MONTHLY QUIZ -NOVEMBER

QM : Kalilur Rahman

(Some) Question Credits :• Subrata Dass • Novartis Quiz Team • Your’s Quizzically• KQA

• The graveyard of the St. Pancras Old Church dating back to the Norman era stands out for the architectural uniqueness of one of the tombs.

• It is the family vault of the Soane family created by Sir John Soane himself in 1816 originally for his deceased wife. Soane himself was also interred here after his death in 1837.

• Soane was a leading architect of the time and a number of prominent buildings in London still bear testimony to his creativity.

• Soane was also a well-known collector of ancient and classical artifacts and his house, now a museum was a magnified version of a WUNDERKRAMMER.

• Soane's tomb though attained iconic status in 1924 when the Royal Fine Art Commission invited design ideas for XXXXXX.

• The design submitted by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was finally selected. Scott, a celebrated architect himself, received the invitation at a time when he became a trustee of Sir John Soane Museum.

• Scott only found it fitting to pay tribute to his predecessor by adopting the design of Soane's mausoleum at the old churchyard of St. Pancras.

AND THE ANSWER IS

Iconic London Telephone Box.... Says Dr.Who

What are these postures Popularly known as?

AND THE ANSWER IS

BLACKBERRY PRAYER

In Old ROMAN Courts, Instead of taking Oath on the Sacred Books, Men used to swear using X. Word Y originated from X.

If proved false, X of the liars were fed to the dogs tied nearby.

This punishment could be powerful even today – especially for politicians.

What are X and Y? (5 Pts Each)

AND THE ANSWER IS

TESTIFY from TESTES

IDENTIFY BOTH THE LOGOS FOR A FULL POINT. NO PARTIAL.

AND THE ANSWER IS

WEINSTEIN COMPANY WHISTLING WOODS INTERNATIONAL

CONNECT THE THREE WITH A FUNDA 5 POINTS EACH (SHIPS & PERSON)

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S.S CALIFORNIAN

HMS CARPATHIA

Jack George Phillips

Harold Bride

THE CAPTAIN OF THE SS CALIFORNIAN, STANLEY LORD

SS CALIFORNIAN COULD HAVE AVERTED THE DEATH OF MANY MORE FROM TITANIC AS IT MISSED OBVIOUS MESSAGES.

Once Evans’ message had reached the crewmen of Titanic, the warning was allegedly dismissed by an angry and tired Jack Phillips, who had tapped out: “Shut up! Shut up! I am busy. I am working Cape Race.”

The SS Californian, however, will be forever remembered and judged by history after it failed to promptly respond to the Titanic‘s distress signals, despite being only 20 miles away.

During that period, the SS Californian was under the command of Captain Stanley Lord. He took command a year earlier, and he found himself and his crew in the North Atlantic after leaving London on April 5, 1912, embarking on a journey to Boston. Records suggest that Stanley Lord’s ship happened to be close to empty, not having any passengers on board.

On the evening of April 14, 1912, the crew of SS Californian noted a number of large icebergs and, following the captain’s orders, halted for the night at around 10:20 PM. The captain preferred to remain in that spot for the night and then resume the route in the early morning.

Source: The Vintage News

1. WHAT ARE THESE? NAME 2. WHAT PURPOSE DID THEY SERVE?

FAMOUS DURING LATE 19TH CENTURY

AND THE ANSWER IS

1. VICTORIAN ERA MOUSTACHE CUPS2. TO PROTECT MUSH FROM THE DRINK.

FAMOUS DURING LATE 19TH CENTURY

Put the funda.A Tree, Forest and a statue of a person giving recognition to a legendPart Points abound

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T H E M A J O R O A K

R O B I N H O O D & M E R R Y M E N

S H E R W O O D F O R E S T

The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest giving protection to ROBIN HOOD & THE MERRYMEN

Easy – Identify the artistes

AND THE ANSWER IS

Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera

The X was first found in the designs of the Italian military engineer AgostinoRamelli in 1588. In most European countries in the 16th century, these item wereY and to do any research with them was, without doubt, a major undertaking.The wealthy, the scholars, and the priests did the most reading. Items were Z.

