Quiz - Summer 2015

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1.
Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L.
Mankiewicz.There is something very unusual about the cast list
shown at the beginning of the film, which is as follows :
Alec Cawthorne as Inspector Doppler, John Matthews as Detective
Sergeant Tarrant, Eve Channing as Marguerite Wyke, and, Teddy
Martin as Police Constable Higgs.
along with Lawrence Olivier as Andrew Wyke and Michael Caine as
Milo Tindle.
Both Olivier and Caine were nominated for an oscar for their role
Along with the films Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Give 'em
Hell, Harry! this film holds a unique distinction.What?

The film was the second to have its entire credited cast (Caine and Olivier)
nominated for Academy Awards after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966
and the first where all of the actors in the film were nominated. (Virginia Woolf
featured uncredited bit parts by actors playing the roadhouse manager and
waitress.) This feat has been repeated only by Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975), in
which James Whitmore is the sole credited actor.

2.
The Irish-English actor X was oscar nominated
twice for playing the same role ,of King Henry II
in the films Becket(1964) and The Lion In
Winter(1968)but did not win.Eventually after a
total of 7 nominations he was given the Lifetime
Achievement Award By the Academy.ID X.

3.
He was one of the seven members of the first legendary Politburo,
founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution
After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the
policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and against the
increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, he was removed
from power (October 1927), expelled from the Communist Party
(November 1927), and finally exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929.
As the head of the Fourth International, he continued in exile in
Mexico to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. On
Stalin's orders, he was assassinated in Mexico in August 1940 by
Ramón Mercader, a Spanish-born Soviet agent
He was also the inspiration for Snowball from Animal farm.
ID.

4
The five men were charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception
of telephone and other communications.
Their arrests led to something big.what ?

5.
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of
England.The only non royal to be english
head of state.ID.
.

6.
In office
February 22, 1862 – May 10, 1865
Provisional: February 18, 1861 – February 22, 1862
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Name him and his position

Jefferson Davis
President Of the Confederate States

7.
The large scale production of lager beer was only made possible by the work of X and Dr Emil Hansen
from the Carlsberg Laboratory in the 1880s.
In the early 19th Century, the development of longer-lasting, bottom fermented lager beers, and
technological advances in brewing and bottling machinery, made it possible to produce and distribute
beer on a large scale. The only problem lay in quality control – often the beer would turn sour during
production or transportation.
X had already solved similar problems for wine makers through a heat treatment process. In the
1870s, he began studying the brewing industry to try to help French beers become more competitive
against increasing German imports. His Études sur la bière, published in 1876, demonstrated that the
yeast used for beer contained impurities, such as bacteria, moulds and various wild yeasts.ID X.

8.
Name the instrument and its creator.

Mohan Veena
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

9.
According to the Hindu religion, it was first created in the mind of the Lord
Brahma after which it manifested on Earth
Maya is believed to have conceived Buddha here. It has a few monasteries
near it, the most notable of which is the ancient Chiu Monastery built on a steep
hill, looking as if it has been carved right out of the rock.
In Jainism, It is associated with the first Tirthankara, Rishabha.

10.
Sir Donald Friell _______ CB KCSI (6 May 1810 – 28 November 1872) was a Lieutenant Governor of
British Punjab (in office: 10 January 1865 – 1 June 1870). He was one of the founders of Punjab
University (the Lahore Oriental University) and is generally remembered as a philanthropic
administrator and promoter of education (of both Oriental studies by Europeans, and European
literature studies in India).
he was born in Fort William, Calcutta, and was educated at Edinburgh High School, Dulwich, Putney,
and Haileybury. He returned to Bengal in 1828 as an officer to start his career. He worked in the Sagar
and Nerbudda territories and Benares in 1831–49. He was appointed Commissioner of Jalandhar in
1849 and Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab in 1854.
He was at Lahore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and earned C.B. He was Lieutenant-Governor
of the Panjab in 1865–1870, receiving K.C.S.I. in 1866. He was Chairman of the Sind, Panjab and
Delhi Railway before he retired and settled in London.

11
Jerry Alan West (born May 28, 1938) is a retired American basketball player who played his entire
professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
West’s NBA career was highly successful. Playing the guard position as a professional, he was voted
12 times into the All-NBA First and Second Teams, was elected into the NBA All-Star Team 14 times,
and was chosen as the All-Star MVP in 1972, the same year that he won the only title of his career.
West holds the NBA record for the highest points per game average in a playoff series with 46.3. He
was also a member of the first five NBA All-Defensive Teams (one second, followed by four firsts),
which were introduced when he was 32 years old. Having played in nine NBA Finals, he is also the
only player in NBA history to be named Finals MVP despite being on the losing team (1969). West
was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980 and voted as one of the 50 Greatest
Players in NBA history in 1996.
How has he been immortalized ?

