Prelims of Thomsasonian'15

1. THOMASONIAN
2015
PRELIMS
DHANUSH HANGAL

2. OUR
SPONSORS
TONIGHT

3. 1.

4. *2. IT’S IN THE BAG.
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of
history.
Fewer still modify the map of the world.
Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a
nation-state.
X did all three.”

5. 3. Y LITTLE
• Lance and Chris Cairns (New Zealand)
• Don and Derek Pringle (England)
• Chris and Stuart Broad (England).
• X and Y

6. *4. MY DEAR CUMBERBITCHES
• What does the T in CAPTCHA stand for?

7. *5. ?
On Craigslist, about twenty enterprising sellers are offering Issue
1178 ("X") for between $35 and $1,500, and a handful of vendors
(presumably the same people who sell lists of New York apartments
for rent and magic cancer cures) are selling a PDF file for between
$3 and $5. One ad includes a link to Y, a twee dedicated e-boutique
from which one can purchase either an original hard copy ($99) or
the PDF file ($5). On eBay, there are a whopping 434 active listings
ranging in price from a penny to $120,000, many of which have
abundant bids.

8. 6.
___________________________,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
…….
…….
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
___________________________.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

9. 7. TABLEAUX?

10. 8. BALANCE
Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October
2010) was a Polish-born, French and American
mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of
roughness" and "self-similarity" in nature and the field
of fractal geometry to help prove it, which included
coining the word "fractal". He later discovered the
Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal
shapes, named in his honor.
What does B in his name stand for?

11. *9. GOOGLE DOODLE FOR?

12. 10. FUNDA?
I began at once somewhat more steady work on the
subjects and books which I should have to lecture on. I
now first hit upon the diagrammatical device of
representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive
circles. Of course the device was not new then, but it
was so obviously representative of the way in which any
one, who approached the subject from the mathematical
side, would attempt to visualise propositions, that it was
forced upon me almost at once.

13. 11. DISH?

14. 12.
•Salman Rushdie is coming out with a new book “Two
Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days”. About his
new book, he says, “I just rather loved it. You've got
two, eight, twenty-eight – you've got another
symmetrical number describing that very famous
symmetrical number.“
•The title is a direct reference to a title of another
famous literary work as mentioned by the author.
•Give the famous work.

15. 13. This photo taken at a company’s new product
launch in India met with a controversy (outside the
country). What was the controversy about?

16. *14. ANOTHER TRIBUTE
• A railway release said that Train No
17303/17304 Mysore- Yesvantpur-Mysore
Daily Express has been renamed ‘X Express’
as advised by the Ministry of Railways.
• Though it is not a convention, it is, perhaps,
for the first time that a train has been named
after an imaginary town.

17. 15. FUNDA?

18. 16. WHAT?
•Near the center is Latin.
•Above that is Japanese; below it are Cyrillic,
Hebrew, and (barely visible at the bottom) Tamil.
•To the left of Latin is Greek, and below that are
Chinese, Kannada and Tibetan.
•At left, from the top down are Armenian,
Cambodian, Bengali, Devanagari and Georgian.
•The right-most column is Ethiopic, Arabic, Korean,
and Thai.

19. 17. NORTH BAY ISLAND / CORAL
ISLAND IN ANDAMAN AND
NICOBAR

20. 18. WHO ABOUT WHAT?
One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I
was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress
came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she
said yes. I said, "What do you know about X?", and she
said, "Open Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the
name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people
and asked them, "Do you know X?" People from India,
people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China …
they all knew about X. X is a kind, smart business
person, and he helped the village. So … easy to spell,
and globally known. X opens sesame for small- to
medium-sized companies.

21. 19. X?
On July 11, 2014, North Korea's United Nations
ambassador Ja Song-nam condemned X, saying that
"the production and distribution of such a film on the
assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign
state should be regarded as the most undisguised
sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war".
He also said X "shows the desperation of the US
government and American society ... a film about the
assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the US
has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine".

22. 20. AJUDHIYA NATH _____
● Born in Jalandhar district of Punjab, he took up his early education there.
After passing the matriculation in 1908 he took his BA with honours from
D.A.V. College, Lahore, in 1912. He then joined the Thomason College of
Civil Engineering in 1913 and passed out in 1916 as Civil Engineer.
● He applied his methods to the design of the Trimmu Barrage and
constructed it within two years (1937–1939), against the normal period of
4–5 years.
● He served as Superintending Engineer in 1939 and Chief Engineer in 1943
and in both capacities, cherished Bhakra project.
● He was appointed the first Chairman of the newly constituted Central
Waterways, Irrigation and Navigation Commission in 1945.
● He undertook planning, design and, as in Hirakud Dam, construction of
major Water Resources Projects.
● He served as vice-chairman and later chairman of the board of
Consultants of Bhakra Control Board till its commissioning in 1963.
● He was instrumental in bringing about a number of agreements on
negotiations for Indus Water Dispute with Pakistan.

23. ANSWERS

24. 1.

26. *2. IT’S IN THE BAG.
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of
history.
Fewer still modify the map of the world.
Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a
nation-state.
X did all three.”