AND THE ANSWER IS

X = Book Wheel Y = Heavy & LARGE

Z = HAND PRINTED & EXPENSIVE

Setup by STALIN In 1947, What are the following seven popularly known as1.Moscow State University, Sparrow Hills2.Hotel Ukraina– Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow3.Ministry of Foreign Affairs4.Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel5.Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building6.Kudrinskaya Square Building7.Red Gates Administrative Building

AND THE ANSWER IS

Setup by STALIN In 1947, What are the following seven popularly known as1.Moscow State University, Sparrow Hills2.Hotel Ukraina– Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow3.Ministry of Foreign Affairs4.Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel5.Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building6.Kudrinskaya Square Building7.Red Gates Administrative Building

SEVEN SISTERSSKYSCRAPERS

Identify the 1888 Advertiser

Identify the Advertiser

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Enjoy the Kodak Moment

Enjoy the Kodak Moment

• This Indian politician was reviled widely in the West. Terms such as "Mephistopheles in a Savile Row suit", "the snake charmer with hooded eyes", "the Devil incarnate" etc. were used to refer to him, and Time put him on its cover with a snake hissing behind his head.

• He secured the publication of EM Forster's A Passage To India and was instrumental in obtaining international support for India's annexation of Goa.

• Identify this person famous for a 7 hour 58 minute speech on the floor of the UN. His speech allowed Nehru the time to consolidate Indian control in Kashmir. He is said to have fainted at the end of it.

AND THE ANSWER IS

V.K. Krishna Menon

• “Mrs Tashi Hishey” was a flight attendant on Air India VIP flights and Times FM radio jockey for some time before assuming flight crew training roles in various airline operators.

• Her last known location was somewhere in NZ, where she settled down to a typical suburban housewife's role.

• What famous thing was created on her trip to Kodaikanal?

AND THE ANSWER IS

The Liril Falls / Ad and the Eponymous Liril Girl!

• A seminal text regarding this concept uses a speech delivered at a Fourth of July celebration as an example. During the 1980 presidential election, a political advertisement on the radio referred to Carter, Reagan, and Anderson whilst invoking this concept.

• Some have alleged that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign did not use lies, but rather used this concept.

• Name this concept describing speech that disregards the truth to impress, most famously described in a book on said concept by Harry Frankfurt.

AND THE ANSWER IS

• A seminal text regarding this concept uses a speech delivered at a Fourth of July celebration as an example. During the 1980 presidential election, a political advertisement on the radio referred to Carter, Reagan, and Anderson whilst invoking this concept.

• Some have alleged that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign did not use lies, but rather used this concept.

• Name this concept describing speech that disregards the truth to impress, most famously described in a book on said concept by Harry Frankfurt.

• BULLSHIT

• One of the most famous French dessert items is actually Austrian. Earlier known as a ‘Kipferl’ it was in various shapes.

• The iconic shape it has now has a few interesting origin stories.

• The prevalent one is that a baker in Vienna found a group of Turkish soldiers trying to tunnel into the city through his bakery and blew up the tunnel.

• To commemorate the incident he started baking the item in a shape which signifies the Turks. What popular breakfast pastry is this?

AND THE ANSWER IS

• One of the most famous French dessert items is actually Austrian. Earlier known as a ‘Kipferl’ it was in various shapes.

• The iconic shape it has now has a few interesting origin stories. • The prevalent one is that a baker in Vienna found a group of Turkish

soldiers trying to tunnel into the city through his bakery and blew up the tunnel.

• To commemorate the incident he started baking the item in a shape which signifies the Turks. What popular breakfast pastry is this?

• CROISSANT• Kipferl

• On an episode of Suddenly Susan, this individual hopes another character has a good lawyer after the latter declares that the money he wins in a card game is the only income he has received that has not been garnished by a certain bank.

• In an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, this individual’s arrival causes another individual to almost faint.

• This individual has body-slammed Vince McMahon and once helped Kevin find a hotel lobby in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

• Name this businessman and reality show host who is famous in a different field recently

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• According to Greek mythology, Athena and Poseidon agreed that whoever gave the city the best gift would become guardian over the city. Though Poseidon gave the gift of water, Athena’s gift was deemed by the other gods to be more valuable (apparently that’s why the capital is named after her).

