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The Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2016 includes various topics across history, culture, and significant events, formatted in 25 questions with different point values. Conducted by Samanwya Banerjee, the quiz emphasizes knowledge on trivia such as notable figures, historical events, and terminology. The document outlines rules, organizes questions, and provides answers to maintain engagement in a competitive environment.

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KAUSHIK BANERJEE Memorial Quiz 2016 PRELIMS RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY: Samanway Banerjee
House Rules  25 questions, worth 30 points…  Questions 11-20 are starred question, to be used in case of a tie.  Questions 21-25 are 2-pointers.  Most answers can be worked out… so go for it!  Kindly switch off your mobile phones… > Decision of the quiz master stands true and final.
1. Shortly after Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its founding PM Lee Kuan Yew was said to have remarked that he wanted this city-state to be like X ( a city), which was quite surprising, given how founding fathers tend to build their nascent motherland following western society.
2. Barcelona won the 1992 European Cup, thanks to a Ronald Coeman free-kick at the extra time. In doing so, they became the 2nd Spanish club to win the tournament. Who coached Barcelona to their 1st European Cup triumph in 1992?
3.Which 125 year old institution, the building of whose was designed by William Emerson (yes, the same guy who designed Victoria Memorial) is the subject of this fairly recent book? Despite not being in its geographic proximity, it initially functioned under the University of Calcutta.
4.What was originally assigned the name LOST, after the scientists Herren Doktoren Wilhelm Lommel and Wilhelm Steinkopf, who developed a method for the large-scale production of the same for the Imperial German Army in 1916?
5. Although _______ was originally a part of the IPC, as drafted by Thomas Macaulay, it was bizarrely dropped from the law when it was enacted in 1860. The provision, as it reads today after some amendments, defines it as any action — whether by words, signs or visible representation — which “brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India”. What’s the good word?
6.According to pharmacologist Rudolf Boehm's 1895 classification scheme, the three main types of X are: Tube or bamboo (so named because of its packing into hollow bamboo tubes). Pot (originally packed in terra cotta pots). Calabash or gourd. What am I talking about, which forms an important plot point in a 2015 Bengali sleuth movie?
7. Looking for a 2 word answer:
8. Coined by Johann Lukas Schönle in 1839, from a Latin word meaning “small, swelling bump or pimple”, it was not until 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the bacillus, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1905 that the name began being exclusively used to refer to the disease formerly popularly known as consumption. Which disease, estimated by Hippocrates as the most widespread disease of his age?
9. Key models in the history of which company? 51 (1941) 61 (1956) 45 (1964) 75 (1964) 25 (1975) 95 (1988) An additional hint: This particular company is a premium one in its category. All of you present here are probably using a product made by other affordable companies of the same category.
10. Page from a Bhagavat Puran manuscript. Which incident is being depicted here?
• STARRED QUES
11. The Hartman brothers sought advice from Coca-Cola about newly developed Whiskey mixer X, but Coke didn’t help. Pepsi was interested, albeit 35 years later. Not only was X invented for Whiskey, it’s named after it too. The name X was a slang term for moonshine and of course moonshine is a slang term for homemade whiskey. It’s called “moonshine” because it was made at night to hide the smoke from the stills during prohibition.
12. Pic from Pablo Bartholomew’s collection… Simply, id the gentleman…
13.Pictured on the next slide is “Le Chahut” by Georges Seurat. The title of the painting refers to the name a particular dance was called in its early days. Which high-energy, physically demanding dance which became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day and may be derived from the French for tittle-tattle or scandal?
1. Qs
14.The Lubyanka was originally built in 1898 as the headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company. It is currently an affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. Before being a prison, it served as the headquarters of which organization, which dissolved in 1991?
15. • A picturesque location….a photographer’s paradise. • Where can you see such a beautiful war memorial? • Looking for a 2-word ans
16. Described by Rolling Stone as the “Mark Zuckerberg of the online underground”, Christopher Poole founded X in 2003 when he was just 15 years old. In January 2015, Poole retired from running it, and in September 2015, the site was sold to a Japanese entrepreneur. However its founder is back in the news, as Google hired him to tackle social media, one of the few areas of the internet where Google has failed to compete. Which highly notorious and controversial site was founded by Poole?
