General Quiz I conducted in a league session in my college. Reviews welcome.

1. Palangtod Quiz
By Shubhankar Bahl

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नियम

3. विभाजिSplit, for those who don't know Hindi
Indian History Geography Etymology Sports LSD World History

4. श्रेणी एक
विश्ि इनिहास

5. Patrice Emery Lumumba was a Congolese independence leader and the
first democratically elected leader of the Congo and played an important
role in campaigning for independence from Belgium.
His death is attributed to the Belgians and the CIA, who teamed up in
order to have him killed. The CIA ordered his assassination but could not
complete the job. Instead, the United States and Belgium covertly
funneled cash and aid to rival politicians who seized power and arrested
Lumumba.
Lumumba, tried to achieve one significant goal which lead to tensions
between Belgium and the Congo and ultimately, his demise.
What was this ‘significant goal’?
Parallel hint: 1953 Iranian Coup d’etat

7. Answer: He tried to nationalize Congolese natural resources which
included Cobalt, Copper and Diamonds.

8. The X is a United States Military decoration awarded in the name of the
President to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5,
1914, with the U.S. Military. The original X was established by George
Washington as the Badge of Military Merit.
The Badge of Military Merit was only awarded to three Revolutionary
War soldiers. From then on, as its legend grew, so did its appearance.
Although never abolished, the award of the badge was not proposed again
officially until after World War I.
The interesting fact about X is that, till date, all the X awarded by the US
Military were made before WWII due to the United States anticipating a
high amount of deaths against Japan. In typical US fashion, those stocks
still last till this day.
What is X?

10. Answer: The Purple Heart

11. X, also known as dermal melanocytosis, is a benign, flat, congenital
birthmark with wavy borders usually found around the lower back of
babies. It was described and named by Erwin Baelz, a German
anthropologist based in Japan.
The colour of X is caused by melanocytes that are usually located in the
surface of the skin. It affects nearly 90-95% of Asian populations and 80-
85% Native American infants. Even 46% of Latin Americans are born with
X. Even black babies have X at a frequency of 96%.
Interestingly, the term X has nothing to do with the Khanate of any
emperor, even though misguided stereotypes will state that X are a result
of the vast expanse of a certain empire. Give X.

13. Answer: Mongolian Spots

14. X was an ancient Mesoamerican city and was the largest center of the
Americas in terms of economy before the Aztecs. Its name literally
translates to ‘birthplace of the Gods’, though that isn’t much help to you.
The city included various monuments such as Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid
of the moon, Temple of the feathered serpent, Palace of Quetzalpapalotl
etc. In pop culture, X has been shown more or less as a city with a barbaric
culture due to evidence being found of the practice of Human Sacrifice.
Presently, it lies in the San Juan X municipality of Mexico and was deemed
a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
X please.

16. Answer: Teotihuacan

17. श्रेणी दो
भारिीय इनिहास

18. Banco Nacional Ultramarino was a European bank with operations
throughout the world, especially in certain provinces.
It ceased existence as an independent legal entity following its merger
with Caixa geral de Depositos, a government owned savings bank, in 2001.
The bank continues operations today in Macau under the same name and
is also licensed to issue ‘patacas’.
What special connection did this bank have with India till 1961?

20. Answer: Issued Goan Currency before the liberation

21. X was an Indian political activist. She was
married at the age of 14 to her husband,
who was at the time 13. She worked
closely with her husband and even
moved to different regions of the world
due to his employments with different
organisations.
One of the most famous incidents of her
life is her husband threatening to throw
her out of his house if she refused to
accept the servant he had brought for
household chores while they stayed
outside India.

