio del Toro, and Naomi Watts

73. Score
• Most recently, in April 2013, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
commissioned the Aussie instrumental group, “Hazards of Swimming
Naked” to compose the original music and perform live along with the
screening of this show _________: ____ _________ ___ _______ (more
commonly known only by the first dash) as part of its Monsters film
program
• In 2010, the Mallarme Chamber Players of Durham, NC, USA
commissioned composer Eric J. Schwartz to compose an experimental
chamber music score for live performance along with the screenings of
the film.
• In 2009, the American film scoring ensemble, The Rats & People Motion
Picture Orchestra, premiered its new score for the same show as part of
Vanderbilt University’s International Lens film series
• In 2006, a French composer Alexis Savelief, finished his score for the same
show, intended to be performed live with cello octet, three synthesizers
and two percussionists
• These are some of the more recent attempts to substitute for the original
score for the movie, written in 1922 by Hans Erdmann, which has been
lost
• Id the show/movie (+1)
• Why was the score lost? (+1)

73. Answer
• The title of the original movie was Nosferatu: eine
Symphonie des Grauens or Nosferatu: A
Symphony of Horror or simply, Nosferatu
• It was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram
Stoker’s Count Dracula, with names and other
details changed, because the production
company could not obtain the rights to the novel
• Stoker’s heirs sued the adaptation and a court
ordered all the prints to be destroyed
• One survived somehow (minus the score of
course)

74. Connect
• Austin Podmore Williams, the chief mate of
the Jeddah, which sailed from Singapore in
1880 and was presumed sunk en route to
Jeddah. Austin abandoned ship along with the
crew. The passengers, left to their fate,
somehow survived
• A mining disaster in Chasnala, Bihar in 1975
where nearly 400 miners were killed

74. Answer
• The tragedy of Chasnala was woven into the
storyline of Yash Chopra’s Kaala Patthar
(1979) of a disgraced man seeking redemption
• Austin Williams’ life was the basis for the
character of Lord Jim, in the novel of the same
name by Joseph Conrad
• The character of Lord Jim was the inspiration
for the character Vijay Pal Singh played by
Amitabh Bachchan

75. Connect and what comes next?

76. Nice guy (W)
• He was a pre-Islamic poet, a Christian, who lived in
Ha’il in the Arabian peninsula, died in 578 AD, known
for his generosity
• He is mentioned in the Hadiths by the Prophet
Mohammad
• He features in the Arabian Nights
• He is exalted by the Persian poet Sa’ad in Gulistan as
“_____ ___ no longer exists but his exalted name will
remain famous for virtue to eternity” (+1)
• His name is a phrase commonly used in
Urdu/Persian/Arabic to describe a generous person
• The title of the movie (clip coming up)

77. Holy Place (W)
• A temple in a village X in Odisha is named after a local legend
• A rich merchant promised to marry his daughter to a poor, yet noble and
intelligent young man
• On a pilgrimage to Kashi, the old man fell sick and was abandoned by his
companions
• The young man tended to the sick old man and helped him recover
• The promise of marriage was made in gratitude
• On returning to the village, the old man reneged on his promise and instead
decided to marry his daughter off to the wealthy local headman
• The young man sought the help of the Lord Krishna who agreed to testify in
person at the village
• The young man was asked to lead the Lord to the village but was asked never to
look back
• However, when he did look back, the Lord disappeared and a statue remained
there
• The statue is worshipped to this day in this village
• The village and the temple are known by a 2–word phrase _____ ______, in honor
of the Lord who agreed to bear “witness” to the old man’s promise
• ACK title

78. (W)
• The name of a comune (municipality) in the province of Como
in the Italian region of Lombardy
• It is located on the extreme end of the cape that bifurcates the
lake Como into two regions
• Pictures coming up

79. (W)
• The second largest city in Myanmar (Burma),
and the last Royal capital
• Located 445 miles to the North of Yangon on
the east bank of the Irrawaddy, and the capital
of the region of the same name
• Despite the rise of Nyapidaw, it remains Upper
Burma’s hub for commerce, education and
health

80. (W)
• The site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes,
this city is known as the “world’s greatest open
air museum”
• It houses the temple complexes of Karnak and
_____
• Immediately across the Nile, lie the tomb
complexes known collectively as the Necropolis,
including the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of
the Queens

81. (W)
• In Utah, a flamingo escaped from Salt Lake City’s
Great Aviary in 1987 and lived by the shores of
the Great Salt Lake subsisting primarily on brine
shrimp
• After plenty of sightings by the locals in the
unusual environs, he/she became a local celebrity
• He/she was last seen in Idaho in 2005 and is
believed to have perished in the winter of 2005 –
2006
• What was the flamingo called by the locals?

