Whose Session Is It Anyway?

Whose Session is it Anyway?
All Qs are made up and the points don't matter.
‘TREACHERY OF IMAGES-THIS IS NOT A Q”
Seeing as the world is gripped by GOT, name the
cat owned by Tommen of House Baratheon.

With Ser Pounce’s blessing here’s hoping for an
ample number of Pounces.

1. The Olympics today are definitely a far cry
from what they started out as in 776 BC.
However what tradition started out as a method
to enforce a certain rule after in 404 BC, a widow
called Kallipateira broke the rule against female
spectators and dressed up as a trainer to watch
her son compete. However when her son won,
she jumped over a barrier to congratulate him
and all was revealed. This tradition died out
eventually however it might have helped increase
the popularity of the Olympics were it enforced
today. What is this tradition?

Athletes were to participate in the nude.

2. This simple task, one which every man is
supposed to be able to perform as per TV tropes,
is banned in certain parts of Australia, particularly
Victoria and NSW. The reason for this is officially
cited to be safety, but the real reason is the
powerful labour union of a particular profession X,
who lobbied for the passing of the law. It is often
the subject of jokes which question the number of
people required to successfully carry out the task
in question. What is this task? ID the profession
X.

Change a lightbulb. Electricians.

3. This Olympic athlete from India has been
struggling with Epilepsy since CWG 2014 and
has undertaken a very commendable line of
treatment avoiding all drugs not permitted by the
WADA. Coming in 4th in Rio 2016 by a whisker,
he famously quipped that it was him not being
good enough that cost him the medal and not his
condition.
When asked about his successes, he also
quipped that he didn't have any real talent but his
only talent was to get up everyday and prepare
and practice with full determination for his events.

4. Minefields were laid in the Falkland Islands by
Argentine Marines during the war against the
British in 1982 so as to slow down their landing.
These minefields are intact till this day, however
as per the Ottawa Convention, the British are
legally obliged to clear them. However the locals
and environmentalists are against this, owing to
an indigenous population of D. These creatures
are unaffected by the mines thanks to their low
weight. ID D. Interestingly enough, this article is
the first Google result when one googles D.

Falkland Penguins or more correctly Southern
Rockhopper Penguins

5. Now their flag features a lobster, a conch and
a flowering cactus, but until 1968, the flag of the
tropical Turks and Caicos Islands contained a
badge which appeared to feature two igloos. The
artist had mistaken two piles of X (an important
export) on an earlier version of the flag for a
dwelling, and drawn a doorway since the version
of the flag he saw had poor shading effects in it.
What is X?

6. ID this Spanish Cyclist who is one of 6 riders to
have won all 3 grand tours of cycling i.e. Tour de
France, Giro d’Italia and X.
He has announced his retirement after competing
in the upcoming tour of X next month.

Alberto Contador
Vuelta a Espana

7. In the movie series Star Wars, Jedi Master Qui
Gon Jinn uses a communicator quite frequently in
The Phantom Menace. As with most Sci Fi props,
it is a modified device from present day that
doesn't help in communication of any kind. In fact
it is a modified product designed for female use.
What was modified by George Lucas and Co. to
resemble a communicator?

8. . What do the following words have in
common?
An umpire.
A nickname.
Pea.
Cherry.
An apron.

All words came about due to exasperating
distortions, misinterpretations,
misrepresentations…
Mainly wrong division of words
1. Umpire comes from Noumpere from French
and Middle English. It finally became ‘An Umpire”
2. An eke name became nickname
3. Pease was thought to mean plural and thus
pea was chosen
4. Similarly Cherise became cherries(plural) and
cherry for singular
5.Naperon became an apron

9. “Tormented by blisters, illness and injuries, ultra
marathoner Samir Singh got within 36 km of his goal
of running 10,000 km in 100 days when pain and
exhaustion beat him. Mr Singh dubbed the ‘Faith
Runner’ …spent nearly 3 months running between
Mumbai’s slums and business district using donated
clothes and living on just 200 rs a day.”
Thus reads the only article on the last page of the
Hindu Mumbai edition of Aug 8 2017.
Due to his efforts, to which pop culture icon does he
get compared to in the headline?
“India’s X falters on final stretch”

10. The Goa Education Department has
undertaken a drastic step. Director of Education
GP Bhat issued a circular requesting all heads of
schools to reschedule the first term exams to
conclude on or before October 7. Why the
urgency?