• What gift did she give that plays an important role in Greek culture, economy, cuisine and history for more than 10,000 years? A part of it has become a key word in diplomacy and world culture in cross national negotiations in times of trouble

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Olive Tree

• This World Heritage site, also known as Tadmur or Tadmor, was once an important city that had a central position in linking Europe and Asia on the Silk Route.

• The more famous name, by an accident of orthography, is spelt exactly like the common English name for the plant species Borassus flabellifer.

• What is this name?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Palmyra

Japanese Lieutenant General TadamichiKuribayashi’s final words:

“Arrows and bullets are exhausted … Sorrow comes as I fall”

were heard before the takeover of which crucial Japanese base?

AND THE ANSWER IS

IWO JIMA

• In the 1980s, for what was to later become his Nobel-prize winning work, Masatoshi Koshiba, drawing on the work done by Raymond Davis Jr, constructed an underground neutrino detector in a zinc mine in Japan.

• It was an enormous water tank surrounded by detectors to sense flashes of light produced when neutrinos interacted with atoms in water molecules.

• A similar experiment was done in the 1960s in India by V S Narasimham, Goku Menon and others. In which mine did they conduct the experiments?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Kolar Gold Mines

• A progressive-rock band fronted by FarazAnwar is Mizraab is used to play a well-known musical instrument. Mizraab had successful stints such as Maazi, Haal, Mustaqbil ("past, present, future") , their second studio album, is credited to be one of the first Urdu metal album. What Instrument players use MIZRAABprimarily?

AND THE ANSWER IS

SITAR

• Called Yakhchal, you can still see some of these structures standing in and around Iran. These are believed to one of the earliest examples of what?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Yakhchal in Persian means ‘ice-pit’; so these are the earliest refrigerators

Which country celebrated the golden jubilee of its constitution, with a spectacular $15 million fireworks display on November 10, 2012? The 77,282 fireworks launched over the period of an hour in the capital city earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest fireworks display of all time.

AND THE ANSWER IS

Kuwait

• After the Danes lost the Battle of Bornhbved in 1227, the Slav-inhabited region south of the Baltic Sea became available for German colonization.

• The bishops and dukes of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Uckermark and Prignitz sent out glib "locators", or medieval recruitment officers, offering rich rewards for relocation.

• Thousands of young adults from Lower Saxony and Westphalia headed east - there are five villages called Hindenburg running in a straight line from Westphalia to Pomerania, as well as three eastern Spiegel bergs.

• This trail of history and etymology may explain which fairy tale?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Pied Piper of Hamelin The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper, the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany.

For 31 years, the record for longest televised golf putt was held by British broadcaster and chat show host Terry Wogan, whose record of 33 yards was set during a charity tournament in 1981. In 2012, that mark was obliterated at a charity event by a man who seemingly couldn't stop breaking sporting records that year. Name this champion athlete, iconic and greatest ever in another discipline, whose putt measured an astonishing 50 yards.

AND THE ANSWER IS

Michael Phelps

Adolphe Quetelet – a Belgian statistician popularized the Bell curve and the normal distribution. However, his search for the ‘average man’ in terms of physique, led him to develop something which went by the name of ‘Quetelet Index’ but is very popular under a different name today.

What is the new name?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Body Mass IndexBMI

Why did the small village of Tembhli in Maharashtra get a makeover in 2010: roads were remade, every hut in the village of 261 households was fitted with an electric light and women can brag about handpumps that have started working.

Pramod Chitte, a policeman stationed here, isn’t sure if all this will help. What he knows is that the village will be remembered in some way.

“I am sure Tembhli’s name will come up in quizzes as the place where ….”

AND THE ANSWER IS

UID / Aadhaar was started in this village

This is St. Paul’s Cathedral during the Blitz. It stands on the highest point in the city of London and was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962.

Give me its height in feet, specifically chosen to indicate that one could worship there anytime and not just on Sundays

AND THE ANSWER IS

365 Ft. depicting number of days in a year

Lake Balkhesh in Kazakhstan is fed by seven rivers and has been shrinking, like the Aral Sea, for many years now. Approximately 600 km long overall, the lake is divided into two sections, east and west, by a strip of land called the Saryesik Peninsula. The eastern section is narrower and deeper, while the western section is shallower.In spite of the two halves being linked by the Strait Uzynaral, this lake is unusual in that one half is useful, while the other half isn’t. What is this reason?

