The quiz was conducted as part of the CPQ year ender 2019.

2. Q1.How do we better know this war?
 The war began on 14 July 1969, when the Salvadoran military launched an
attack against Honduras. The Organization of American States (OAS)
negotiated a cease-fire on the night of 18 July (hence "100 Hour War"),
which took full effect on 20 July. Salvadoran troops were withdrawn in early
August.

3. Q2.FITB.
 Chilkur Balaji Temple, popularly known as “____ Balaji Temple'', is an
ancient Hindu temple of Lord Balaji on the banks of Osman Sagar in
Hyderabad. It is one of the oldest temples in Hyderabad built during the
time of Madanna and Akkanna, the uncles of Bhakta Ramadas.This temple
has no hundi and neither accepts any money from devotees.

4. Q3.ID the structure.
 The structure is named after Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Frederick
________ who served as the Governor of Madras from 1929 to 1934 and
as the Acting Viceroy of India in 1934.This is one of the largest of its kind in
India and was completed in 1934.

5. Q4.What iconic creation of the 18th
century was inspired by the landscape
paintings by Marco Ricci?

6. Q5.What resulted?
 In 1807, at the outset of the Peninsular War, Napoleonic forces invaded
Portugal due to the Portuguese alliance with Great Britain. The prince
regent of Portugal at the time, John VI, had formally governed the country
on behalf of Maria I of Portugal since 1799. Anticipating the invasion of
Napoleon's army, John VI decided to do something.

7. Q6.From the Telegraph website.
Who were these passengers and ID
the occasion.
 The journey was unique. Rarely had such careful plans been laid out and
passengers ferried with so much care. Kerala's Chief Minister K.
Karunakaran flagged off the 28-wagon train on its 3,011 km journey to the
capital from Trichur in Kerala on November 1. When the journey ended on
November 8 at Tughlakabad station, exactly 164 hours later, the Railways
also hauled its cargo, it seemed, with infinite care, clocking an incredibly
slow speed of 18 km an hour.

8. Q7.What’s so unique about this
café,located in an Asian city?
 The cafe claims to have, “a great location, an impeccable space, (and serve) quality coffee,”
according to its Facebook page.
 Recently the authorities have decided to shut down this café and similar locations because of the
overflow of tourists in the area.

9. Q8.This is an extract from Alexander
Pope's "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot“. FITB.
 Let Sporus tremble –"What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
____ ______ __ ________ _____ __ _____?
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys,

10. Q9.ID the book which was never
published in India and was banned
there.
 The author interacted with and interviewed many people who had known X
personally, including politicians, businessmen, lawyers and media persons.
Some interviewees requested anonymity due to their personal and
professional relationship with X’s family or to his political influence. The
book was first published by Allen & Unwin, an Australian publisher, in
1998.

11. Q10.
 Najre Hasan, who was trying to leave the city was arrested for this crime.
During interrogation he confessed that he had stolen them to repay the
money he had borrowed from some people.
 He sold them to jewelers Shankarlal Seth and Sujit Seth of Piyari locality.
Later the jewelers were arrested and the melted silver was recovered
from them.
 Three of them were recovered and was gifted to its original owner by
former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, Lalu Prasad and Kapil Sibal.
 What was thus recovered from these jewelers?

12. Q11.Why did he drop out of Harvard
University?
 In October 1895, he sat for the entrance examination to the Lawrence
Scientific School and was unconditionally accepted to study the classics
at Harvard University.

13. Q12. What name was given to Sri
Lanka’s first satellite?
 Sri Lanka's first satellite ‘X', designed and developed by two local
engineers, was successfully launched into orbit this week from the
International Space Station (ISS) along with two other BIRDS 3 satellites
from Japan and Nepal.

14. Q13. ID X & Y.
 X is a three-part mixed media performance accompanied by music (also
sometimes referred to as a chamber opera) by composer Philip Glass. The
libretto is based on the life and homicide trial of 19th-century English
pioneer Y. Commissioned by the Holland Festival, the opera was first
performed in 1982 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

15. Q14. What title was given to this article on
the Total Literacy Campaign in Haryana
which was published in 1993?

17. Q15.ID his eponymous creation which
he devised in 1912.
 He wrote The Art of Compounding, which was first published in 1895 and
has gone through at least 8 editions. The book was used as a
pharmacological reference up until the 1960s.
 He also wrote Extracts and Perfumes, which contained hundreds of
formulations. For a time he was a professor at the Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

18. Q16.What am I talking about?
 The oldest of its kind in the world was established in 1594, belongs to
Binondo, an enclave in Manila. The Spanish gave a land grant for
Binondo to a group of merchants and artisans infinitely, tax-free and with
limited self-governing privileges.