Under 17 FIFA WC
Goa hosts Germany Under 17 team which opens
against Costa Rica on Oct 7.
FUQ: Why were tickets sold when the time read
1911 hrs.

11. Who was bestowed an moniker that most
quizzers would associate with the organisation
behind Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s
Assassination.
He very recently joined Carl von Ossietzky on a
very lonely list.
No more hints, because Sweden Quiz. ;)

Liu Xiaobo, given the name Black Hand by the
CPC.
FUQ: What is his wife’s name?

12. The residents of a Muslim Majority village,
Marora in Mewat region have undertaken 2 things
to further strengthen
India US diplomatic ties.
They wanted to honour someone who has been
making headlines way before Jan 20 2017 by
naming their village after him.
While the district authorities called this renaming
illegal it did not deter its female residents from
honouring him on Aug 7 the way most Indians
honoured their family members that day.
Give me the person honoured and how.

Donald Trump. The women dedicated rakhis to
him. For the same, they made 1001 rakhis with
his photograph.
FUQ: Had the village been renamed, it would
have been the second village to have been
named after a POTUS that too, in the state of
Haryana itself. which village was the first? It still
bears the cancer surviving POTUS’ name.

13. This former Milanese Football star teamed up
with Stefano Landonio and they were once
ranked 975 in Doubles.
On his professional debut match, he was bested
by Polish Tomasz Bednarek and Dutchman
David Pel 1-6, 1-6 at the Aspiria Tennis Cup in
Milan 2017.
He described his debut match “like writing a
poem after studying years of math.”
ID.
Also if scores of 6-0, 6-0 are called bagels in
tennis, what are scores of 6-1, 6-1 called?

14. X has roast lunch – the best joint of lamb or
beef, biked over from Harrods – every Sunday,
but will only eat one particular cut of meat. “X has
to have the end piece, which is always put at the
front of the tray to keep X happy,” Every dish
goes into the X's menu book, with two options for
every course. X puts a line through the one X
doesn’t want." This menu book is entirely in
French, so chefs need to be proficient in the
language. ID X.

Queen Elizabeth(II)’s Corgis.

15. X developed names to describe the island’s
inferno-like rock formations: Devil’s Riding School,
Devil’s Ashpit, and Broken Tooth. The island is
question is Ascension Island, hailed as the key to
colonising Mars. he described it as “an arid treeless
island with nothing growing near the coast.”
This island is part of the Brit Overseas Territory of
‘Z, Ascension and Tristan de Cunha.”
Organised settlement on this island began in 1815
as a precaution after Napoleon was imprisoned in Z
to the South East.
X's destination wasn't Ascension Island but another
island Y. It is said that if Y was X's Eden, then
Ascension Island was X's Inferno, as apparent from
his nomenclature. ID X,Y and Z.

X- Darwin
Y-Galapagos
Z-St Helena

16. Recently, a newly discovered species of dinosaur
by means of fossilised eggs and a closely associated
baby dinosaur was ironically and aptly named
Beibeilong sinensis, in Henan province, China
The flightless dinosaur had feathers, primitive wings
and a beak but dwarfed any of its modern avian
relatives. When translated it means
‘____ ________ from China. FITB with an ironic yet
apt (considering the region) translation of its scientific
name.

17. The sweetness of figs made them a favourite
food of Mediterranean geese. And to this day,
figs are used for the purpose of readying X. And
because of humans developing a taste for X, the
word for X in Spanish (Higado), Italian (Fegato)
and Portuguese (Figado) all derive from 'Ficus'
which is the Latin for fig. What is X?