AND THE ANSWER IS

One side is Freshwater Lake

Second half isSaltwater Lake

Who’s Statue & Where?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Sir Edmund Hillary

In front of Mt. Cook, NZ

• Julius___ founded this company in 1897, and was a pioneer in processed food products during those days.

• The company introduced many products (not mentioning since it would be a giveaway).

• After many changes in ownership, it was taken over by another giant, ____ in 1947.

• The original name remains a well known brand in the portfolio for the giant.

• In most countries the brand is known for a different product, but in India and Malaysia, it is synonymous with a unique product.

• Despite its share of troubles, it remains a market leader in India.

ID brand and you get the Giant.

AND THE ANSWER IS

Bellona was an Ancient Roman goddess of X, corresponding to the Ancient Greek Enyo. She was called the sister of Mars, and in some sources, his wife or an associate of his female cult partner Nerio. This painting of the goddess is attributed to Rembrandt and was completed in 1633. It is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

What was she Goddess of?

Clue: Take a close look at the painting to get the answer

AND THE ANSWER IS

WAR

NY

Built by Toyota , this car X has a slight resemblance to another iconic car company Y , which went all electric recently.

QUESTION CREDIT : SUBRATA

AND THE ANSWER IS

Influenced by London Taxi

• Recently Sweden had two misfires when it came to naming important infrastructure using public polls.

• A popular BBC report suggested the name XY for a polar research ship being sent on a Atlantic Mission. Against all odds the farcical name won .

• A similar name also won the contest for a train running between Stockholm and Gothenberg.

• Name Both.

AND THE ANSWER IS

BOATYMCBOATFACE

TRAINYMCTRAINFACE

• This was in News recently when Donald trump had threatened to declare this organization as a terrorist organization. In reality its part of the armed military forces of a country .

• Name the org either in its native language or English

AND THE ANSWER IS

•Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelāb-e Eslāmi / Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Of IRAN

• These are Chandon wine bottles , part of the Moet Chandon Group designed by whom.

AND THE ANSWER IS

• Gongshaudao is a new Chinese movie that is about to be released. It translates to “The Art of Attack and Defence” .

• It is produced by Jet Li and stars many of the stars of the current Chinese cine world including Donnie Yen , Tony Jaa and one passionate Tai Chi practitioner X who is not very well known as an Actor.

• Who is X ?

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• The premise of the X is simple. A X is an incredibly heavy wheel that takes huge effort to push. Keep pushing and the X builds momentum.

• Keep pushing and eventually it starts to help turn itself and generate its own momentum--and that's when a company goes from good to great.

• Pretty cool, but admittedly not particularly helpful. We all know success is based on focus and hard work. But dive a little deeper and the X concept can provide clarity and help drive strategy for any business in any industry.

• Here's why.• A X is also a self-reinforcing loop made up of a few key

initiatives. Those initiatives feed and are in turn driven by each other, and build a long-term business. Amazon Prime is an example of this business strategy.

AND THE ANSWER IS

• Flywheel

• What is the name of Mandrakes home.Located at a mountain top outside New York City.

• Named after the summer Kapital of Kublai Khan

AND THE ANSWER IS

• Xanadu

• They are nieces of Daisy duck . Id them

AND THE ANSWER IS

• April , May and June

WHO ON WHAT

• I wrote X around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work.

• You want them ordering the doughnuts and yelling at people for not doing their assignments—you know, the easy work.

• Your heart surgeons and your computer programmers—your smart people—aren’t in management.

• That principle was literally happening everywhere.

AND THE ANSWER IS

Scott Adams Dilbert Principle

• A "surveyor's chain” is a measuring device, whose form will be familiar to students of civil engineering even today.

• It was first used in England in the late 17th century primarily to help landowners measure land.

• It has 100 metal links of equal length, each of 7.92 inches.

