DAME IT! [QRIOSITY 2019]

DAME IT! - PRELIMS
OPEN QUIZ ON WOMEN
by
SREYASHI DASTIDAR
REESOOM PAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tirthankar Nag
Tapas Kumar Nag
Sayantan Bose (Puplu da)
Sumantra Sarathi Datta (Central da)
Prithwish Datta (Boss)
Kunal Mandal
Siddhartha Roy
Titash Banerjea
Shabbir Haider
Bedbyas Datta
Arindam Dottoh
Debanjan Bose
Raktim Kumar Nag
Sarbajit Mitra
Siddhant Agarwal
Krishnadev Roy
Anik Dasgupta
Pratyoy Das
Saswata Acharya
Balagopal S. Menon

FORMAT
• 20 questions.
•24 points total.
• Multiples of 5 are starred
•Questions 5, 10, 13 and 20 are 2 pointers.

Give the role/ title
01
• If the youngest person to be appointed in this role is Ellen
MacArthur (in 2005) at the age of 28, and the oldest Olivia
de Havilland in 2017, two weeks before her 101st birthday,
then what role/ title are we referring to?
DAME IT! SREYASHI 8th September, 2019

Dame, or any of the following:
01 Answer
Dame Commander, Dame Grand Cross of
the Order of Saint John, Equestrian Order
of the Holy Sepulchre, Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, the Royal Victorian Order,
or the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire.

Name the work
02
• Villa Diodati is a mansion by Lake Geneva,
where, in the summer of 1816, inclement
weather forced a bunch of writers to
spend three days together. To while away
their time, the group decided to spin
stories of horror and the supernatural and
keep each other entertained.
• If one of these stories went on to give
birth to the earliest vampire fiction, John
Polidori’s The Vampyre, what was the
other famous work that came out of this
stay in Villa Diodati?

02 Answer

Name the lady or the periodical
03
• In 2018, she became the first woman to be featured on the
cover of a periodical that had so far featured only men.

03 Answer

Connect the company to the world
of entertainment
04
• •The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E),
headquartered in San Francisco, provides natural gas and
electricity to the northern two-thirds of California, which
represents 5.2 million households.
• •From 1952 to 1966, PG&E dumped "roughly 370 million
gallons of wastewater" into unlined wastewater-spreading
ponds around the town of Hinkley.
• •Nearly two decades later, this led to them paying the
largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in US
history. DAME IT! SREYASHI 8th September, 2019

04 Answer

Which product and brand?
05
• In 2018, a famous brand launched the “Inspiring Women” line of
what is arguably its most famous product, to “close the Dream
Gap”, or the idea that girls are less likely than boys to remain
confident and view their gender as smart and competent. The
Dream Gap project is a global initiative to raise awareness
around limiting factors that prevent girls from reaching their full
potential.
• The latest in the series, Rosa Parks, was introduced just two
weeks back.
• Which product that gets the goat of feminists everywhere, and
what’s the brand?
DAME IT! REESOOM 8th September, 2019

Barbie; Mattel
05 Answer

Name the sportsperson
• Who (along with three of her teammates) recently launched a brand
of clothing that, to quote the brand articulation, is about “their
philosophy as players and people who embrace inclusivity and
gender-neutral design”?
06

Megan Rapinoe
06 Answer

Name the poet/ author
• Khushwant Singh, not the most likeable of men, is supposed to have
once told this poet/ author that the story of her life would barely fill
the back of a revenue stamp.
• When she did get around to writing her autobiography, she took a
dig at Singh by naming it ‘Revenue Stamp’ (in the vernacular
language she wrote in).
07

Amrita Pritam
07 Answer

In what way did she become a first?
• Seventeen-year-old Billie Eilish’s “Bad
Guy” unseated Lil Nas X’s “Old Town
Road” last month (August, 2019) to
reach the top of the US Billboard charts.
• How did this event create history of
sorts?
08

Billie Eilish became the first artist born in the
2000s to have a No.1 single on the Billboard
chart.
08 Answer

Name the daughter
• X is a former professional volleyball player
and an employee of Indian Railways. He
was a member of the India men's national
volleyball team that won a bronze medal in
the 1986 Asian Games. He was awarded
the Arjuna Award in 2000 for his
contribution to Indian volleyball.
• It is only after his daughter’s successes that
people are looking up X on Google (like I
did). Name the daughter.
09

