1. Meeting Two
2 July 2015
21 Questions
QM: Arul Mani
SJC Quizzers

2. 1.Why was Shreya Singhal, a law
student, all over the newspapers in
March 2015?

3. ANSWER
She filed the case that resulted in Sec
66A of the IT Act being struck down

4. 2. The cocklebur or burdock has a characteristic
fruit, shown below. What invention did it inspire?

5. ANSWER
Velcro

6. 3. Identify the sports shown below. The one on the left takes
its name from the Dutch word for basket, while the other was
originally a stripped-down version of basketball deemed
suitable for women.

9. ANSWER
Korfball
Netball

10. 4. Fruit with an 8-letter name.

11. ANSWER
Rambutan

12. 5. While most of the units used in this
pastime refer to medieval social
structures, one element’s name takes us
back in history to the Persian/Indian
chariot which still plays an important
part.
What pursuit? What element?

13. ANSWER
Chess
Rook from the Persian, derived from
the Sanskrit rath

14. 6.
Nobody refers to her by the surname
Adkins, making her five-letter first name
a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7).
Who?
What term?

15. ANSWER
Adele
Mononym

16. 7.
Which Indian public figure shares his
name with a bird from Persian myth,
literally King of Birds?

17. ANSWER
The name for the mythical bird is Shah
Rukh

18. 8.
Ferule, Open Cap, Top Notch, Rib,
Stretcher, Top Spring, Centre Spring
and Bottom Spring, followed by a tip
cup, and then a crook.
Top to bottom description of what?

19. ANSWER
An umbrella

20. 9.
In 1995 it appeared in a book of useless
inventions in Japan. Since then, it has
gone on to be called ‘the wand of
Narcissus’.
What?

21. ANSWER
The Selfie Stick

22. 10.
The Dari Persian word for shade, also
present in Indian languages, was used
in the Sufi tradition as a way of referring
to the protection offered by a spiritual
leader.
When used in Marathi etc, the nasal
ending is dropped. The word has
become a name on account of a popular
personage from that part of the world.

23. ANSWER
Sayee(n), a form of Saaya
The name Sai is most probably
derived thus

24. 11. Tribute to writer. Who?

25. ANSWER
Agatha Christie

26. 12. Doodle tribute to book?.

27. ANSWER
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

28. 13.Tribute to which 2500-year-old
practice?

29. ANSWER
The Marathon

30. 14. Asteroid mission that took its name
from the Japanese word for Peregrine
Falcon.

31. ANSWER
Hayabusa

32. 15. In tribute to what script?

33. ANSWER
Hangul

34. 16. Tribute to which writer?

35. ANSWER
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

36. 17. Book and writer in this Doodle
tribute?

37. ANSWER
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

38. 18. On the occasion of which country’s
national day?

39. ANSWER
Argentina

40. 19.
Give one of the two things blanked out, and
put funda.

41. ANSWER
Suisse and Svizzera
The French and Italian names for
Switzerland

42. 20. What did this convention vote on?

43. ANSWER
On the design for the Canadian flag

44. 21
The subject of
this portrait
wrote a book
titled Dear to
Behold, about a
niece. Name
both people..

45. ANSWER
Niece: Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Aunt: Krishna Hutheesingh