The document contains a K-Circle quiz with 25 multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions related to topics in history, mythology, language, and current events. The quiz covers people, places, terms, and concepts from areas including Indian and Chinese culture, British history, Arabic and Latin etymology, and more. Participants are tasked with identifying figures, connecting ideas, and providing missing information referenced in the quiz questions.

1. K-Circle Quiz
5 October 2008
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Quizmaster-Anupam Sinha

2. 1.Fill in the blanks:
The ________ ______ is the effect of the
subjectivity of perception on recollection, by
which observers of an event are able to produce
substantially different but equally plausible
accounts of it.

3. 2.Trial of which famous
person ?
Sir Ralph Sandwich (1235–1308) was a British administrator
and justice.A member of the King's council, Sandwich was
in 1278 appointed justice coram rege (in the presence of the
King) for when the king was in Kent, and was with the
judges when Alexander III of Scotland paid homage in
Westminster in October. In 1285 King took direct control of
London, appointing Sandwich as Warden of London on July
1 and Constable of the Tower on September 10. Until 1293
Sandwich was the effective Mayor of London. He was
appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in
1289.Between 1286 and 1307 he sat every year as a justice
at the original Old Bailey, and sat as a justice at the trial of
___________ at Westminster Hall in 1305.

4. 3.Identify the phrase.
To put _________ is a rhetorical expression, used to
convey the message that making superficial or
cosmetic changes is a futile attempt to disguise the
true nature of a product.While the rhetorical
concept appears to have a long-standing
provenance, the actual phrase appears to be of
20th-century coinage, and has risen to prominence
due to its use in US politics, most recently during
the 2008 U.S. Presidential election

5. 4. Identify this character from
Indian Mythology.
The name _______ means "devoid of virtue".
Another explanation is that it means "she who
purifies".It has also been translated as "stinky",
and relates it to pustulant sores, whose eruptions is
a symptom of chicken pox. _______ is also the
name of the weapon of or a form of the goddess of
small pox, Sitala. She finds a mention in Garga
Samhita and Brahma Vaivarta Purana as
Ratnamala her previous incarnation.

6. 5. What's the good word???
Spanish abbreviation for “Mary of the
Mercies”

7. 6.This guys contribution to
bollywood.
Syed Fazl ul Hasan was a romantic poet of Urdu language,
journalist, politician, parliamentarian and a fearless freedom
fighter of Indo-Pak Sub-continent . He was born in 1875 at
Mohan in Unnao district of U.P. India.He participated in the
struggle for Indian Independence (end of British Raj); and was
jailed for many years by British authorities. He was the first
person in Indian History who demanded 'Complete
Independence' ( Azadi-e-Kaamil) in 1921 as he presided over
an annual session of All India Muslim League.A few of his
books a Sharh-e-Kalam-e-Ghalib (Explanation of Ghalib's
poetry), Nukaat-e-Sukhan (Important aspects of poetry,
Mushahidaat-e-Zindaan(Observations in Prison], etc

8. 7. A sporty funda....
This word in French means "to rescue" or "to save".
It is a practice amongst ladder competitions that
allows participants that failed to meet qualifying
standards by a small margin to continue to the next
round.

9. 8. Connect ....

11. 9.Which animals???
Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth century Mughal
painter and court artist of Jehangir who specialised
in depicting plants and animals.Ustad Mansur
started his career during the last few years of
Akbar's reign as a minor painter. But during the
reign of Jahangir, he created his masterpieces.
Jahangir bestowed on him the title of Nadir-ul-Asar.
He was supposedly the first person ever to paint
these two animals.The ______ was brought to
Jehangir's court via Portuguese controlled Goa and a
painting of it is found in the Hermitage in St.
Petersburg and unsigned but attributed to Mansur.