09 Answer

Who on whom?
• This clip was released by the National Sound Library of Mexico in June this year,
and they believe it to be the first known voice recording of X, taken from a radio
show which aired after her death in 1954.
• Here’s a bit of what you hear, in English:
• “With an Asiatic head from which dark hair grows, so thin and fine that it appears to
float in the air, […] is an overgrown boy, huge, with a friendly face and a slightly sad
gaze. His bulging, dark, hugely intelligent, large eyes find it hard to stop moving—
almost out of orbit—with their swollen, protruding, toad-like eyelids, which are set
very far apart, more than others' eyes. Because of them, his gaze encompasses a much
wider field of vision, as though they were built especially for a painter of spaces and
crowds. Between those eyes, so far apart from one another, one perceives an invisible
oriental wisdom, and very rarely does the ironic and tender smile, flower of his image,
disappear from his Buddhic mouth, from his fleshy lips.”
10

10 Answer
Frida Kahlo on her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera

Which entertainer is the owner?
11
X is the owner of Haus Laboratories which is the first major
brand of it’s kind to be released on Amazon. When asked
about why she chose Amazon she said,"Just like with my
music, I wanted everyone to have access to it."

Lady Gaga
11 Answer

Age range for which epithet?
12

Bond Girls/ Women12 Answer

Identify X and her most famous
creation Y.
13
X spent a lot of time in the village
of Maienfeld, which inspired her
most famous character Y, the work
was published in two volumes in
1880-81, and in 1997 a themed
village was set up near Maienfeld
to honour Y, named Ydorf. Y means
‘of noble birth’ and dorf being the
German word for village.

Johanna Spyri and Heidi
13 Answer

What are these biscuits that is an integral
part of a popular dessert known as?
14

Ladyfingers
14 Answer

Who are these women or what
incident resulted in war?
15
The festival of Consualia serves as a backdrop to the X, which
instead of the alliance the founder was seeking led to war
between two neighbouring states. This 1799 painting by
Jacques-Louis David (bigger picture next slide) depicts the war
resulting from the incident X.

15

The Sabine Women, their abduction or rape.
15 Answer

Terry Pratchett on which infamous
mum in literature?
16

Grendel’s Mother
16 Answer

Which Youtuber is slated to take
over his slot?
17
Carson Daly(left) announced his retirement from his daily gig
Last call with Carson Daly and the picture on the right depicts
her announcement and her being welcomed to the ABC family
by the two hosts who will preceed her show.

Lilly Singh/ Superwoman
17 Answer

Why were they in the spotlight or what
were they the first to do?
18
Muthyya Vanita and Ritu Karidhal
shot to fame on 22nd July, 2019 for
what, which incidentally was a
landmark first for India.

First ISRO mission to be spearheaded by
women, Chandrayaan 2.
18 Answer

Whose political history:
19
1992- New Delhi by-election: Lost
1996- Mirzapur: Won
1998- Mirzapur: Lost
1999-2001- Mirzapur: Won

Phoolan Devi
19 Answer

What is X and who is Y?
20
X is a product of the ‘big hair’ era and was developed in 1960 by
Margaret Vinci Heldt of Elmhurst, Illinois, who had been asked by
the editors of Modern Beauty Salon magazine to design a new
hairstyle that would reflect the coming decade. The X became an
iconic style and remains an enduring symbol of 1960s kitsch and
was also known as the B-52 .
Y is inarguably one of the most iconic wearers of a X, Y had waist-
length brown hair, but she got the idea to put it in a X at her
senior prom. Apparently, she liked the look enough to make it her
thing for decades to come and even uses, as revealed by her
husband, blue dye no. 56, stating "She’s been gray as a mule since
she was seventeen."

Beehive, Marge Simpson
20 Answer

DAME IT! - FINALS
OPEN QUIZ ON WOMEN
by
SREYASHI DASTIDAR
REESOOM PAL

RULES & REGULATIONS
• Pounce and Rolling Bounce rules apply.
• No mobile phones.

FORMAT
• 19 questions each.
• 2 written rounds of 5 questions each.

