History quiz finals 2011

“Seek Under Porus”
KQA History Quiz 3.0

Finals
Round I -Written Round (6 questions)
Round II - Infinite Bounce (20 questions)
Round III- Written Round (6 questions)
Round IV - Infinite Bounce (20 questions)
Round V -Theme (8 questions)

 Written round
 5 caricatures, you have to identify the person
 Bonus of 5 for identifying the artist
 30 points in all!

1. Salvador Allende
2. Lyndon B Johnson
3. Vaclav Havel
4. Narasimha Rao
5. Sukharno
6. The artist is David Levine

Round II
Clockwise
20 questions

1
 He began his career as a dragoon . Despite of not being
an English man, he eventually became a Major-General
in the Bengal Army. He was also a shrewd business
man and amassed lots of wealth through various
ventures. He was an amateur scientist and a doctor of
sorts. He performed first recorded lithotripsy on
himself and was an avid hot air balloonist. He was also
very successful architect, the Raj Bhavan in Lucknow
was built according to his design. However his name
lives through something else established by his
philanthropic contribution. Who?

 This was Claude Martin.
The La Martinere
schools were established
in his memory

2. An incident and its cause are shown
here. Explain

Answer
 The picture on the right is a representation of a tally
stick. Tally stick was an ancient memory aid device to
record and document numbers, quantities, or even
messages
 The incident is the October 16th 1834 fire of Palace of
Westminster .The burning of the tally sticks went out of
control and brought the whole structure down.
 The picture on the left is a painting of the incident by
J.M.W. Turner, who was present there.

3

 It was the only European country to appoint a diplomatic
consul to the Confederate States of America during the
American Civil War. Their royal family had connections
to the English Royal family, Emperor Maxmillian of
Mexico, Queen Isabella of Brazil, Pedro of Portugal, the
last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, the Kings of Spain,
Bulgaria and Prussia. This country doesn't exist now, in
1918 after the German Revolution it got divided and one
part merged with Bavaria and other joined the Weimar
Republic. After the Second World War the name also
disappeared from the public view. ID

4

He was one of the sons of Noah and is considered by many
as his eldest son. Elam, Asshur, Aram, Arpachshad and Lud
were his five sons. It is believed that these five sons were the
progenitors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Syria, Chaldea,
and Lydia, respectively. Abraham, the patriarch of the
Hebrews and Arabs, was one of the descendants of his son
Arpachshad. His name has given rise to a term which in
linguistics and ethnology is used to denote a family of
languages. This family includes the ancient and modern forms
of Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Ge'ez, Hebrew,
Maltese, Phoenician, Tigre and Tigrinya among others. We
however know it in a different context, name him or the term.

 He was Shem and the word Semitic is derived
from him

5.
From the year 1973, this ten year old boy is always
shown with his back turned to the viewer. He always
walks with his hands clasped behind his back. His age
represented the artist's age when the artist was forced to
leave his homeland and would not grow up until the
artist could return. He wears ragged clothes and walks
barefoot, symbolizing his allegiance to the poor. In the
later cartoons, he sometimes appears committing
assault or vandalism. Identify this icon of defiance and
his creator.

 Naji al Ali and Handala.

6

 He was a German Pacifist and a very vocal critic of the Nazi
party. He was convicted of high treason and espionage in 1931
after publishing details of Germany's alleged violation of the
Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force, the predecessor
of the Luftwaffe, and training pilots in the Soviet Union. On
28 February 1933, after the Reichstag fire, he was arrested and
held in so-called protective custody in Spandau prison. While
at the prison he was suffering from TB, the authorities denied
treatment and he finally died in custody on May 1938. In 1935
his plight got international attention and he shares a unique
distinction with 2 others. What? <pic>

 Carl Von Ossietzky He won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1935, he along with Aung Sang Syuki
and Liu Xiabo are the only three people to
receive the peace prize in absentia

7
Marcus Licinius Crassus was a Roman general and
politician who commanded the left wing of Sulla's army
at the Battle of the Colline Gate. He also provided
political and financial support to Julius Caesar and
entered into the political alliance known as the First
Triumvirate with Pompey and Caesar. He is considered
the wealthiest man in Roman history, and perhaps one of
the richest men in all history. He is also credited for
leading the Roman forces to victory almost single
handedly in a civil war. This war was fought between
73-71 BC and it was getting out of control and had
started threatening the heartland of Italy before Crassus
crushed it. Who was his main adversary in this war?