19. Q17. What was their crime?
 In 2016,a 'baul' singer Pradip Bauri arrested for his alleged involvement in
this crime in 2004. He was picked up by the Special Investigation Team
(SIT) from his Ruppur village residence in Birbhum district. Bauri, who was
the gram panchayat pradhan of Ruppur from 1998 to 2003, had given
shelter to the culprits involved in the crime. Following his interrogation, it
has come to light that a Bangladeshi national, Mohammed Hossain Shipul,
was the mastermind of the plot and two Europeans were also involved in it.

20. Q18.Below pictured is a device created with the aid
of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
(GHMC) to end a certain practice.ID and what
profession are they trying to end?

21. Q19.ID the book and the author.
 In 1821, it was sold to the publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. Brockhaus
asked Wilhelm von Schütz to translate the book into German. Some extracts of
the translation and the first volume were published as early as 1822. The
collaboration between Brockhaus and Schütz stopped in 1824, after the
publication of the fifth volume.
 The original manuscript was stored in the editor's head office in Leipzig until
1943, when after the closure of the office, Brockhaus himself secured them in a
bank, saving them just before the 1943 bombings of Leipzig.
 In 1960, a collaboration between Brockhaus and the French editor Plon led to
the first original edition of the manuscript. In 2010, thanks to the support of an
anonymous donor, the manuscript was purchased by the Bibliothèque nationale
de France for over $9 million, the institution's most expensive acquisition to
date.

22. Q20.Whose memorial?
 This is a mausoleum situated at Binjaur, a village near Anupgarh in the Sri
Gangannagar district of Rajasthan. According to the local legend, a famous duo
died here. A fair, held annually in the month of June, is attended by hundreds
of couples and newlyweds.

23. Q21.What often used term in political
circles was coined by him?
 Laxmi Mall Singhvi (9 November 1931 – 6 October 2007) was an Indian
jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat. He was, after V. K.
Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India
in the United Kingdom (1991–97).He was conferred Padma Bhushan in
1998.

24. Q22.What idea was proposed by
Stuart Robertson, the marketing
manager of the ECB?
 When the Benson & Hedges Cup ended in 2002, the ECB needed another
one day competition to fill its place. Cricketing authorities were looking to
boost the game's popularity with the younger generation in response to
dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship.

25. Q23. ID the character and X.
 Their biggest rival that time was Target, run by Living Media.
 Target was more of a narrative magazine, with a few pages of comics.
Their flagship character that time was Detective Moochhwala by Ajit Ninan.
Tinkle decided to create a competing character. Subba Rao and Dhruva,
two of the creators at Tinkle, came up with the proposal for such a
character. They decided to base their creation on a character from a
television drama X.
 X originally ran on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957.

26. Q24.X?
 Dr. Katherine Hall, a senior lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine at
the University of Otago, New Zealand, writes in an article published in The
Ancient History Bulletin, most other theories of what killed X have
focused on the agonizing fever and abdominal pain he suffered in the
days before he died.
 She suggests that X may have suffered from the neurological disorder
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which caused his death. She also argues
that people might not have noticed any immediate signs of decomposition
on the body for one simple reason—because X wasn’t dead yet.

27. Q25.What was the invention?
(Be specific)
 According to a German paper, the inventor of XY was a political prisoner,
who perfected his idea within the walls of a State prison. Kammerer was a
native of Ludwigsburg, and when sentenced to six months’ imprisonment
at Hoenasperg, he was fortunate enough to attract the notice and to gain
the favor of an old officer in charge of the prison, who, finding he was
studying chemistry, allowed him to arrange a small laboratory in his
cell. Kammerer had been engaged in researches, with a view of improving
the defective steeping system, according to which splinters of wood, with
sulphur at the ends, were dipped into a chemical fluid in order to
produce a flame.

28. Finals will start soon.

29. AND NOW THE ANSWERS..

30. Q1.How do we better know this war?
 The war began on 14 July 1969, when the Salvadoran military launched an
attack against Honduras. The Organization of American States (OAS)
negotiated a cease-fire on the night of 18 July (hence "100 Hour War"),
which took full effect on 20 July. Salvadoran troops were withdrawn in early
August.