12
MindGeek is a global IT company headquartered in
Luxembourg City.What is it famous for?

Pornography.It is the parent company of many
websites like Brazzers,Pornhub,Youporn etc.

13
First Appearing in Beeton’s Christmas Annual
(1887) and later regularly illustrated by Sidney
Paget for Y and with Vernet as great uncle,Id
and give Y.

14.
_______ (literally "goat dragging" in Persian) or kokpar is the Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players
attempt to drag a goat or calf carcass toward a goal. It is the national sport of Afghanistan, although it was banned
under the Taliban regime.

15
X is a video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of Universal Music Group (UMG),
Google,Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Abu Dhabi Media. It launched on December 8, 2009.
The videos on X are syndicated across the web,[5]
with Google and X sharing the advertising revenue
X offers music videos from two of the "big three" major record labels, UMG and SME. EMI also
licensed its library for X shortly before launch; it was subsequently acquired by UMG in 2012.Warner
Music Group was initially reported to be considering hosting its content on the service, but formed an
alliance with rival MTV Networks (now Viacom Media Networks).ID X

16.
X is a coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to
subangular gravel-size clasts, e.g., granules, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, larger than 2 mm (0.079
in) in diameter.
X form by the consolidation and lithification of gravel. X typically contain finer grained sediment, e.g.,
either sand, silt, clay or combination of them, called matrix by geologists, filling their interstices and are
often cemented by calcium carbonate, iron oxide, silica, or hardened clay.
find X,which is also a biz term.

18.
X was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. A child prodigy, he
completed his musical education and composed many of his works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a
month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.At the age of 21 he settled in Paris.
X took the new salon genre of the nocturne to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades[112]
and scherzi as
individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes . He exploited the
poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s
X's mazurkas, while originating in the traditional Polish dance (the mazurek), differed from the traditional variety in that they were
written for the concert hall rather than the dance hall
The series of seven polonaises published in his lifetime set a new standard for music in the form. His waltzes were also written
specifically for the salon recital rather than the ballroom and are frequently at rather faster tempos than their dance-floor
equivalents.
On his deathbed,X requested that his body be opened after death and his heart returned to Warsaw where it still is in the Holy
Cross church.Give X.

20
_______is a Tibetan noodle soup. It originated in the eastern part of Tibet. Amdo ______ (especially
Thenthuk) is a famous variant among Tibetan and Nepalese people. The dish became popular in
Bhutan, and the states of Sikkim, Assam, and Arunachal Pradeshin Northeast India. It is also popular
in the Ladakh region and the state of Himachal Pradesh. The food is widely available in these regions.
There are numerous varieties of _______ in Tibetan tradition, including:
● Thenthuk (Tibetan: འཐེན་ཐུག་, Wylie: 'then thug): Hand pulled noodle
● Gyathuk (Tibetan: རྒྱ་ཐུག་, Wylie: rgya thug): Chinese noodle
● Pathug (Tibetan: བག་ཐུག་, Wylie: bag thug): Hand rolled pinched noodle (like gnocchi)
● Drethug (Tibetan: འབྲས་ཐུག་, Wylie: 'bras thug)
FITB

India Quiz
summer 2015
By - Amit Gupta

1.
A son of indigo planter,X was an officer of
Calcutta mint who achieved something
extraordinary in 1837.A genus of plant was
named after him by the botanist John Forbes
Royle in 1839 in appreciation of his work.
Identify X.

2.
X is an evergreen tropical tree in the flowering plant family Myrtaceae.X is
native to the Indian Subcontinent and adjoining regions of Southeast Asia. The
species ranges across Bangladesh,India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the
Philippines, and Indonesia.The seed of tree also used in various alternative
healing systems like Ayurveda.
The seed of this tree lends its name to Indian subcontinent.Identify fruit of X.

Jamun(Indian subcontinent-Jambudweep)

3.
Appointed in 1902,X was the Director-General of the
Archaeological Survey of India till 1928 and was
responsible for the excavation that led to finding of city of
Harappa and consequently Indus Valley Civilization.X was
appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
(CIE) in June 1910 and knighted in January 1915.Identify X

4
The plant X is often described as growing in the mountains. It has long stalks,
and is of yellow or tawny (hari) colour. The drink is prepared by priests
pounding the plants with stones. The juice so gathered is filtered through
lamb's wool, and mixed with other ingredients (including cow milk) before it is
drunk. It is said to be the bringer of the gods.X was a Vedic ritual drink of
importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent greater Indian
and greater Persian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda, whose
X Mandala contains 114 hymns, many praising its energizing qualities.