 This war was known as the Third Servile War,
the rebels were mainly slaves who were fighting
under the leadership of a Thracian slave named
Spartacus.

8
When the Foreign Minister Fakir Azizuddin was
asked, which one of his King's eyes was missing,
he replied: "The King is like the sun and sun has
only one eye. The splendor and luminosity of his
single eye is so much that I have never dared to
look at his other eye." Who was this one eyed
King who lost one of his eyes in an attack of
small pox in his childhood?

9
The Keralaanthakan gopuram was a gate which was built
to commemorate the victory over the Kerala king
Bhaskara Ravi Varma and the name means the Destroyer
of Kerala. It is believed that any VIP who passes through
this gate would lose power or fall ill or lose even his life
within a few days. This gained credibility when former
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated and
former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran
had a serious stroke, both in 1984, after using the said
entrance, the current Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Karunanidhi is known to avoid this entrance. Where can
you see this gate? <pic>

10

It was an identification system based on physical
measurements. It was the first scientific system used by police
to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be
identified based on unreliable eyewitness accounts. The
method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting. The
inventor of this system is also credited with standardizing the
mug shot and the systematization of crime-scene
photography, these practices are still followed today. He was
also referenced in the Hound of Baskervilles in which one of
Holmes' clients refers to Holmes as the "second highest
expert in Europe“, after him. Who? <pic>

11
It was founded in Austria in 1923.Following the
Anschluss (Austria's annexation by Germany) in 1938, the
organization fell under the control of Nazi Germany, and
the Commission's headquarters were eventually moved to
Berlin in 1942.From 1938 to 1945, all the presidents were
from SS. The most notable Nazi among them was
Reinhard Heydrich who the headed Reich Main Security
Office, the umbrella organization of Gestapo, SD and
Kripo. After the war, the allies revived it with officials
from Belgium, France, Scandinavia and the United
Kingdom. Now it is headquartered at Lyon in France,
what?

12
 During the World War Two, the British intelligence had come to know
of what eventually became the only civilian transfer across two
submarines of two different navies in World War II. Even though the
"civilian" who was being transferred was of utmost importance to the
British, they refrained from taking any action. It was because the
intelligence for this mission and another highly secret mission was
obtained from the same source, the Allied crypto-analysis project. The
Allies feared that two back to back operations would have revealed the
source to the Axis. The other piece of intelligence resulted in an
American covert operation called Operation Vengeance, the longest
fighter-intercept mission of the war. It was ordered by President
Roosevelt himself. The target was a plane flying from Rabaul to
Ballalae Airfield, on an island near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands
Who/What was the target? Who was the “civilian” who was let off?

 The American target was Admiral Yamamoto,
the architect of Pearl Harbour attack, his
assassination was a major morale booster for the
Americans.
 The civilian was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

13

 She was the first woman to graduate with a history degree
from Oxford. She learnt Arabic in Jerusalem in 1897,and
taught herself archaeology. She worked with TE Lawrence
and other archaeologist-spies at an intelligence operation in
Cairo, known as the Arab Bureau. And very quickly she
became the most influential British diplomat and was trusted
by the Arabs. They gave her the nickname Khatun, which
means fine lady or gentlewoman. She is most remembered
today in the Arab world and else where for the founding a
nation under the Kingship of Hashemite Prince Faisal, who
had been ousted by the French in Syria. Who is she? And
what country did she found? <pic>

 Gertrude Bell, she was almost single-handedly
responsible for the founding of modern Iraq.

