Ender Bender Quiz 1

1. Ender Bender
Srinath

2. • Connect

3. • Olympic logo

4. • The views regarding this person in Ahmadiya
Islam are largely similar to those held in
mainstream Islam, but go a little forward and
suggest that he migrated to India and died here.
Below is a picture of his purported tomb in
Kashmir. Who?

5. • Jesus Christ

6. • The English word X means dazed, intoxicated. It
originates from an alcoholic drink that was introduced
in the British royal naval in the 1700’s. It usually
contained a key ingredient that was added to prevent
sailors from contracting a particular disease.
As a result of adding this ingredient Y is a pejorative
nickname that has come about for Britishers.
X,Y?

7. • Groggy, Limey

8. • William Clarke was an early cricketing
entrepreneur, assembling and promoting an "All
England XI" that played lucrative matches
around England during the 19th century, before
county cricket really took hold. Despite having
only one eye, was also a handy bowler: in
Canterbury in 1844 he took a hat-trick that is
believed to be unique in first-class cricket.
What was so unique?

9. • Got the same batsman out twice

10. • Connect

11. • Hat-trick on test debut

12. • Connect – Pic 1 – Chad Ochocinco; wide receiver for the
Cincinnatti Bengals inspired guy in Pic 2 to do something
to “inspire and bring the youth all over the world
together”. What?

13. • Ron Artest changed his name to Metta
Worldpeace. Metta is the buddhist world
for love

14. • Connect
Racial slur for someone of Italian descent in the
U.S because of their darker complexion
Arabic word for the egyptian pound which was
worth a certain denomination in British currency
Currency denomination used in certain horse
races

15. • Guinea

16. • This phrase, a particular favourite of Nasser Hussain is
usually used in the context of describing a big hit.
The phrase has its origins in golf referring to "a well
executed shot. In the old days, when clubs were made of
wood, makers fitted a plastic insert into the club face as
a safeguard against premature wear. These inserts were
fastened to the club .
When a golfer would hit a good shot, he would say, ‘I hit it
on the _’ .
What phrase

17. • Right out the screws/Hitting it on the
screws

18. • Who’s gravestone – Ironically the height of
the stone is a reference to the person

19. • Mark Twain – Height of stone is two
fathoms

20. • This calligraphic typeface is called so because
such typefaces started to be first designed in
this country for chancery purposes. Messrs
Arrighi and Manutius were the main type
designers who popularised this.
This typeface is the print equivalent of
underlining.
What?

21. • Italics

22. • The constellation
Mensa was observed
and named by French
Astronomer Nicholas
Louis de Lacaille.
His desire to study the
southern heavens led
him to go on an
expedition to Africa
where he conducted
most of his studies and
experiments at a
particular place that
helped him observe the
clear skies without
disturbance.
Where?

23. • Table mountain

24. • The X penguin is a species
of penguin found from
the Subantarctic to the Antarctic
Peninsula. One of six species
of crested penguin, it is very closely
related to the Royal Penguin, and some
authorities consider the two to be a
single species. It bears a distinctive
yellow crest, and the face and
upperparts are black and sharply
delineated from the white underparts
• The common name was recorded from
the early 19th century in the Falkland
Islands. English sailors apparently
named the species for its conspicuous
yellow crest. X was a term for a
particular style in 18th-century England
marked by flamboyant or excessive
ornamentation. A person who adopted
this fashion was labelled X, as
referenced in a popular American song.
• X?

25. • Macaroni penguin

26. • This is a common joke in Russian political discourse,
referring to a particular alternating pattern that has been
observed with respect to the state leaders. This
consistent pattern can be traced back until as early as
1825 when Nicholas I succeeded his late brother
Alexander as the Russian emperor.
This pattern has often been used to humorously predict
who would win elections based on the presence/absence
of something.
What?

27. • Bald-Hairy

28. • The object in pic is a
model of objects in the
sky, consisting of a
spherical framework of
rings, centred on Earth,
that represent lines of
celestial longitude and
latitude and other
astronomically important
features such as
the plane of the orbit of
the earth around the sun.
• This object features
prominently in the coat of
arms of a country.
• ID object, country

29. • Armillary sphere, Portugal

30. • Bonus Question : What do the 5 dots in
the shield represent

31. • The 5 holy wounds of Christ

32. • Coat of arms of which
country?
• Element of coat of arms
– what does it represent?
• The original motto of the
element was Non Plus
Ultra – changed to Plus
Ultra. Significance.