Written Round
• 5 questions
• 1 overall connect
• No negatives
• 5 for each correct answer
• 5 for the overall connect
• Maximum of 30 to be scored

ID the style of furniture.
W1

Queen Anne furniture
W1 Answer

ID the country.
W2

St. Lucia, the only country
named after a woman.
W2 Answer

ID the dessert.
W3

Peach Melba, named after
soprano Nellie Melba
W3 Answer

ID the dessert, again.
W4

Ledikeni, supposedly named
after Lady Canning.
W4 Answer

ID the bag from
Hermés.
W5

Birkin, after the British
actress Jane Birkin.
W5 Answer

Clockwise Round
• 19 questions
• Regular pounce and bounce

Name the entertainer and her
target group
01
• This contemporary entertainer
encourages a particular group of
people to adopt pet rocks instead of
producing children. This person has in
fact started making them (pet rocks,
that is) to be sold as signed
merchandize and is offering the money
to charities supporting people with
autism and people of marginalized
genders.

Hannah Gadsby; Anti-
vaxxers
01 Answer

What are they known as?
02
• These glamorous women have in the past performed 'demanding'
tasks like holding umbrellas and carrying name cards. But no longer.
While many feel the decision to no longer use them comes in the
wake of the #metoo campaign and possibilities of sexual
impropriety, one of the top bosses explained that “this custom does
not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with
modern day social norms”.
• What unflattering name do we know these women by?

02 Answer
Grid Girls of F1 racing

Give X and Y
03
• A Caravan profile of X describes her thus:
• X cultivates an image of herself in the mould of Y.
As women in positions of power, both count as pioneers in societies
and media industries dominated by men, and both had to struggle
hard to establish themselves. Y was a stellar networker, on close
terms with much of the political elite of the United States in her day.
X, similarly skilled, is deeply embedded in the parallel constituency in
present-day India.

03 Answer
X – Shobhana
Bharatiya
Y – Catherine
Graham

Author of the original and title of the
inspired work
04
• Artist and filmmaker Afrah Shafiq has
created a multimedia work that documents
the lives of Indian women who challenged
societal conventions.
• Shafiq was inspired by a pioneering 1905
work of feminist fiction that inverts gender
roles and imagines a utopia for women.
• In fact, the title of Shafiq’s work just
replaces the second word of the two-word
title of the inspiration with its antonym.

Sultana’s Reality; Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
04 Answer

Why we oppose _______?
• Poet and author Alice Duer Miller wrote
several tracts for the suffragette
movement in the US. This satirical piece
is one of them.
• This was part of her 1915 book, ‘Are
Women People?’, and lists a set of five
reasons for opposing something.
05

05 Answer

What did Zelda create?
• Zelda Wynn Valdes was a major design talent of
the 1940s, best known for her skill in highlighting
the female body. Her curve-hugging creations were
worn and loved by a host of Hollywood's biggest
stars, including Joyce Bryant, Dorothy Dandridge,
Josephine Baker, Ella Fitzgerald and Mae West.
• The Pennsylvania-native's key role in glamorizing
these women caught the attention of a famous
man and he commissioned Zelda to design a
certain line of costumes. And history has proven,
the low-cut, skin-tight, outfits are an iconic mark of
allurement, forever ingrained in pop culture.
06

The Playboy bunny costume
06 Answer

Who or what was Looty?
• In the 1860s, in a classic clash of the East and the West, one royal
family’s property was looted and plundered and the most precious
items presented to another royal family. One of them was in fact
given the name, Looty (zero sense of irony?).
• Looty was the first of its kind to be introduced to the Western world,
and soon became wildly popular, an object of desire and a symbol of
class. So much so that Agatha Christie’s ‘The Nemean Lion’ (from ‘The
Labours of Hercules’) revolved around the abduction of one of Looty’s
descendants. When the story was first published in the US, it was, in
fact, called ‘The Case of the Kidnapped ________’.
07

07 Answer
A Pekingese, or Pekinese

What was Trump referring to?
• In April 2017, when Donald Trump creatively expanded an acronym
(the acronym might remind you of a Biblical place or a memoir of
Stephen Fry), several commentators called out the sexism in it.
• But this was hardly surprising, because members of the larger family
of what Trump was describing has historically gone by feminine
nicknames, such as Betty, Mimi, and Bertha, though they’re
associated with something that sees very little ‘active’ participation
from women.
08