18. According to scientists from the Max Planck
Institute for Radio Astronomy, the Milky Way
might taste like X. Spectrographic analysis of a
dust cloud at its heart found ethyl formate, the
ester responsible for the dominant flavour of X.
What is X which also lends its name to a childish
action that in term derives itself from Cockney
rhyming slang?
Also it smells like something very dear to
AFMCites.

19. French spy and firework expert named
Amédée-François Frézier (1682-1773) was
despatched in 1712 to assess the quality of the
Spanish army’s defensive fortifications in Chile,
he returned with a new variety of X which had
been cultivated for many years by the Chilean
Indians. He brought five specimen plants back to
France, caring for them throughout his six-month
journey home by feeding them his own precious
supply of fresh water. From them, all the large,
sweet X varieties we enjoy today ultimately
derive. Funnily enough, his ancestor was aptly
(Inaptly, actually) named Julius de Berry.

20. A unique idea of the BCCI involves the
material used to make the Freedom Trophy for
the Bilateral Test Series between the nations of
India and South Africa.
The materials were sourced from the two places
(image follows) to commemorate the historic
effort of X and Y.
Give me X and Y and the material used to make
the trophy which was aptly coloured black.

Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela
Prison rods were used to make the trophy,
sourced from Yerwada and from Robben Island.

21. Using a genome editing tool called CRISPR,
scientists have inserted a GIF and an image of
the human hand onto Bacterial DNA(E. coli).
They transferred the image and the frames of the
GIF onto nucleotides producing a code that
related to individual pixels of the images.
To read it back, they sequenced the DNA and
used custom code to unscramble the genetic
information.
What was this GIF that was the result of Eadward
Muybridge asking a pertinent question in 1878?
The project was carried out in Leland Stanford’s
farm, the patron of this project.

Horse galloping, does its hooves ever remain
airborne all at once?
You tell me.

22. ‘Nakusa: ______ is My Name is a 22 min
Documentary produced by VP Shijith. It chronicles
the life of around 292 girls in Satara district with the
name Nakusa and attempts to bring their plight out
of the shadows.
What is the subject of this documentary, referenced
in its title itself.

Nakusa in Marathi means Unwanted and the
poorer parents name their girl child Nakusa
believing it’ll increase their chances of having a
male child the next time, dooming the girl child
with an ‘unwanted’ name.
The richer families have been known to abort the
female foetuses.

23. What word which recently was on the tip of
every AFMCites tongue was coined in 1688 by
Dr. Johannes Hofer by combining the Greek
words for ‘homecoming’ and ‘pain’. As a medical
professional, Dr Hofer described it as a “cerebral
disease of essentially demonic causes” at a
Basel Conference.
Today, it is regarded as a positive thing, abstract
and overwhelming in nature.

Nostalgia coming from Nostos and Algos

24. Serena Williams first met X on May 12, 2015 in
Rome at the Cavalieri Hotel where she was playing
the Italian Open.
Initially frigid, she tried to tell him to go sit
somewhere else by telling him there’s a rat nearby
when he sat next to her at the pool for breakfast.
X, the founder of Reddit and hailing from Brooklyn
promptly stated that rats don't bother him. Soon they
got to talking and over time, X proposed to Serena
on Dec 10 by taking her to the poolside where they
met and kept a little plastic rat on the table as a gag.
Interestingly, Serena had no idea about Reddit
before she met X and X too did not know much
about tennis.

25. The FlashTorch Mini is a torch made by
'Wicked Lasers' from anodised metal for a body
that has an output of 2300 lumens, allowing one
to cook an egg using it. For what reason does its
maker put on the tag 'Caution: This is not a X, but
we still wouldn't recommend trying to cut off
someone's hands with it.' ID X or what is the
reason that their makers had to put this warning
in?

Lightsaber.
Interestingly, Kevin Feige of the MCU has
incorporated many homages to the Star Wars
original Trilogy’s moment where Luke loses his
hand in Episode 5.
Phase 2 of the MCU sees many characters losing
their arms as a homage to Luke notably, Thor,
Bucky and Groot(temporarily).
Obviously this is beyond the self referential
homage of the prequel trilogy wherein Mace
Winds, Count Dooku and Anakin lost their arms.

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