12. 10.Etymology for which
word???
The term _____ has often been thought to be
derived from the Arabic word for “easterns”. The
term spread into Western Europe through the
Byzantines and Crusaders. In Christian writing, the
name was made to mean "those empty of XXXX"
or "not from XXXX," as Arabs were, in Biblical
genealogies, descended from Hagar and also called
the Hagarenes. According to the Arthurian
Lancelot-Grail Cycle, the name derives from
YYYY, an island important in the Quest for the
Holy Grail.

13. 11. Identify.
Joss paper , also known as ghost money, are sheets
of paper that are burned in traditional Chinese
deity or ancestor worship ceremonies during
special holidays. Joss paper, as well as other
papier-mache items, are also burned in traditional
Chinese funerals, to ensure that spirit of the
deceased has lots of good things in their afterlife.In
some Chinese mythology, the __________ are sent
by living relatives to dead ancestors as a tribute to
the King of Hell for a shorter stay or to escape
punishment, or for the ancestors to use themselves
in spending on lavish items in the afterlife.

15. 12. Which City???
___________ was the capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th
century, although for only about 30 years. Its ruins lie in the
northwestern corner of the Oorkhangai, Province of
Mongolia, near today's town of Kharkhorin, and adjacent to
the Erdene Zuu monastery. They are part of the upper part of
the World Heritage Site Orkhon Valley Cultural
Landscape.William of Rubruck, a Flemish Franciscan
missionary and papal envoy to the Mongols reached
_________ in 1254. He has left one of the most detailed,
though not always flattering, accounts of the city. He
compared it rather unfavourably to the village of Saint-Denis
near Paris, and stated that the monastery in said village is ten
times as important as the Khan's palace.He described the
walled city as having four doors in the four directions, two
quarters of fixed houses,twelve pagan temples, two mosques,

16. 13.The poem or the poet...
"That Mysterious Rag" is a song by Irving Berlin
and Ted Snyder written in 1911.
“Did you hear it? Were you near it?
If you weren't then you've yet to fear it;
Once you've met it you'll regret it,
Just because you never will forget it”
Who parodied this song in the form of a poem(circa
1922)?

17. 14. Sniffer _______ ???
Bart Weetjens has been running a unique lab in
Tanzania, where he trains ______ to sniff out
deadly unexploded land mines.In the field,
leashed _______ systematically search the mined
areas and pinpoint the location of the buried
explosives by scratching on the top soil.They are
called HERO_____.A trained Hero_____ can
clear 100 m2 in 30 minutes, equivalent to two
days work for a manual deminer.Hero_______
also reliably detect pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB)
in human sputum samples. Currently, in 7
minutes one ______ can evaluate 40 samples
which is the equivalent of 2 days of microscopy
work for a lab technician.

18. 15. Fill in the blank.
Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off,
Scissors,_________

19. 16. Which term???
This term in Arabic means "way" or "path to the
water source"

20. 17. What ?????
Its the brainchild of the BBC World Service Trust,
an NGO funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.It has been composed by Rupert
Fernandez and sung byVijay Prakash.

21. 18. Identify the person on the
right.

22. 19. Connect....

23. 20 What's the subgenre ???
This word comes from spanish for “rogue” or “rascal”. It
is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually
satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail
the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who
lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. As indicated
by its name, this style of novel originated in Spain, where
it was possibly influenced by Arabic literature
(specifically the maqama genre, which also featured the
episodic exploits of a rogue character), flourished in
Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and
continues to influence modern literature.The genre has
classical precedents in the Sanskrit legend “Baital
Pachisi”, in Petronius's fragmentary "Satyricon", and in
Apuleius's "The Golden Ass".

24. 21. What does the crooked red
line represent ???

25. 22. Figure out the mathematics.
Confidence Interval = (Ci / Ni) * (MPR / APR)
Ni = number of indicators scored for the country (304
for all countries in 2007)
MPR = minimum number of peer reviewers required
for all countries
APR = actual number of peer reviewers for a country
Ci = number of indicators for the country changed as a
result of the peer review process
The (MPR / APR) ratio serves as a “peer review factor”
whose impact on the final confidence interval
diminishes as the number of actual peer reviewers for
the country increases.