14

 Bab-i Ali was the name of the open court of the sultan. It got
its name from the gate to the headquarters of the Grand
Vizier in Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, where the sultan held the
greeting ceremony for foreign ambassadors. It was an ancient
Ottoman practice to make the gates of cities and kings' palaces
places of assembly. Later the name came to refer to the
Foreign Ministry. In contemporary times, it is used for the
office of the governor of Istanbul Province. This name has
also been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as
gateway between Europe and Asia.
 How is Bab-i Ali known in western world? <pic>

 Porte or Sublime Porte. It is a synecdoche for
the Ottoman Empire

15.

 The structure doesn’t have a single designer and it is said that people
throughout China designed and built it. Material from all over China was used
for the construction: granite from Sichuan Province, porcelain plates from
Guangdong Province, pine trees from Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, saw-wort
seeds from the Tian Shan Mountains in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region,
earth from the quake-stricken Tangshan, color pebbles from Nanjing, milky
quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, pine logs from Jiangxi Province, and
rock samples from Mount Everest. Water and sand from the Taiwan Straits
were also used to symbolically emphasize the People's Republic of China's
claims over Taiwan. 700,000 people from different provinces, autonomous
regions, and nationalities did symbolic voluntary labour. What?

Audience Q. What is Godwin’s Law?

 It says “as a Usenet discussion grows longer, the
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or
Hitler approaches one”

 Or in other words - as a Usenet thread goes on,
the chances of somebody or something being
compared to a Nazi approach one.

16
 Which institution, who has a Nobel Peace Prize winner
among it's alumni was established in 1956 by an
industrialist in the fond memory of his wife, Phoolan
Devi?

 Lady Shri Ram College for Women New Delhi.

17
He started his espionage career as a foreign intelligence officer in 1948.
During the 1950s he served on various undercover assignments
overseas like accompanying the Soviet team to the Olympic games in
Australia. But later that year, after he had apparently mishandled an
operational assignment, he was moved from operational duties and was
told he would never work in the field again. His disillusionment with
the Soviet system is supposed to have started with Nikita Khrushchev's
famous speech to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union congress
denouncing Joseph Stalin. Also his new job gave him opportunity to
discover KGB's systematic repression of the Russian people, which
cemented his anti-Soviet views. This prompted him to start his
clandestine work which later FBI described as "the most complete and
extensive intelligence ever received from any source". Who? <pic>

18

 It is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward in the
western provinces of the Roman Empire it came to
signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, perhaps
through a confusion with the pileus, the cap used by a
freed slave in ancient Rome. It is sometimes called a
liberty cap and in artistic representations it signifies
freedom and the pursuit of liberty. The national emblem
of France, Marianne always shown is shown wearing it. It
is also seen on the Seal of the United States Senate and
the coat of arms of Cuba. It is associated in antiquity with
the inhabitants of a region of central Anatolia and it
named after this region, What? <pic>

19

Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista was formed as a
communist opposition to Stalinism by the revolutionaries
Andreu Nin and Joaquín Maurín. The two were heavily
influenced by the thinking of Trotsky, particularly his
Permanent Revolution thesis. The POUM was highly
critical of the strategy advocated by Joseph Stalin and as a
result Nin was detained and tortured to death by NKVD
agents in Madrid, and his party consistently labeled as
provocateur in Stalinist propaganda. This violent
crackdown formed the anti-totalarian views of a member
who later became a caustic critic of Communism who?

20
This character is one of the nine pirate lords in the 2007 movie
“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End”. He is based on a real life
personality who terrorized European ships during the late 17th and
early 18th centuries. While considered a pirate by the British, he is
regarded as a courageous patriot in his homeland. Name the real life
person.

