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5. fchg
WHAT WAS GUARDIAN’S HEADLINE,
ALLUDING TO A POP CULTURE REFERENCE?
B
6. A type of exercise equipment to develop strength,
their Indian origins have been questioned. They were
said to have travelled from Persia, via India, to Britain ,
where they were popular during the health craze of the
Victorian era.
As sports became much more organized and the
military modernized, their use in fitness waned but they
inspired designs for objects in an entertainment
context, mainly certain circus acts.
WHAT OBJECT (ORIGINAL)?
WHAT DID THEY INSPIRE?
C
7. __________ is a line of transportation that ran through the
French Quarter down to its namesake street in the Bywater
district, functioning for a period of 28 years, after which the
line was converted to buses in 1948.
Various proposals to revive ______ have been discussed in
recent years, but the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
has no current plans to rebuild.
According to Jed Horne, the name of the street is a misspelled
homage to ________ Clary, a fiancé of Napoleon.
Give me ______ and why is it very popular among movie and
book aficionados.
NAME THE MODE OF TRANSPORT
D
8. The youngest author ever to win
the Booker Prize at the age of 28.
At JLF, when asked about
governments in Canada, Australia &
NZ, she said:
“neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, very
shallow, very money-hungry
politicians who do not care about
culture... They care about short-term
gains. They would destroy the planet
in order to be able to have the life
they want. I feel very angry..”
WHO IS THIS AUTHOR?
E
10. This is the original cartoon of “The _________” that
led to the coining of the term after the name of
Elbridge _____.
The district depicted in this Boston Gazette (1812)
cartoon favors incumbent Democratic-Republican
candidate Elbridge, over the Federalists in 1812.
Elbridge became the 5th Vice President of USA (1813–
1814), serving under President James Madison.
It is a process by which electoral districts are drawn
with the aim of aiding the party in power.
WHICH POLITICAL TERM?
G
11.
12. Established in 1914 on 877 Florida
Street, it is the only overseas
branch of ____H____.
Controversial takeovers, lingering
debts resulted in a historic closure
in 1998.
The interior was partially restored
& reopened in 2003 to host
periodic art festivals, & notable
events like the 10th (2008) &
11th (2009) ____Y____ Tango
Festival.
NAME THE ESTABLISHMENT X
H
13.
14. Bento is a Japanese packed meal that holds
different varieties of traditional Japanese food
in a box shaped container.
The “simple, practical & place for everything”
concept of this Bento box served as the
inspiration for a famous technology company
to design its flagship product in 1992.
ID THE COMPANY & THE PRODUCT
I
17. According to one legend, a girl from a nearby village
& a youth fell in love. This was not acceptable to their
families, and 2 the two disappeared into the forest,
never to be seen. The forest was named after them.
According to another legend, Srimanta Sankardeva ,
the 16th century Vaisnava saint-scholar, once blessed a
childless couple, & asked them to dig a big pond in
the region so that their name would live on. Some
historians believe that the name X was derived from
the local word , which means "the village of ____.
Among locals , ____ is a common name for a girl child.
NAME THE PLACE
K
19. Process : In Japan, X would begin by a 1,000-
day diet of water, seeds and nuts, followed by
a 1,000-day diet of roots, pine bark and a
special tea made from the sap of the Chinese
lacquer tree -- a toxic substance usually used
to lacquer bowls and plates, used by the
monks to repel maggots and bacteria.
WHO/WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?
M
20. After this team had several players test
positive for performance-enhancing drugs
during the 2011 football World Cup, FIFA
banned them from the 2015 FIFA WC in Canada.
This is the first time since 1995 that the
country will not participate in the World Cup.
WHICH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM?
N
21. The jazz fusion of Miles
Davis and political
writings of Noam
Chomsky were the main
influences behind this
album.
Fred Cooper sang one of
the songs in this album.
WHICH ALBUM? WHO’S FRED COOPER?
O
22. WHAT NAMESAKE TERM DID THIS ARRANGEMENT
GIVE RISE TO, IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPORTATION?
P
23. A name that you have
heard somewhere
else, name this
character portrayed by
Olivia Wilde from a
2010 film.
Q
24. This is Derrick Coyle, a person working in the Tower
of London. Despite being an Yeomen warder who
guards the Tower, he has an additional duty which is
considered a supreme importance by the crown due
to superstition they believe in.
He is supposed to take care of Hardey, Cedric,
Gwylum, Munin II, Hugine, Odin and Thor. He is
assigned the duty of feeding them and occasionally
letting them out for the spectators to view.
WHAT IS HIS JOB? WHO ARE THESE?
R
25.
26. LITERALLY ‘SHOT’ INTO FAME MORE
THAN A DECADE BACK
This is the
computerized Pakistani
national identity card
of a person.
Born: Jan 1, 1969
Address: Talab Road,
Nauthia Qadeem,
Mohallah Mast Gul
S
27.
