Here are the key details from the passage: - X was a famous 15th century Italian artist and polymath (a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning). - Little is known about his early life, except for a story that as a schoolboy he showed his dislike of despots (absolute rulers) by quarreling with his schoolmaster. - He went on to have a very successful career as an artist and architect in Florence, Italy. Some of his most famous works include the dome of Florence Cathedral and the design of the city of Pienza. - X is widely considered to be one of the greatest masters of Italian Renaissance art. His work had a significant influence on later Western art.

1. NSIT Quiz Fest - 2013
THE HISTORY, WAR & POLITICS
QUIZ

3. 1.
 __________ is a revered figure in Islam, whom the Qur'an describes as a
righteous servant of God, who possessed great wisdom or mystic
knowledge.
 He is said to be the unseen guide and protector of all Sufis, a mysterious
figure who would rescue dervishes lost in the billowing sands of Sinai or
drowning in the Nile or the Oxus.
 However there was disagreement among Islamic scholars about where
he lived. Sometimes he was called a contemporary of Abraham who left
Babel alongside the patriarch; at other times a friend of Moses who
helped guide the tribes of Israel through the Red Sea. Some thought of
him to be a contemporary of Alexander while others said he was the
great-grandson of Shem, son of Noah.
 He wore a long white beard, was always dressed in green and hence was
called ______ (Arabic for Green), because where he knelt and prayed
the soil instantly became covered with thick vegetation.

6.  Khidr or al-Khidr or Khwaja Khizr

7. Q.2 (X or Y)/ ID.
 Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of Republican
U.S. Senator X of Wisconsin, “Y” soon took on a broader meaning,
describing the excesses of similar efforts. The term is also now used
more generally to describe reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as
well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political
adversaries.
 The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees,
those in the entertainment industry, educators and union activists.
Suspicions were often given credence despite inconclusive or
questionable evidence, and the level of threat posed by a person's real
or supposed leftist associations or beliefs was often greatly
exaggerated. Many people suffered loss of employment and/or
destruction of their careers; some even suffered imprisonment.
 <Picture on Next Slide>

10.  Joseph McCarthy / McCarthyism

11. 3.
 X affair or Sahlin affair was a Swedish political scandal , in which in October 1995
became public knowledge that the Socialist politician Mona Sahlin during his
time as Minister of Labour from 1990 to 1991 on several occasions used the
state's credit card for private expenses.
 She had bought the goods, rented cars for private use, and have taken out cash
on the card. In total there was about private expenditure to the value of 53,174
crowns. Among the goods purchased were two Xs , which gave rise to name X
affair.
 The transaction resulted partly in a preliminary investigation , which was shut
down when no offense was detected, besides Sahlin, who in 1995 was deputy
prime minister and the prime candidate to take over as party leader of the Social
Democrats after Ingvar Carlsson , resigned from his post and no longer ran for
the post of party leader.
 What was this scam popularly known as?

13. The Toblerone Affair

14. 4. Id the person and give
funda.

16.  Hans Conrad Schuman was an East
German soldier who famously defected
to West Germany during the construction of
the Berlin Wall in 1961.

17. 5.
 X was an American photographer and documentary
photographer. She is best known as the first foreign
photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry,
the first female war correspondent (and the first female
permitted to work in combat zones) and the first female
photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her
photograph appeared on the first cover.
 She is known equally well in both India and Pakistan for her
photographs of Gandhi at his spinning wheel and Pakistan's
founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, upright in a chair. She also
was "one of the most effective chroniclers" of the violence
that erupted at the independence and partition of India and
Pakistan.
 <Image on next slide>

20. Margaret Bourke-White

21. 6.
 Civil rights activist AG Noorani has cited Prof Cantwell Smith, a
critic of Jinnah, in The Middle Eastern Journal, 1950. "The only
careful report on what happened in this period was made a few
months later by investigators - including a Congress Muslim and
a sympathetic and admired Hindu (Professor Sunderlal)-
commissioned by the Indian government. The report was
submitted but has not been published; presumably it makes
unpleasant reading. It is widely held that the figure mentioned
therein for the number of deaths is 50,000. Other estimates by
responsible observers run as high as 200,000.“
 This was the largest single massacre in the history of the Indian
Union, dwarfing the killings by the Pathan raiders en route to
Srinagar which India has ever since used as the casus belli for its
annexation of Kashmir.
 What incident is being referred to here?

23.  Operation Polo/ Slaughter of Muslims by the
Indian Forces during the liberation of
Hyderabad

24. 7. X or Y ?
 Not perhaps as immediately as the fairy who mocked
Pinocchio (but still pretty swiftly) the fibs uttered by Italian
politicians in the current general election campaign are
being identified as such on a new, much-needed website. X
inspired by the American site, Y, came on-line last October
thanks to a group of young graduates.
 The site’s attraction is unsurprising since Italian politicians
have for years been getting away with the most outrageous
claims, largely undisturbed by the media.
 X fact-checks campaign assertions and then ranks them on
a scale from, vero (true) to panzana pazzesca (which
roughly translates as ‘insane whopper’). On the basis of its
classifications, it produces a percentage assessment for
each politician.