 Kanoji Angre, the Maratha admiral.
 The character was named “Sri Sumbhajee
Angria”

Round III
“Horses for Courses”
6 questions, all related to horses
10 points each. A bonus 10 for getting all questions
right

1.
 The cartoon featuring Gordon Brown before the 2010 UK general
elections, references a famous legend associated with a European
warrior. As per the story, the man’s corpse was strapped onto his
horse Babieca and sent into battle by his wife, in order to avoid a
collapse in troop morale. Name the hero.

2.
 Identify the lady who is the subject of the
unfortunate cartoons here. What’s the story?

3.
 Two views of a famous memorial. Whose ?

4.
 A famous duel at the climax of the Battle of the Bosworth Field,
which ended the “War of the Roses”. In dramatized versions of the
scene, which famous statement is uttered by the defeated man
before this duel ?

 “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse” by Richard III in
Shakespeare’s play.
 Henry VII became the first Tudor monarch of England after the
battle.

5.
 Only two horses in United States history have been
buried with Full Military Honors. The first was
“Comanche”, the most famous survivor of the “Battle
of Little Big Horn”. The second was “Black Jack”, who
never fought a battle. What special purpose was “Black
Jack” used for ?

6.
 Budweiser’s association with Clydesdale horses in its
advertisements started off on April 7, 1933 when August Busch Jr
gifted a wagon of beer drawn by Clydesdale horses to his father
August Anheuser Busch. The Clydesdales also made a famous visit
to the White House. What was the cause for celebration ?

 Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as “El Cid
Campeador”.

 One of the unfortunate rumors associated with
Catherine the Great was that she died while attempting
sex with a horse. Story has that the rope used by her
attendants to raise the horse above her broke, and the
animal fell on her, crushing her to death.
 Story is untrue. She died of a stroke.

 Crazy Horse Memorial.
 Carved out of the Black Hills of South Dakota, the
work was sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski and pays
homage to Crazy Horse, the Lakota warrior and leader.

 He was the rider less horse in more than 1,000 Armed Forces Full
Honors Funerals (AFFHF), the most famous occasions being the state
funerals of John F Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and
Douglas McArthur. With boots reversed in the stirrups, he was a
symbol of a fallen leader.

 The repeal of Prohibition in the United States.
 The horse driven carriage famously delivered a
case of beer to President Franklin D Roosevelt.

Round IV

Counter Clockwise
-20 questions

1.
 1. In June 1917, General John J
Pershing landed in Europe as part
of the first American involvement
in WWI. In a show of American
presence, part of the 16th Infantry
Regiment marched through a
European city shortly after his
arrival. Pausing at a particular
location to pay his respect, he was
reputed to have uttered the famous
line "____________." The line
was in fact spoken by his aide,
Colonel Charles E. Stanton. Which,
now famous, statement ?

 “Lafayette, we have come”.

 The object in picture, sold at an
auction for a good sum of 2.
money, was made from the
remains of a wooden barrel of
historic significance. The barrel
has been the subject of much
discussion and many jokes on
account of the special purpose it
was used for. The phrase
“tapping the admiral”, used to
denote the practice of sneaking a
furtive, illicit alcoholic drink, is
said to have originated from the
use of this barrel.
 Explain.

 A barrel filled with Whisky was used to transport the body of
Admiral Horatio Nelson, after his death at Trafalgar. There was
shortage of lead on the ship to make a coffin and the barrel had
to be used. Whisky was meant to prevent decomposition. Story
goes that, when the body reached England, the level of Whisky
had gone down. This lead to speculation that some sailors had
tapped into the barrel with straws, for a quick drink. Hence,
“tapping the admiral”.

3.
 National newspapers ran
advertisements to help
out this gentleman when
he announced that he
had lost something while
“changing trains at
Reading station”.
 What much anticipated
item was thus delayed ?

 The original manuscript of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”.
 Lawrence lost it at the station and it was never discovered. He
re-wrote the book based on things that he remembered (having
destroyed his notes already).