17. In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag (of the same name). The movement was co-founded by three community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. This international activist movement became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown, resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, and Eric Garner in New York City.
18.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word in the sense of "a speech error" is Lord Byron in 1814. However, this word comes from a character named "Mrs. ________" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. ________ frequently misspeaks (to great comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning she intends, but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan presumably chose her name in humorous reference to a word, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase literally meaning "poorly placed".
19. Raja Rao Dargahi Singh Bhati, the Gurjar chieftain of ______ Bhatner Riyasat, in 1818 possessed 133 villages at a fixed revenue of Rs.29,000 with capital in Kathera village. He ruled all over Noida, greater Noida and part of Ghaziabad. In 1828 Britishers attacked the riyasat and he was killed. Britishers took all wealth, fort and 5000 bighas of land. Later on land was distributed among farmers quisling in order to suppress the unrest. It is said by the old persons of the town that some British were captured where now tahseel is situated and they were forced to work like a bull in the proceedings. PHEW! Finally a BULL connection…
20. Id the band…
• 21-25 ARE 2 POINTERS
21. On the next slides are a couple of photos of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to India 5 and a half decades ago. What are the 2 places shown?
22. The fiction jury had recommended the 1941 Pulitzer Prize go to X’s Y. Although the Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, the President of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year. X is the author. Y is the work. Years later, an American heavy metal band had to ride the lightning to feature a song which can be seen as a lyrical adaptation of a particular scene from the book (chapter 27).
23. • 2 images on the next slide. • One represents the initial design, which was abandoned in July 2015, which on completion would have cost more than $2bn. • The other represents the recently unveiled design, whose estimated cost is $1.2bn. • Just give me the event and the designer of the initial prototype…
RESEARCHED & CONDUCTED BY: SAMANWAY BANERJEE
24. This video is a part of what?? The answer must contain the issue for which this was made, as well as the organization/company behind this. San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Lagos, Moscow, Cairo, Berlin, London, Paris, Jakarta, Bangkok, New Delhi and Tokyo were covered during the making of this video.
25. ID the singer. Also, ID the author whose story the movie is an adaptation of?
• SUBMIT YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
• The answers:
1. Shortly after Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its founding PM Lee Kuan Yew was said to have remarked that he wanted this city-state to be like X ( a city), which was quite surprising, given how founding fathers tend to build their nascent motherland following western society.
The Answer is...
KOLKATA
2. Barcelona won the 1992 European Cup, thanks to a Ronald Coeman free-kick at the extra time. In doing so, they became the 2nd Spanish club to win the tournament. Who coached Barcelona to their 1st European Cup triumph in 1992?
The Answer is...
JOHAN CRUYFF
3.Which 125 year old institution, the building of whose was designed by William Emerson (yes, the same guy who designed Victoria Memorial) is the subject of this fairly recent book? Despite not being in its geographic proximity, it initially functioned under the University of Calcutta.
The Answer is...
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY
4.What was originally assigned the name LOST, after the scientists Herren Doktoren Wilhelm Lommel and Wilhelm Steinkopf, who developed a method for the large-scale production of the same for the Imperial German Army in 1916?
The Answer is...
MUSTARD GAS
5. Although _______ was originally a part of the IPC, as drafted by Thomas Macaulay, it was bizarrely dropped from the law when it was enacted in 1860. The provision, as it reads today after some amendments, defines it as any action — whether by words, signs or visible representation — which “brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India”. What’s the good word?
The Answer is...
A Quiz by SAMANWAY BANERJEE
6.According to pharmacologist Rudolf Boehm's 1895 classification scheme, the three main types of X are: Tube or bamboo (so named because of its packing into hollow bamboo tubes). Pot (originally packed in terra cotta pots). Calabash or gourd. What am I talking about, which forms an important plot point in a 2015 Bengali sleuth movie?