28. Moru O Sangho is a historical tale written by
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay; inspired from and owing
the film’s title to, Buddha’s Fire Sermon.
The story was made into a 1988 film by reputed
screenwriter Nabendu Ghosh, who won the National
Award for Best First Film of a Director that year.
The film, titled The Sand Storm in English, stars Nana
Patekar, Pallavi Joshi and Alok Nath in the lead roles.
WHICH FILM?
T
29. Biographies of sport stars have been an integral part
of sports literature and popular culture for a long
time. A practice that has also been an important part
of India’s sporting culture.
The first biography of a sportsman in India published
in the early 1900’s, was that of the greatest
ambassador that the country has had on the sporting
field, Ranjitsinhji.
Q.Credit: Sarbajit Mitra
WHO, CLOSER TO HOME, AUTHORED THIS
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF RANJI?
U
30. The first actual ________s were known as ________
Specials and were built for the new F1 regulations in
1954 at Cox Green, Maidenhead.
________ became the inaugural winners of the F1
Constructors' Championship in 1958.
Star driver Stirling Moss lost out to Ferrari’s Mike
Hawthorn in the Drivers' Championship by a 1 pt to
finish 2nd, ahead of teammate Tony Brooks in 3rd.
Unfortunately, failure to keep up with regulations led
to the closure of the team from F1 after 1961.
WHICH CAR CONSTRUCTOR?
V
32. __________, meaning “yellow
horse”, was an ancient Athenian
woman whose name has now come
to mean any nagging scolding
person, especially a shrewish wife.
But her husband nevertheless
claimed that he chose her precisely
because of her argumentative
spirit.*
WHO IS THIS MOHILA?
X
33. This was hailed as one of the
best looking jerseys of the 2014
FIFA WC by the Fashion
fraternity.
Apart from the sponsor logos,
printed on the back underneath
the collar is “пoеxали!”, native
for “Off we go!”
WHAT IS THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
THOSE WORDS?
Y
34.
35. She was the Slavic goddess of life and
fertility. She was worshipped throughout
what is now Poland, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, and Germany (especially the Elbe
river valley), before Christianity expanded
into the area.
Her name means "living, being, existing". She
is mentioned in the Baptism on the Savica, an
epic poem by the Slovene national poet
France Prešeren.
Her name has been in the news since Feb
what with a certain gentleman not being able
to go home and meet his family.
WHO? OR, WHY HAS HER NAME HAS BEEN
IN THE NEWS SINCE FEB?
Z
43. A type of exercise equipment to develop strength,
their Indian origins have been questioned. They were
said to have travelled from Persia, via India, to Britain ,
where they were popular during the health craze of the
Victorian era.
As sports became much more organized and the
military modernized, their use in fitness waned but they
inspired designs for objects in an entertainment
context, mainly certain circus acts.
WHAT OBJECT (ORIGINAL)?
WHAT DID THEY INSPIRE?
C
45. __________ is a line of transportation that ran through the
French Quarter down to its namesake street in the Bywater
district, functioning for a period of 28 years, after which the
line was converted to buses in 1948.
Various proposals to revive ______ have been discussed in
recent years, but the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
has no current plans to rebuild.
According to Jed Horne, the name of the street is a misspelled
homage to ________ Clary, a fiancé of Napoleon.
Give me ______ and why is it very popular among movie and
book aficionados.
NAME THE MODE OF TRANSPORT
D
47. The youngest author ever to win
the Booker Prize at the age of 28.
At JLF, when asked about
governments in Canada, Australia &
NZ, she said:
“neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, very
shallow, very money-hungry
politicians who do not care about
culture... They care about short-term
gains. They would destroy the planet
in order to be able to have the life
they want. I feel very angry..”
WHO IS THIS AUTHOR?
E
51. This is the original cartoon of “The _________” that
led to the coining of the term after the name of
Elbridge _____.
The district depicted in this Boston Gazette (1812)
cartoon favors incumbent Democratic-Republican
candidate Elbridge, over the Federalists in 1812.
Elbridge became the 5th Vice President of USA (1813–
1814), serving under President James Madison.
It is a process by which electoral districts are drawn
with the aim of aiding the party in power.
WHICH POLITICAL TERM?
G
54. Established in 1914 on 877 Florida
Street, it is the only overseas
branch of ____H____.
Controversial takeovers, lingering
debts resulted in a historic closure
in 1998.
The interior was partially restored
& reopened in 2003 to host
periodic art festivals, & notable
events like the 10th (2008) &
11th (2009) ____Y____ Tango
Festival.
NAME THE ESTABLISHMENT X
H
57. Bento is a Japanese packed meal that holds
different varieties of traditional Japanese food
in a box shaped container.
The “simple, practical & place for everything”
concept of this Bento box served as the
inspiration for a famous technology company
to design its flagship product in 1992.
ID THE COMPANY & THE PRODUCT
I
62. According to one legend, a girl from a nearby village
& a youth fell in love. This was not acceptable to their
families, and 2 the two disappeared into the forest,
never to be seen. The forest was named after them.
