Tolstoy's Letter Sparks Correspondence With Indian Nationalist

1
In 1908, Indian revolutionary Taraknath Das wrote to Leo
Tolstoy asking for the his support in India’s independence
from British colonial rule. Tolstoy was moved to reply in a long
letter, which Das published in the Indian newspaper Free
Hindustan. Passed from hand to hand, the letter reached to
another Indian who wrote to Tolstoy asking for permission to
republish it in his own newspaper. This sparked a
correspondence between the two that lasted until Tolstoy’s
death which inﬂuenced many aspects in this Indian’s life. Who
was this Indian? An apt question to start today’s quiz.

2
This is the official logo
of an exposition which
took place in the early
1900s to build up
commercial relations as
well as good
understanding between
which 2 entities?

3*
These are the snapshots from a 2014 Spanish- language version of a
famous show. Which famous show was this a version of?

4
Richard, the eldest son of
an English merchant who
started this company, put
up this specially designed
sign over the door of his
shop in late 1700s. Which
record does this sign hold?

5
Goodnight Moon is an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown.
It is a highly acclaimed bedtime story. Due to its popularity, there have been many
parodies of this book like Goodnight Zoom, Goodnight Trump, etc. Looking at the
picture, give the name of this parody.

6*
Many Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams
have a special court named “________ court” to punish
players for errors and other mistakes, on-ﬁeld as well as off-ﬁeld.
Such court may ignore due process and come to a predetermined
conclusion. The name of the court is often erroneously believed to
have its origin from the courts of an Oceanian nation's penal
colonies. Ostensibly, the term “________ court” comes from
the notion of justice proceeding by “jumping over” (intentionally
ignoring) evidence that would be in favour of the defendant. Fill in
the blank.

7
Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease (vitamin B3) caused by
decreased intake of niacin, tryptophan, or possibly leucine. The skins
of people suffering from this, when exposed to sunlight becomes red,
scaly also leading to Inflammation and edema making the patients
hypersensitive to sunlight. This also lead to Iron deficiency which
made the body very pale making it dead-like.
This disease is a part of a theory to account for the origins of which
myth which has now become a famous genre of literature and pop
culture?

8
This poster was created in 1939 as a part of a series of 3 posters which
were intended to be distributed to strengthen morale in the event of a
wartime disaster, such as mass bombing of major cities using high
explosives and poison gas, which was widely expected within hours of
an outbreak of war.
Although 2.45 million copies were printed, the poster was only rarely
publicly displayed and was little known until a a copy was discovered
in a bookshop in Northumberland in 2000. It has since been re-issued
by a number of private companies, and has been a subject of
innumerable parodies and imitations . Which pacifying poster is this?

9*
Today we know that Scurvy, a terrible ailment, which ravages both
body and mind, was caused by chronic vitamin C deﬁciency, brought
on by lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. But that diagnosis eluded
doctors for centuries and hence it is estimated that millions of people
died due to Scurvy back then.
During the period between 1500 and 1800, it has been estimated that
scurvy killed at least two million people of a particular profession as
the conditions they had to live was the best for scurvy to take its
effect. Which profession?

10
The person in the picture
was a very famous novelist
who recently passed away.
He is well-known as the
author of a 1986 novel
whose award-winning
adaptation was released 8
years later. Which
award-winning
adaptation?

11
In the aftermath of a recent heartbreaking news for cricket fans, an
Apex Council member of the Mumbai Cricket Association(MCA) came
up with the idea of enshrining a stadium seat where a ball landed
during a historic event. The man who occupied the seat on which the
ball landed that night is learnt to have preserved both the ball and the
ticket to the game. The MCA hopes to get the ball for its museum, and
mark the seat in the stadium for posterity. Which historic event are we
talking about or which memorable moment is associated with the ball
that MCA is planning to preserve?

12*
These are some of the scenes from a broadway musical. What was the
name of the musical or which personality is this Academy Award winning
actress portraying?

13
This is a universal symbol of solidarity and support. It is also used as a
salute to express unity, strength, deﬁance, or resistance. The graphic
symbol was popularised in 1948 by a print shop in Mexico that used
art to advance revolutionary social causes. Its use spread through the
United States in the 1960s after an artist produced a simpliﬁed
version. This gesture or symbol got a worldwide recognition in the
late 1960s when it was used in a big sporting event which caused a
major uproar of a community in USA. Which gesture or symbol is this?

14
This book tells about the
author’s time in the city of
bikes, all while unfolding an
unknown history of the city’s
cycling; from the craze in
1890s, through the nazi
occupation, to the bike
centric culture adored by the
world today. Which city is
this book set in?

15*
This animated film is
about an rich old lady who
wills all her fortune to her
feline pets. The title of the
film is a pun which
combines the protagonists
as well as the exceptional
rank and hereditary
nobility they acquired in
the society. Name the film.

16
The Governor of California has recently signed a new law which
makes it a crime for ﬁrst responders to take unauthorized
pictures of a dead person at an accident scene. The measure
was triggered by the aftermath of a big mishap of this year
when 8 local deputies were accused of taking or sharing death
pics for unofficial business. Which saddening mishap or on
which personality is this law nicknamed after?