The Answer is...
CURARE
7. Looking for a 2 word answer:
The Answer is...
OXFORD COMMA
8. Coined by Johann Lukas Schönle in 1839, from a Latin word meaning “small, swelling bump or pimple”, it was not until 1882 when when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the bacillus, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1905 that the name began being exclusively used to refer to the disease formerly popularly known as consumption. Which disease, estimated by Hippocrates as the most widespread disease of his age?
The Answer is...
TUBERCULOSIS
9. Key models in the history of which company? 51 (1941) 61 (1956) 45 (1964) 75 (1964) 25 (1975) 95 (1988) An additional hint: This particular company is a premium one in its category. All of you present here are probably using a product made by other affordable companies of the same category.
THE ANSWER IS… The Answer is...
The answer to the Question is: PARKER PEN COMPANY
10. Page from a Bhagavat Puran manuscript. Which incident is being depicted here?
The Answer is...
BHIMA KILLING JARASANDHA
• STARRED QUES
11. The Hartman brothers sought advice from Coca-Cola about newly developed Whiskey mixer X, but Coke didn’t help. Pepsi was interested, albeit 35 years later. Not only was X invented for Whiskey, it’s named after it too. The name X was a slang term for moonshine and of course moonshine is a slang term for homemade whiskey. It’s called “moonshine” because it was made at night to hide the smoke from the stills during prohibition.
The Answer is...
MOUNTAIN DEW
12. Pic from Pablo Bartholomew’s collection… Simply, id the gentleman…
The Answer is...
OM PURI
13.Pictured on the next slide is “Le Chahut” by Georges Seurat. The title of the painting refers to the name a particular dance was called in its early days. Which high-energy, physically demanding dance which became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day and may be derived from the French for tittle-tattle or scandal?
1. Qs
The Answer is...
CANCAN
14.The Lubyanka was originally built in 1898 as the headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company. It is currently an affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. Before being a prison, it served as the headquarters of which organization, which dissolved in 1991?
The Answer is...
KGB
15. • A picturesque location….a photographer’s paradise. • Where can you see such a beautiful war memorial? • Looking for a 2-word ans
The Answer is...
BATASIA LOOP
16. Described by Rolling Stone as the “Mark Zuckerberg of the online underground”, Christopher Poole founded X in 2003 when he was just 15 years old. In January 2015, Poole retired from running it, and in September 2015, the site was sold to a Japanese entrepreneur. However its founder is back in the news, as Google hired him to tackle social media, one of the few areas of the internet where Google has failed to compete. Which highly notorious and controversial site was founded by Poole?
The Answer is...
4chan
17. In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag (of the same name). The movement was co-founded by three community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. This international activist movement became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown, resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, and Eric Garner in New York City.
The Answer is...
BLACK LIVES MATTER
18.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word in the sense of "a speech error" is Lord Byron in 1814. However, this word comes from a character named "Mrs. ________" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. ________ frequently misspeaks (to great comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning she intends, but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan presumably chose her name in humorous reference to a word, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase literally meaning "poorly placed".
The Answer is...
MALAPROPISM OR MALAPROPOS
19. Raja Rao Dargahi Singh Bhati, the Gurjar chieftain of ______ Bhatner Riyasat, in 1818 possessed 133 villages at a fixed revenue of Rs.29,000 with capital in Kathera village. He ruled all over Noida, greater Noida and part of Ghaziabad. In 1828 Britishers attacked the riyasat and he was killed. Britishers took all wealth, fort and 5000 bighas of land. Later on land was distributed among farmers quisling in order to suppress the unrest. It is said by the old persons of the town that some British were captured where now tahseel is situated and they were forced to work like a bull in the proceedings. PHEW! Finally a BULL connection…
The Answer is...
DADRI
20. Id the band…
The Answer is...
PET SHOP BOYS
• 21-25 ARE 2 POINTERS
21. On the next slides are a couple of photos of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to India 5 and a half decades ago. What are the 2 places shown?
