Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

KAUSHIK BANERJEE
MEMORIAL QUIZ 4.0
25th March 2017
SET BY:
SAMANWAY BANERJEE

THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS:
PRITHWISH DATTA DEBANJAN BOSE

THE DEAL:
4 written rounds of 3 questions each.
2 Infinite Bounce and Pounce rounds of 15 questions each.

WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
Alliterations
Mythbreakers
Q-poems
Swansong

WRITTEN ROUND 1.0
3 questions on MYTHS and MYTHBREAKERS.
+5 for each correct answer.
Stake for +5/-5.
Put an * to let others know that you have staked.

1. Apt name for whose biography?
25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2.
One of the greatest myth figures ever, he didn’t return from his visit to the
New World (America) with England’s first potatoes and tobacco. Though he is
said to have introduced potatoes in 1586, they were first grown in Italy in
1585, and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English
Channel). Also, though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette
addictions, Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to
France in 1560. Tobacco spread to England from France, not the New World.
 Who is this person?

3. What does he say next?

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER
SHEETS:

Walter Raleigh

WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT,
PRINT THE LEGEND

INFINITE BOUNCE 1.0
15 questions.
2 strike rule, applicable for this round only.
No negative on pounce.

AUDIENCE Q:
Before L.K Advani could harness the grapes of rath, it was X who
transformed his vintage Chevrolet van, normally used for outdoor,
into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham'.
Who was this flamboyant politician?

NT RAMA RAO

1.
American squadrons, or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had
typical fierce, death-defying titles.
In 1930, a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats
of aviation, and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a
particular two-word name based it on the film.
The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s
and the third Squadron had that name.
 Arvid Olsen, who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron,
suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17, 1948, by the
Bishop family in Fontana, California.
1. A

2.
“The Curse of Minerva” was one of the satirical poems of X, written in Athens
in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece. The poem was printed in
England for private circulation only, but it was pirated and read extensively in
the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England. X refused to
authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in
England. The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against
somebody for a certain decision.
In a memorandum published in 1810, the concerned person defended his
action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks.
Who was X? Why was the poem written?
A

LORD BYRON
• Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of ELGIN, took the MARBLES and
transported them to Britain.

3.
Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering, others
tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice.
In 1971, the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study
and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause
irritation. No one since has proved or disproved his idea.
Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying? (5)
Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis? (5)
A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently
hunt humans?
• Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

4.
On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States.
What connects them?
A

Place: Moundsville;
Use: Haunted house attraction as well as a
wedding venue

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace, a nonprofit campus for the
homeless, where social service workers are helping residents find a
way out.

5.
On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the
Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes, in 1953. Later, his
proposals were not taken.
Who is the artist? (7)
Who features on it? (3)
A

MC ESCHER; ANTON VON
LEEUWENHOEK

6.
In a 2009 essay, ‘Counterfactual Investing’, Cabot Research noted that
“Emotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have
been,” and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret. An often-cited
example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes. People who
just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who
missed it by a mile. The closer you were to making the flight, the easier it is to
construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret.
In the 1995 study, ‘When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and
Satisfaction among _______ _______’, the researchers explained their findings
with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of
sports.
What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)?
A

For the silver medallist, the obvious counterfactual alternative is
capturing the gold. To the bronze medallist, it is finishing without
a medal. In other words, the silver medallists think about how
close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists
think about how close they came to not medalling (phew!).

7.
In 1936, the year of Ashok Kumar’s acting debut, Niranjan Pal and Himanshu
Rai had a major falling out. Pal had written some articles for a magazine
named Filmland, which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign
technicians in Indian films. Some of them specifically cited the example of
Franz Osten. Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such
controversial opinions in print. Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies,
never to look back again. Pal was replaced by X. Within two years of his
joining, three films were released by Bombay Talkies, Nirmala, Vachan and
Durga.
Who replaced Niranjan Pal, in Bombay Talkies, who would continue giving
inputs in movies till 1952?
A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

8. Which group of people??? X???
Besides developing idlis, sambar and coconut chutney for a
particular group of people, the person in the picture also
spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same
purpose.
After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed, the
syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in
water. Xs are apt because “they have a beautiful texture that
does not disintegrate easily”.
Well, culinary innovations from him aren’t unexpected, given
his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore.
A

DR. K. RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made
Rosogollas for astronauts

WRITTEN ROUND 2.0
3 questions on alliterative answers.
Stake for +5/-5.