24. What is happening here?

26. Answer: The protection of the Khejri trees by the Bishnoi tribe of
Rajasthan.

27. The foundation stone of X was laid by then Emperor George Albert which
was promulgated by the Land Acquisition Act of 1894. Two knights of the
order of the British empire were given the task of creating something
befitting the King of the British Isles and the regent who would take his
place in his absence.
X took nearly 20 years to build and when completed, didn’t serve much
purpose to the general public around the area due to its unnaturally strict
rules. However, after 1947, X nearly doubled in size overnight due to a
large influx of people from _________ and the government had to relax
norms in order to establish settlements.
The political status of X still swirls in a lingo due to the bureaucracy and
poor framing of laws. I want the exact term.

29. Answer: New Delhi, the capital of India. Not to be confused with Delhi, the
city around New Delhi or Delhi, the state in which Delhi and New Delhi lie.
Not to be confused with NCT of India either, which includes 57% of
Haryana, Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida, and parts of Rajasthan.

30. श्रेणी िीि
भूगोल

31. X is a nick name of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. It
was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitzgerald who worked for the
Morning Telegraph.
Its etymology is a mystery. One theory states that the term was coined by
Jazz Musicians who played all around the city and used one half of the
term for any town or borough which offered them gigs and employment.
The earliest written citation of X is the 1909 book The Wayfarer in
________________ by Edward S. Martin.
Parallel hint: Oranges

33. Answer: The Big Apple, New York City

34. Villa Las Estrellas(Chile) and Esperanza Base(Argentina) hold a unique
distinction which has been attempted by various other countries before
and will probably be tried in the future as well.
Although the claims of the two countries which control these towns are
unavailing due to a UN resolution on the same, the countries maintain
these two towns nevertheless.
The dispute also includes claims by Australia, UK, France, Spain etc.
What’s the unique distinction the towns hold?

36. Answer: Both are the only permanent, year round human settlements on
Antarctica. The towns serve the purpose of establishing territorial claims
over Antarctica by the two countries.

37. The following are the chances of something happening in different
countries:
USA: 1%
Canada: 75%
India: 46%
What we are talking about here, has probably been studied by most of us
in our school days, with the distinction being classified as metallic and
non-metallic in different book lingos.
What very important statistic to a country’s tertiary sector, are we talking
about?

39. Answer: These are the percentages or chances of encountering an
unpaved road.

40. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese classical text containing a system of
divination based on pictured symbols, called trigrams. On what national
flag will you see such trigrams?

42. Answer: Republic of Korea

43. श्रेणी चार
शब्द-साधि

44. X comes from two Greek words Y and Z, the former meaning bad and
latter meaning star. The origin of the word comes from the fact that
ancient Greeks used to blame calamities on unfavourable planetary
positions.
Synonyms of X include debacle, tragedy, cataclysm
Only X please.

46. Answer: Disaster

47. X comes from the Arabic term ______ which means “the dice”. The term
came to be associated with dice during the Crusades and eventually took
on a negative connotation because games of dice were associated with
gambling.
Other theories suggest a possible Old French origin, which is propagated
by X being a surname in French speaking areas of the world.

50. A modern medical word; X as a Latin word was not used in an anatomical
sense in classical times, but rather a sheath.
A sheath is defined as a close fitting cover for the blade of a knife or a
sword.
Synonyms according to Google include Honeypot, punani (Russell Peter
fans should have got this by now), muff, pum-pum etc.

52. Answer: Vagina
Credits to Soumya Sir for inspo.

53. The word X is an anglicization of the Classical Gaelic word ____ meaning
“water”. The ____ was further inspired from the Latin term Aqua Vitae
meaning ‘Water of Life’ and hence the trend continued with X.
Much is also made of X’s spellings with two different schools of thought on
the issue. One is that the spelling difference is simply a matter of regional
language convention for the spelling of a word. The other is that the
spelling should depend on the style or origin of the spirit being described.
In Ireland and US, an extra e is common in usage whereas British spellings
do not include the e.
X please.

55. Answer: Whiskey

56. श्रेणी पााँच
खेल

57. There were rumors that Y had run up major gambling debts to the mafia,
so he may have bet against himself in the fight and then lost on purpose to
make back what he owed.
Footage of the fight revealed that X’s jab barely connected. What followed
became one of the most iconic images in sports history.
X and Y please.