The Answer is...
• Sabarmati Ashram • Atomic Energy Centre at Trombay
22. The fiction jury had recommended the 1941 Pulitzer Prize go to X’s Y. Although the Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, the President of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year. X is the author. Y is the work. Years later, an American heavy metal band had to ride the lightning to feature a song which can be seen as a lyrical adaptation of a particular scene from the book (chapter 27).
The Answer is...
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
23. • 2 images on the next slide. • One represents the initial design, which was abandoned in July 2015, which on completion would have cost more than $2bn. • The other represents the recently unveiled design, whose estimated cost is $1.2bn. • Just give me the event and the designer of the initial prototype…
RESEARCHED & CONDUCTED BY: SAMANWAY BANERJEE
•TOKYO 2020 •ZAHA HADID
24. This video is a part of what?? The answer must contain the issue for which this was made, as well as the organization/company behind this. San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Lagos, Moscow, Cairo, Berlin, London, Paris, Jakarta, Bangkok, New Delhi and Tokyo were covered during the making of this video.
• Insert video
The Answer is...
GOOGLE DOODLE on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
25. ID the singer. Also, ID the author whose story the movie is an adaptation of?
The Answer is...
TOCHI RAINA SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY
23. X is a substance used to treat ischaemia: a lack of blood flow to parts of the body, particularly in cases of angina or heart failure. It is manufactured in Latvia and only distributed in Baltic countries and Russia. It is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States and is not authorized in the rest of Europe. What is X and why is this heavily in news?
The Answer is...
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Prelims with answers

  • 1.
    KAUSHIK BANERJEE Memorial Quiz2016 PRELIMS RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY: Samanway Banerjee
  • 2.
    House Rules  25questions, worth 30 points…  Questions 11-20 are starred question, to be used in case of a tie.  Questions 21-25 are 2-pointers.  Most answers can be worked out… so go for it!  Kindly switch off your mobile phones… > Decision of the quiz master stands true and final.
  • 5.
    1. Shortly afterSingapore became an independent nation in 1965, its founding PM Lee Kuan Yew was said to have remarked that he wanted this city-state to be like X ( a city), which was quite surprising, given how founding fathers tend to build their nascent motherland following western society.
  • 6.
    2. Barcelona wonthe 1992 European Cup, thanks to a Ronald Coeman free-kick at the extra time. In doing so, they became the 2nd Spanish club to win the tournament. Who coached Barcelona to their 1st European Cup triumph in 1992?
  • 7.
    3.Which 125 yearold institution, the building of whose was designed by William Emerson (yes, the same guy who designed Victoria Memorial) is the subject of this fairly recent book? Despite not being in its geographic proximity, it initially functioned under the University of Calcutta.
  • 9.
    4.What was originallyassigned the name LOST, after the scientists Herren Doktoren Wilhelm Lommel and Wilhelm Steinkopf, who developed a method for the large-scale production of the same for the Imperial German Army in 1916?
  • 10.
    5. Although _______was originally a part of the IPC, as drafted by Thomas Macaulay, it was bizarrely dropped from the law when it was enacted in 1860. The provision, as it reads today after some amendments, defines it as any action — whether by words, signs or visible representation — which “brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India”. What’s the good word?
  • 11.
    6.According to pharmacologistRudolf Boehm's 1895 classification scheme, the three main types of X are: Tube or bamboo (so named because of its packing into hollow bamboo tubes). Pot (originally packed in terra cotta pots). Calabash or gourd. What am I talking about, which forms an important plot point in a 2015 Bengali sleuth movie?
  • 12.
    7. Looking fora 2 word answer:
  • 13.
    8. Coined byJohann Lukas Schönle in 1839, from a Latin word meaning “small, swelling bump or pimple”, it was not until 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the bacillus, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1905 that the name began being exclusively used to refer to the disease formerly popularly known as consumption. Which disease, estimated by Hippocrates as the most widespread disease of his age?