5
One of the finest muslin textiles of Bengal, produced in Dhaka District,
Bangladesh for centuries,the historic production of X was patronized by
imperial warrants of the Mughal emperors.The traditional art of weaving X has
been declared by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The word X(=’A’+’B’) is of Persian origin, deriving from 'A’', meaning flower, and
'B', a vase or a container. The earliest mention of X and its development as an
industry is found in Dacca.
What is X?

6.
The X is claimed to have originated in the Middle East prior to the 10th century. Abolfazl Beyhaqi
(995-1077), an Iranian historian mentioned it in his history, Tarikh-e Beyhaghi. It was introduced to the
Indian subcontinent in the 13th or 14th century by traders from the Middle East.
Amir Khusro (1253–1325), a scholar and the royal poet of the Delhi Sultanate, wrote in around 1300
that the princes and nobles enjoyed the "X prepared from meat, ghee, onion and so on".
Ibn Battuta, the 14th-century traveler and explorer, describes a meal at the court of Muhammad bin
Tughluq, where the a small pie stuffed with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices, was
served before the third course, of pulao.
The Ain-i-Akbari, a 16th-century Mughal document, mentions the recipe for qutab, which it says, “the
people of Hindustan call X”.

7.
X (died 1316), was a prominent military general of Y.X begun his life as Sabour Bhai, the son of the
Rajput landlord, Jera Bhai. Y was so enamoured by the young effeminate body of Sabour Bhai, that
he was purchased for a 1000 dinars, in order to serve as a slave of the Emperor in Delhi; thus his
sobriquet "Hazar Dinari" or "Thousand Dinars". X quickly came to play an important role in the Y
dynasty, and was consequently made a Military General, earning the title "Naib"—an honorific title for
a military commander.
In 1294, X led the Sultan's army through the Mountain range, attacking the capital city of the Yadava
kingdom of Devagiri, which was ruled by Ramdeva. The king's son Sankardeva was slain in the battle.
X led further invasions southward into the Kakatiya dynasty, winning immense riches for the sultanate
and sacking many Hindu temples. The booty from Warangal included the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond.
Id X and Y.

X=Malik Kafur
Y=Alauddin Khilji

8.
To enable the incorporation of this new state X, the Indian Parliament amended
the Indian Constitution. First, the 35th Amendment laid down a set of conditions
that made X an "Associate State", a special designation not used by any other
state. Later, the 36th Amendment repealed the 35th Amendment, and made X
a full state, adding its name to the First Schedule of the Constitution.
X has has unique distinction of having 11 state languages.

9.
X was born in Berlin in 1908, and trained as an architect there at the Technical University, graduating
in 1931. However, with the rise to power of the Nazi Party, X was forced to leave the country, as was
his uncle, physicist Max Born.
When his uncle Max Born was in Bangalore as a guest of C. V. Raman, the Diwan Mirza Ismail
enquired if he know of any trained architect. Thanks to Born's introduction, X was appointed chief
architect and planner to Mysore State, India in 1939. His buildings during this period include some
buildings in the Indian Institute of Science (1943–44), the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
(TIFR) in Bombay (Mumbai), the bus station, Serum Institute and Victory Hall (1946, renamed as
Town Hall) in Bangalore, the town plan for Bhubaneswar, and some town planning for Jamshedpur
with the vision of J.R.D. Tata. After Indian Independence he became director of housing for the Indian
Ministry of Health from 1948 to 1951, working on resettling those displaced by partition.
Who was X?

10.
X is India’s own card payment scheme. Like all other card payment schemes,
notably Visa and MasterCard, it was created to ensure cashless transactions.
The scheme was conceived by National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), a
government agency, an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India and an umbrella
institution for all retail payment systems in the country.

11.
X began his career at Walchand group's Cooper Engineering in Pune in 1967.
he soon gave it up to begin his own venture, in partnerships with several friends
and colleagues. These partners were Ajai Chowdhry , Arjun Malhotra and
others.
The initial enterprise which X and his partners began was Microcomp, a
company which focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market.Y
was founded later, in 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000.
In 2008, Government of India awarded X with Padma Bhushan, the third
highest civilian award, for his contribution to IT industry.He was also the
chairman of IIT Kharagpur from 2011-2014.
Who is X?What is Y?

12.
Located on a very busy street in the Lal Darwaza area of Ahmedabad, the Sidi
Saiyyed Mosque is an unpretentious, small mosque.
The mosque was built by Sidi Saiyyed, an Abyssinian soldier in the service of
the Gujarat Sultanate, in the year 1573.Sidi Saiyyed Mosque has a total of 10
windows with intricate stone latticework on them. Of the 10 lattice windows one
is the most popular and is known as ‘Sidi Saiyyed ni jaali‘.
What is so special about it?