26. 23. What's in a name???
Latin for “open country” or “battlefield” or “plain”.

27. 24. The What!!!! Mechanism
The _______ escapement is an unusual, low-friction
escapement for pendulum clocks invented by British
clockmaker John Harrison around 1722. An escapement,
a part of every mechanical clock, is the mechanism that
releases the clock's gears to move forward by a fixed
amount at each swing of the pendulum.He used it in his
first three marine timekeepers, H1 - H3. However it was
seldom used in other timepieces.Two advantages of the
______ escapement are its regularity of operation and its
freedom from the need for lubrication. The regularity of
its operation is inherent in its design. One pallet is
released only by the engagement of the other; the impulse
given to the pendulum is uniform in both its amount and
its timing.

30. 25. What's the Desi term for this
act ???
In Australia, the term "bastardisation" is used. In
French baptême and bizutage .Doop in Dutch in
Flanders. Ontgroening in Dutch and in the Finnish
mopokaste . In Swedish, the term used is
"nollning", literally, zeroing. In Spainish speaking
countries, the term is "novatada" from "novato" .In
evolutionary psychology this phenomenon is
explained using the psychological trait known as
Stockholm syndrome in humans

31. 26.Fill in the blank.
Contrary to popular belief, they are not albinos.The
mutation is recessive to normal color, which means
that two normal animals carrying the mutant gene
may produce white offspring.While the inhibitor
("chinchilla") gene affects the color of the hair
shaft, there is a separate "wide-band" gene
affecting the distance between the dark bands of
colour on agouti hairs. An orange _______ who
inherits two copies of this wide-band gene
becomes a golden tabby; a white who inherits two
copies becomes almost or completely XXXXXX.

32. 27. Identify....

33. 28. Which word in English has
come ......???
From the greek word for “engraved or stamped
mark (on coins or seals), branding mark, symbol”

34. 29.Bahut Puraani Bimaari Hai
Bhai....
In the early 20th century it had been observed that
some who develop high fevers could be cured of
________. Thus, for a brief time malaria was used
as treatment for tertiary _______ because it
produced prolonged and high fevers. This was
considered an acceptable risk because the malaria
could later be treated with quinine which was
available at that time. This discovery was
championed by Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who won
the 1927 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work in
this area.

35. 30. One more connect
question....

36. 31. What am I talking about???
This has three variants-the white one ith
tassels,which underlines an individual's social
status and is worn by nobility;the black and white
chequered one that is a symbol of armed struggle
in a certain country and the red and white
chequered one used to announce religious identity.

37. 32.The book or the author....
The author of this book dedicates the book "to the
memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St.
Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the
same rate for __________ as for letters, and
thereby directly precipitated the first Russian
Revolution."

38. 33.Either the person or his
claim to fame...
Writing and publishing were not his usual
professions. His poetry series Luftskibet
("Airship") was inspired by the balloon flights of
physicist Étienne-Gaspard Robert.He was the first
person to produce pure aluminium.He also
discovered piperine an alkaloid responsible for the
pungency of black pepper and long pepper.

39. 34.The building blocks of .....
_______ bricks are a natural building material made
from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or
organic material (sticks, straw, dung), which is
shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the
sun.In hot climates, compared to wooden
buildings, _______ buildings offer significant
advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but
they are known to be particularly susceptible to
seismic damage in an event such as an
earthquake.The word can be traced from the
Middle Egyptian (c. 2000 BC) word for mud
bricks.

40. 35.Identify the voice...

41. 36. Some arcane phenomenon..
The phenomenon goes by the name Sood's effect
after A.K.Sood (Prof. Of physics at IISc) who
along with his student Shankar Ghosh discovered
it cica 2004 .Dr. Sood provided the explanation for
the phenomenon using Bernoulli's Principle, Gas
Law and Seebeck Effect.