4.
 This much anticipated annual event had its origins in
1958 at the modest Green's Hotel – later absorbed by
the more grandiose Taj Hotel – and was an instant hit.
By 1960 the hotel's banqueting hall was too small for
the large audiences and the venue was shifted in turn to
a nearby exhibition centre, then the sprawling lawns of
the Cricket Club of India, before moving finally in 1982
to the Brabourne Stadium, where the attendance
topped 100,000 people. The last of its kind was in 1994.
 What event ?

 Nani Palkhiwala’s annual post-Budget analysis.

5.
 In 2006, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the Chief of the
Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, issued a secret order
to assassinate Somali government officials. This was
widely reported in the western media but was
ferociously denied by the organisation.
 What was significant about this incident ?

 The first document published by Wikileaks in
2006 was this secret letter signed by Sheikh
Hassan.

6.
 The monument pays homage
to an activity which had
constituted the chief business
of a country till the 19th
century. The industry had
been in existence since
ancient times and the region
was famous for the quality of
its product. The industry
disappeared abruptly in the
1930s, ironically as a side-
effect of the advent of the
next big industry in the
country. Name the country
and the two industries.

 Bahrain.
 Pearl Industry and Oil.
 The discovery of oil in the 1930s caused serious pollution which
destroyed Bahrain’s natural pearl beds. This, along with the
advance in artificial pearl production, lead to the collapse of the
natural pearl industry. The Pearl monument in Bahrain is
currently at the center of protests.

7
 For about a year prior to 1948, the printers who operated the
Linotype machines in many Chicago establishments had been on
strike, in protest of the Taft-Hartley Act. A new method had been
developed, where a copy was composed on typewriters and
photographed and then engraved onto the printing plates. This
process was lengthy and had to start earlier than normal.
The veteran Washington correspondent and political analyst Arthur
Sears Henning had a reputation for getting things right.
Conventional wisdom had also supported his view and everyone
assumed that it was “inevitable”.
 A combination of the above two reasons is suggested as an
explanation for ?

 The first edition of the Chicago Tribune therefore went to press
with the banner headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN".

8.
 The title of this play is a
reference to a 1973 debate that
caused considerable friction in
international circles. According
to Time magazine, the debate
went on for more than 10
weeks and “nearly two dozen
designs” had to be studied
before an agreement was
reached. A table of 151 feet
diameter had to be constructed
by French carpenters, once the
debate was resolved.
 Explain.

 Shape of the negotiating table for the Paris accords which ended
the Vietnam war.
 North Vietnam wanted a “square table” representing four equal
sides – USA, North Vietnam, South Vietnamese government and
South Vietnamese communists who supported the North.
 South Vietnam and USA wanted a “rectangular table” where
there were only two equal sides.
 Finally, “a round table flanked by two smaller rectangular
tables” was agreed upon, with the condition that the smaller
tables had to be separated slightly from the big table.

9.
 In 2010, a company named “Fathead”, specializing in
full size posters and other sports memorabilia, was in
an unusual hurry to offload all items connected with a
particular sports personality. It announced that the
prizes were being slashed from $99.99 to $17.41.
 The symbolism of the new price was not lost on the
fans and some sets quickly sold out.
 What’s the symbolism ?

 The sports star was Lebron James, who made the decision to
quit Cleveland Cavaliers in an act seen by the franchise as a
“betrayal”.
 1741 is the year of birth of Benedict Arnold, the most famous
turncoat in US history.
 Hence $17.41 .

10.
 Until the beginning of the 20th century, the practice of
“cremation” was illegal in England because of the perception that
it was an “un-Christian” act. In 1874, the editor of the Punch
magazine and several other notables formed the “Cremation
Society of England” to campaign for legalization. The editor died
soon afterwards, but his body couldn’t be cremated despite his
wishes. His son was very disappointed with the government’s
refusal to grant permission. His (the son's) most famous work is
now regarded as a subtle effort to support the cause. The work
came out around the same time that another petition for the right
of cremation had been submitted to the Govt.
Although this famous effort did not help the legalization struggle
too much, it is an enduring image in a different field.
 What work ?