  • 14.
    9. Key modelsin the history of which company? 51 (1941) 61 (1956) 45 (1964) 75 (1964) 25 (1975) 95 (1988) An additional hint: This particular company is a premium one in its category. All of you present here are probably using a product made by other affordable companies of the same category.
  • 15.
    10. Page froma Bhagavat Puran manuscript. Which incident is being depicted here?
  • 17.
  • 18.
    11. The Hartmanbrothers sought advice from Coca-Cola about newly developed Whiskey mixer X, but Coke didn’t help. Pepsi was interested, albeit 35 years later. Not only was X invented for Whiskey, it’s named after it too. The name X was a slang term for moonshine and of course moonshine is a slang term for homemade whiskey. It’s called “moonshine” because it was made at night to hide the smoke from the stills during prohibition.
  • 19.
    12. Pic fromPablo Bartholomew’s collection… Simply, id the gentleman…
  • 21.
    13.Pictured on thenext slide is “Le Chahut” by Georges Seurat. The title of the painting refers to the name a particular dance was called in its early days. Which high-energy, physically demanding dance which became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day and may be derived from the French for tittle-tattle or scandal?
  • 22.
  • 23.
    14.The Lubyanka wasoriginally built in 1898 as the headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company. It is currently an affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. Before being a prison, it served as the headquarters of which organization, which dissolved in 1991?
  • 25.
    15. • A picturesquelocation….a photographer’s paradise. • Where can you see such a beautiful war memorial? • Looking for a 2-word ans
  • 27.
    16. Described byRolling Stone as the “Mark Zuckerberg of the online underground”, Christopher Poole founded X in 2003 when he was just 15 years old. In January 2015, Poole retired from running it, and in September 2015, the site was sold to a Japanese entrepreneur. However its founder is back in the news, as Google hired him to tackle social media, one of the few areas of the internet where Google has failed to compete. Which highly notorious and controversial site was founded by Poole?
  • 28.
    17. In thesummer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag (of the same name). The movement was co-founded by three community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. This international activist movement became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown, resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, and Eric Garner in New York City.
  • 29.
    18.According to theOxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word in the sense of "a speech error" is Lord Byron in 1814. However, this word comes from a character named "Mrs. ________" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. ________ frequently misspeaks (to great comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning she intends, but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan presumably chose her name in humorous reference to a word, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase literally meaning "poorly placed".
  • 30.
    19. Raja RaoDargahi Singh Bhati, the Gurjar chieftain of ______ Bhatner Riyasat, in 1818 possessed 133 villages at a fixed revenue of Rs.29,000 with capital in Kathera village. He ruled all over Noida, greater Noida and part of Ghaziabad. In 1828 Britishers attacked the riyasat and he was killed. Britishers took all wealth, fort and 5000 bighas of land. Later on land was distributed among farmers quisling in order to suppress the unrest. It is said by the old persons of the town that some British were captured where now tahseel is situated and they were forced to work like a bull in the proceedings. PHEW! Finally a BULL connection…
  • 31.
    20. Id theband…
  • 32.
    • 21-25 ARE2 POINTERS
  • 33.
    21. On thenext slides are a couple of photos of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to India 5 and a half decades ago. What are the 2 places shown?
  • 36.
    22. The fictionjury had recommended the 1941 Pulitzer Prize go to X’s Y. Although the Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, the President of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year. X is the author. Y is the work. Years later, an American heavy metal band had to ride the lightning to feature a song which can be seen as a lyrical adaptation of a particular scene from the book (chapter 27).
  • 37.
    23. • 2 imageson the next slide. • One represents the initial design, which was abandoned in July 2015, which on completion would have cost more than $2bn. • The other represents the recently unveiled design, whose estimated cost is $1.2bn. • Just give me the event and the designer of the initial prototype…
  • 38.
    RESEARCHED & CONDUCTEDBY: SAMANWAY BANERJEE
  • 39.