31. FOOTBALL WAR

32. Q2.FITB.
 Chilkur Balaji Temple, popularly known as “____ Balaji Temple'', is an
ancient Hindu temple of Lord Balaji on the banks of Osman Sagar in
Hyderabad. It is one of the oldest temples in Hyderabad built during the
time of Madanna and Akkanna, the uncles of Bhakta Ramadas.This temple
has no hundi and neither accepts any money from devotees.

33. VISA

34. Q3.ID the structure.
 The structure is named after Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Frederick
________ who served as the Governor of Madras from 1929 to 1934 and
as the Acting Viceroy of India in 1934.This is one of the largest of its kind in
India and was completed in 1934.

35. Stanley Reservoir

36. Q4.What iconic creation of the 18th
century was inspired by the landscape
paintings by Marco Ricci?

37. Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

38. Q5.What resulted?
 In 1807, at the outset of the Peninsular War, Napoleonic forces invaded
Portugal due to the Portuguese alliance with Great Britain. The prince
regent of Portugal at the time, John VI, had formally governed the country
on behalf of Maria I of Portugal since 1799. Anticipating the invasion of
Napoleon's army, John VI decided to do something.

39. Rio de Janeiro functioned as the
capital of the Kingdom of Portugal.

40. Q6.From the Telegraph website.
Who were these passengers and ID
the occasion.
 The journey was unique. Rarely had such careful plans been laid out and
passengers ferried with so much care. Kerala's Chief Minister K.
Karunakaran flagged off the 28-wagon train on its 3,011 km journey to the
capital from Trichur in Kerala on November 1. When the journey ended on
November 8 at Tughlakabad station, exactly 164 hours later, the Railways
also hauled its cargo, it seemed, with infinite care, clocking an incredibly
slow speed of 18 km an hour.

41. Elephants to the 1982 Asiad opening
ceremony

42. Q7.What’s so unique about this
café,located in an Asian city?
 The cafe claims to have, “a great location, an impeccable space, (and serve) quality coffee,”
according to its Facebook page.
 Recently the authorities have decided to shut down this café and similar locations because of the
overflow of tourists in the area.

43. Hanoi Train Street

44. Q8.This is an extract from Alexander
Pope's "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot“. FITB.
 Let Sporus tremble –"What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
____ ______ __ ________ _____ __ _____?
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys,

45. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

46. Q9.ID the book which was never
published in India and was banned
there.
 The author interacted with and interviewed many people who had known X
personally, including politicians, businessmen, lawyers and media persons.
Some interviewees requested anonymity due to their personal and
professional relationship with X’s family or to his political influence. The
book was first published by Allen & Unwin, an Australian publisher, in
1998.

48. Q10.
 Najre Hasan, who was trying to leave the city was arrested for this crime.
During interrogation he confessed that he had stolen them to repay the
money he had borrowed from some people.
 He sold them to jewelers Shankarlal Seth and Sujit Seth of Piyari locality.
Later the jewelers were arrested and the melted silver was recovered
from them.
 Three of them were recovered and was gifted to its original owner by
former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, Lalu Prasad and Kapil Sibal.
 What was thus recovered from these jewelers?

49. Ustad Bismillah Khan’s shehnais

50. Q11.Why did he drop out of Harvard
University?
 In October 1895, he sat for the entrance examination to the Lawrence
Scientific School and was unconditionally accepted to study the classics
at Harvard University.

51. James B.Connoly – First Modern
Olympic Champion

52. Q12. What name was given to Sri
Lanka’s first satellite?
 Sri Lanka's first satellite ‘X', designed and developed by two local
engineers, was successfully launched into orbit this week from the
International Space Station (ISS) along with two other BIRDS 3 satellites
from Japan and Nepal.

53. Raavana 1

54. Q13. ID X & Y.
 X is a three-part mixed media performance accompanied by music (also
sometimes referred to as a chamber opera) by composer Philip Glass. The
libretto is based on the life and homicide trial of 19th-century English
pioneer Y. Commissioned by the Holland Festival, the opera was first
performed in 1982 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

55. X-The Photographer
Y-Eadweard Muybridge

56. Q14. What title was given to this article on
the Total Literacy Campaign in Haryana
which was published in 1993?

58. Fourth Battle of Panipat

59. Q15.ID his eponymous creation which
he devised in 1912.
 He wrote The Art of Compounding, which was first published in 1895 and
has gone through at least 8 editions. The book was used as a
pharmacological reference up until the 1960s.
 He also wrote Extracts and Perfumes, which contained hundreds of
formulations. For a time he was a professor at the Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

60. Scoville scale

61. Q16.What am I talking about?
 The oldest of its kind in the world was established in 1594, belongs to
Binondo, an enclave in Manila. The Spanish gave a land grant for
Binondo to a group of merchants and artisans infinitely, tax-free and with
limited self-governing privileges.