27. X – Pagella Politica Y -
PolitiFact

28. 8.
 _________ _____ ___ ______ is an honorific used by the State of
Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the
Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. It
originates with a term used in rabbinical Judaism to refer to non-
Jews, as ger toshav and ger zedek, who abide by the Seven Laws
of Noah.
 A person who is recognized is awarded a medal in his/her name, a
certificate of honor, and the privilege of having the name added
to those on the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the
Righteous atYad Vashem in Jerusalem.
 Notable individuals who’ve been conferred with this honour
include Archbishop Damaskinos, Feng-Shan Ho, Carl Lutz, Irena
Sendler,Oskar Schindler, Chiune Sugihara and Raoul Wallenberg
among others. <Image on Next Slide>

31. Righteous Among the Nations

32. 9.
 Following is the picture Paul
Tibbets Jr. (February 23, 1915 –
November 1, 2007) who was
a brigadier general in
the United States Air Force,
best known for playing a
certain crucial role in the
history of war. While on the
mission, how did he
immortalize his mother’s name
in a particular way ?

34.  He was a pilot of Enola Gay (the plane that
dropped Little boy on Hiroshima), which he
named after his mother – Enola Gay Tibbets

35. 10.
 The Flowers of War, previously titled _______ Heroes and 13
Flowers of _______, is a 2011 historical drama war film directed
by Zhang Yimou, starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Tong
Dawei, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeo Kobayashi and Cao Kefan.
 It is set in 1937, _______, during the “____ __ _______“. A group
of escapees, finding sanctuary in a church compound, try to
survive the plight and persecution brought on by the violent
invasion of the city.
 It was selected as the entry for Best Foreign Language Film at
the 84th Academy Awards, but did not make the final shortlist. It
also received a nomination for the 69th Golden Globe
Awards. The 6th Asian Film Awards presented The Flowers of
War with several individual nominations, including Best Film.
 What unfortunate incident is this movie based on ?

38.  Rape of Nanking/Nanking Massacre/Nanjing
Massacre.`

39. 11. Give X.
 “X, the quintessential anti-leader, insists that his
black mask is a mirror, so that ‘X is gay in San
Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe,
a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a
Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of
San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a
Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single
woman on the Metro at 10 p.m., a peasant without
land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed
worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a
__________ in the mountains'. In other words, he is
simply us: we are the leader we've been looking for.”
--Naomi Klein, Socialist Register.

41.  Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army
of National Liberation (EZLN)

42. 12. What does this map
represent?

44. The Invasion of Normandy or D-
Day Operations on 6 June 1944

45. 13.
 ID the structure.
 <Image on next slide>

48.  Lenin’s Mausoleum

49. 14.
 X (November 22, 1830 – 1890 ) was an
Indian revolutionary who played an
important role in the Indian Rebellion
of 1857 during the battle of Jhansi. She
was a soldier in the women's army
of Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi. During
the rebellion, at the height of the
battle of fort of Jhansi, she disguised
herself as the queen and fought on the
front to let the queen escape safely
out of the fort. In the (relatively) recent
past, as she belonged to the Dalit
Community, Mayawati installed busta
of her throughout UP.

51. Jhalkaribai

52. 15.

55. Answer
Chapter 3: Kony 2012
Chapter 8 : Invisible Children

56. 16.
Dr. Dragan "David" Dabic was born some six decades ago in a small
Serbian village blacksmith town near Kraljevo. As a young boy he liked
to explore nearby forests and mountains, and spent a lot of time on
Kopaonik mountain where he was picking medicinal herbs. As a young
man he moved for a job in Belgrade, from where he moved to Russia,
where he graduated from the Moscow State University of Medicine
(specialist in psychiatry). After Russia, Dr. Dabic traveled around India
and Japan, after which he settled in China where he specialized in
various branches of the so-called. alternative medicine, with a special
emphasis on the mind and body, meditation, Yoga, spiritual cleansing,
and Chinese herbs.
This is what the website of Dr Dragan Dabic says.The world knows him
more famously as someone else.
 <Image on next slide>

59. Radovan Karadzic known as the butcher of Bosnia.
He co-founded the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was
the first President of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was a fugitive from
1996 until July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and changed his identity
to Dr. Dragan Dabic.