• The legacy of this chain is still preserved in a very different field. How

AND THE ANSWER IS

• 100 links • 792 inch • 66 fts• 22 Yards • Cricket Pitch Length

•1 Yard = 3 feet

Taken in Kolkata in 1959 , who is the Photographer?

Clue: This Photographer visited Kolkata and New Delhi at his friend/mentor’s insistence and took some (brilliant!) pics during the visit

AND THE ANSWER IS

Fidel Castro Sent Che to India on a tour in 1959. India was one of the first countries to recognize Fidel Castro’s socialist government after the Cuban revolution. Ever since, both countries have maintained close contacts in various international fora, most importantly the United Nations.

Connect the following Quote and the Event

1. Quote - “Anything born on a Friday would be doomed”

2. Event – “ The surrender of the Japanese Army to the “Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia” in 1945 during World War II

AND THE ANSWER IS

• Connect is a reason for freedom at midnight of 15th of August

• Japanese surrendered to Mountbatten on 15th

Aug 1945 during WW II so he considered the day auspicious (15th August)

• Indian astrologers had said that Friday was a bad day for a new beginning .

• Astrology considers the first rays of Sun as signaling the start of a day and English standards consider Zero (dark thirty) hours as start of a day a compromise was reached with freedom at midnight

• Following the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1941, seventeen-year-old crown prince Peter II Karađorđević left the country.

• After spending some time in Athens, Jerusalem, and Cairo, the royal entourage finally settled in London.

• Peter completed his education at Cambridge. On 20th of March 1944, Peter married his third cousin, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.

• Since her mother was firmly against this marriage, it took the approval of King George VI and the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, to convince her.

• The young couple took up residence in Claridge’s, a fancy London hotel, Suite 212.

• A year later, on 17th of July 1945, Alexandra gave birth to a boy (Alexander) in the same suite.

• However as per official accounts Alexander was born in Yugoslavia. How was this made possible as per Urban legends?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Peter asked Churchill to cede Suite 212 to Yugoslavia for a day and was granted his wish .Thus Alexander was born in London, Yugoslavia

• In 1780 a Chinese gentleman called Yong Atchew received a grant of land from Warren Hastings the Governor general of Bengal, in an area about 30 km from Kolkata.

• His tomb still exists in this area named Atchipur/Acchipur after him.

• What did he start, which was the first of its kind in this region and thus led to a ubiquitous word in most Indian languages of the region?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Sugar Plantation leading to the word Chini meaning Sugar (from CHEENI for Chinese)

• During 1857 revolt the majority of the rebels in Delhi were outsiders

• The language and customs used were different from locals

• This foreignness led the people to call the rebels as Tilangi.

• What did Tilangi mean?

AND THE ANSWER IS

• Tilangi refers to Telangana which was known for its cavalry men.

• A lot of Tilangi horsemen had rebelled and had come to Delhi from UP to help the fellow rebels.

• They spoke Telugu which was foreign to the Delhiwallahs they were called Tilangis

Thus Spake Tilangis

Simple. ID the Font and Usage

AND THE ANSWER IS

Sweden Sans . A Sans Serif type face developed solely for the use of Swedish Govt., Ministries, Agencies and Corporations

• Silbo Gomera is a language , a variation of Spanish used by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the island.

• It enables messages to be exchanged over a distance of up to 5 KMs.

• Due to this loud nature, Silbo Gomero is generally used in circumstances of public communication.

• Messages conveyed could range from event invitations to public information advisories.

• Question is how does this language travel 5 KM without any external interference or how is the language spoken?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Whistling

Born 1858 in Cornwall, Bobby was an established stuntman performing for years with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He is famous for what he did in 1911. It was in 1926 during a publicity tour of New Zealand that Leach, after of one of his lectures, slipped on an orange peel on a pavement close to his flat in Princes Street and broke his leg. The leg injuries he suffered during his falls attempts might have weakened the limb that now was broken.What did he achieve?

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First Man to survive a Niagara fall in a barrel after the Victorian Daredevil – Annie Edson Taylor (1901) who was the first woman to survive the stunt!

“I had an Alaskan Malamute when I was writing the film. A very sweet dog, she would always sit next to me when I was writing. And when I’d drive around, she’d sit in the front seat. A Malamute is a very large dog—like a hundred and thirty pounds and bigger than a human being and very long-haired.

