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Finals

4 Rounds Round 1 : 7 Questions –Written Round 2 : 15 Questions – Bounce and Pounce Round 3 : 7 Questions –Written Round 4 : 15 Questions – Bounce and Pounce

Written Round 7 Questions Topic : Magazines +10 for each answer. Bonus 10 for getting all answers right.

Round 1

She was born in Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, whereher father was a surgeon in the Madras Civil Service. Shesharpened her talents in culinary art, which she inheritedfrom her father during her time with him. A new turn in herlife came when her father-in-law asked her to prepare arecipe to be published in the newspaper he edited. Shewent on to publish 21 cookbooks and made contributions inthe areas of journalism, music, cookery and social welfare.

Who? Which magazine did she found in 1975, the largest inIndia by circulation?

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This is a type of puzzle introduced by Scientific Americanin their website in 2006. The goal of the player is to solvethe 9x9 grid with letters with the condition that eachletter must appear only once in a row or column. Once thegrid is solved, one of the rows or columns provides theanswer to the science clue given at the beginning.

Name this puzzle. Image follows

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Kungumam is a Tamil entertainment weekly published inChennai since 1977 by Sun Network. It is one of the top-selling Tamil magazines along with Ananda Vikatan andKumudam.

What is the tagline of the magazine which would remindyou of an iconic Malayalam movie dialogue?

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This is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional orjournal size magazine but larger than a paperback book,approximately 14cm x 21cm, but also can be 13.65cm x21.27cm and 14cm x 19cm. This format was considered tobe a convenient size for readers to tote around or to leaveon the coffee table within easy reach. It is called catalog-size by the printing presses.

What is this magazine size called?

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Founded in 1958 by Mitoshi Uyehara, this is an Americanmartial arts and combat sports magazine. Uyehara was aspecialist in Aikido and was a close friend of Bruce Leeeven before he attained stardom. Uyehara sensed Lee’stalent and featured him extensively in his publications. Leereturned the favour when he attained stardom byproviding direct interviews to Uyehara and by contributingmany articles to the magazine.

What is the alliterative name of the magazine?

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After realizing that there is no support system for Indianrock musicians apart from college fests, Amit Saigal andShena Gamat Saigal started this magazine in Allahabad inJanuary, 1993. Covering the rock scene in India and SouthAsia, this monthly magazine also organizes the GreatIndian Rock Festival to promote the original music of newand upcoming rock bands in India.

Which magazine is this, the name of which was based onthe largest newspaper in the United States by circulation?

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In 1885, an avid shooter named Arthur Corbin Gouldpublished The Rifle as an effort to focus discussion on thesport of rifle shooting. In 1888, it changed its name toShooting&Fishing, widening its scope to other outdoorsports. In 1923, it changed its name to American Rifleman.

The February 1963 issue of the magazine carried an ad ofa rifle from Klein’s Sporting Goods.

Put funda. Image follows

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She was born in Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, whereher father was a surgeon in the Madras Civil Service. Shesharpened her talents in culinary art, which she inheritedfrom her father during her time with him. A new turn in herlife came when her father-in-law asked her to prepare arecipe to be published in the newspaper he edited. Shewent on to publish 21 cookbooks and made contributions inthe areas of journalism, music, cookery and social welfare.

Who? Which magazine did she found in 1975, the largest inIndia by circulation?

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VanithaAnnamma Mathew(wife of KM Mathew)

This is a type of puzzle introduced by Scientific Americanin their website in 2006. The goal of the player is to solvethe 9x9 grid with letters with the condition that eachletter must appear only once in a row or column. Once thegrid is solved, one of the rows or columns provides theanswer to the science clue given at the beginning.

Name this puzzle. Image follows

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Sci-Doku

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Kungumam is a Tamil entertainment weekly published inChennai since 1977 by Sun Network. It is one of the top-selling Tamil magazines along with Ananda Vikatan andKumudam.

What is the tagline of the magazine which would remindyou of an iconic Malayalam movie dialogue?

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Best Kanna Best3

This is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional orjournal size magazine but larger than a paperback book,approximately 14cm x 21cm, but also can be 13.65cm x21.27cm and 14cm x 19cm. This format was considered tobe a convenient size for readers to tote around or to leaveon the coffee table within easy reach. It is called catalog-size by the printing presses.

What is this magazine size called?