62. Chinatown

63. Q17. What was their crime?
 In 2016,a 'baul' singer Pradip Bauri arrested for his alleged involvement in
this crime in 2004. He was picked up by the Special Investigation Team
(SIT) from his Ruppur village residence in Birbhum district. Bauri, who was
the gram panchayat pradhan of Ruppur from 1998 to 2003, had given
shelter to the culprits involved in the crime. Following his interrogation, it
has come to light that a Bangladeshi national, Mohammed Hossain Shipul,
was the mastermind of the plot and two Europeans were also involved in it.

64. Theft of Tagore’s 1913 Nobel medal

65. Q18.Below pictured is a device created with the aid
of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
(GHMC) to end a certain practice.ID and what
profession are they trying to end?

66. Bandicoot
Manual Scavenging

67. Q19.ID the book and the author.
 In 1821, it was sold to the publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. Brockhaus
asked Wilhelm von Schütz to translate the book into German. Some extracts of
the translation and the first volume were published as early as 1822. The
collaboration between Brockhaus and Schütz stopped in 1824, after the
publication of the fifth volume.
 The original manuscript was stored in the editor's head office in Leipzig until
1943, when after the closure of the office, Brockhaus himself secured them in a
bank, saving them just before the 1943 bombings of Leipzig.
 In 1960, a collaboration between Brockhaus and the French editor Plon led to
the first original edition of the manuscript. In 2010, thanks to the support of an
anonymous donor, the manuscript was purchased by the Bibliothèque nationale
de France for over $9 million, the institution's most expensive acquisition to
date.

69. Q20.Whose memorial?
 This is mausoleum situated at Binjaur, a village near Anupgarh in the Sri
Gangannagar district of Rajasthan. According to the local legend, a famous duo
died here. A fair, held annually in the month of June, is attended by hundreds
of couples and newlyweds.

70. Layla and Majnun

71. Q21.What often used term in political
circles was coined by him?
 Laxmi Mall Singhvi (9 November 1931 – 6 October 2007) was an Indian
jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat. He was, after V. K.
Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India
in the United Kingdom (1991–97).He was conferred Padma Bhushan in
1998.

72. Lokpal

73. Q22.What idea was proposed by
Stuart Robertson, the marketing
manager of the ECB?
 When the Benson & Hedges Cup ended in 2002, the ECB needed another
one day competition to fill its place. Cricketing authorities were looking to
boost the game's popularity with the younger generation in response to
dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship.

74. Twenty20 cricket

75. Q23. ID the character and X.
 Their biggest rival that time was Target, run by Living Media.
 Target was more of a narrative magazine, with a few pages of comics.
Their flagship character that time was Detective Moochhwala by Ajit Ninan.
Tinkle decided to create a competing character. Subba Rao and Dhruva,
two of the creators at Tinkle, came up with the proposal for such a
character. They decided to base their creation on a character from a
television drama X.
 X originally ran on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957.

76. Shikkari Shambu & I Love Lucy

77. Q24.X?
 Dr. Katherine Hall, a senior lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine at
the University of Otago, New Zealand, writes in an article published in The
Ancient History Bulletin, most other theories of what killed X have
focused on the agonizing fever and abdominal pain he suffered in the
days before he died.
 She suggests that X may have suffered from the neurological disorder
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which caused his death. She also argues
that people might not have noticed any immediate signs of decomposition
on the body for one simple reason—because X wasn’t dead yet.

78. Alexander the Great

79. Q25.What was the invention?
(Be specific)
 According to a German paper, the inventor of XY was a political prisoner,
who perfected his idea within the walls of a State prison. Kammerer was a
native of Ludwigsburg, and when sentenced to six months’ imprisonment
at Hoenasperg, he was fortunate enough to attract the notice and to gain
the favor of an old officer in charge of the prison, who, finding he was
studying chemistry, allowed him to arrange a small laboratory in his
cell. Kammerer had been engaged in researches, with a view of improving
the defective steeping system, according to which splinters of wood, with
sulphur at the ends, were dipped into a chemical fluid in order to
produce a flame.

80. Lucifer matches

81. Finals will start soon.