The document discusses various topics including: 1. The origins of the term "kidnapping" from Latin referring to nets used to capture children. 2. Connecting words related to Captain Haddock's nicknames in Tintin comics. 3. Unobtanium, a fictional rare element used in films like Batman and The Core. 4. Harry Potter spells and their linguistic origins from Latin, Greek, English and other languages. 5. Identification marks on Indian coins produced in different cities.

1. Quiz Meet
Danish Sahni
28-03-2012

2. • This term derives from the Latin for “net”, as it
originally referred to kidnappers who used the nets to
capture children.
 Sadly, this is quite a rage these days(including this
quiz).
 What practice?

3.  Connect these words:
 Paddock
 Harrock
 Padlock
 Hopscotch
 Drydock
 Stopcock
 Maggot
 Bartók
 Hammock
 Hemlock

5.  The various names that Bianca Castefiore calls
Captain Haddock by, instead of his real name.

6.  It is any extremely rare, costly device or element
needed to fulfil a given design for a given application.
The properties depend on the intended use.
 A pulley made of it might be massless and frictionless.
 However, if used in a nuclear rocket, it would be light,
strong at high temperatures, and resistant to radiation
damage.
 What element?

8. • Unobtanium
• It has been used in films like the Batman
series and The Core.

10.  Which dynamic personality, who had started his
career as a 9 year old with the stage name ‘Ehrich,
the prince of air’ chose ‘Handcuffs’ as his middle
name while registering for selective service in the
USA in 1918?

11.  An English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator, this
C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian Empire) was married to Alice
MacDonald.
 In 1870, he was commissioned to tour the North-West
Provinces and make sketches of Indian craftsmen; today several
of those are displayed at Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
 He also designed uniforms and decorations for the Viceroy of
India, Lord Lytton's Imperial Assemblage of 1877, at
which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
 His son, who is more famous, was named after a place in
Staffordshire.
 Name this illustrious person or his son.

13. JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING.
 JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING.
 Father of Rudyard Kipling.
of Rudyard Kipling.

14. Logo for what?

15.  X is a phrase first used by promoter Horace Lee Logan
on December 15, 1956, to plead with concert goers not
to leave the concert hall, and instead remain to see the
other acts on the bill. It has since become a popular
cultural catchphrase and punch line. A common use of
it nowadays is among baseball announcers on radio or
television to describe a home run.

17. • Elvis has left the building

18.  Born Robert Craig _______, he earned an entry in
the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of
“most bones broken in a lifetime”. He earned his stage
name after occupying a jail cell next to a man named
Knofel.
 His early life including a spell in the United States
Army at the behest of a magistrate, as well as jobs as a
hunting guide, an insurance salesman, while also
becoming an ice-hockey team owner and running a
business protection racket.
 How do we know this great American icon?

20. • EVEL KNIEVEL

22. • Root from German. In Afrikaans means crazy.
• 18th century Austria Hungary, _____ were freaks
shown by circuses.
• 19th century, in North America, the term referred
to a freak in circus sideshows.
• In some cases, its performance included biting the
head off a live chicken.
• Derived from the the same root, the Alsatian word
Gickeleshut is a type of hat used in carnivals.
• There are many types of ______.

23. • What phrase has its origins from the medieval
form of punishment shown?

24. • What?
• West African Sidiki, “Friendly to
●
• thieves”
• ● Latin, “to appear”
• ● Greek, “bind closely”
• ● Latin, “break in pieces, bring to
• naught”
• ● Latin, “I torture”
• ● Latin, “I swerve”
• ● English, “to fill to excess”
• ● Latin, “higher”
• ● Latin, “I await a protector”

25. • Latin, “petty thief”, English, “boil”
●
• Latin, “to double”
●
• French, “slide”
●
• Latin, “person, unveil”
●
• Latin, “a hindrance”
●
• Latin, “to order, command”
●
• Latin, “impassable”
●
• English, “make sound less distinct
●
• by covering its source”
• Latin, “Night”
●
• Latin, “forgetfulness”
●

27. Harry Potter Spells
• ● Alohomora: West African Sidiki,
• “Friendly to thieves”
• ● Aparecium: Latin, “to become visible
• or to appear”
• ● Colloportus: Greek, “to join closely
• together, bind closely”
• ● Confringo (Blasting Curse): Latin, “to
• break in pieces, to bring to naught”
• ● Crucio (Cruciatus Curse): Latin, “I
• torture”
• ● Dissendium: Latin, “I swerve”
• ● Engorgio: English, “to fill to excess”
• ● Excelsiosempra: Latin, “higher”

28. • ●Expecto Patronum: Latin, “I await a
• protector”
• ●Furnunculus (Furnunculus Curse):
• Latin, “petty thief”, English, “boil”
• ●Geminio: Latin, “to double”
• ●Glisseo: French, “slide”
• ●Homenum Revelio: Latin, “person”,
• “to unveil”
• ●Impedimenta: Latin, “a hindrance”
• ●Imperio: Latin, “to order, command”
• ●Impervius: Latin, “impassable”
• ●Muffliato: English, “to make a
• sound less distinct by covering its
• source”
• ●Nox: Latin, “Night”
• ●Obliviate: Latin, “forgetfulness”

29. Funda

31. Indian Currency Coins
● Indian coins are mainly produced in 4
cities.
● The production in city puts an identification
mark under the year of issue.
● Noida: Dot. Mumbai: Diamond. Hyderabad:
Star,
Dotted Diamond, Split Diamond. Kolkata:
Nothing.

32. • His lifestyle consists of living in a two-story beachfront
home, drinking excessively, smoking cigars, constant
womanizing, gambling, and wearing bowling shirts and
shorts the vast majority of the time. He sleeps in
constantly, and is the boss of a full-time housekeeper.
Money "falls into his lap" as he lives a life of free-
spirited debauchery. He has a vast range of phobias
including stage fright, commitment, his mother,
spiders, large birds, germs, change and hard work. He
died as a result of being struck by a train while in Paris.
His 2011 funeral was seen by millions of people.

33. CatherineRosalie
Gerard Duthé (1748–1830) was a
celebrated French courtesan.
● A companion of French kings
and European nobility, she has
been called “the first officially
recorded ___ ____”.
● Duthé was an often requested
subject for portraits, including
partial and full nudes, many of
which still exist in museums and
private collections.

35. Dumb Blonde
● In Parisian society Duthé developed a
certain “reputation by adopting the
habit of pausing for extended periods
of time before speaking.” She
appeared not only stupid, but dumb in
the literal sense. This inspired a oneact
satire about her called Les
Curiosités de la Foire (Paris 1775)
that “kept Paris laughing for weeks.”

36. • Bill James, now 62 years old, worked as a security
guard in Lawrence, Kansas, at an establishment
named Stokley Van Camp’s pork and beans
cannery. In his spare time, he wondered about
how this sport works, and wrote ‘_____ Abstract’.
• The _____ abstract was then looked upon by a
young Yale graduate, along with Billy Beane.
What 2011 pop culture entity did all of these
elements combine into?

37. Google Doodles