42. 37.What does the picture
depict ??

43. 38.Maybe the very first instance
of .....
In 1975 Steve Dompier programmed his MITS
Altair personal computer to play the Beatle's Fool
on the hill.The trick was that the output device a
nearby AM radio.Dompier had programmed his
computer so that the EMI created by the PC
produced recognizable tones from the radio.

44. 39. What would you call the
world we live in ???

45. 40. Namkeen....
Salmiak (salmiakki in Finnish) is a variety of
________ that contains a relatively large amount
of ammonium chloride (NH4Cl, "salmiac") in
addition to the Glycyrrhizin, sugar, and starch
Ammonium chloride has a spicy taste that vaguely
resembles that of sodium chloride (table salt).
However, _________ does not contain any sodium
chloride. Although some regular types can also
contain a small amount of ammonium chloride,
_________ can contain up to about 8 percent of
ammonium chloride.

46. 41.Give me the name...
In the naive language this name literally means
“Essence of Taste”

47. 42.What's this software
called???
The open source ________ is a fundamental enabling
technology for the "Grid," letting people share computing
power, databases, and other tools securely online across
corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries
without sacrificing local autonomy. The toolkit includes
software services and libraries for resource monitoring,
discovery, and management, plus security and file
management. In addition to being a central part of science
and engineering projects that total nearly a half-billion
dollars internationally, the _________ is a substrate on
which leading IT companies are building significant
commercial Grid products.CERN will upload the data (for
analysis) generated by LHC on to the net using this
toolkit.

48. 43.What does the map depict ??

49. 43.They are used to make .........
Cardanol is a phenol obtained from anacardic acid,
the main component of cashew nutshell liquid
(CNSL), a byproduct of cashew nut processing.
Cardanol finds use in the chemical industry in
resins, coatings, frictional materials, and
surfactants used as pigment dispersants for water-
based inks.Cardanol-phenol resins were developed
in the 1920s by Mortimer T. Harvey, then a student
at Columbia University. These resins found use in
____________ after it was found that they had a
coefficient of friction that was less sensitive to
temperature changes than phenol-formaldehyde
resins.

50. 44. Now, what's her claim to
fame ???
Margaret __________, OBE (December 10, 1907 –
November 8, 1998), was an English author of over
60 books.Born in Sussex, England, Godden grew
up with her three sisters in Narayanganj, then part
of colonial India. She returned to the United
Kingdom with her sisters in her early 20s, training
as a dance teacher. She went to Calcutta in 1930 to
start a dance school for English and Indian
children. Godden ran the school for 20 years with
the help of her sister Nancy. During this time she
published her first best-seller, Black Narcissus
(1939).

51. 45. Even water molecules have
memory...
Water memory is a scientifically refuted speculation
that water is capable of retaining a memory of
particles once dissolved in it, even after being
diluted so much that the chance of even one
molecule remaining in the quantity being used is
minuscule. Shaking the water at each stage of a
serial dilution is claimed to be necessary for an
effect to occur. The concept was proposed by
Jacques Benveniste to explain the alleged
therapeutic powers of ____________ , which are
prepared by serially diluting aqueous solutions to
such a high degree that even a single molecule of
the original solute is highly unlikely to remain in
each final preparation.

52. 46.Finally some light at the end
of the tunnel...
______ was a trademarked name used by General
Electric and others for incandescent light bulbs
from 1909 through 1945; _______ brand light
bulbs were made for decades after 1945 outside the
USA.The company licensed the ______ name,
socket sizes, and tungsten filament technology, to
other manufacturers in order to set a standard for
lighting.The company dropped the campaign in
1945 in the face of competition from Japan.

55. 47.What's this strange
product???
Lena Blackburne _______ was founded by player
and coach R.A. Lena Blackburne.The Company
reaps six harvests from two secret holes in a
swamp in New Jersey. The harvest is then freed
from debris and after adding some magic
ingredient is aged for six weeks before being sent
to the teams.