1.ID this gentleman whose moment under
the sun came on 23rd Aug, 1921 at San
Francisco?

2.
"The Raincoats" is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on
NBC on April 28, 1994. In the Part 2 of the said episode, Jerry and Rachel go to
see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not
been alone in such a long time. Newman, also in the cinema, spots them and is
visibly angered.
In an interview, Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were
included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned
movie.
So, after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the
references?

This is what Elaine has to say…

3.
What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose,
when the team sported such a jersey, contrary to the one we know,
during the early 1980s?

GOBOR GOHO

When he was filming Schindler's List in 1993, Spielberg admitted he
often got depressed. His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and
cheer up.

9.
19,121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31, 1985. The
event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television,
making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the
United States at the time.
Several celebrities, most notably Muhammad Ali, Liberace (with the The
Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared
during the main event.
Which event be this?
A

WRESTLEMANIA I

10. One of India’s most distinguished diplomats, C Dasgupta has
been an Ambassador to China and the European Union. One of
booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir, 1947-48, is largely based
documents that have now been declassified.
“In 1947, when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir, Britain decided to adopt a
pro-Pakistan tilt — not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of
British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern
policy. Unfortunately for India, the British minister in charge of executing this policy,
X, had few scruples in exceeding his instructions.” X decided to take a totally anti-
India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government
and deliberately misrepresented India’s position to his own government.
The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US
position too. Dasgupta says: “In 1947-48, Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir
legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharaja’s accession. In February 1948, the
Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution
that he wanted to move in the UN, which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its
troops in Kashmir.”
Who was X, whose name is quite familiar, courtesy an old-chestnut.
A

PHILIP NOEL BAKER
• The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal
as well as a Nobel Prize.

11.
Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics, a
company he co-founded, Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing
data from reflection seismology, a method of estimating properties of Earth’s
subsurface using reflected seismic waves. His innovations were great for
finding oil, and they reportedly made him a lot of money.
Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributor’s wife over and
realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used
in another field as well.
Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while
others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery.
What in today’s world was conceptualized by him?
A

AUTO-TUNE

12.
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of
government in Australian history. During the 19th century, it was widely
referred to as the Great Rebellion.
The then Governor of New South Wales, was deposed by the New South
Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely
with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur
Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia.
Who was this Governor?
A

WILLIAM BLIGH

1.
A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saint’s greatest
disciple. Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint, and wished
to be buried beside his beloved master. The poet’s devotion to the Sufi has
been enshrined in a tradition—devotees first offer prayers at his tomb,
and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his master’s tomb.
ID the 2 persons in question.
13
.
A

AMIR KHUSRAU & NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
• In the vicinity are Jahanara’s as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeela’s
tombs.

14.
From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school, we have seen that
the north side is up, while the southern section is downwards. For those who
don’t just take it for granted, the common answer is that Europeans made the
maps and they wanted to be on top.
However, some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the
south as up, because it equated something of geographical significance to that
of the force of gravity.
Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation?
A

EGYPT; The northward flow of RIVER
NILE

15. Put pun, da…
Right after Operation Polo, the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet
Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him, but some say, he was
advised as prudent, some say he was coerced to receive him. It is said that
when Patel saw the Nizam waiting, he commented, ‘So, ___ ________ ________ is
there’, a subtle pun referencing his title.
Researching on it further, I came to know that the same 3 word term was
used on Bhupinder Singh, the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his
“Inside Asia” to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable
part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it.
A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

WRITTEN ROUND 3.0
3 questions, in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one).
Stake for +5/-5.

AUDIENCE Q:
In a video that’s not so hazy,
She says these people are driving her crazy.
Then she utters those five words, immortal,
Touted by the netizens as savage and brutal.
She gradually takes over all Internet.
With no further words of regret.

YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

1.
The industrial sector starting from the north-east,
To the Great Lakes and Midwest,
Started to shrink and fade away.
Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with),
So, people called these places the ____ ____.

2.
Rainier III as the ruling prince,
The land did not see a longer monarch since.
Her wife’s fatal accident then
And he gracefully refused to marry again.
This place went on to become a hit.
After it promised a tax benefit.

3.
On the floor behind her,
Among other things is a foot warmer.
Light brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist,
Her linen cap and blue apron, thus look best.
The earthenware container adds to her profile,
As she goes about her daily task, with a faint smile.

RUST BELT

MONACO

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

INFINITE BOUNCE 2.0
15 questions.
2 strike rule applies.

1.
John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living
in the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler.
None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today, though.
Close to 5 decades ago, Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a
boat. 6 months later, he arrived in Florida, becoming the first person to row
across an ocean solo.
Fairfax became the talk of the town, but only for a day. His bad timing didn’t
allow him to bask in the adulation of the media.
Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral?
A

The date was July 19, 1969.
On July 20, 1969, all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11
astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon.

2.
On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January, the All Nippon News
Network asked somebody, in response to an urban legend that has been
circulating and the person replied in the affirmative.
He said, “I thought I had to depict people who are ill with what’s clearly called
an incurable disease, but who are living as best they can…” He further added
that for the same, he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo.
The original Japanese version doesn’t use the word “leprosy,” and instead
uses the Japanese word “gyobyo” (incurable disease).
Who is the concerned person? What is the urban legend? (3+7)
A

HAYAO MIYAZAKI
• A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted the Princess
Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English, pointing out that the
characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are
believed to actually have leprosy (Hansen’s Disease).

3. What happened right after this
photograph was taken?
A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine
and died.

4.
Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the
1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event.
However, he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James
Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898. What?
Though later banned, an alternative technique of what was named after him
which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the
United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect, even in Tom and Jerry?
A

Developing an early set of rules
for HANDBALL

CPR

5.
Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank and
Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company, who orchestrated the entire act.
Three of the men—Strank, Sousley, and Block—died soon after the act.
Strank, the eldest of the men, was the first to die, killed by friendly fire. The
three survivors—Gagnon, Hayes, and Bradley—handled the attention they
received from their participation in different ways, some better than others.
Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war, and
Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor. Gagnon
allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity, dying from
a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor.
Which ‘act’ be this?
A

6.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline:
“Defending your rights in the digital world”. One of its frequently
sold products include a small thing, whose popularity increased
manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and
uploaded his pic (next slide).
FBI’s director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use.
What am I talking about?
A

WEBCAM STICKERS

7.
Late in his life, at the age of 77, upon being impressed with a meeting with
Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England, Thomas was instrumental in
helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first
visit there in 1931.Later, though, he became disenchanted with Baba.
In his early life, he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job
more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then
hired by a professor at Boston University.
He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time
and then set up his own machine shop.
How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the
aforementioned professor?
A

8
Born and raised in rural Indiana, a childhood love of art and comics led the
garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing
in New York, before spending several months sign painting and learning
remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s. There he created his first
website to share photographs he'd taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy
disc camera with family and friends.
He oversees in-house 10 artists, and works with four engineers and two
producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across
the world, as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as
possible.
He and his team is behind which almost everyday ‘phenomenon’?
A

GOOGLE DOODLES

FOR AUDIENCE:
This doodle celebrates the Republic Day
of which country?

ITALY

WRITTEN ROUND 4.0
3 questions on swansongs.
Stake for +5/-5.

1.
Whether or not Riding With Death
is X’s final painting is still up for
debate. The work certainly has a
morbid quality about it that evokes
a sense of an ending, and the artist
painted it shortly before his own
death from a heroin overdose.
Which member of the 28-club?

2. This is the last song sung by someone
(X). The last verse is sung by another guy
(Y) associated with the same entity.
The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 2/3 of the
song before deciding he was too tired and he'd come back to finish the
song later.

3. Still from a director’s last movie. Whatever is blanked out
is a reference to an earlier movie, one of the most famous
ones made by the director. Which director and Which 5 letter
word fills the blank?