17
The geographical aspects of 4 locations is given below. Which now
forbidden phenomenon connects these locations?

18*
It was the ﬁrst day of a new year and a group of
Europeans reached a new piece of land. Keeping
the month in mind, they named it X because they
mistakenly thought that the bay they were sailing
into was an enormous river mouth. What is X?

19
During the opening ceremony of the
2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics,
about hundreds of performers made a
beautiful formation of blue and red
center of the South Korean flag. As the
pictures of this moment hit the social
networking sites, plenty of people
took to Twitter to admitting that
South Korea's flag caused them to do a
double take. Many admitted that they
confused the center of the flag with
one of the old logos of a company.
With which company’s logo did many
people confuse the center flag
formation?

20
This ad was placed on the
twitter by SNICKERS on
2014 to mock a
controversial incident
during the then recent
sporting event. Which
incident is being mocked
here?

● 5 Questions on Marketing
Campaigns
● +10 for each correct answer
● No negatives
● +10 bonus for getting all correct

1
The Subaru Ascent is the largest automobile Subaru
manufactures. The seven or eight-seat passenger SUV,
made its debut at the LA Auto Show in 2017. As usual, the
internet folks made it a meme material. One of the users
posted this picture and named it _____-baru parodying
Subaru. FITB

2
A special campaign called
CALM used a sachet of
ketchup to appeal to New
Zealanders to donate money
to help clear X which have
killed almost a 1000 people
in Southern Lebanon since
1975. What is X or what is
this campaign against?

3
Starbucks, infamous for their
name writing skills on cups
re-opened to an extent after
lockdown and produced a nice
social media post, thanking
them for taking a measure while
visiting stores as well as
encouraging others to do the
same. What message were they
trying to convey by this ad?

4
A famous automobile company came up with an all electric
version of 1965 version of their famous car. They gave it a
punny nickname using their company name. What is the
nickname of this electric car?

5
As part of an anti-smoking campaign, Reynolds & Reyner
wanted to draw the link between smoking and death
through a compelling design. By giving the cigarette
packaging a certain shape, they created an obvious visual
message — smoking kills — in a way that doesn’t need
supporting text. What deadly shape do they give to the
cigarette boxes?

● Clockwise round beginning with
Team 1
● +10/-5 on pounce
● +10/0 on bounce

1
MIRA is a space organization which came into existence
in June 2018. The astronauts who work for MIRA, are
instructed to collect samples of wildlife, crystals, and
journal entries from other planets and study their
anomalous effects. The astronauts' main form of travel
from MIRA is a cargo spaceship designed for travelling to
other planets, a Dropship. How has this organisation
come into limelight?

2
The First World War saw extensive use of snipers in combat for
the first time. The introduction of scopes allowed shooters to
shoot accurately at very long distances. With a scoped rifle, a
good marksman could kill an enemy that barely protruded his
head over the trench parapet if he was fast enough. Since the
camouflaging was developing more and more as the war
progressed, snipers became harder to detect.
For soldiers who were under constant danger due to snipers, it
became a necessity to find a way to locate the positions of such
camouflaged snipers and finally, Paper Mache was the answer.
How did Paper Mache save the lives of soldiers?

Paper-mache was used to make dummy heads of soldiers
and these heads were usually stuck on a long stick in
order to securely lift it over the parapet. If the deception
was successful and the dummy head was hit by a sniper,
bullet holes were then used to locate the sniper with the
help of different methods

3
Paraphrasing one of the theories of an American author-
Planet Venus traces an imperfect pentacle across the
ecliptic sky in eight years and this cycle keeps on repeating.
So astonished were the ancients to observe this
phenomenon, that Venus and her pentacle became symbols
of perfection and beauty. As a tribute to the magic of Venus
the Greeks organized an event every time the cycle was
complete which in the coming years reduced to half-cycles.
Fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost
become the official seal of the event but was modified at
the last moment. The 5 points were replaced by 5 objects of
a particular shape to better reflect the event’s spirit of
inclusion and harmony. Which event?

4
This is a model of a line of
British cars which was
produced in UK between 1938
and 1961. An alien simply
mistook this car as the
dominant life form on Earth
and decided to name himself
after this car as it would be
"nicely inconspicuous." Name
this car or the alien.

Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy

5
Seneca Village was a 19th-century settlement in perimeter
from West 82nd to West 89th Street in the borough of
Manhattan. It was a community of predominantly
African-Americans. By 1855, the village consisted of
approximately 225 residents.
When the population of New York City increased exponentially
in the coming years, the city’s white elite were worried that the
entire island would be consumed by development and felt the
need to build something which will “give lungs to the city”. In
1853, New York set aside 750 acres of land for a construction
and this area included the Village and by 1857, the Village
along with many other settlements were seized and destroyed.
Why were these settlements destroyed?
M

For the creation of Central Park

6
Jesse Tipping, who serves as the president of the
Athlete Institute Basketball Academy, bought the
place shown in the next slide which is located in
Hockley Valley in 2011 to house recruits for his
basketball program in 2011. Basketball stars Jamal
Murray and Kyle Alexander both lived here while they
were a part of Tipping’s academy. Although it was
not a famous place back then but it has recently come
into limelight. What is the reason behind its recent
fame?