    24. This videois a part of what?? The answer must contain the issue for which this was made, as well as the organization/company behind this. San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Lagos, Moscow, Cairo, Berlin, London, Paris, Jakarta, Bangkok, New Delhi and Tokyo were covered during the making of this video.
  • 41.
    25. ID the singer. Also,ID the author whose story the movie is an adaptation of?
  • 42.
    • SUBMIT YOURANSWER SHEETS
  • 43.
  • 44.
    1. Shortly afterSingapore became an independent nation in 1965, its founding PM Lee Kuan Yew was said to have remarked that he wanted this city-state to be like X ( a city), which was quite surprising, given how founding fathers tend to build their nascent motherland following western society.
  • 45.
  • 46.
  • 47.
    2. Barcelona wonthe 1992 European Cup, thanks to a Ronald Coeman free-kick at the extra time. In doing so, they became the 2nd Spanish club to win the tournament. Who coached Barcelona to their 1st European Cup triumph in 1992?
  • 48.
  • 49.
  • 50.
    3.Which 125 yearold institution, the building of whose was designed by William Emerson (yes, the same guy who designed Victoria Memorial) is the subject of this fairly recent book? Despite not being in its geographic proximity, it initially functioned under the University of Calcutta.
  • 52.
  • 53.
  • 54.
    4.What was originallyassigned the name LOST, after the scientists Herren Doktoren Wilhelm Lommel and Wilhelm Steinkopf, who developed a method for the large-scale production of the same for the Imperial German Army in 1916?
  • 55.
  • 56.
  • 57.
    5. Although _______was originally a part of the IPC, as drafted by Thomas Macaulay, it was bizarrely dropped from the law when it was enacted in 1860. The provision, as it reads today after some amendments, defines it as any action — whether by words, signs or visible representation — which “brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India”. What’s the good word?
  • 58.
  • 59.
    A Quiz bySAMANWAY BANERJEE
  • 60.
    6.According to pharmacologistRudolf Boehm's 1895 classification scheme, the three main types of X are: Tube or bamboo (so named because of its packing into hollow bamboo tubes). Pot (originally packed in terra cotta pots). Calabash or gourd. What am I talking about, which forms an important plot point in a 2015 Bengali sleuth movie?
  • 61.
  • 62.
  • 63.
    7. Looking fora 2 word answer:
  • 64.
  • 65.
  • 66.
    8. Coined byJohann Lukas Schönle in 1839, from a Latin word meaning “small, swelling bump or pimple”, it was not until 1882 when when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the bacillus, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1905 that the name began being exclusively used to refer to the disease formerly popularly known as consumption. Which disease, estimated by Hippocrates as the most widespread disease of his age?
  • 67.
  • 68.
  • 69.
    9. Key modelsin the history of which company? 51 (1941) 61 (1956) 45 (1964) 75 (1964) 25 (1975) 95 (1988) An additional hint: This particular company is a premium one in its category. All of you present here are probably using a product made by other affordable companies of the same category.
  • 70.
  • 71.
    The answer tothe Question is: PARKER PEN COMPANY
  • 72.
    10. Page froma Bhagavat Puran manuscript. Which incident is being depicted here?
  • 74.
  • 75.
  • 76.
  • 77.
    11. The Hartmanbrothers sought advice from Coca-Cola about newly developed Whiskey mixer X, but Coke didn’t help. Pepsi was interested, albeit 35 years later. Not only was X invented for Whiskey, it’s named after it too. The name X was a slang term for moonshine and of course moonshine is a slang term for homemade whiskey. It’s called “moonshine” because it was made at night to hide the smoke from the stills during prohibition.
  • 78.
  • 79.
  • 80.
    12. Pic fromPablo Bartholomew’s collection… Simply, id the gentleman…
  • 82.
  • 83.
  • 84.
    13.Pictured on thenext slide is “Le Chahut” by Georges Seurat. The title of the painting refers to the name a particular dance was called in its early days. Which high-energy, physically demanding dance which became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day and may be derived from the French for tittle-tattle or scandal?
  • 85.