60. 17.
The pantings (images follow on the next slide) depict the war fought between X on
one side and the triple alliance of Brazil,Uruguay and Argentina on the other side. It’s
famously known as The War of the Triple Alliance fought between 1864 and 1870. It
caused more deaths proportionally to the number of actual combatants than any
other war in modern history, and particularly devastated X, killing almost 90 % of its
male population.
These paintings were made by Y,an argentine soldier who lost his right arm during
the battle and so painted with his left.
These paintings are the only remaining visual records of the war.
X and Y for full points.

63. X:Paraguay
Y: Candido Lopez

64. 18.
Identify the album which is a compilation album with 12 songs and
contains music by JW Ekman, D Rovics, I Sloan, Jaffrey Rootzway
and Sonic Disobedience, to name a few artists. The only song
name that doesn't give away the album completely is "Shout it
out and be heard" by Sharon Z.

66. Ans. Wikileaks Beat the blockade

67. 19.
X was a French police officer and biometrics researcher
who created anthropometry, an identification system
based on physical measurements. Anthropometry
was the first scientific system used by police to
identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could
only be identified based on unreliable eyewitness
accounts. The method was eventually supplanted by
fingerprinting.X is also credited with contributions like
the mug shot and the systematisation of crime-scene
photography which remain in place to this day.
X is referenced in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound
of the Baskervilles, in which one of Holmes's clients
refers to Holmes as the "second highest expert in
Europe" after X.

70. X:Alphonse Bertillon

71. 20.
Legend has it that soldiers of the Polish-Habsburg army,
while liberating Vienna from the second Turkish siege in
1683, found a number of sacks with _______ that they
initially thought were camel feed and wanted to burn. The
Polish king Jan III Sobieski granted the sacks to one of his
officers named X, who started the first _________ in Vienna
at Schlossergassl named the Hof zur Blauen Flasche. This
achievement has been recognized in many modern Viennese
__________ by hanging a picture of X in the window.
Who and what popular tradition did he start?

73. A - Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki
Viennese Coffee House

74. 21.
 The Execution of X is series of paintings by Édouard Manet
from 1867 to 1869, depicting the execution by firing squad of X
of the short-lived Second Mexican Empire. Manet produced
three large oil paintings, a smaller oil sketch and a lithograph of
the same subject. All five works were brought together for an
exhibition in London and Mannheim in 1992-3, and at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2006.
 X was born in 1832, the son of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
and Princess Sophie of Bavaria. After a career in the Austrian
Navy, he was encouraged by Napoleon III to become Emperor
of Mexico following the French intervention in Mexico. X
arrived in Mexico in May 1864 and the Empire collapsed after
Napoleon withdrew French troops in 1866. X was captured in
May 1867, sentenced to death at a court martial, and executed
with Generals Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía on 19 June
1867.

77. Ans: The Execution of Emperor Maximiliano by
Edouard Manet

78. 22.
Given below are the excerpts from X's autobiography.
“ I had received a notice from the commissioner saying that the collector of
Panchmahals had asked for an inquiry into my part in the riots. The burden of the
issue framed by the commissioner was that I was a communalist and that I
supported the Hindus against the Muslims.”
In spite of a detailed reply and personal hearing by commissioner,“ I received
government’s decision in April 1930. I was held guilty of acting in a partisan way
on account of communal bias. No reasons were given for this conclusion, But
government also said that it did not think it necessary to take any action against
me in view of my good record of 12-year service. I was degraded by four places in
the list of seniority.”
This led X to resign as the Deputy Collector of Y in May 1930 and join Mahatma
Gandhi in the freedom struggle.

80. Morarji Desai
Godhra

81. 23.
Little is known of X' early life, apart from a story that he showed his dislike of
despots while still at school, by quarreling with the son of the dictator
Sulla. He studied philosophy at Rhodes under Archelaus and became
fluent in Greek. He was married to Junia Tertia (Tertulla), who was the
daughter of Servilia Caepionis. They had one son, who was born in about
60 BC. In 53 BC he took part in the Battle of Carrhae lost by Marcus
Licinius Crassus against the Parthians.
In Dante’s Inferno, X, along with Y and Judas Iscariot are one of the only
three people who are deemed sinful enough to be chewed in one of the
three mouths of Satan, in the very center of Hell, for all eternity, as a
punishment for their betrayal.

83. X - Gaius Cassius Longinus
Y - Brutus

84. 24.
X is a religious group with 7.7 million members who believe that secular
society to be morally corrupt and under the influence of the devil and limit
their interactions with non-members of the group. Their refusal to serve in
the military, to salute national flags or sing national or patriotic songs has
brought it in conflict with some governments.
During Nazi Germany, about 10,000 members of the group X were
imprisoned , 2000 sent to concentration camps and 250 were executed.
They were identified by a purple triangle on their arm bands (picture in the
next slide). They have been persecuted in other countries like Canada and
the Soviet Union with the group banned outright in China, Vietnam and
some Islamic States.
Give X.

87. Ans: Jehovah’s Witnesses