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February 1 to 15, 2015
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Transcribed by Ramesh Athreya

Which sea-craft is this supposed to be?

ans: The Nautilus/ 20000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne

Which country is home to the
world's largest herd of
camels? There are reported to
be about 750,000 of them
roaming wild here.

BAQC India Quiz
courtesy Manoj Saranathan Balaji Srinivasan
Which story does this painting depict?

Due to a last minute change in its title, the first
published volume of which classic reads "The Whale;
or, ____ ____"? (blank is the answer)

The person on the left was a WWII RAF pilot and later spy
but we dont know him for that reason
In any case he was named for the great man on the right
Name both

ans: Roald Dahl who was
named for Roald Amundsen.

What is this called? what did it fail to do, which
has become sort of an accepted norm now

ans: The Penny Black; Britain to this day does not put
its name on its stamps- the only country to do so

They claimed that it was an attempt to contribute to the
debate regarding criticism of Islam and self censorship.
Name the Danish newspaper that published
controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed in
2005?

The Japanese usually wrote long, elaborate letters with
several lines of just reverence and respect and several
more to indicate feelings. However, the brevity of email
and text messaging removed this clear expression of
feelings. Shigetaka Kurita, devised a solution using Kanji
(one of the Japanese writing systems) and Manga.
What solution did he derive?

Salahuddin Ayubi founder of the Ayyubid dynasty was
responsible for fall of Jerusalem in 1187 AD, which till
then had been held by the Crusaders
How is Salahuddin Ayubi better known to the west?
What was Salahuddin Ayubi's ethnicity?

When Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli began mapping
this place in 1877, he dubbed dark and light areas
‘seas’ and ‘continents’ . What "unfortunate" word did
he use for what he thought were channels?

ans; he used the word 'canali' which was translated as
canal...the legend of 'canals' on Mars thus began

Whose motto “write once, run anywhere"?

Whose name could translate to English as "Splitter
of the Vedas"?

Which small shoal about 70 kilometers south of
Chandipur in Odisha state has the missile test facility of
India?

____ ____ ____ ____
You're picture perfect blue
Sunbathing on the moon
Stars shining as your bones illuminate
First kiss just like a drug
Under your influence
You take me over you're the magic in my veins
This must be love
FITB

According to popular belief, why do some sections
of the Mahabharata employ complicated Sanskrit
and are very dense?

ans: The deal was that that Ved Vyasa would not
stop dictating and Ganesha would not stop writing
but that he (the latter) would only write what he
understood. Whenever Ganesha wrote too fast,
Ved Vyasa would dictate difficult verses, so that
Ganesha had to pause to think

In a well-known Robin Williams film ,what is the
name of the 20-year-old janitor at MIT in Boston,
who finds a difficult maths problem on a blackboard
and proceeds to solve it?

FUQ: There is a real-life parallel to this scene, where a
graduate student showed up late to a class, saw three
problems on the blackboard and solved them thinking
that they were homework assignments. Turned out that
they were unsolved problems in statistics. Who was this
genius, who later developed the Simplex Method in
Linear Programming?

Which country was till recently completely dependent
on its neighbour for all its drinking supplies? It expects
to be self-sufficient on this count by 2061 (when it
current agreements with its neighbour expires)

What is the aromatic dried flower bud of the evergreen
tree (Syzygium aromaticum), a specimen of the Myrtle
family, used as? and under what name?

This flower takes its name from a German
botanist & lends its name to a colour . Who is the
botanist & what is the colour?

ans: Leonhart Fuchs .. Fuchsia ( purplish pink )

Who was the guest of honour in the first republic
day parade of 1950 ?

What is name for the burden's that these devotees
carry?
This picture is from a Hindu festival that is celebrated
on a bigger scale in Malaysia than in India. What is the
festival called?

ans: Thaipusam festival; the burden is called the
Kavadi

Before the "The Star-Spangled Banner" was
adopted as the official anthem of the USA in
1931, one of the patriotic songs that served as
the national anthem was "My Country, 'Tis of
Thee", also known as "America"
What was ironic about the tune of this latter
song?

Sung to “God save the Queen”

from ASEAN 2014
In its upper reaches, the river is known as the
Mouhon, Nazinon and Nakambe (literally the Black,
Red and White branches of the river). The lower
portion is formed at Yeji, where the Black and White
comes together, passing through its namesake lake
to Ada, on the Gulf of Guinea. What is this river of
Ghana, which formed part of the former name of
Burkina Faso?

Identify this "legend" of Indian television

It is a soft conical cap worn with top pulled
forward ..signifying freedom & pursuit of
liberty . Displaying this red cap had been
banned in France till 1870 . In medicine it
has lent it's name to a fold in 'gall bladder '.
What ?

'The Phrygian cap ' .. It is confused with
the 'Pileus ' worn by manumitted slaves in
Ancient Rome . It adorns the bust of
Marianne , the goddess of liberty &
considered a national symbol of France

The blue colour of sky during day & the red
sun at sunset is explained by an optical
phenomenon named after a British
physicist . What phenomenon & who is the
physicist ?

ans: John William Strutt Rayleigh . The
phenomenon is Rayleigh scattering . He
won the nobel prize in 1904 for
discovering Argon

If the Titanic had completed its maiden journey,
which port would it have docked in?

In Olympic Gymnastics, what two events are
common to both men and women gymnasts?

Which International organisation does this lady
lead?