59. Answer: Mohammad Ali and Sonny Liston

60. Rebecca Romero is an English sportswoman and Olympic champion who is
the second woman of all to win an Olympic medal in two different sports.
She was part of the English 2004 Olympic team which won the silver medal
at Athens in quadruple sculls. Persistent back woes forced Romero to retire
from rowing and take up another Olympic sport which was one of the few
Olympic sports which had minimum involvement of the back. Interestingly,
Romero bettered her silver at the Athens games in her new sport and won
a gold at the Beijing games.
What was her new sport?

62. Answer: Cycling

63. What change was introduced in 1450 to make the game of chess faster
and more enjoyable? The change was so revolutionary that the French
called the new game “esches de la dame enrage”?
Parallel hint: A 2014 Bollywood movie starring Rajkumar Rao

65. Answer: The Queen was allowed to move any number of steps instead of
just one

66. X refers to the principal leaders of the Latin American wars of
independence from Spain and Portugal.
They are named that way in contrast with the Conquistadors, who were so
far the only Spanish/Portuguese peoples recorded in the South American
history.
They were largely bourgeois influenced by liberalism and in most cases
with military training in the mother country.
Some popular ones include Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and
Francisco de Miranda.
How do we know X in a footballing context? (Funda will also do)

68. Answer: Copa Libertadores de America

69. श्रेणी छह
संभोगप्रेम, औरऔषधध

70. These works were the
result of a vision the poet
had, unaided by drugs
contrary to popular belief,
which lasted several days.
In the vision, the great
English poet William
Blake recited these works
to him and he simply
penned them down.
Which great beat
generation poet is this?
Parallel Hint: Harry Potter

72. Answer: Allen Ginsberg

73. According to the Discovery Channels hour-long documentary called “How
_______Saved the World,” ____ was responsible for the birth and
development of human civilization, and is the “greatest invention of all.” It
outlines how the agriculture revolution was started because of the need to
make _______.
Cities were built in an effort to produce more _______ for the growing
number of people who craved it. Other lesser known inventions were
math, which needed to be mastered by farmers as their fields grew and
needed to be quantified, as well as written language, which was vital to
keep records of the expanding ________ trade.
The documentary goes on to demonstrate that every invention,
innovation, and milestone of human history was, at the core, because of
the human love for _______.

76. In 1300 BC King Menephta, the fourth ruler of the 19th Dynasty of Ancient
Egypt, came home from battle after successfully beating the Libyans.
To celebrate his success, he ordered his men to engage in a peculiar
activity involving the captured Libyans.
As a result, he arrived home to Egypt with 13,000 of something of vital
importance to the Libyans, which led to a certain amount of despondency
and angst among Libyan women when their men returned.
What was this peculiar activity?

78. Answer: He arrived home with 13,000 penises. His ancient monument at
Karnak has a detail of which penis belonged to whom, Libyan generals,
Libyans, Sirculians, Etruscans, and Greeks.

79. 1. Couples from different schools and universities meeting up on a public
platform.
2. Maila boys on the hunt for girls, with their wayfarer shades on.
3. The ‘very in’ Qawwali nights with Amjad Sabri – the license for showing up
drunk
4. A much needed break from all the actual studying
5. Rave parties that cater almost every drug one needs for a good time.
6. Breakups and cheating – according to many students, most breakups happen at
____________.
7. Unwanted phadday
8. _____________ actually feel like a competition of who can show off best
And 3 more reasons which would give away the answer.
This list has been trending in Pakistani social media, describing what actually is the
reason for the popularity of an activity (which has also become quite famous in
India in recent years)
Which activity is this?

81. Answer: Model United Nations

82. Where can we see the following? (Exhaustive)
1. Binoy at Kuldhara
2. Jane at Garahdia Mahadev Temple
3. Huana at Kumbalgarh
4. Arya in a Jugaad
5. Meera at Pushkar

84. Answer: New Rajasthan Tourism Ads