82. (W)
• This story was first heard by a Frenchman Antoine
Galland from a Maronite scholar named
Youhenna Diab (“Hanna”) from Aleppo in 1709
• Galland incorporated the translation into his book
Les Mille ut Une Nuits which was published in
1717.
• Eventually, this story found its way into a very
famous collection of stories from a different part
of the world
• Which story?

83. (W)
• A theme restaurant chain, ______ __________ was
launched by Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore
and Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1991 in New York
• It was the brainchild of Bryan Kestner, a former actor and
development executive
• He was backed by Keith Barish, financier, real estate
developer, and Hollywood producer, and Robert Earl,
former president and CEO of Hard Rock Café
• In the USA, this chain has restaurants in locations including
Orlando, Myrtle Beach, and New York City
• Outside the USA, this chain has restaurants in Duisburg,
London, Niagara Falls (Canada), and Disneyland Paris

84. (W)
• The first patent for this product was taken by Gowin
Knight in England in 1760 and Edward Beran in 1769
• These were known to the French much earlier
• The St Peter’s church in Philadelphia had these in 1761
• A large modern building that adopted these was the
RCA building in Rockefeller Center, New York in 1930
• One of the largest orders for these products was placed
by the Burlington ________ _____ Company of
Burlington, Vermont, USA, which supplied these to the
Empire State Building in New York City
• The blanks are the name of the product

85 (W)
• Born Stephen Allan Weinberg in 1942, he is a
business magnate
• As of 2012, he was worth $2.9 billion and the
419th richest man in the world

Answers - Written
1. Molla/Mollamamba
2. Vemana/Vema
3. Siddhendra Yogi
4. Sri Sri
5. Pothana
6. Sir Arthur Cotton
7. X - Tana Shah, Y – Ramadasu, Urdu word - Tanashahi
8. Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Aap ki Yaad Aati Rahi Raat
Bhar (Gaman)
9. Gurazala Appa Rao
10. Gautamiputra Satakarni or Salivahana

11. Answer
• Akkineni Lakshmi Vara Prasada Rao
– L V Prasad

13. Answer
• Ben-Jarvus Green Ellis’ nickname:
– THE LAW FIRM

14. Answer
• Rajbari Palace
• Cooch Behar, West Bengal

15. Answer
• Mothavarapu Buchi Babu Naidu
– Annual Buchi Babu cricket tournament is held in
his honor
• The fixture between MCC and MUC was
commonly known as the “Pongal” match

29. Image 1
30. Image 2
29. Image 1: Kunwar Digvijay Singh, hockey legend (K D Singh Babu, Lucknow)
30. Image 2: Michael Knachtbull, 5th Baron Brabourne (Mumbai)

31. Image 3
32. Image 4
31. Image 3: Mangalam Chinnaswamy (Bengaluru)
32. Image 4: M A Chidambaram Chettiyar (Chennai)

Connect.
33. Image 5
34. Image 6
33. Image 5: S K Wankhede (Mumbai)
34. Image 6: Sawai Man Singh II (Jaipur)
35. Connection: Cricket grounds in India that have hosted Tests

Connection
62. Antoine Lemat de la Mothe, sur de Cadillac
61. Chief Pontiac
60. David Buick
64. Ransom E Olds
63. Louis Chevrolet 65. GM Stable

76. Answer
• Hatim al-Tayee (Hatim Tai)

77. Answer
• Sakshi Gopal (near Puri)

Answers
78.Bellagio
79.Mandalay
80.Luxor
81.Pink Floyd (Flamingo)
82.Aladdin
83.Planet Hollywood
84.Venetian Blinds (The Venetian)
85.Steve Wynn (The Wynn)

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