According to another legend, Srimanta Sankardeva ,
the 16th century Vaisnava saint-scholar, once blessed a
childless couple, & asked them to dig a big pond in
the region so that their name would live on. Some
historians believe that the name X was derived from
the local word , which means "the village of ____.
Among locals , ____ is a common name for a girl child.
NAME THE PLACE
K
66. Process : In Japan, X would begin by a 1,000-
day diet of water, seeds and nuts, followed by
a 1,000-day diet of roots, pine bark and a
special tea made from the sap of the Chinese
lacquer tree -- a toxic substance usually used
to lacquer bowls and plates, used by the
monks to repel maggots and bacteria.
WHO/WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?
M
68. After this team had several players test
positive for performance-enhancing drugs
during the 2011 football World Cup, FIFA
banned them from the 2015 FIFA WC in Canada.
This is the first time since 1995 that the
country will not participate in the World Cup.
WHICH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM?
N
70. The jazz fusion of Miles Davis
and political writings of Noam
Chomsky were the main
influences behind this album.
Fred Cooper sang one of the
songs in this album.
WHICH ALBUM? WHO’S FRED COOPER?
O
71. OK COMPUTER
HE IS A SYNTHESIZED VOICE OF THE
MACINTOSH SIMPLETEXT APP
72. WHAT NAMESAKE TERM DID THIS ARRANGEMENT
GIVE RISE TO, IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPORTATION?
P
76. This is Derrick Coyle, a person working in the Tower
of London. Despite being an Yeomen warder who
guards the Tower, he has an additional duty which is
considered a supreme importance by the crown due
to superstition they believe in.
He is supposed to take care of Hardey, Cedric,
Gwylum, Munin II, Hugine, Odin and Thor. He is
assigned the duty of feeding them and occasionally
letting them out for the spectators to view.
WHAT IS HIS JOB? WHO ARE THESE?
R
77.
78. If the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown
will fall and Britain with it.
THE RAVEN MASTER
79. LITERALLY ‘SHOT’ INTO FAME MORE
THAN A DECADE BACK
This is the
computerized Pakistani
national identity card
of a person.
Born: Jan 1, 1969
Address: Talab Road,
Nauthia Qadeem,
Mohallah Mast Gul
S
82. Moru O Sangho is a historical tale written by
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay; inspired from and owing
the film’s title to, Buddha’s Fire Sermon.
The story was made into a 1988 film by reputed
screenwriter Nabendu Ghosh, who won the National
Award for Best First Film of a Director that year.
The film, titled The Sand Storm in English, stars Nana
Patekar, Pallavi Joshi and Alok Nath in the lead roles.
WHICH FILM?
T
84. Biographies of sport stars have been an integral part
of sports literature and popular culture for a long
time. A practice that has also been an important part
of India’s sporting culture.
The first biography of a sportsman in India published
in the early 1900’s, was that of the greatest
ambassador that the country has had on the sporting
field, Ranjitsinhji.
Q.Credit: Sarbajit Mitra
WHO, CLOSER TO HOME, AUTHORED THIS
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF RANJI?
U
86. The first actual ________s were known as ________
Specials and were built for the new F1 regulations in
1954 at Cox Green, Maidenhead.
________ became the inaugural winners of the F1
Constructors' Championship in 1958.
Star driver Stirling Moss lost out to Ferrari’s Mike
Hawthorn in the Drivers' Championship by a 1 pt to
finish 2nd, ahead of teammate Tony Brooks in 3rd.
Unfortunately, failure to keep up with regulations led
to the closure of the team from F1 after 1961.
WHICH CAR CONSTRUCTOR?
V
90. __________, meaning “yellow
horse”, was an ancient Athenian
woman whose name has now come
to mean any nagging scolding
person, especially a shrewish wife.
But her husband nevertheless
claimed that he chose her precisely
because of her argumentative
spirit.*
WHO IS THIS MOHILA?
X
92. This was hailed as one of the
best looking jerseys of the 2014
FIFA WC by the Fashion
fraternity.
Apart from the sponsor logos,
printed on the back underneath
the collar is “пoеxали!”, native
for “Off we go!”.
WHAT IS THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
THOSE WORDS?
Y
93.
94. What Yuri Gagarin said during the historic
launch of the Vostok spacecraft in 1961.
YURI GAGARIN
95. She was the Slavic goddess of life and
fertility. She was worshipped throughout
what is now Poland, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, and Germany (especially the Elbe
river valley), before Christianity expanded
into the area.
Her name means "living, being, existing". She
is mentioned in the Baptism on the Savica, an
epic poem by the Slovene national poet
France Prešeren.
Her name has been in the news since Feb
what with a certain gentleman not being able
to go home and meet his family.
WHO? OR, WHY HAS HER NAME HAS BEEN
IN THE NEWS SINCE FEB?
Z
