Theodore Adorno argues that writing poetry has become impossible after Auschwitz. A US military commander was suspended for using the phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" in a memo. In the late 19th century, the formation of a republic in a country caused trouble for Catholics there and led to the founding of an organization to fight "godlessness" and regain religious control, which was the Christ the Redeemer statue.

1. Κουίζ ιστορίας
By,
Soumik Choudhury

2. Instructions
✣ Questions- 10
✣ The History Quiz
✣ In the name of Herodotus
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3. 1.
✣ Excerpt from Theodore Adorno’s “Cultural Criticism and Society”,
“The more total society becomes, the greater the reification of the mind and the more
paradoxical its effort to escape reification on its own. Even the most extreme consciousness
of doom threatens to degenerate into idle chatter. Cultural criticism finds itself faced with
the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after _________
(9) is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to
write poetry today.”
✣ FITB
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4. 2.
✣ In July, 2019, a US recruiting commander was reported of using a phrase as the
headline of a section of the memo that explains incentives, including time off,
available to recruiters depending on the number of contracts that they are able to
complete.
✣ As soon as, this was reported the said official was suspended. Question is why? Or
FITB
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5. 3.
✣ The late 19th century saw the emergence of many republics in different parts of the
world. The formation of one such republic had caused a great deal of trouble to the
catholic community of that country.
✣ Thus they started raising money, mostly donated by erstwhile catholic elites of that
country to fight the ‘Godlessness’ and regain the religious control.
✣ Thus came what?
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6. 4.
✣ During his entire campaign, X, fought 472 battles, of which 79 were important
ones, and rode on horseback 123,000 kilometers, which is 10 times more
than Hannibal of Carthage; three times more than Napoleon, and twice as
much as Alexander the Great.
✣ X’s sword was stolen by Far-Left guerrilla M-19 in the year, 1974. In 1991,
Antonio Navaro Wolf, the leader of M-19 presented the sword to the children
in an emotional ceremony, led by the same.
✣ X?
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7. 5.
✣ Two instances
✣ First, scholars, students and others of Cape Town university signs a petition to
remove the ‘statue 1’ , a racist entrepreneur-coloniser, from their campus. The campaign
to remove the statue began a series of thoughtful and serious questions about the
decolonization of education, the progress (or lack thereof) of racial and economic
equality in the post-apartheid South Africa. (Pic Next slide)
✣ Not so far away, another such campaign arose in another country regarding removal
of another ‘statue 2’ , of someone, who allegedly described his creed to be ‘infinitely
superior’ than the native black folks.
✣ Give me the statue 1 and statue 2
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8. 5.
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9. 6.
✣ Mentioned in the book of Ezekiel: “Then I came to them of the captivity at ___
____, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.”
✣ The picture next slide is a lottery organized in 1909 in the vicinity of sand dunes.
What are they actually doing? (FITB)
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10. 6.
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11. 7.
✣ The Janissaries (New Soldiers) were elite infantry
units that formed Ottoman empire’s household
troops, bodyguards and is considered to be the
first standing army of Modern Europe. They had
distinctive uniforms and, unlike other military
units, were paid salaries and lived in barracks.
They were the first corps to make extensive use
of firearms
✣ This army used to comprise men, who were
recruited as early as from the age of 8 up to the age
18, based on the principle of ‘Blood Tax’. They
used to be taught Turkish language, literature
and art.
✣ Who are these men?
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13. 8.
✣ The image previous slide is taken from the Wikipedia page of ______ (6).
✣ The term enters into English in the 15th Century from the same in French,
which in turn is taken from the Italian of ‘Rising’, implying the rising of sun in
the east. FITB.
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14. 9.
✣ One mandatory question from my
trip to Rajasthan. Most of the horses
used by Rajputs against the fearsome
Mughal armies used to be prepared like
this.
✣ This used to slower the horse itself,
but still used by Rajputs. Why?
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15. 10.
✣ Most of the inscriptions of this historical
architecture used to end with these two
letters.
✣ The two letters were read as ‘Donation’, and
thus, the work started by Norwegian Scholar
Christian Lassen in 1836, finally came to be
finished by a certain Clifton born.
✣ A Palladian Porch may help you.
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16. Answer Time
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17. 1.
✣ Excerpt from Theodore Adorno’s “Cultural Criticism and Society”,