International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Christine Lagarde

In South America, the people with both American
Indian and white ancestors are the
______________, while the people with black
and white ancestors are the _______________.
FITB

Which character in popular culture is based on
the famous painting "The Scream" by Edvard
Munch and was originally created as a Halloween
costume?

ans: Ghostface in 'The Scream" series

This famous speech by Winston Churchill
gave us the term 'Iron Curtain.' fill in the
blanks with two cities
" "From _______ in the Baltic to ______ in the
Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended
across the Continent."

ans: "Stettin" in the Baltic to
"Trieste" in the Adriatic

Making the rounds of the Internet right now.
who is this making an uncredited appearance
in a 1996 Star Trek: Voyager episode?

Deriving its name
from a Dutch word,
what do you call
this kind of warship,
apparently the
smallest sailing
vessel to be
considered to be a
proper warship.

On January 4 th 2015 , the earth was closest to
sun for this year . This point in the orbit of a
celestial body when it is closest to the Sun is
known as ?

Identify the blanked out word.

Java is correct and is everywhere.

At 14.09% which 'group' comes third?

What is being called the
'wand of narcissus'?

These are Fossils of sea creatures that
became extinct about 65 million years ago.
Identify

ans: Ammonites - an extinct
group of marine
invertebrate animals

The image is that of a 1957 Chevrolet school bus
from the 1970s television show The Partridge
Family painted in the style of this Dutch painter
known for his lozenge paintings which includes
Composition With Blue etc.
ID the painter.

Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken, Canadian climbers,
became the first people in history to do something;
What is their unique achievement?

ans:scale the frozen face of Niagara Falls.

Who is he and what sartorial innovation
of his was emulated recently?

ans: Hosni Mubarak ; the suit has his
name on it like the one Modi wore

Who did the Europeans term as the 'Scourge
of God?'

The militant and racist Ku Klux Klan was almost
dormant in the mid 1910's but the release of a film
(considered a classic in film history) revived it and
became a sort of recruitment tool for it. Which film
was this?

What is a 'Todofuken' in Japan? (we know
them by an alternative name derived from what
the Portuguese 15th century traders/explorers
used)

When Felicity Jones recently presented an
award at the BAFTAs - she described her co-
presenter as "the only person on the planet
more intelligent than Stephen Fry".
Her co-presenter responded: "Yes, and better
looking."
Who was the co-presenter?

What is the name of the dragon that features
on Bhutan's flag?

What Vienna-based non-buttery pastry
eventually made it to France with a Crescent-
shape name, and in a buttery format?

The Kipferl from Vienna moved to France with the
crescent-name Croissant. Acquired lots of buttering
in the preparation process as well.

This has been termed the 'Iron Man' suit or the
'Iron Man suit for archaeologists." the actual
name is boring. what is the name of this
contraption that virtually turns you into a human
submarine?

ans: Exosuit...read more here....its
awesome

Without complicating things too much, tell me
what’s common to
Richter scale, the decibel scale, F-stops scale
(used in photography), pH scale, Stellar
Magnitude scale

Not counting Hindi which is spoken is several
states, which Indian language has the highest
number of Jnanpith award winners?

The owner of this house, 19 Louisburg Square in Boston
was slapped with a USD 50 fine for failing to clear the
snow on the sidewalk outside his house. who is the
owner?

Who explained his recent actions with “These were
voices in my head. So the voices in my head told me
go and then I just walked up like halfway up the
stage.”?

ans: Kanye West (..mock
interrupting Beck)

From 1941 to 1952, he taught English Literature at Allahabad
University and thenCollege. There, he studied with the famous
English literature don, Thomas Rice Henn, and received a
doctorate in English Literature for his work on the Irish poet W.B.
Yeats and Occultism spent two years at Cambridge University, at
St Catherine's. He was only the second Indian to get his
doctorate in English literature from Cambridge University. After
returning to India, he taught briefly and then worked as a
producer for All India Radio, Mumbai. In 1955, he moved to Delhi
to join the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India
and there he was closely involved with the evolution of Hindi as
the official language of India. He used to introduce himself as
“Mitti ka tan, masti ka man, kshan-bhar jivan– mera parichay” (A
body of clay, a mind full of play, a second of life – that's me)
Who?

Pictured are two examples of _____ covers, a
trend commonly seen in comics and named
for their resemblance to a certain work. Fill in
the blanks

ans: Pieta (the statues and paintings that
typically shown Mary and Christ )

Hindi films of the 1960s often featured this car. typically
the bad guys drove this car but posing with the car
here is one of the legends of Indian cinema
who and which car model?

What is significant about the title of
Tarantino's forthcoming film "The Hateful
Eight?"

This is from a series of photos shot by
Rochester Institute of Technology photography
professor Michael Peres. What is the subject?

Why did this casual selfie taken at the Miss
Universe competition this year, create a
controversy?

answer: Miss Lebanon got
roasted in her home
country for posing with
Miss Israel

What did Captain Haddock finally acquire in the
last completed Tintin story 'Tintin and the
Picaros?'

ans: His first name
Archibald..till the he was
just Captain Haddock

Which word comes to us from the Arabic for ”long
low seat”?

World Cup cricket question. Most world cups
have at least one team debuting (except in
1987). This year we have Afghanistan coming in.
Which team debuted in the 1992 tournament?

Canadian company Okanagan Specialty
Fruits Inc. will be introducing two new
varieties of apples i.e., Arctic Granny and
Arctic Golden. Both are genetically
modified and have which special feature?

ans: they dont brown after being cut

The painting by Cristiano Banti depicts a trial on charges
of heresy, an act which was acknowledged to be a
mistake centuries later. Who is the subject of the
inquisition?

"The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive
and meticulously planned, was so meaningless,
finally, that only one person on the entire planet got
any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this
book, which earned a lot of money for me and
made my reputation, such as it is. One way or
another, I got two or three dollars for every person
killed. Some business I'm in".
ID the the book written by the author, known for
satire, humour and science fiction, partially based
on experiences as a POW.

ans: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

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