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Digest4

Founded in 1958 by Mitoshi Uyehara, this is an Americanmartial arts and combat sports magazine. Uyehara was aspecialist in Aikido and was a close friend of Bruce Leeeven before he attained stardom. Uyehara sensed Lee’stalent and featured him extensively in his publications. Leereturned the favour when he attained stardom byproviding direct interviews to Uyehara and by contributingmany articles to the magazine.

What is the alliterative name of the magazine?

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After realizing that there is no support system for Indianrock musicians apart from college fests, Amit Saigal andShena Gamat Saigal started this magazine in Allahabad inJanuary, 1993. Covering the rock scene in India and SouthAsia, this monthly magazine also organizes the GreatIndian Rock Festival to promote the original music of newand upcoming rock bands in India.

Which magazine is this, the name of which was based onthe largest newspaper in the United States by circulation?

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Rock Street Journal6

In 1885, an avid shooter named Arthur Corbin Gouldpublished The Rifle as an effort to focus discussion on thesport of rifle shooting. In 1888, it changed its name toShooting&Fishing, widening its scope to other outdoorsports. In 1923, it changed its name to American Rifleman.

The February 1963 issue of the magazine carried an ad ofa rifle from Klein’s Sporting Goods.

Put funda. Image follows

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It was purchased by Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot JFK

Round 2

15 Questions : Clockwise Bounce : +10/0 Pounce : +10/-5 All the best.

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MB Sanal Kumar is a CA from Trivandrum. He audited theaccounts of a celebrated actor as well as an entrepreneur, aPadma Shri winner himself, whose company was named bycombining the names of his mother and daughter. This ishow the entrepreneur got acquainted with the actor.

The actor agreed to endorse the brandand has been often identified with thebrand.

Which company? Which actor?

1 PankajakasthuriMohanlal

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It is a French wireless products manufacturer based inParis, founded in 1994 by Christine/M De Tourvel, Jean-Pierre Talvard and Henri Seydoux.

It specializes in technologies involving voice recognitionand signal processing for embedded products and drones.It also develops products related to car technology.

Name the company.

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It is a well known fact that Sunil Dutt married Nargis afterrescuing her from a fire in the set of Mother India. DilipKumar had initially expressed his desire to do the role ofBirju but was declined by Nargis since she felt that thepublic would not find credible the idea of a formerlyromantic Jodi to play the role of mother and son.

The initial pick of Mehboob Khan for the role was neitherof them, but another actor who failed to get a workpermit from his country to do the film.

Who was this?

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Sabu Dastagir3

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Ugly Rumours is an English band whose original memberswere Mark Ellen and Adam Sharples. While studying lawat St. John’s college, he attended an audition to the bandand was subsequently selected, simply because he wasthe only contestant who knew all the words of the songthey were asked to sing.

Who was this, who became renowned in some other fielda two decades later?

4 Tony Blair

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Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai, earlier called CrawfordMarket, is one of South Mumbai’s most famous markets.

This fountain seen in the market as well as some friezes inthe buildings there, were designed by a then professor ofarchitecture at the JJ School of Arts.

Identify his more famous son. Image follows

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Rudyard Kipling(the architect was his father, John Lockwood Kipling)

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The guy in the picture won the Segrave Trophy in 2013 which is awarded to the British national who shows the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water.

What unique achievement does he hold?

John SurteesOnly person to have won World Championships in both

two and four wheels racing

Monument to the Great Fire of London, known simply asThe Monument is a Doric column in the city of London andcommemorates the disaster that happened in 1666. Thememorial was designed by Christopher Wren, one of themost highly acclaimed English architects in history, andX, known for his distinct contributions to biology andphysics, among other things.

Who? Image follows

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After Ahalya was turned into a stone statue by Gautama’scurse, Ahalya recounted the story to him where she wasbetrayed by Indra through disguise and requested to lifther punishment. Gautama said that he had no immediatesolution to lift the curse and that, in the future, Lord Ramawill come and touch her taking her back to life. Listeningto this solution, Ahalya lamented that it would take a 1000years for her to be back to life. Upon hearing this, the Rishibrought up a new solution.

What resulted from this?

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Tretayuga before Dwaparayuga

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His various contributions to the field of science include thediscovery of pepsin, organic nature of yeast and a type ofcell cluster that is now named after him. He also found outthat ovum is the single cell that eventually develops into awhole organism.