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER
SHEETS:

1.
Whether or not Riding With Death
is X’s final painting is still up for
debate. The work certainly has a
morbid quality about it that evokes
a sense of an ending, and the artist
painted it shortly before his own
death from a heroin overdose.
Which member of the 28-club?

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

FREDDIE MERCURY; BRIAN
MAY
May explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that "Freddie
would say 'give me words, I will sing' so there I was writing on scraps of
paper these lines of 'Mother Love.' I would give him a line, he would
sing it, then sing it again, then sing it again - so we only had three takes
of everything. After he'd finished the second verse, he said 'Oh I don't
feel too well, I'm going to go home and we'll finish it tomorrow'... and
he never did. That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studio."
The final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years
after Mercury died in November 1991.

Alfred Hitchcock; BATES
Avenue
This is from FAMILY PLOT

AUDIENCE Q:
• The background score of Family Plot was done by whom?

John Williams
• His only collaboration with Hitch

9.
This species of primates, that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of
endangered species, gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body
features with that of another ‘royal’ mammal.
Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the
male member of the said mammalian species, which also gives it its German
name, Bartaffe.
ID the species, also known as the wanderoo. Also, what is the similarity?
A

Lion-tailed macaque.
Physical feature is the mane, just like a lion.
Bartaffe means beard-ape…

10.
In 1987, workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the
world. The frame was finished two years later—a little behind schedule, the
structure was supposed to open in 1989. Then in 1992, after the collapse of
the Soviet Union, work stopped completely.
The 105-story, 1,083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capital's
skyline.
Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom, what is it the largest kind of?
Also, id the capital city as referred to?
A

Largest abandoned building;
Pyongyang

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja, a PhD
candidate of Anthropology at New York University.
The docu opens with a shot of New York City’s iconic ______ ______
and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West
Bengal where they are produced. The production process is
depicted from the start to the finish, and although the film was shot
over many days, it has been edited to look like it takes place over a
working day.
So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah?
11.
A

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS
A QUIZ BY: SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12.
Rachel Beer, while she was the Editor of The Observer, bought the Sunday
Times in 1893. For a short period she edited both papers – quite unthinkable
today.
She began contributing articles to The Observer, which the Beer family then
owned, after marrying Frederick. In 1891, she took over as editor, becoming
the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process. Two years later,
she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as
well. Though "not . . . a brilliant editor", she was known for her "occasional
flair and business-like decisions".
Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century, who
was her father?
A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON, son of David
Sassoon.

13.
In this fast-paced world, this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so
often that people often forget that in a phrase, which according to
etymologists, referred to hanging up animals for slaughter, who would then,
in their death throes, kick a beam.
Back in 1999, the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that
phrase when he began jotting down something, which got shortened and gave
rise to a 2007 film.
The film’s release brought the phrase into common parlance, and, as a
testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds, many people assume the
term must have long predated the movie.
A

• Justin began composing a checklist that
he called, “Justin’s list of things to do
before he kicks the bucket.”
• After finishing the list, he thought of a
more succinct title for it: “Justin’s
bucket list.”

14.
The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947, but was left unresolved
during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It became
a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Particular prominence
was given to the dispute at the time of Croatia's accession to the European
Union. As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved, and the line of
control mostly corresponds to Serbia's claim.
Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place, what made
these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)?
A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
The river changed its course.
Croatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one.

15.
When Dharam Bir Sharma, one of the partners of this eatery, was asked, he
said, “He was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma, ever since he first
dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago. After that he’d drop by every day
when he stayed here for a chat with my father. One day, he said a portion of
the wall should be cleaned...”
“Around 30 years ago, X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just
couldn’t find the kind he liked. So I took him to …. which was more popular
among taxi-drivers back then,” reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh.
Which eatery?
Also, why was the wall cleaned, which made a huge difference to the footfall?
A

AZAD HIND DHABA; M.F HUSSAIN

That was in 1996. The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch
done by the master in two hours. That was the turning point for the
dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery.
The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour
the sketch and modify parts of the painting. He changed “the horse to
an elephant” and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to
replace it with the words Gaja Gamini.

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