56. 48.A map of ......

57. 49. Id the buiding ....

58. 50. The phrase ....
________ (translates as "purification hunt") is a state
sponsored counterinsurgency campaign started in
Dantewada district in 2005, which involved vigilante
gangs accompanied by state security forces burning
villages, killing people and forcing them into camps, as
part of an effort to counter Naxalites (Maoist guerrillas).
A number of independent human rights organisations or
initiatives (such as the People's Union for Civil Liberties,
the People's Union for Democratic Rights) as well as
government agencies (the National Human Rights
Commission, National Commission for the Protection of
Child Rights, National Commission for Women) have
found evidence of extensive human rights violations,
which include arson, rape and killings.

59. 51.This is some hairy
chemistry.....
Thioglycolic acid (TGA) is the organic compound
HSCH2CO2H. It contains both a thiol (mercaptan)
and a carboxylic acid.With calcium hydroxide it
affects a certain reaction. The resulting
combination of calcium hydroxide and thioglycolic
acid is calcium thioglycolate(CaTG). The calcium
hydroxide is present in excess to enable the
thioglycolic acid to react with the cystine . The
reaction is :-
2SH-CH2-COOH(thioglycolic acid)
+RSSR(cystine)-----> 2R-SH + COOH CH2 SS
CH2 COOH (dithiodiglycolic acid).
What is this reaction that I am talking about ???

60. 52.Something stringy ????
A frequent metaphor for it, especially in South
America, is dental floss as in Spanish hilo dental
or Portuguese fio dental. At other times it is
reffered to as colaless, in Spanish.
In Lithuanian it is "siaurikės" ("narrows"), Italian
"perizoma", in Turkish "ipli külot" , and in
Bulgarian as "prashka" (slingshot).
In Israel it is called "Khutini" , (from the word
Khut, which means String). In Iran, it is called
"Scortbandi".

61. 53. The inventor of this .....

62. A plasma lamp is usually a clear glass orb, filled
with a mixture of various gases - most commonly
helium and neon, but sometimes also xenon and
krypton at low pressure (below 0.01 atmospheres),
and driven by high frequency alternating current at
high voltage (approx. 35 kHz, 2–5 kV), generated
by a high voltage transformer. A much smaller orb
in its center serves as an electrode. Plasma
filaments extend from the inner electrode to the
outer glass insulator, giving the appearance of
multiple constant beams of colored light.The
plasma lamp was invented by _______ after his
experimentation with high frequency currents in an
evacuated glass tube for the purpose of studying
high voltage phenomena.

63. 54. Talented chap .....
Apart from being very good in his chosen field of work he was a
lawyer and a scientist.He independently discovered the human
intermaxillary bone in 1784, which Broussonet (1779) and Vicq
d'Azyr (1780) had (using different methods) identified several
years earlier. In 1790, he published his Metamorphosis of
Plants.In 1810, _____ published his Theory of Colours, which
he considered his most important work. In it, he (contentiously)
characterized colour as arising from the dynamic interplay of
darkness and light. After being translated into English by
Charles Eastlake in 1840, this theory became widely adopted by
the art world, most notably J. M. W. Turner . It also inspired the
philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, to write his Remarks on
Colour. ________ was vehemently opposed to Newton's
analytic treatment of colour, engaging instead in compiling a
comprehensive description of a wide variety of colour
phenomena.

64. 55. A rather torturous name .....
The Duke of Exeter's daughter was a device used in
the Tower of London. Its first employment is said
to have been due to John Holland, 2nd Duke of
Exeter, the constable of the Tower in 1447,
whence it got its name.