The editor of Punch was Shirley Brooks. His son was Reginald Brooks who
wrote the following notice in the Sporting Times.

In Affectionate Remembrance
of
ENGLISH CRICKET,
which died at the Oval
on
29th AUGUST 1882,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances
R.I.P.
N.B.—The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to Australia.

11.
 In 1826 Stanislas Baudry, the owner of a flour mill in Nantes,
had the idea of opening a public bath to make use of the hot
water discharged by his steam engines. In order to make this
attractive, he also had to start another service. This one started in
front of the premises of a hatter by the name of Omnès whose
sign read "Omnès ____" - a pun on a famous Latin phrase. The
users of this service got into the habit of calling the service the
“____". The word stuck. The people of Nantes immediately
took to the ___. In 1828, realizing the implications of his
success, Baudry closed the baths and the flour mill and went to
Paris to set up the Compagnie Générale d‘____. Success was
short-lived. Baudry quickly fell into financial ruin which led him
to take his own life. The idea, however, gained ground.
 What word?

 Omnibus.
 “nus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” is a Latin phrase that
means "One for all, all for one" in English. It is most
famous for being the motto of Alexandre Dumas'
Three Musketeers

12.
 The painting depicts an event in the early 17th century which resulted in
the complete subjugation of Calvinists/Protestants in the country. The
victory of the King and his Catholic supporters resulted in the
establishment of a strong central government in the country, soon
paving the way for an absolute monarchy. Name the event and the
religious group which was destroyed in this action.

 The Siege of La Rochele.
 La Rochele was a fortress of the Huguenots (French Calvinists)
who’s power was destroyed by the siege led by King Louis XIII
and Cardinal Richelieu. The event increased the power and
popularity of the French monarchy.

13.
 Col Leon Dostert is believed to have been the man responsible for
the introduction of this system at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945.
The proposal for the use of this system was met with much
skepticism, with concerns about whether it violated the rights of the
defendants to a fair trial. The experienced professionals in this field
advocated the "consecutive" system which had been in use much
earlier. But Dostert convinced all the delegations that "consecutive"
would make the trials unfeasible and destroy public confidence.
Finally everyone came around to this opinion and the proposal was
accepted. A variant of the "Filene-Finlay" system was used.
 This "system" is often credited with making the Nuremberg trials
possible. In fact, it became a huge success and was adapted across
the world. What path breaking innovation?

 Simultaneous translation/interpretation.
 In the “consecutive system”, every statement
made by the speaker would be followed by a
translator repeating it in a different language.
The international nature of the Nuremberg
trials meant that every statement had to be
translated in at least four languages, making it
prohibitively long. The “Filene-Finlay” system
(supplied by IBM) provided listeners with
headphones which could be used to select
“language channels”. All the interpreters
simultaneously translated the statements and
spoke them into microphones. The listeners did
not have to sit through consecutive translations!
Without this system, UN proceedings,
international conferences etc would have been
way more complicated.

14.
 There are 8 statues around the Place de La Concorde, an
octagonal shaped public square in Paris. For about 50
years, one of the statues was covered in black mourning
crepe on state occasions. Wreaths were placed on the
statue by citizens of France. The practice stopped only
after the end of WWI.
 Give a very specific explanation. (images on next slide)

 The eight statues represented eight major cities of
France.
 Alsace-Lorraine had been annexed by the Germans
after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871. The statue
representing Strasbourg, a prominent city of the
province, was draped in black by the French to mourn
the loss of Alsace.
 When the armistice ending WWI was signed, the
province was returned and triumphant Parisians ripped
apart the wreaths, replacing it with the tricolore.

15.
 Anna Walentynowicz was fired from her job with just 5 months
left for her retirement. What did she thus become a trigger for ?