7
This entity's religion was converted to X when particular
group invaded the region in the 15th Century. For this
conversion, the invaders changed it in many ways. The
most signiﬁcant change being on the exterior where the
invaders added a particular structure in the quantity of 4.
Which entity is this and what is X?

8
Like a good boy, a famous American sports star in 1933,
followed his mother’s advice and enjoyed a glass of a drink
after winning an event for the second time as she had
always told him that it was best thing to drink on a hot day.
In 1936 when he won again, he sipped a similar drink from a
large glass bottle instead of a glass.
An executive of a foundation which propagated the
nutritional values of this drink was so excited when he saw
the star’s photo enjoying it in the next day's newspaper that
he vowed to make the bottle of drink a staple of this event
and that’s how the tradition started. Which tradition and
which event is this?

Milk Drinking Ceremony in
Indianapolis 500 car race

● 5 Questions on Political Cartoons
● +10 for each correct answer
● No negatives
● +10 bonus for getting all correct

2
Balasaheb
Thackeray’s
cartoon on which
event?

4
Identify the two
personalities
portrayed in the
cartoon

5
This event used a
pun to satirized the
fake support
provided by the
homophobic people
to the LGBT
comminity. What
does the blanked out
message say?

Launch of the Sputnik-1
First satellite ever

Greta Thunberg and
Doland Trump

5
This cartoon used a
pun to satirized the
fake support
provided by the
homophobic people
to the LGBT
comminity.

Round 4
Pounce And Bounce Round

● Anti-Clockwise round beginning
with Team 8
● +10/-5 on pounce
● +10/0 on bounce

1
Canada hosts an annual black bear cull which is a
large-scale hunt that helps keep the population of black
bears under control. The UK Ministry of Defence takes
100 skins for itself, supposedly a mere fraction of the
thousands of bears that are killed to keep numbers in
check. These skins are then provided to the
manufacturers of a particular product which is donned
by a silent and unsmiling group of individuals. Which
product is this and which group dons it?

The Bearskin hat worn by the Queen’s Guard

2
This portrait is considered as
the most personal work of
the artist as the lady in it is
his very own sister. However,
this is not the ﬁrst time that
she modelled for her brother.
What was the name of the
artist’s creation which
involved his sister and their
family dentist?

3
One of the ex-Presidents of this European country was said to
have an affinity for Egyptian culture. It is said that he was
single handedly responsible for ﬁlling the country capital with
Egyptian obelisks, art, and artifacts. This is one of the theories
which tries to explain why he hired a Chinese-American
architect in the 80s to construct a structure which is
contrasting to the Renaissance Style and history of a place
which surrounds it. Which structure is this and where would
you ﬁnd it?

4
Scent marketing is the idea of using scent and
incorporating to all the touch points of the customer
experience. Fragrance marketing is believed to have a
profound impact on your mind. Research has found that
combining scent with visual marketing strengthens our
memory of it in the long term, which can affect how we
feel in a physical way. The New York Times published an
article about scent marketing and how consumers are
responding to it. The article title was a play on one of the
classic works of literature of 1800s.
What is the alliterative title of the article?

5
“I am a pair of glasses. I belong to X”
This is the title of a story written by a 9 year old girl who
imagines what it is like constantly being wiped and
facing 90 Mph-balls. The story tells the experience of a
bowler who came out to bat at number 11 and became a
part of one of the most memorable wins of his team in
2019. Which event is being described here and who is X?

Jack Leach during the
Headingley Ashes test of
2019 where England won
by a wicket while chasing
a target of 359 runs

6
A rule from the 1917 Code of Canon Law of
Churches states that “any newly discovered
territory would fall under the bishopric from
whence the discovering expedition departed.”
This law persisted for several years and made
an unconvention impact in the late 1960s
when a “territory” was ventured upon for the
ﬁrst time. Since the place from where the
expedition began was under the purview of the
Diocese of Orlando, the Bishop in the picture
effectively became the ﬁrst bishop of this
place. Which place is this?

Moon
Archbishop William Borders
became First Bishop of the Moon

7
Centuries ago, a fisherman, off the coast of Peru recognized
a unusually warm water near the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish
immigrants called it X in Spanish. When capitalized, the
phrase X means the newborn Christ, and was used because
the phenomenon often arrived around Christmas. Like this
warming phase of Ocean, there is also a phase of cooling
and this phase is called Y as the phrase Y is the female
counterpart of X. These 2 along with a neutral phase form a
period called ENSO which is a period of Southern Oscillation
in winds and sea surface temperatures over the Pacific
Ocean. Give X and Y

El Niño and La Niña
ENSO: El Niño Southern Oscillation

2
The Khasi Tribe and Mosuo Tribe which reside
in Meghalaya are 2 out of 3 tribes in India which
follow an unconventional and liberal way of how
a society works. What is so special about these
tribes?

Matrilineal Societies
Each person is identiﬁed with their matriline –
their mother's lineage- which can involve the
inheritance of property and/or titles

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