MOAB = Mother of All Bombs, or more correctly,
Massive Ordnance Air Blast
08 Answer

What’s the term coined by Mulvey?
• This term could be called a ‘gendered’ combination of scopophilia
and scoptophilia, and draws from a concept in Jean-Paul Sartre’s
‘Being and Nothingness’.
• It was coined by film critic Laura Mulvey, who talked about three
perspectives – a) From behind the camera, b) from the cinematic
representations within the film, and c) from the spectator.
• If ‘Rear Window’ is an example used by Mulvey to illustrate the term,
‘Rebecca’ and modern chick-flicks could be used as examples of an
opposing term.
09

09 Answer
The male gaze

What index? What’s the company?
• This ________ index is a term coined by Leonard L during the
recession of the early 2000s to describe how the noticeable
increase in sales of a particular product or product group
traditionally associated with women can in fact be taken as an
indicator of an oncoming economic slowdown.
• A recent report confirmed that this index holds true for India, as
companies in this industry, including e-commerce players, have posted
double-digit growth in the last quarter, while other industries have been
huffing and puffing.
• Leonard L is the chairman of the board of Manhattan-based _____
______, one of the most famous international brands in the industry.
10

10 Answer
The lipstick index; Estee Lauder

What are these men associated with?
• These men have earned the displeasure of feminists in recent times,
though history doesn’t remember them for being inimical to women.
• Ernest G (German-American, 20th century)
• Gabriele F (Italian, 16th century)
• Caspar B the Younger (Danish, 17th century)
• Regnier de G (Danish, 17th century)
• James D (Scottish, 18th century)
• Hermann Treschow G (Danish, 18th-19th centuries)
• William Fetherstone M (Irish, 19th century)
• Giovanni Battista M (Italian, 18th century)
11

These are doctors/ anatomists after whom
women’s anatomical parts have been named.
Ernest Grafenberg – The G-Spot
Gabriele Fallopio – The Fallopian Tubes
Caspar Bartholin the Younger – Bartholin's Glands
Regnier de Graaf – The Graafian Follicles
James Douglas – The Pouch of Douglas
Hermann Treschow Gartner – Gartner’s Ducts
William Fetherstone Montgomery – Glands of Montgomery
Giovanni Battista Morgani – Hydati of Morgani
11 Answer

What’s the name?
• The origin of the name has a few variant theories. But all of them
agree that it was named after Maria Anne _____, daughter of
transplanted convicts and a farm owner, who accidentally grew a
hybrid variety.
• Opinions differ on whether it was her work as a midwife or the large
biological family she created that got acknowledged in the name of
the product that her farm became famous for.
12

Granny Smith apples
12 Answer

What is this a list of and who is X? And why
do some people think X’s number should
have been 10?
Tom Cruise………………………… 0
Matt Damon……………………… 0
Will Smith…………………………. 0
Brad Pitt……………………………. 1
Robert Downey Jr……………… 1
Hugh Jackman…………………… 1
Jim Carrey…………………………. 1
X………………………………………. 13
13

List of Hollywood’s A-list heroes against the number of
women directors they have worked with.
X – Keanu Reeves
The number 13 includes his three Matrix movies with the
Wachowski sisters. But they hadn’t transitioned when
the third Matrix movie came out.
13 Answer

What was Ching Shih’s ‘profession’?
• At the peak of her career, Ching Shih commanded over 300 ‘junks’
and anything between 20,000 and 40,000 men, women and children.
She took on the British and Portuguese empires as well as the Qing
dynasty back home. She is considered the most successful ______ in
history.
• Given that she gave the state administration enough trouble, it is a
minor wonder that she bought her peace well and even served as an
advisor in battling the British Army during the First Opium War.
• Ching Shih’s story has been told by Jorge Luis Borges and popularized
in the West by a 2007 film (part of a franchise) where she was played
by Takayo Fischer.
14

Pirate
14 Answer

Name A and B, and X/Y.
• Prize A is named after a Canadian and was instituted in 1936, to be
awarded every four years. In 2014, X became the first woman to win
A.
• Prize B is named after a Norwegian and was instituted in 2001, to be
awarded annually. This year (2019), Y became the first woman to
win B.
• Both A and B are considered substitutes for the most famous global
award in the sciences.
15