13.
Situated at a distance of 14 miles east of Srinagar near the village of Tul Mul this temple is
constructed over a sacred spring.
The name of temple comes from rice pudding that is offered in the spring to propitiate the Goddess.
Around the temple is an area covered with smooth and beautiful stones. In it are large, old-growth
chinar trees beneath which the pilgrims sit or sleep on mats of grass. While most of the colours do not
have any particular significance, the colour of the spring water changes occasionally. When black or
darkish, it is believed to be an indication of inauspicious times for Kashmir. In 1886, Walter Lawrence,
the-then British settlement commissioner for land, during his visit to the spring, reported the water of
the spring to have a violet tinge. Kashmiris claim to have observed a darkish or murky tinge to the
water just before the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the 1989 insurgency in the valley.
Which Temple?

14.
X is located in the Parvati Valley between the rivers Beas and Parvati, northeast of Bhuntar in the Kullu District of
Himachal Pradesh. It is at an altitude of 1760 m and is located about 45 km from Kullu.This small town attracts tourists
visiting Manali and Kullu to its hot springs and pilgrim centres. An experimental geothermal energy plant has also been
set up here.
According to hindu belief during their stay here, Goddess Parvati lost her mani (precious stones) in the waters of a
stream. Upset over the loss, she asked Shiva to retrieve it. Lord Shiva commanded his attendant to find the mani for
Parvati. However, when they failed, he was extremely angry. He opened his third eye, a tremendously inauspicious
event which led to disturbances in the universe. An appeal was made before the serpent god, Sheshnag, to pacify Lord
Shiva. Sheshnag hissed thereby giving rise to a flow of boiling water. The water spread over the entire area resulting in
the emergence of precious stones of the type Goddess Parvati had lost. Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati were happy
at the outcome.
The name X is derived from this legend.

15.
X was born into a family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, Morocco, on
February 25, 1304, during the reign of the Marinid dynasty. He claimed descent
from the Berber tribe known as the Lawata.
He is known for his extensive travels. Over a period of thirty years, X visited
most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. His
journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and
Eastern Europe, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast
Asia and China.
Muhammad bin Tughluq was renowned as the wealthiest man in the Muslim
world at that time. On the strength of his years of study in Mecca, X was
appointed a qadi, or judge, by the sultan.
Who was X?

This Indian musical instrument X has descended from the Afghan instrument Y. The name X roughly
translates to "beautiful sound" or "melody" in Persian. Although X has been referred to as a bass Y, its
tonal bandwidth is actually considerably greater than that of Y, especially in the middle and high
registers.
Mohammad Hashmi Khan, a musician and horse trader, came to India with the Afghan Y in the mid-
18th century, and became a court musician to the Maharajah of Rewa. It was his descendants, notably
his grandson Ghulam Ali Khan , a court musician in Gwalior, who changed the Y into the X we know
today. A parallel theory credits descendants of Madar Khan, Niyamatullah Khan in particular, with the
same innovation around 1820.
The X is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, with sympathetic strings that give it a
resonant, reverberant quality. It is a fretless instrument allowing the continuous slides between notes
known as meend (glissandi), which is important to Indian music.

This work is titled 'Flower of Life-II'. Who is the painter, well known for integrating female genitalia in
an abstract manner in most works?

Sim Bhullar, first basketball player of Indian descent to
appear in NBA for Sacramento Kings

Hint : India
One of the inscriptions on it reads, Jesus, son of Blessed
Mary, said, "The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no
houses on it. He who hopes for an hour may hope for
eternity. The world endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer,
for the rest is unseen".
Unexpectedly, not a Christian monument, but still quite not
surprising either.
Which monument of victory am I talking about.

The old-school meaning of X means:
a low-level soldier assigned to highly-ranked army officer as a squire of sorts.
Y's relation with Z is loosely described by the above definition, which gives rise
to the fan theory, that Y is Z's personal X.
Identify X, Y and Z.

X- batman
Y- Alfred
Z- Batman ( bruce wayne)
Batman's personal batman.

Mr. X thought sex was the ultimate abomination and remained celibate even in
marriage.
Masturbation was the worst sin imaginable to him. As a part of his crusade
against the same he developed a food product that he felt, would keep men
from 'sinning'.
This product has since then, become an integral part of breakfast, especially so
in Western Countries.
Identify X and describe the food product being talked about above.

What has been
blanked?
Not Jane Austen :p

This is an 18th century artifact. What was
this used for.
funda will work
Let your clinical imagination run wild :p

This is an Obstetric Phantom. Obstetric phantoms have
been used for centuries to train doctors and midwives to
assist the birth of babies. This 18th century Italian phantom
would allow the teacher to manipulate the foetus, whose
head you can just see emerging from the phantom’s
vagina. This way the instructor could imitate some of the
dangerous variables a midwife would encounter and train
her students to compensate for them.

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