“The more total society becomes, the greater the reification of the mind and the more
paradoxical its effort to escape reification on its own. Even the most extreme consciousness
of doom threatens to degenerate into idle chatter. Cultural criticism finds itself faced with
the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after _________
(9) is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to
write poetry today.”
✣ FITB
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18. AUSCHWITZ
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19. 2.
✣ In July, 2019, a US recruiting commander was reported of using a phrase as the
headline of a section of the memo that explains incentives, including time off,
available to recruiters depending on the number of contracts that they are able to
complete.
✣ As soon as, this was reported the said official was suspended. Question is why? Or
FITB
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20. Arbeit Macht Frei
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21. 3.
✣ The late 19th century saw the emergence of many republics in different parts of the
world. The formation of one such republic had caused a great deal of trouble to the
catholic community of that country.
✣ Thus they started raising money, mostly donated by erstwhile catholic elites of that
country to fight the ‘Godlessness’ and regain the religious control.
✣ Thus came what?
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22. Christ The Redeemer
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23. 4.
✣ During his entire campaign, X, fought 472 battles, of which 79 were important
ones, and rode on horseback 123,000 kilometers, which is 10 times more
than Hannibal of Carthage; three times more than Napoleon, and twice as
much as Alexander the Great.
✣ X’s sword was stolen by Far-Left guerrilla M-19 in the year, 1974. In 1991,
Antonio Navaro Wolf, the leader of M-19 presented the sword to the children
in an emotional ceremony, led by the same.
✣ X?
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24. Simon Boliver
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25. 5.
✣ Two instances
✣ First, scholars, students and others of Cape Town university signs a petition to
remove the ‘statue 1’ , a racist entrepreneur-coloniser, from their campus. The campaign
to remove the statue began a series of thoughtful and serious questions about the
decolonisation of education, the progress (or lack thereof) of racial and economic
equality in the post-apartheid South Africa. (Pic Next slide)
✣ Not so far away, another such campaign arose in another country regarding removal
of another ‘statue 2’ , of someone, who allegedly described his creed to be ‘infinetly
superior’ than the native black folks.
✣ Give me the statue 1 and statue 2
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26. 5.
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27. Cecil Rhodes & M.K. Gandhi
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28. 6.
✣ Mentioned in the book of Ezekiel: “Then I came to them of the captivity at ___
____, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.”
✣ The picture next slide is a lottery organized in 1909 in the vicinity of sand dunes.
What are they actually doing? (FITB)
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29. 6.
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30. Tel Aviv
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31. 7.
✣ The Janissaries (New Soldiers) were elite infantry
units that formed Ottoman empire’s household
troops, bodyguards and is considered to be the
first standing army of Modern Europe. They had
distinctive uniforms and, unlike other military
units, were paid salaries and lived in barracks.
They were the first corps to make extensive use
of firearms
✣ This army used to comprise men, who were
recruited as early as from the age of 8 up to the age
18, based on the principle of ‘Blood Tax’. They
used to be taught Turkish language, literature
and art.
✣ Who are these men?
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32. The Kidnapped Christian Kids
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34. 8.
✣ The image previous slide is taken from the Wikipedia page of ______ (6).
✣ The term enters into English in the 15th Century from the same in French,
which in turn is taken from the Italian of ‘Rising’, implying the rising of sun in
the east. FITB.
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35. 35

36. 9.
✣ One mandatory question from my
trip to Rajasthan. Most of the horses
used by Rajputs against the fearsome
Mughal armies used to be prepared like
this.
✣ This used to slower the horse itself,
but still used by Rajputs. Why?
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37. The Mughal Army had
Elephants. The Elephants
couldn’t recognize the horse,
though it to be the kids of its
horde. Hence, moved away
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38. 10.
✣ Most of the inscriptions of this historical
architecture used to end with these two
letters.
✣ The two letters were read as ‘Donation’, and
thus, the work started by Norwegian Scholar
Christian Lassen in 1836, finally came to be
finished by a certain Clifton born.
✣ A Palladian Porch may help you.
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39. James Prinsep deciphered the
Brahmi Script.
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40. ευχαριστώ