27. JINNAH

28. 3. Y LITTLE
• Lance and Chris Cairns (New Zealand)
• Don and Derek Pringle (England)
• Chris and Stuart Broad (England).
• X and Y

29. Roger and Stuart Binny
Father and son duos to have represented their country
in the World Cup.

30. *4. MY DEAR CUMBERBITCHES
• What does the T in CAPTCHA stand for?

31. COMPLETELY AUTOMATED PUBLIC TURING
TEST TO TELL COMPUTERS AND HUMANS APART

32. *5. ?
On Craigslist, about twenty enterprising sellers are offering Issue
1178 ("X") for between $35 and $1,500, and a handful of vendors
(presumably the same people who sell lists of New York apartments
for rent and magic cancer cures) are selling a PDF file for between
$3 and $5. One ad includes a link to Y, a twee dedicated e-boutique
from which one can purchase either an original hard copy ($99) or
the PDF file ($5). On eBay, there are a whopping 434 active listings
ranging in price from a penny to $120,000, many of which have
abundant bids.

33. JE SUIS CHARLIE

34. 6.
___________________________,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
…….
…….
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
___________________________.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

35. DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD
NIGHT.

36. 7. TABLEAUX?

38. 8. BALANCE
Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October
2010) was a Polish-born, French and American
mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of
roughness" and "self-similarity" in nature and the field
of fractal geometry to help prove it, which included
coining the word "fractal". He later discovered the
Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal
shapes, named in his honor.
What does B in his name stand for?

40. *9. GOOGLE DOODLE FOR?

41. LEO TOLSTOY

42. 10. FUNDA?
I began at once somewhat more steady work on the
subjects and books which I should have to lecture on. I
now first hit upon the diagrammatical device of
representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive
circles. Of course the device was not new then, but it
was so obviously representative of the way in which any
one, who approached the subject from the mathematical
side, would attempt to visualise propositions, that it was
forced upon me almost at once.

43. JOHN VENN

44. 11. DISH?

45. RATATOUILLE

46. 12.
•Salman Rushdie is coming out with a new book “Two
Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days”. About his
new book, he says, “I just rather loved it. You've got
two, eight, twenty-eight – you've got another
symmetrical number describing that very famous
symmetrical number.“
•The title is a direct reference to a title of another
famous literary work as mentioned by the author.
•Give the famous work.

47. 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS

48. 13. This photo taken at a company’s new product
launch in India met with a controversy (outside the
country). What was the controversy about?

49. Xiaomi launching the Mi4, showed
Arunachal Pradesh as a part of India
angering China.

50. *14. ANOTHER TRIBUTE
• A railway release said that Train No
17303/17304 Mysore- Yesvantpur-Mysore
Daily Express has been renamed ‘X Express’
as advised by the Ministry of Railways.
• Though it is not a convention, it is, perhaps,
for the first time that a train has been named
after an imaginary town.

51. MALGUDI EXPRESS

52. 15. FUNDA?

54. 16. WHAT?
•Near the center is Latin.
•Above that is Japanese; below it are Cyrillic,
Hebrew, and (barely visible at the bottom) Tamil.
•To the left of Latin is Greek, and below that are
Chinese, Kannada and Tibetan.
•At left, from the top down are Armenian,
Cambodian, Bengali, Devanagari and Georgian.
•The right-most column is Ethiopic, Arabic, Korean,
and Thai.

55. WIKIPEDIA

56. 17. NORTH BAY ISLAND / CORAL
ISLAND IN ANDAMAN AND
NICOBAR

58. 18. WHO ABOUT WHAT?
One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I
was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress
came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she
said yes. I said, "What do you know about X?", and she
said, "Open Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the
name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people
and asked them, "Do you know X?" People from India,
people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China …
they all knew about X. X is a kind, smart business
person, and he helped the village. So … easy to spell,
and globally known. X opens sesame for small- to
medium-sized companies.

59. JACK MA ABOUT ALIBABA

60. 19. X?
On July 11, 2014, North Korea's United Nations
ambassador Ja Song-nam condemned X, saying that
"the production and distribution of such a film on the
assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign
state should be regarded as the most undisguised
sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war".
He also said X "shows the desperation of the US
government and American society ... a film about the
assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the US
has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine".

62. 20. AJUDHIYA NATH _____
● Born in Jalandhar district of Punjab, he took up his early education there.
After passing the matriculation in 1908 he took his BA with honours from
D.A.V. College, Lahore, in 1912. He then joined the Thomason College of
Civil Engineering in 1913 and passed out in 1916 as Civil Engineer.
● He applied his methods to the design of the Trimmu Barrage and
constructed it within two years (1937–1939), against the normal period of
4–5 years.
● He served as Superintending Engineer in 1939 and Chief Engineer in 1943
and in both capacities, cherished Bhakra project.
● He was appointed the first Chairman of the newly constituted Central
Waterways, Irrigation and Navigation Commission in 1945.
● He undertook planning, design and, as in Hirakud Dam, construction of
major Water Resources Projects.
● He served as vice-chairman and later chairman of the board of
Consultants of Bhakra Control Board till its commissioning in 1963.
● He was instrumental in bringing about a number of agreements on
negotiations for Indus Water Dispute with Pakistan.

63. A.N. KHOSLA