Having her with me all the time inspired me to give X a sidekick Y who was like a big, furry dog. Not quite like a dog, but intelligent.” – Z

Identify X, Y & Z

AND THE ANSWER IS

X – Han Solo Y – ChewbaccaZ – George Lucas

When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1909 , it had a license for 20 years at the end of which its ownership would revert to the city of Paris who planned to tear it down.

(part of the original contest rules for designing a tower was that it should be easy to dismantle).

However what saved the tower from demolition ?

AND THE ANSWER IS

It was used as a Radio Telegraphic tower.

French wanted to continue this important tower and decided to continue.

The tower, built in a ready to dismantle structure, continued and is enticing tourists (300 Million+ and growing) from all over the world!

Winnie-The-Pooh was banned in China recently. Why was it so? See the pic for clues.

AND THE ANSWER IS

See the Pic for the answer

Identify X & Y

* £40m X’s legs* £25m Michael Flatley legs* £5m America Ferrera's smile* £4m Ken Dodd's teeth* £3.5m Bruce Springsteen's voice* £1.15m Heidi Klum's legs (the pair)* £500,000 or $1 million Betty Grable's legs* £350,000 Dolly Parton's breasts (the pair)* £250,000 Egon Ronay's taste buds* £200,000 The cricketer Y’s handlebar moustache

AND THE ANSWER IS

Identify X & Y

* £40m David Beckham’s legs* £25m Michael Flatley legs* £5m America Ferrera's smile* £4m Ken Dodd's teeth* £3.5m Bruce Springsteen's voice* £1.15m Heidi Klum's legs (the pair)* £500,000 or $1 million Betty Grable's legs* £350,000 Dolly Parton's breasts (the pair)* £250,000 Egon Ronay's taste buds* £200,000 The cricketer Merv Hughes’s handlebar moustache

Tweet in response to who?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Tweet in response to who?

Whose family crest ? It is emboldened with the gentle Persian words, humata, hukhta, havarshta, which translates as ‘good thoughts, good words, good deeds’,

AND THE ANSWER IS

The Tata crest with the gentle Persian words, humata, hukhta, havarshta, which translates as ‘good thoughts, good words, good deeds’, adorns the main gate of Esplanade House

What is an ABRIBUS?

AND THE ANSWER IS

Bus shelter which could be offered free to municipalities because it is paid for by its advertising panels. Originally introduced by JC Decaux

• The Royal Château at Amboise in the Loire Valley in France is a medieval fortress, refitted in a royal residence in the 15th and 16th century during the reigns of King Charles VIII and King Francis I.

• From the second half of the 16th century, the residence fell into decline, and it was restored when Amboise belonged to Louise of Savoy, the mother of King Francis I. King Francis I maintained the royal residences at the château of Amboise and Blois.

• In 1516, the King invited the someone to live and work in the town

• This person’s tomb is still existing in this town.• Who?

AND THE ANSWER IS

• When he was 64-years-old, da Vinci came to France and was lodged at Cloux Manor which was nearby the royal chateau of Amboise. His work included architecture and urbanism.

• Some authors claim Leonardo worked on the project of the Château of Chambord and the palace of Romorantin.

• When da Vinci died, on 2nd May 1519, he was buried in the church of Saint-Florentinwhich was part of the château.

• Identify and why is he in news recently?

• What is he doing in the Pic above (multiple people)

AND THE ANSWER IS

• One theory that circulates among conspiracy theorists is that Oswald was given instruction on murdering the president in Mexico City, either from the Cubans or the Soviets.

• “It is clear from government files declassified in recent decades that Oswald’s six-day trip to Mexico was never adequately investigated by the CIA, the FBI and the State Department–and, as a result, by the Warren Commission, the panel named by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

JFK ASSASINATION & Role of CUBA & SOVIETS

Under what name do the people of Nepal celebrate Diwali.

Hint below

AND THE ANSWER IS

This Question has 2 parts In the early 20th century, the country of France was emerging from the devastating effects of the Dreyfus Affair. The country had been deeply divided over the fate of French Artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been accused of selling military secrets to the Germans.