 The dismissal of Anna, a popular crane operator, for illegal trade
union activities led to a workers strike in the Gdansk shipyard.
The strike under the leadership of Lech Walesa led to Anna being
reinstated and unions being legalized – thus allowing Solidarity to
be formed. Eventually this triggered off a wave of protests that led
to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

16.
 Identify the city where this taxi service operates.

 Salem, famous for the Salem Witch Trials.

17.
 Some time in the early 1980s, this person was on a visit to a
foreign country and went to meet a famous Pir of that country.
The dignitary asked the Pir the following question “When will the
assassin of my father…. die ?”
The Pir closed his eyes for a few moments and then gave this
enigmatic reply: “When ___ fly, he will die”.
 This curious prophesy is said to have come to fruition some time
later. Fill up the blank or explain how this remarkable story ties
in with the equally remarkable tale of the prophesy coming true.

 The person asking the question was Benazir Bhuto, while on a visit
to Bangladesh in the early 1980s. The Pir’s response was “When
mangoes fly, he will die”. Zia-ul-Haq’s death has been attributed to a
case of exploding mangoes or poison-gas filled mangoes, smuggled
aboard his plane.

 (“come to fruition” was
supposed to be a clue )

18.
Identify this gentleman laying gold coins on the floor in front of
Nawab Wazir Khan of Sirhind. What is he paying for ?

 Diwan Todar Mal, paying for land to cremate the sons of Guru
Gobind Singh, the last Sikh Guru.
 The captured sons of the Guru had been bricked alive by Wazir Khan, the
Mughal Governor, when they refused to convert to Islam. Todar Mal tried to
pay ransom and rescue them, but was too late. He wished to cremate their
bodies with respect. A decree had been issued banning their cremation on
Mughal land.
 The Sultan told Todar Mal that he would agree to his request if he paid for
the land by spreading as many gold mohurs (coins) as would cover the piece
of land required for cremation

19.
 Every five miles, you will find a “crownstone” decorated with the
coat of arms of two families, one on either other. Every mile is
also marked by a smaller milestone with a “M” on one side and a
“P” on the other side. What purpose did these stones serve?

Milestone Crownstone

 Cornerstones of the Mason-Dixon line.
 Mason and Dixon settled the boundaries of Maryland (controlled
by the Calvert family) and Pennsylvania (controlled by the Penn
family). The “M” and “P” represent the two states.

20.
 On Easter Monday 1282, at the Church of the Holy Spirit just outside
Palermo, at evening prayer, a Frenchman harassed a local woman. According
to Steven Runciman, the woman’s husband attacked the French soldier with a
knife, killing him. When the other Frenchmen tried to avenge their comrade
the crowd fell upon them, killing them all. At that moment all the church bells
in Palermo began to ring for evening prayers. To the sound of the bells,
messengers ran through the city calling on the men of Palermo to rise against
the French who had been ruling this kingdom. . Four thousand Frenchmen
were massacred in the next few weeks. It became a full blown European war,
when the King of Arragon joined the Italians in their rebellion. The popular
name for the original incident (and the war that followed) is derived from the
timing of its start. What name?

 The incident was known as the “Sicilian Vespers” and the wider
war became known as the “War of the Sicilian Vespers”.
 Vespers are the evening prayers held inside a Church.

Round V
Theme
8 questions
Questions 1,2 +30/-15
Questions 5,6 +15/-7.5

1. +30/-15
 This national monument is named after the fifth Prime Minister
of Pakistan. In India, he is often remembered for the time he
spent with the Mahatma in an abandoned house in Belliaghatta,
trying to bring peace after the riots in the region. Name.

 Suhrawardy Udyan, named after Shahid Hussain
Suhrawardy.

2. +30/-15
 This battle in A.D. 1187 was a famous victory for this ruler. He
used a small force to launch a siege against the isolated fortress
of Tiberias held by his opponents, while keeping his main army
in reserve. When the bulk of the enemy army came out of the
city to relieve the fortress under siege, the main army moved in
and engaged it in open battle. The result of this battle is said to
have caused the taxes in England to go up by roughly 10%.
 Name the ruler and the battle.