  • 86.
  • 87.
  • 88.
    14.The Lubyanka wasoriginally built in 1898 as the headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company. It is currently an affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. Before being a prison, it served as the headquarters of which organization, which dissolved in 1991?
  • 90.
  • 91.
  • 92.
    15. • A picturesquelocation….a photographer’s paradise. • Where can you see such a beautiful war memorial? • Looking for a 2-word ans
  • 94.
  • 95.
  • 96.
    16. Described byRolling Stone as the “Mark Zuckerberg of the online underground”, Christopher Poole founded X in 2003 when he was just 15 years old. In January 2015, Poole retired from running it, and in September 2015, the site was sold to a Japanese entrepreneur. However its founder is back in the news, as Google hired him to tackle social media, one of the few areas of the internet where Google has failed to compete. Which highly notorious and controversial site was founded by Poole?
  • 97.
  • 98.
  • 99.
    17. In thesummer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag (of the same name). The movement was co-founded by three community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. This international activist movement became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown, resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, and Eric Garner in New York City.
  • 100.
  • 101.
  • 102.
    18.According to theOxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word in the sense of "a speech error" is Lord Byron in 1814. However, this word comes from a character named "Mrs. ________" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. ________ frequently misspeaks (to great comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning she intends, but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan presumably chose her name in humorous reference to a word, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase literally meaning "poorly placed".
  • 103.
  • 104.
  • 105.
    19. Raja RaoDargahi Singh Bhati, the Gurjar chieftain of ______ Bhatner Riyasat, in 1818 possessed 133 villages at a fixed revenue of Rs.29,000 with capital in Kathera village. He ruled all over Noida, greater Noida and part of Ghaziabad. In 1828 Britishers attacked the riyasat and he was killed. Britishers took all wealth, fort and 5000 bighas of land. Later on land was distributed among farmers quisling in order to suppress the unrest. It is said by the old persons of the town that some British were captured where now tahseel is situated and they were forced to work like a bull in the proceedings. PHEW! Finally a BULL connection…
  • 106.
  • 107.
  • 108.
    20. Id theband…
  • 109.
  • 110.
  • 111.
    • 21-25 ARE2 POINTERS
  • 112.
    21. On thenext slides are a couple of photos of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to India 5 and a half decades ago. What are the 2 places shown?
  • 115.
  • 116.
    • Sabarmati Ashram •Atomic Energy Centre at Trombay
  • 117.
    22. The fictionjury had recommended the 1941 Pulitzer Prize go to X’s Y. Although the Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, the President of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year. X is the author. Y is the work. Years later, an American heavy metal band had to ride the lightning to feature a song which can be seen as a lyrical adaptation of a particular scene from the book (chapter 27).
  • 118.
  • 119.
    FOR WHOM THEBELL TOLLS ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
  • 120.
    23. • 2 imageson the next slide. • One represents the initial design, which was abandoned in July 2015, which on completion would have cost more than $2bn. • The other represents the recently unveiled design, whose estimated cost is $1.2bn. • Just give me the event and the designer of the initial prototype…
  • 121.
    RESEARCHED & CONDUCTEDBY: SAMANWAY BANERJEE
  • 122.
  • 123.
    24. This videois a part of what?? The answer must contain the issue for which this was made, as well as the organization/company behind this. San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Lagos, Moscow, Cairo, Berlin, London, Paris, Jakarta, Bangkok, New Delhi and Tokyo were covered during the making of this video.
  • 124.
  • 125.
  • 126.
    GOOGLE DOODLE onINTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
  • 127.
    25. ID the singer. Also,ID the author whose story the movie is an adaptation of?
  • 128.
  • 129.
  • 134.
    23. X is asubstance used to treat ischaemia: a lack of blood flow to parts of the body, particularly in cases of angina or heart failure. It is manufactured in Latvia and only distributed in Baltic countries and Russia. It is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States and is not authorized in the rest of Europe. What is X and why is this heavily in news?
  • 135.
  • 136.
  • 138.