65. 56.Just name it....
_________, in the synthetic sense, are "rigid-backbone"
conductive polymers composed of polyacetylene,
polypyrrole, and polyaniline "Blacks" and their mixed
copolymers. The simplest _______ is polyacetylene
In 1963, DE Weiss and coworkers reported high electrical
conductivity in a _______, iodine-doped and oxidized
polypyrrole "Black". They achieved the quite high
conductivity of 1 Ohm/cm. A decade later, John
McGinness, and coworkers reported a high conductivity
"ON" state in a voltage-controlled solid-state threshold
switch made with DOPA ______. Further, this material
emitted a flash of light (electroluminescence)when it
switched. _______ also shows negative resistance, a
classic property of electronically-active conductive
polymers. Likewise, _______ is the best sound-
absorbing material known due to strong electron-phonon
coupling. This may be related to _______ presence in the

66. 57.Whats the good word ???
_________is a term of German or Yiddish origin
that has been used to categorize art that is
considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an
existing style. The term is also used more
loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious
to the point of being in bad taste, and also
commercially produced items that are
considered trite or crass.Though its precise
etymology is uncertain, it is widely held that the
word originated in the Munich art markets of the
1860s and '70s, used to describe cheap, hotly
marketable pictures or sketches (the English
term mispronounced by Germans, or elided with
the German dialect verb XXXXX that originally
meant "to scrape up mud from the street" or "to

67. 58.Forbidden fruit ????
____________ is a name used in North America for
several plants in two closely related genera in the
family Ericaceae: Gaylussacia and Vaccinium. The
________ is the state fruit of Idaho._______ hold a
place in archaic English slang. The tiny size of its fruits
led to their frequent use as a way of referring to
something small, often in an affectionate way. The
phrase "a _________ over my persimmon" was used to
mean "a bit beyond my abilities". "I'm your _______" is
a way of saying that one is just the right person for a
given job, which was used by the character Doc
Holliday in the movie Tombstone. The ________
Railroad is a heritage train located in Flint, Michigan. It
ran so slowly that it was said a person could jump off
the train, pick _______ and jump back on the train with
minimum effort.

68. 59. Connect.....

70. 60. What's the term ???
From French ______ , literally meaning gait or
from Middle French, from _______ meaning to
march.Used in different connotation presently.

71. 61. Complete the list .....
Keshgarh XXXX , at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab
Patna XXXX, at Patna, Bihar
Hazur XXXX, at Nanded, Maharashtra
Damdama XXXX, at Talwandi Sabo, Bhatinda
____________________________________

72. 62. A book from hell ....
The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Naturon Demonto) is
a fictional Sumerian book in the Evil Dead series.
It made its first appearance in The Evil Dead, and
continued its film career in Evil Dead II and Army
of Darkness, as well as various spin-off media.Not
much is known about the creation of the book. It
was written by a mysterious group known as "The
Dark Ones," who constructed the cover of the book
from the flesh of the tortured and the damned. The
pages of the book were inked with human blood,
gathered from the seas and bound together in
human flesh. It takes its name, but has no other
connection to, the Necronomicon of __________
stories.

73. 63. Connect .....

75. 64.Id the person or his claim to
fame....
Antonio Maria _______ (Imola, January 17, 1666–
Bologna, February 2, 1723) was an Italian
anatomist born in Imola. His research focused on
the anatomy of the ears. He coined the term
Eustachian tube and he described the aortic sinuses
of _______ in his writings, published
posthumously in 1740. His name is associated with
the ________maneuver, which is used as a test of
circulatory function.

76. 65. And it ends with a bang...
Ferrite or alpha iron (α-Fe) is a materials science
term for iron, or a solid solution with iron as the
main constituent, with a body centred cubic crystal
structure. It is the component which gives steel and
cast iron their magnetic properties, and is the
classic example of a ferromagnetic material.In pure
iron, ferrite is stable below 910°C. As the
temperature is raised the face-centered cubic form
of iron, austenite (gamma-iron) is formed.This
transition from a more tensile form of iron to a less
tensile form had supposedly caused the .........