33. • Pillar of Hercules

34. • X was an eminent mathematician, brother of Y, a nobel
prize winning physicist. After receiving his doctorate in
1910, his most important contribution was the founding
of almost periodic functions.
• X was also an excellent football player. He had a long
playing career with Akademisk Boldklub, making his
debut as a 16 year old in 1903. During the 1905 season
he played alongside his brother, who was a goalkeeper.
X was selected to play for the national football team in
the 1908 Summer Olympics where he won a sliver
medal.
• X and Y?

35. • This concept was first developed in Scandinavia over several decades
beginning in the 1920s, leading to a formalized program in the 1980s. The
concept was imported to the United States on a large scale in 1988 through
the Harvard Alcohol Project. With heavy involvement by television networks
and Hollywood studios, the campaign popularized the concept through
public service announcements, as well as the encouragement of drunk
driving prevention messages and references to the concept in popular
television programs,such as Cheers, L.A. Law, and The Cosby Show.
• President Bill Clinton also participated in popularising this campaign
• In Brazil, since 2005, the spirits compan Diageo is using this concept to
spread the message of not Drinking and Drive. Called Piloto da Vez, the
program was born with the sponsorship of McLaren firmed on that year.
Since than, Montoya, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton participated in the
program.

36. • Designated driver

37. • Give one word to describe the following

38. • Planking, Owling, Horsemanning,
Batmanning, Tebowing

39. • Bonus question
• In 2010 the NCAA introduced a new rule
for the season which the media dubbed
the ‘Tebow rule’. What was it?

40. • Banning messages on the eye blacks

41. • Name the cities between which the plies.
Who is it named after. What is its claim to
fame

42. • Recently started Vivek Express.
Kanyakumari – Dibrugarh. Longest length
train

43. • The scientific name of this
creature is X Y.
• Is an extinct species of
physeteroid whale, which
lived during the Miocene
Epoch, 12-13 million years
ago.
• Researchers assigned the
English name of the biblical
monster X to this.
• Y was a reference to the fact
that all the researchers were
all fans of this person’s novel
• X and Y?

44. • Leviathan melvillei

45. • 2009 playoffs the Detroit Red wings used
this slogan. Put fundae

46. • Playoff Beard – A tradition in NHL for good
luck

47. • This Hollywood actor had a six year career
before his death in which he appeared in 5
movies. Each of these 5 movies was
nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
• In 1990 archived footage of his was used
in a movie, which again got nominated for
the Best Picture Oscar.
• Who is the actor with a golden touch?

48. • John Cazale

49. • The collosseum is usually lit in white –
what are the occasions when it is lit in
yellow

50. • Whenever there is death penalty awarded
anywhere in the world

51. • Bonus question : - This person portrayed
in the a 90’s movie (the actress playing
her won the oscar) inaugurated the
campaign with a symbolic thumbs up.
Who is she or name movie and what was
the significance of this cermony

52. • Sister Helen Prejean/Dead Man walking/
Symbol to grant the gladiator his life

53. • In the beginning of this century there were
certain golf clubs manufactured that were
disguised as walking sticks. Why so?

54. • They were called Sabbath Sticks – so that
people could sneak a game/ practice
putting on Sunday

55. • This milk sweet delicacy derives its name from a place in
Karnataka. It traces its historical origin to Thakur family
which migrated from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh to this place
after a dreaded plague broke out there sometime in early
19th Century. With meagre funds, Shri. Ram Ratan Singh
Thakur (first generation sweet maker) started making these
and selling them and gradually, it started becoming
popular.
• The technique of preparing these remains a closely
guarded trade secret, known only to the family members of
Shri. Babusingh Thakur, as handed down the generations,
by father to son.
• What?

56. • Dharwar Pedas

57. • This mountain was named X by Polish
explorer Count Paul Edmond Strzlecki in
1840 in honor of a Polish national hero and
hero of the American revolutionary war
,because of its perceived resemblance to
what you see in picture 2 (which is in
Krakow). X?

58. • Mount Kosciuszko in Australia