On a fine day, while dining with a botanist who discussedhis findings with him, he could draw a parallel from theplant world to the animal world, thus resulting in his mostfamous contribution.

Who was this?

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The newly formed state of Hyderabad after the princelystate was included as an Indian territory had 2 CMs beforeit became the state of Andhra.

One of them was a Malayali, an Indian civil servant whowas also the third cabinet secretary of India. The otherperson was not a Malayali, but also had a significant Keralaconnection.

Identify both. Image follows

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10MK Vellodi

B Ramakrishna Rao

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This 1894 ceramic sculpture ofOviri, the Tahitian Goddess ofMourning, by X, is said to havedirectly lead to a 1907 painting.However, art critics have citedEl Greco’s The Opening of theFifth Seal and The Bathers byCezanne to have a much moreinfluence on the same.

Identify the sculptor and thepainting.

Paul GauguinThe Young Ladies of Avignon (Picasso)

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He started poetry at the age of 10. His first anthology ofpoems, Penkutty Oru Rashtramaanu, published by DCBooks won the ‘Changampuzha Award for the Best YoungPoet’ in 1988. Later, he served as a sub-editor in MalayalaManorama before joining India Today. His wife is a veryfamous author.

Who is this, known in an entirely different field?

12 Roopesh Paul

The end of Napoleonic wars had resulted in famine andunemployment in England, exacerbated by the corn laws.The poor economic conditions coupled with the lack ofsuffrage had enhanced the appeal of political radicalism inNorthern England. In August 1819, a group agitating forreforms organised a demonstration to be addressed by thewell-known radical orator Henry Hunt at St. Peter’s Field inManchester. A cavalry charged into this crowd of 60,000-80,000 people, killing 11-15 and injuring 400-700 people.

What was this massacre named, in an ironic comparison toan event that took place 4 years earlier? What was foundedin 1821 after the police closure of an entity that supportedthe protestors, which took a new avatar in 1959?

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Peterloo MassacreManchester Guardian

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This is a Nabisco trademarked version of a dish, a pastryfilled with a paste made of a fruit. In the Book of Genesis,Adam and Eve is said to have clad themselves with thewith leaves of the crop after eating the forbidden fruitfrom the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The brand isnamed after a city in Massachusetts and not after afamous scientist.

Which fruit? What is the name of the brand? Image follows

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Newtons

Our Job in Japan was a US military training film made in1945, shortly after WW II. It was aimed at the Americantroops about to go to Japan to participate in the 1945-52Allied Occupation, and presents the problem of turning themilitarist state into a peaceful democracy. In 1947, it wasremade into a better documentary film titled Design forDeath which went on to win the Academy Award for theBest Documentary Feature.

Who wrote the film, also known for creating unorthodoxtaxidermy sculptures inspired by what he imagined animalswould want to be reincarnated as?

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Dr. Seuss15

Written Round 7 Questions Topic : Anything named after places. +10 for each answer. Bonus 10 for getting all answers right.

Round 3

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It is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Seaafter Sicily and is an autonomous region under Italy.

It gives its name to something, much popular in Kerala.

Which island? Image follows

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It is an American publishing houseowned entirely by parent companyRandom House. It was founded in1945 by Walter B Pitkin Jr, Sidney BKramer, Ian and Betty Ballantine.

Identify the company, which is alsothe American paperback publisherof the Guinness Book of Records.

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Though the city began producing this in 1295, they oftenvaried widely. A widespread dissatisfaction in this varyingstandards of the item prompted them to establish a city-owned manufacturing unit in 1842 and recruited a talentedman named Joseph Groll who created it in the modernform.

What are we talking about, which accounts for two-thirdsof its kind produced in the world?

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Kochklopse is a Prussian dish of meatballs in a white saucewith capers. Earlier named after a city in Prussia, the dishtook the name Kochklopse in the German DemocraticRepublic to avoid any references to its namesake city,which in the aftermath of WW II was annexed by USSR.

Which ‘enigmatic’ city was it initially named after? Imagefollows

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Chicago Screw, also called barrel bolt, is a type of fastenerthat has a barrel shaped flange and a protruding boss thatis internally threaded. The boss sits within the componentsbeing fastened, the flange provides the bearing surface.

How are they better known? Image follows

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It was invented in 1944 and patented in 1958 by a violinistwith the Denver Symphony Orchestra and friend of localpoliticians and police department officials, Frank Marugg.The police department needed it to enforce somethingwhich was often violated evading their eyes.