The most popular sports newspaper in France at this time was Le Vélo, with over eighty thousand subscribers. Due to the differences of opinion over the guilt or innocence of Captain Dreyfus, a few journalists and businessmen, including Comte Jules-Albert de Dion and Édouard Michelin, courted disgruntled advertisers and started their own newspaper, L’Auto, in 1899.

They hired former award-winning cyclist and sports journalist Henri Desgrange as editor. They started something that is a phenomenon still. Due to popularity of the phenomenon, by 1923, issues of L’Auto had increased to 500,000 copies a day. In 1904 Le Vélo ceased its activities and L'Auto eventually transmogrified into L'Équipe in 1944.

1. What is this Phenomenon? 2. For second part , how is the paper linked to the phenomenon memorablia

AND THE ANSWER IS

Tour De France

Yellow Jersey of TDF

influenced by Le Velo

Up in the Blue Mountains is a village called Blackheath. On the fateful day, X and his colleague from the Sheffield Shield team, Oscar Wendell Bill, had been invited to a game against Lithgow. The game was meant for the inauguration of a new concrete pitch at their oval. It resulted in the in perhaps the fastest century in terms of overs, following is the sequence.

• 1st Over — 6, 6, 4, 2, 4, 4, 6, 1 (33, all to X)

• 2nd Over — 6, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 6, 4 (40, all to X)

• 3rd Over — 1*, 6, 6, 1, 1*, 4, 4, 6 (27 to X, 2* to Wendell Bill).

Identify X , How long it took for the century, and Province he played for in this match

AND THE ANSWER IS

Don Bradman scored a hundred in three eight-ball overs, spanning around 18 minutes

As entertainment it was superb, but it hardly stood either batsman in good stead for the opening match of the Sheffield Shield season the following Saturday. The pair were dismissed for ducks in the same over from Queensland fast bowler Eddie Gilbert.

Raymond Benjamin Caldwell, (April 26, 1888 – August 17, 1967), was an American major league pitcher from 1910 to 1921. He was known for throwing the spitball, and he was one of the 17 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the pitch after it was outlawed in 1920.

Caldwell was notorious during his playing career for his addiction to alcohol and partying, he possessed a self-destructive streak that many of his contemporaries believed stopped him from reaching his potential. In 1924, Miller Huggins wrote: 'Caldwell was one of the best pitchers that ever lived, but he was one of those characters that keep a manager in a constant worry. If he had possessed a sense of responsibility and balance, Ray Caldwell would have gone down in history as one of the greatest of all pitchers.'

Yet, despite his achievements on the field and his antics off it, Caldwell is perhaps best remembered for X whilst playing for the Cleveland Indians against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1919; he refused to leave the game, having pitched 8.2 innings, and went on to record the final out for the win.

Identify X

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He was hit by a lightning and still went on to pitch the remainder of the game

X was contested as a team event in the Summer Olympics at every Olympiad from 1900 to 1920. Originally the competition was entered by groups called clubs. A country could enter more than one club in the competition, making it possible for one country to earn multiple medals. This happened in 1904, when the United States won all three medals, and in 1908 when the podium was occupied by three British teams. Sweden was also among the top countries with two medals, one as a member of the mixed team.

During its time as an Olympic sport, it was considered to be part of the Olympic athletics programme, although this sport and athletics are now considered distinct. Following is the overall tally of this Olympic sport. What is this SPORT?

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Tug of war

Despite not playing Baskeball since High School, X was drafted no. 139 by the NBA’s Kansas City Kings after winning the Men’s Decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

He became famous in a reality show and for a major, monumental decision he made that made him famous.

Identify him and his new identity.

1990 Original Intent 1986 The Love Boat (TV Series) 1985 Me and Mom (TV Series) 1985 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) 1985 Sudden Death (1985) ...1984 The Fall Guy (TV Series) 1981 CHiPs (TV Series) 1981 Grambling's White Tiger (TV Movie) 1980 Can't Stop the Music 1980 The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (TV Movie)

Some of his acting filmography

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Bruce Jenner – Now Caitlyn Jenner of Keeping Up With Kardashian’s Fame

WHAT’SBLANKEDOUT?

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THAT’SALLFOLKS!