 Saladin and the battle of Hattin which destroyed the Crusader
forces based in Jersusalem.
 The “Saladin Tithe” was a special tax imposed by the Church to
finance the third Crusade.

 Attempts for the theme ?
 +30/-15.

3. +20/-10
 Which Indian structure, the first of its kind in the sub-continent,
was originally inspired by the monument in the picture?

 Humayun’s tomb, the first garden-tomb in the
sub-continent was inspired by Timur’s tomb
(seen in the picture).

4. +20/-10
 “We do not exchange marshals for soldiers”. What
exchange was rejected with these brave words?

 Stalin rejected the exchange of Field Marshal Paulus,
the German commander of Stalingrad for his son
Yakov Dzhugashvili, a POW in a German camp.

 +20/-10.

5. +15/-7.5
Statue in Alesia, commissioned
by Napoleon III. The
inscription at the base
translates to:

“Gaul united,
Forming a single nation
Animated by a common spirit,
Can defy the Universe”.

Id the subject of the
statue.

6 +15/-7.5
 Painting depicts the siege of a city in A.D. 1430. ___ rushed to the
city while it was being besieged by the Burgundians. After a small
skirmish, ___ ordered a retreat and assumed the place of honor as
the last to leave the field. Unfortunately ___ was unseated by an
archer and captured by the Burgundians. Name the victim as well as
the city.

 Joan of Arc, captured during the siege of
Compiegne.

 +15/-7.5.

7. 10/-5
 This US flag with 31 stars is a replica of
the flag that had been flown from
Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship in
1853–1854 when he led the US Navy's
Far East Squadron on his most famous
mission.
 Some 92 years later, the flag was
specially flown in from the Naval
Academy Museum for a special
occasion, closely related to the first.
Fittingly, the man who was at the center
of the proceedings was a cousin of
Cmdr Perry. Incidentally, on this
illustrious occasion, this flag was actually
displayed backward — reverse side
showing (stars in the upper right
corner). What occasion ?

 The Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri.
 Cmdr Perry had flown into Tokyo bay in 1853-54,
forcing Japan to open up its ports to foreign ships.
 Gen Douglas McArthur was a cousin of Commodore
Matthew Perry

8. +10/-5
 A dinner was going on in Wilmer Mclean’s house when a cannon ball
dropped through the kitchen fireplace. The region was soon engulfed in
strife. A grocer by profession, he soon found the situation to be really
bad and decided to move his family to safety. The family relocated to
120 miles south of their original house. Nearly four years later, some
people turned up at his new house and asked him if they could use it for
a special occasion. Mclean, thus became an unwitting celebrity in history.
 What is his unusual claim to fame? Where was his second house
located ?

 The US Civil War began in Mclean’s front yard and ended in his
front parlor. The first battle of the war (First Battle of Bull Run)
had ruined the dinner at his original house. He relocated to a
town called Appamatox Court House. The surrender of Robert
Lee to Ulysses Grant happened in the front parlor of Mclean’s
second house.

 +10/-5.

Surrenders in History
 Suhrawardy Udyan (originally Ramna Race Course) – Surrender
of Gen Niazi and the Pakistan army to J S Aurora.
 Hattin – Surrender of the Crusaders of Jersusalem to Saladin.
 Humayun’s Tomb – Surrender of Bahadur Shah Zafar to the
British forces.
 Stalingrad – Surrender of Field Marshal Paulus and the German
6th army to the Soviets.
 Alesia, Gaul - Surrender of Vercingetorix to Julius Caesar.
 Compiegne – Surrender of Germany in WWII (was also the
venue of an armistice in WWI)
 USS Missouri – Surrender of Japan in WWII
 Appamatox Court House – Surrender of Robert Lee and the
Confederate Army to Ulysses Grant.

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