What is this device, also called Denver Boot, used for?What was it used to enforce? Image follows

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Legend has it that when the Phrygians were without aking, an oracle at Telmissus decreed that the next man toenter the city driving an ox-cart should be their king. Apeasant farmer drove into the town in an ox-cart and wasdeclared the king. Out of gratitude, his son dedicated theox-cart to the Phrygian God Sabazios and tied it to a postintricately with a cornel bark.

What term originated from this legend? Who was this son,more famous for another ability?

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It is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Seaafter Sicily and is an autonomous region under Italy.

It gives its name to something, much popular in Kerala.

Which island? Image follows

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1 Sardinia(gives name to Sardine)

It is an American publishing houseowned entirely by parent companyRandom House. It was founded in1945 by Walter B Pitkin Jr, Sidney BKramer, Ian and Betty Ballantine.

Identify the company, which is alsothe American paperback publisherof the Guinness Book of Records.

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Bantam Books

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Though the city began producing this in 1295, they oftenvaried widely. A widespread dissatisfaction in this varyingstandards of the item prompted them to establish a city-owned manufacturing unit in 1842 and recruited a talentedman named Joseph Groll who created it in the modernform.

What are we talking about, which accounts for two-thirdsof its kind produced in the world?

3Pilsner

(from Pilsen, Czech Republic)

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Kochklopse is a Prussian dish of meatballs in a white saucewith capers. Earlier named after a city in Prussia, the dishtook the name Kochklopse in the German DemocraticRepublic to avoid any references to its namesake city,which in the aftermath of WW II was annexed by USSR.

Which ‘enigmatic’ city was it initially named after? Imagefollows

Konisberg4

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Chicago Screw, also called barrel bolt, is a type of fastenerthat has a barrel shaped flange and a protruding boss thatis internally threaded. The boss sits within the componentsbeing fastened, the flange provides the bearing surface.

How are they better known? Image follows

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Sex Bolts

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It was invented in 1944 and patented in 1958 by a violinistwith the Denver Symphony Orchestra and friend of localpoliticians and police department officials, Frank Marugg.The police department needed it to enforce somethingwhich was often violated evading their eyes.

What is this device, also called Denver Boot, used for?What was it used to enforce? Image follows

Wheel ClampsParking Tickets

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Legend has it that when the Phrygians were without aking, an oracle at Telmissus decreed that the next man toenter the city driving an ox-cart should be their king. Apeasant farmer drove into the town in an ox-cart and wasdeclared the king. Out of gratitude, his son dedicated theox-cart to the Phrygian God Sabazios and tied it to a postintricately with a cornel bark.

What term originated from this legend? Who was this son,more famous for another ability?

7Gordian Knot

Midas

Round 4

15 Questions : Anti-clockwise Bounce : +10/0 Pounce : +10/-5 All the best.

The orchestration of the movie was done by the BudapestSymphony Orchestra and the songs were recorded inHungary. This was the first time in Indian cinema, thebackground score of a film was recorded completelyoutside the country. Which movie?

The movie was inspired by a person whose followers builta monument called Parnasala in the compound where helived. What material was this monument made of? Imagefollows

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GuruMakrana Marble

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He was a French minster of finance (1754-56) whopursued a daring economic policy, bordering liberalism,while trying to straighten out theroyal finances.

What is named after him?

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Seychelles(After Jean Moreau de Sechelles)

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A hiking trip to Eagle Mountain in USA, made the founderof this company realize that a certain part of a mountain inthe northern hemisphere is generally the coldest, iciestand the most formidable route to climb.

Later, when he started a company specializing in outdoorwear, coats, fleece, shirts, footwear and equipment suchas backpacks, tents and sleeping bags, the name chosenfor the company stemmed from this realization.

Which company are we talking about?

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Twisti-Twosti was a table-top game in which the objectiveof the player is to bounce a tennis ball on a table so that itcould not be caught by an opposing player.

While trying various methods to defy the ball from beingcaught by the opponent, in the 1890s, a student fromOxford came up with something with which he climbedup the ranks despite not being an expert in his field.

What are we talking about?

Googly(Bernard Bosanquet)

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Tigala is a social group found in Karnataka and Tamil Nadutraditionally occupying their livelihood as gardeners offlowers and vegetables. It is claimed that a certain rulerencouraged them to settle in a particular city to help in acertain ‘project’.