A – Fields Medal
X – Maryam Mirzakhani
15 Answer
A – Abel Prize
X – Karen Uhlenbeck

Name the film and the writer
• Having trained in and worked as a costume designer in theatre
primarily, Shama Zaidi’s first venture into screenplay writing was
in the 1970s, for a film her husband was directing. It went on to
become one of the ushers of the new wave in Hindi cinema.
• The story for the film was a yet-unpublished one by a writer
whom Zaidi knew through her association with IPTA and the
Progressive Writers' Association. It remains the writer’s only
story to be adapted for screen, though several of them have been
adapted for stage, television, etc.
16

16 Answer

What was the reason given by
NASA?
• The first all-women spacewalk was supposed to happen on
March 29, 2019. Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain
were scheduled to stroll into the vacuum of space to change the
batteries for some of the International Space Station’s solar
panels.
• But NASA had to replace McClain with Nick Hague three days
ahead of the event.
17

Unavailability of correct sized spacesuit for
McClain’s smaller frame.
17 Answer

Name the two athletes and the
issue
• ‘Too fast to be a Woman’ is a documentary on an Olympics and World
Championships gold medallist, but the real subject is a controversial IAAF
rule.
• A landmark ruling in the case of an Indian athlete led to the suspension of
the IAAF ruling in July 2015, only to be brought back in 2018.
18

Caster Semenya; Dutee Chand
Hyperandrogenism, or high natural levels of
testosterone in women.
The current IAAF rule makes it mandatory for such athletes to take
medication for lowering their natural testosterone levels to be
eligible for IAAF affiliated competitions
18 Answer

Identify X and Y
• Foundation for Reproductive Health Services India was formerly
_____ ______ (X) India, X being a person who set up the first birth
control clinic in Britain. X was once a byword for birth control in
India.
• Her work in reproductive health has overshadowed her very
significant contributions in the fields of botany and palaeontology,
just as Y’s success as a children’s author, and an unhealthy dose
academic patriarchy, almost nearly erased her pioneering work in
mycology (study of fungi).
• X and Y were contemporaries, having grown up and worked in
Victorian and early 20th century England.
19

Marie Stopes
19 Answer
Beatrix Potter

Written Round 2
• 5 questions
• 1 overall connect
• No negatives
• 5 for each correct answer
• 5 for the overall connect
• Maximum of 30 to be scored

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat, Parvatiben Ramdas Thodani,
Ujamben Narandas Kundalia, Banuben. N. Tanna, Laguben
Amritlar Gokani, Jayaben V. Vithalani, and Chutadben Amisha
Gawade founded what out of Lohana Niwas in 1959?
W1

Lijjat Papad
W1 Answer

What are they called?
W2
Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa together form X. The group debuted on
August 8, 2016, and this year became the first female group of their
genre to perform at Coachella.

Black Pink
W2 Answer

What is X and whom were they
assigned to?
W3
The al-rāhibāt al-thawriyyāt or ‘The Revolutionary Nuns’ are an elite
combat unit, popularly known by the Western media as X, they were
created in the 1980s to serve Y and were disbanded in 2011.

The Amazonian Guard;
Muammar Gaddafi
W3 Answer

What is the profession of the Ama?
W4
The Ama begin training as early as 12 and 13 years old and are taught
by an elder ama. Despite their early start, they are known to be
active well into their 70s and are rumored to live longer due to their
training and disciplines. Women were considered to be superior for
the job due to their distribution of body fat. Their current claim to
fame is because of Mr. Mikimoto, before him what they are
synonymous with was just an extra bonus to their usual activity. He
cemented their lore and employed them for his pioneering venture
because of their expertise.

Free divers who are
specialized in
collecting pearls. Mr.
Mikimoto was the
first to start pearl
culture.
W4 Answer

Who is this enduring figure X and what
were Ys and what profession did she help
out?
W5
X began conducting Ys, the first was held on
held on March 6, 1933, and the last on April
12, 1945, there were 348 in all, X was of the
opinion that it gave women job security in a
certain profession and it did ensure
longevity for many of the attendees. Though
her role as a feminist is often debated as
she only endorsed women’s suffrage after
her husband did, by her own admittance
she became more of a feminist than she had
ever imagined. (Bigger picture next slide)

W5

Eleanor Roosevelt. Female only
press conferences to promote
women in journalism.
W5 Answer

Anticlockwise Round
• 19 questions
• Regular pounce and bounce

Identify the textile X.
20
The origin of the X lies in the trade with China.
When the members of the _____ community
began trading in the Far East they came across
motifs that held symbolic significance for them
like birds, so they began bringing the pieces
back for the women. When the women started
travelling they redesigned it to be more
practical for them. Thus evolved the
characteristic look of the X.

