The mixed bag quiz taken by me on 09/05/2015 at qutopia session #32

1. The Mixed Bag
by Harsh Utkarsh

3. Id the event being covered in this issue of
the Indian Herald

6. X : Scotland Yard
Y : London

7. Sugandha Bai was the muse of this painter
He represented something in a human form
that had never been done before.
This led to a lot of controversy although he
was patronised by the Maharaja of
Travancore.
Who is this painter, subject of a recent
movie?

8. Raja Ravi Verma

9. In continental Europe, it means a small hotel or lodging
house
When used as a verb, it means to "discard something as it
has bbecome old"
Incidentally, this word also alludes to the name of Chelsea
Football club in the early twentieth century.
Historically , it meant the royal payment given to a royal
favourite or a scholar or an artist to carry on the work of
public interest.
Identify this word commonly found in the public sctor in
India and quite often painfully missing in the private

10. Pension

11. • The following text has been taken from the book "Euclid
and his modern rivals by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
better known as X"
• This text was used as the first logo of Y(something we
have relied upon for the major part of our student lives).
• Only a part of the text is visible due to fish eye form of
the logo.
• Gimme X and Y

12. only the bolder part is visible in the logo

14. XX is Lewis Caroll if you were wondering

16. • The man shown in the picture is
A.A.Milne, the creator of Winnie the pooh
• The character is said to be inspired from
his son's stuffed teddy bear.
• Almost all other characters like tiger and
piglet were made the same way.
• What was his son's name?

17. Christopher Robin Milne, after whom the character is
named.

18. • The nonsense word "X" emerged in pop
culture during the early 1930s first being
used by cartoonist Bill Holman.According
to Holman,X takes it origins from the
Chinese word for fortune.
• The word "X fighter" was used by Allied
pilots during World War II to describe
UFOs that appeared over European and
Pacific theatres of war.

19. • The terms "X" or "X bar" are often used as
placeholder names in computer
documentation.
• "X summit" is an annual hacker summit
organised by publisher O'reilly
• X also forms part of a musical act that i
listen to daily.

21. • Luxo Jr. is a 1986 American computer-
animated short film produced by Pixar and
directed by director John Lasseter
• It was the first CGI film to receive
nominattion for Best Animated Short Film.
• What was the special contribution of this
short film to Pixar?

23. • Legend has it that Mumtaz Mahal once
visited the army barracks and found out
that the soldiers were under-nourished.
• Hence, she ordered the chefs to come up
with a dish that could be eaten in a single
serving.
• The name of this dish means "fried before
cooking"
• What?

26. British Physical Laboratories Ltd.

27. • People say that this profession dates back to
Mughal period.People of this profession had
special access to the king alongwith the
barber.They are a vanishing breed now and
remain limited to a few pockets in Ambala and
Meerut.
• They carry "auzaar" like chimti,salai along with
oil and have a distinctive headgear-a red skull
cap that can be rolled backwards.They also
carry a shoulder bag with them evrywhere.
• Who?

28. Kaan Saaf Wala

29. • After the battle of Kurukshetra,
Yudhishthira performed the last rites of all
his loved ones.Karna had no one to
perform his last rites as all his sons had
died in the battle and he had no
relatives.Kunti couldn't bear this injustice
so she revealed to Yudhishthira that
KArna was her son.KArna was hurt to
know of his brother's existence so late.So,
he cursed Kunti with something that
haunts women to this day.

30. • He cursed her by saying that women
henceforth would never be able to keep a
secret.

31. Cartoonist?

34. • This is a poster of which actor's first
movie?

36. • Ze End