Content of the quiz held as part of the leaderboard challenge of SEQC

1. SEQC LEADERBOARD
CHALLENGE
Rajiv D’Silva

2. TYPONYMS
Written
+5 for every correct answer

3. 1
A type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, typically open all
days of the week, and with the same menu all day. The name comes
from the French word for “brewery”.
An item of clothing that actually comes from the Norman French for a
child’s undershirt, but gained widespread acceptance in its current use
in English after Vogue magazine began using it in 1907. Incidentally, the
French term for the said item of clothing is soutien-gorge.

4. 2
The Arabic word for chickpeas.
The organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves
and other plant material by soil microorganisms.

5. 3
The Hindi word for the momordica charantia plant and the common
vegetable produced by it that is much disliked by children.
An Indian state that gets its name from either a dynasty that ruled the
region from the 3rd century BCE to the 10th century CE, or the words in
the local language that mean “land of the coconut trees”.

6. 4
What Novak Djokovic, Emir Kusturica and Milla Jovovich are.
Agricultural labourers bounded under the feudal system to work on their
Lord’s estates.

7. 5
A town in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, famous for an
event that is billed “India’s greatest outdoor festival” and takes place at
the end of September every year.
A word that came into English via French and Italian that originated from
the Arabic word sifr, meaning “empty”.

8. 6
Surname of TIME magazine’s Man of the Year in 1979, often described
as the face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture, and probably best
known for a fatwa he issued in 1989.
The surname of his successor.

9. EXCHANGE
PAPERS!

10. 1
A type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, typically open all
days of the week, and with the same menu all day. The name comes
from the French word for “brewery”.
An item of clothing that actually comes from the Norman French for a
child’s undershirt, but gained widespread acceptance in its current use
in English after Vogue magazine began using it in 1907. Incidentally, the
French term for the said item of clothing is soutien-gorge.

11. 1
Brasserie, Brassiere

12. 2
The Arabic word for chickpeas.
The organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves
and other plant material by soil microorganisms.

13. 2
Hummus, Humus

14. 3
The Hindi word for the momordica charantia plant and the common
vegetable produced by it that is much disliked by children.
An Indian state that gets its name from either a dynasty that ruled the
region from the 3rd century BCE to the 10th century CE, or the words in
the local language that mean “land of the coconut trees”.

15. 3
Karela, Kerala

16. 4
What Novak Djokovic, Emir Kusturica and Milla Jovovich are.
Agricultural labourers bounded under the feudal system to work on their
Lord’s estates.

17. 4
Serbs, Serfs

18. 5
A town in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, famous for an
event that is billed “India’s greatest outdoor festival” and takes place at
the end of September every year.
A word that came into English via French and Italian that originated from
the Arabic word sifr, meaning “empty”.

19. 5
Ziro, Zero

20. 6
Surname of TIME magazine’s Man of the Year in 1979, often described
as the face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture, and probably best
known for a fatwa he issued in 1989.
The surname of his successor.

21. 6
Khomeini, Khamenei

22. GRACIAS