Parsi Gara
20 Answer

What are either of her names?
21
X, was created to appeal to young girls just as her twin
brother was for the boys. X, was kidnapped as a child by the
Evil Horde, whom she served as a Captain. She exhibits a lot
of the same characteristics as her brother like above
average physical abilities and numerous supernatural
abilities. She has super-human strength, enhanced speed,
reflexes, near-invulnerability, and is also a healer and
telepath. Adam’s nemesis once remarked,
"A female ______!!! This is the worst day of my life!"
In 2018 Netflix released a reboot of the series with her as
the central character.

She-Ra/Princess Adora
21 Answer
"A female He-Man!!! This is the worst day of my
life!"
—Skeletor

Who are X and Y and what creation are
we talking about?
22
X was a close friend and muse of Y, Y’s creation for X became iconic
and cemented both X and Y’s already iconic status. Though in reality
it was Edith Head’s work that made the final cut because Y’s original
creation had a slit that showed too much leg for the character,
according to the director. In 2006 Natalie Portman wore one of the
originals for a Harper’s Bazaar cover and later that year it was put up
for auction by Dominique Lapierre and fetched a price of £467,200
and was used to fund a school for the poor in Calcutta.

Audrey Hepburn, Hubert de Givenchy,
Breakfast at Tiffany's Black Dress.
22 Answer

Recipe for what enterprising
idea that started as a humble
project in 1912 in Muskogee,
Oklahoma?
23

Girl Scout Cookies
23 Answer

Identify this popular destination X.
24
X , officially known as Thira, is named after it’s patron
saint, Great Martyr Irene. The Venetians named it
after her because of the Early Christian Church, that
is the now a ruined middle-Byzantine (8th-9th
century) two-aisled church. In 1992, while
underpinning the church, the ruins of a three-aisled
basilica of the 5th century AD dedicated to her was
discovered under the church. The ruins of the eastern
aisle had been used to build the middle-Byzantine
church. The floor of the basilica is now two meters
below the ground.

Santorini
24 Answer

Identify this Brit and what
recently concluded
championship did she
win?
25

Jamie Chadwick, won the inaugural
Formula W.
25 Answer

Identify X or whom were they built for.
26
The Xs are identifiable by their distinct open
air circular shapes and one of the theories
behind the mysterious architecture pointed
out by V.W. Karambelkar, is that the circular
shape and absence of roof of ______ temples
has also a justification in ancient legends
about the ______ themselves. It was believed
that these deities used to roam around in a
group in the air, and when they descend, they
always settled in a circular form.

Chausath Yogini Temples
26 Answer

What movement and what does the
headline say?
27
Fanny Bullock Workman was an American
geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer,
and mountaineer. She was the first woman to
speak at the Sorbonne and the second to address
the Royal Geographical Society. She was also
dedicated to a particular cause. In this iconic
image, on her last climb in the Himalayas, she is
standing on the Siachen glacier at 21,000 feet in
the Himalayas in 1912 with a newspaper bearing
the headline X, the war cry of the movement.

Women’s suffrage;
Votes for Women.
27 Answer

What is X?
28
X is named after the famous opera soprano
Luisa X. It is an American dish that is often
mistaken as Italian.It is widely believed to
have been invented by Ernest Arbogast, the
chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco,
California, where X was a long-time resident.
X is essentially a casserole with a layer of
spaghetti covered with creamed chicken and
mushrooms and topped with a generous
sprinkle of Parmesan cheese but the
ingredients are hugely varied as there is no
standard recipe.

Tetrazzini
28 Answer

What is the entity and animal?
29
•X land is named after the wife of explorer Jules
Dumont d'Urville, and is located next to Clair
Coast, also discovered by him. They also issued
a stamp to commemorate this territory in her
name.
•The Xs (Pygoscelis _______) are named after X
land as they were first discovered there and are
one of the true inhabitants of the harsh terrain.