The result of this ‘project’ was enriched in the late 19th

century by something named after the man pictured whoalso laid its foundation in 1889.

What was this ‘project’ all about? What was this late 19th

century enrichment? Image follows

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Lal BaghGlass House

(the Glass House is named The Albert Victor Observatory)

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One of the myths behind the origin of this practice is thatit was introduced to bring discipline among the Gurkhaswho were extremely talkative.

A more scientific explanation is that it prevents the attackof the enemies which is easier when used in the more usualway.

What are we talking about?

Why do some military helmets have straps that go under the bottom lip instead of on the chin?

William Ernest Henley was an influential poet, editor andcritic of the late-Victorian era in England. His most famouspoem was Invictus, which ended with the lines I am themaster of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. In a letter tohim, a friend wrote: “I will now make a confession. It wasthe sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness thatbegot X...the idea of the maimed man, ruling and dreadedby the sound, was entirely taken from you.”

The character has also inspired the name of a restaurantchain specializing in seafood, the first of which was openedin Lexington, Kentucky in 1969.

Which character did Henley inspire?

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Long John Silver7

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Eileen Grey was an Irish architect and furniture designerand a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.

What is this chair designed by Grey called?

8 Bibendum Chair

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Cyrus Mistry is an Indian author and playwright. In his 2013novel, he depicts the life of Phiroze Elchidana, son of apriest. He falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an oldKhandhia. In order to marry her, he agrees to join theircaste and do their traditional job.

What does the Khandhia’s do?

Carrying the Parsi dead bodies to the Tower of Silence

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Moth Smoke is a 2000 novel written by Mohsin Hamidwhich tells the story of a banker in Lahore who loses hisjob and falls in love with his friend’s wife and plunges into alife of drugs and crime. It uses the trial of X as an allegoryfor the state of Pakistan at the time of 1998 nuclear tests.

The protagonist was also named as a tribute to X, who, inhis work Sirr-e-Akbar, opined that the kithab-al-maknun orthe hidden book mentioned in Quran is none other than theUpanishads. Further, his book Majmaul Bahrain was alsodevoted to the mystic and pluralistic affinities of Sufic andVedantic speculation.

Who?

10 Dara Shikoh

After incurring the rage of Lord Kitchener, a British soldier,Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was denied entry toShimla. This incensed the Maharaja who built a summerretreat for himself in the land allotted to him by the Britishdue to his assistance during the Anglo-Nepalese war.

Identify the place where he built his summer retreat whichalso holds a record for having the highest of its kind in theworld.

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Chail, HP11

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It involves taking mundane, often utilitarian objects notgenerally considered to be art and transforming them, byadding to them, changing them, or simply renaming andplacing them in a gallery setting. What is this artistic stylecalled?

The seemingly incomprehensible name of this renownedartwork when read in French translates to she is hot in theass. Which famous artwork?

12 Ready-madesL.H.O.O.Q (by Duchamp)

Meera is a 1945 Tamil film directed by American filmdirector Ellis. R. Dungan and had MS Subbalakshmi, TSBaliah, Kumari Kamala and Chittoor V Nagaiah in the leadroles. MGR also did a minor role in the film. The film wasbased on the devotional singer and dancer Meera.

What is so unique about the film?

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Only film in which two Bharat Ratna awardees acted.

Project X-ray was an experimental project by the UnitedStates during WW II. It aimed at creating a bomb havingover a thousand compartments, each consisting of a ___,with incendiaries attached to them. Dropped from abomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute inmid-flight and release them from each compartment. Astheir prime target was Japan, this method was foundsuitable due to the susceptibility of Japanese structureswhich were made out of wood or other highly flammablematerials.

What were filled inside these bombs?

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BatsWhen released, the bats cling on to the eaves and attics of the

buildings and cause a fire from the incendiaries attached to them.

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In 1676, he visited this region and set up an observatorywith a large sextant with telescopic sights to catalogue thestars of the southern hemisphere. He observed a transit ofMercury and realized that a similar transit of Venus can beused to determine the absolute size of the solar system. In1679, he published his observations in the book CatalogusStellarum Australium which included the details of 341stars. This earned him the nickname The SouthernTycho.

Who? Where did he conduct this study, a location betterknown for something else that took place about a centuryand four decades later?

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