Adélie Land, Adélie Penguins
29 Answer

Who is this accomplished lady?
30
X received the Nobel prize in 1935. She earned
her bachelor degree in 1916 at just 17, as
WWI broke out. She served as a nurse
alongside her mother and drove ambulances.
She met her partner in the lab and
collaborated on the research that earned the
Nobel. She was an atheist and anti- war
activist and was part of the World Peace
Council. She died due to leukemia in 1956 at
the age of 58.

Irène Joliot-Curie
30 Answer

What aromatic plant was X transformed
into, who is X?
31
X, was a Naiad of the River Cocytus, and
chanced upon Hades, and became lovers, but
when Persephone discovered their affair and
X’s claim that she was more beautiful than her,
it sent her into a rage and she stamped X to
death, but X was transformed into an aromatic
plant so the more she crushed her the more the
aroma was released. X became associated with
the worship of Hades as the plant was used to
mask unpleasant smells.

X- Mintho/Mentha/ Minthe/ Mentha
Mint
31 Answer

Which legendary New Orleans native and
what moniker did she go by?
32
Angela Bassett portrays the role of X, a
real life character, in American Horror
Story- Coven and Apocalypse. The show
even manages to portray her as a salon
owner as the real X was.

Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen
32 Answer

What is X and Y, who painted them respectively?
33
• X was inspired from Y and the painter of X sought to
invert the marital message of Y(picture below) by
depicting a prostitute rejecting a bunch of flowers from
her black servant, sent by a client, this scandalized the
Salon and was severely criticised.
• Emile Zola remarked, “When our artists give us
_______, they correct nature, they lie. ________ _____
asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he
introduced us to X, this fille of our time, whom you
meet on the sidewalks.” X is a term for prostitutes in
1860s Paris, and Victorine Meurent (who later became
an accomplished painter) posed for the painting.

Olympia by Edouard Manet,
Venus of Urbino by Titian
33 Answer

Identify the ballet and the creature.
34
• X, a ballet-fantastique, is based around
the principal character of the broken
hearted X, whose name is derived from
the Germanic ‘bright pledge’, she falls
in with the Wilis, who are ghostly spirits
of girls who have died before their
wedding day and thus exact their
revenge on any man they encounter,
regardless of who he may be, forcing
their victims to dance until they die of
exhaustion. X saves Albrecht, the cause
of her demise and is broken from the
curse of being a Wili and can rest in
peace. (Picture of ballet next slide.)
● The Wilis are also known as Y, native to
Bulgaria, they were the mascots of one of
the finalists in 1994 Quidditch World Cup.
Their looks and especially their dance is
hypnotically seductive to almost all male
beings, which causes them to perform
foolhardy and impulsive actions to get
closer to, and to receive admiration from
the Y.

34

Giselle; Veela or Vila
34 Answer

What is it’s title and uniqueness?
35
X is a 1939 American comedy-drama film
directed by George Cukor. It showcases the
interconnected lives of the characters
and satirized their pampered, privileged
lives and the malignant effects of gossip.

The Women, there are no
male actors in the movie.
35 Answer

Who connects this non-exhaustive list of works.
What is the most iconic work not on the list?
36
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
• The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
• The Inkheart Trilogy
• The Castle
• Austerlitz
• The Pianist

Anthea Bell
36 Answer

Identify X and the company Y?
37
X has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Brown
University. After graduation, she worked as a
researcher at the Information School at UC
Berkeley, focusing on how to optimize search
engines and recommended systems and started her
own user-experience consultancy — clients
included eBay, iFilm, AAA and Blue Shield which
morphed into the entity Y in 2006 and was acquired
by Linkedin in 2012. X has said Y sprung from the
idea that ,as with video, where early entrepreneurs
recognized that asynchronous sharing on the web
could work’ and others could build on it.

Rashmi Sinha, Slideshare
37 Answer

Who is X and his friend Y?
38
X met Y in 1973 at a party, before a career
defining moment for Y and instantly struck up
a friendship. In 1975 X released a single that
topped out at No. 1 and was his 4th chart
topper and his 2nd single. Philadelphia
Freedom was created to honour his friend Y, a
member of the Philadelphia Freedoms that
are a professional tennis team coached by Y.

Elton John, Billie Jean King
38 Answer

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