QUIZ QM: Mahendra Mohan Das

Sunday 6th AprilKarenge war session ke aakhri

bar!

prelims

• 25 questions.• No negatives.• Blah blah blah. You know the rules. Come on.

• And yes, LONEWOLF.

1)• Alfred Eisenstaedt, the photographer, did not have

an opportunity to get the names and details of the people when he took the famous photograph on 14th August 1945. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. It was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge.

• Which famous photograph?

V-J Day in Times Square.

2)• It is a cold and sweet

beverage made by mixing rose syrup with vermicelli noodles, psyllium (ispaghol) or basil (sabza/takmaria) seeds, jelly pieces and tapioca pearls along with either milk, water or ice cream.

• What Hindi phrase is originated from this beverage?

Izzat ka falooda.

3)• Whom did Barack Obama write this letter to?

Life of Pi.

4)• Whose wax statue?

Madame Tussaud.

5)• Born as Kit Walker, he was the son of Maud Thorne

McPatrick, who had previously worked as Rita Hayworth's stunt double. He is married to Diana Palmer, whom he met while studying in the United States and who now works for the United Nations. They have two children, Kit and Heloise.

• How do we better know him?

Phantom.

6)• Meaning “at the mouth of the well of the ____”, it

was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Post Classic. Dominating the North Platform of city is the Temple of Kukulkan (a Maya feathered serpent deity), usually referred to as El Castillo ("the castle").

• In 2007, this UNESCO world heritage site was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World after a worldwide vote.

• Which city?

Chichen Itza.

7)• Just fill the yellow blanks.

LOTR, Game of Thrones.

8)• In economics, a Veblen good is a member of a

group of commodities whose demand is proportional to their price; an apparent contradiction of the law of demand.

• The X effect is a similar phenomenon. It says that a high priced product is seen as better or having better quality than a lower priced product. This is given that all other things are equal.

• It is named after X, whose sales, as a story goes, despite it being a pretty-good-tasting whiskey, sucked. But in the ’50s, when they increased their price, the sales also doubled.

• Which brand?

Chivas Regal effect.

9)• It is a memorial by Yoko

Ono, located on Iceland. It consists of a tall tower of light, projected from a white stone monument that has the words “_____ _____" carved into it in 24 languages; which is also the name of the memorial.

• Which memorial? Whom is it dedicated to?

John Lennon.• “Imagine Peace” Tower.

10)• Both turbulent and laminar airflow contribute to the

action. Air in laminar flow separates from the surface of the object in question earlier than air in turbulent flow, so that the separation point moves toward the front of the object on the laminar side. On the turbulent flow side it remains towards the back, inducing a greater lift force on the turbulent airflow side of the object. The calculated net lift force is not enough to account for the amount of action observed. Additional force is provided by the pressure-gradient force.

• What action is being described?

Swing bowling.

11)• This project was piloted in its initial stages by

William Lambton, and later by George Everest. Among the many accomplishments of the project were the demarcation of the British territories in India and the measurement of the height of the Himalayan giants: Everest, K2, and Kanchenjunga. The project had an enormous scientific impact as well, being responsible for one of the first accurate measurements of a section of an arc of longitude, and for measurements of the geodesic anomaly.

• What famous project is being talked about?

The great trigonometrical survey.

12)• Who brought out this ad campaign? What is so

special about Shyam Saran Negi, the person featuring the video?

• (video inserted)

Google.• Google India’s pledge to vote campaign.• Shyam Saran Negi in Independent India’s first voter.

13)• The instrument, named after the person who

created this instrument, is actually a modified Archtop guitar and consists of 20 strings viz . three melody strings, five drone strings strung to the peg head, and twelve sympathetic strings strung to the tuners mounted on the side of the neck.[1] A gourd (or the tumba) is screwed into the back of the neck for improved sound quality and vibration. It is held in the lap like a slide guitar. This instrument is under tremendous tension; the total strings pull to be in excess of 500 pounds.

• Which musical instrument?

Mohan Veena.• Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

14)• Identify

all three.

Oh yes!• Arvind Kejriwal• Narendra Modi• Rahul Gandhi

15)• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, in the summer of 1945, went to

a city for a three-month-long business trip. On August 6, he was preparing to leave the city with two colleagues, Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, and was on his way to the station when he realized he had forgotten his hanko (a stamp allowing him to travel), and returned to his workplace to get it; and then something happened.

• He returned to his city after this incident. At 11 am on August 9, Yamaguchi was describing the incident to his supervisor, while another similar incident happened.

• Thus, he became the only officially recognized witness for something. What?

Double atomic bomb survivor.

16)• Flarf poetry is an avant garde poetry movement of

the early 21st century. Its first practitioners used an approach that rejected conventional standards of quality and explored subject matter and tonality not typically considered appropriate for poetry.

• An example of a specific form of such poetry is as follows:

I wasn’t looking for loveI wasn’t looking for someone but you found meI wasn’t looking for thisI wasn’t like every other kid

• What are such forms of poetry called? Or, put funda.

Google poetics.

17)• All day I dream about sports• What I know is• Yet another hierarchical officious oracle• Life’s good• Save our souls

• Give me a term.

Backronym.

18)• Roosevelt was once invited to a hunting trip. Most of

the hunters competing had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants cornered, clubbed, and tied an animal to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase, called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery. It became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902. While the initial cartoon figured an adult animal, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the animal smaller and cuter.

• What got its name after this incident?

Teddy bear.

19)• Lord Carnarvon died on 5 April 1923 after a

mosquito bite became infected.• George Jay Gould I died in the French Riviera on 16

May 1923.• Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey of Egypt died 10 July

1923; shot dead by his wife.• Sir Archibald Douglas-Reid, a radiologist, died on 15

January 1924 from a mysterious illness.• Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of Sudan, died on

19 November 1924; assassinated while driving.• A. C. Mace, died in 1928 from arsenic poisoning.• Howard Carter, the prime “suspect”, however died

a decade later, in 1939.• Some of the deaths attributed to what?

Tutankhamun’s curse.

20)• The common misconception about the origin of the

phrase is that in medieval Europe, there was a rule that “a man is allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his ___.”

• However, the earliest citation comes from J. Durham’s Heaven upon Earth, 1685: “Many profest Christians are like to foolish builders, who build by guess, and by ___ ___ ___.”

• Which phrase?

Rule of thumb.

21)• Robert Cornelius (picture

on the right) was the first known man to do something. It became a common practice in social networking sites, especially since the time of Myspace.

• Last week, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) finally declared it as a mental disorder.

• What?

Selfie.

22)• Which famous photograph did Kolkata Traffic

Police use in an awareness campaign about road crossing?

Abbey Road cover.

23)• Which two-word term best describes this

photograph, doing a certain practice which existed as far back as the Tang Dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian (625–705) did something for the Japanese emperor.

Panda diplomacy.

24)• Whose ad?

Toblerone.

25)• Two of the seven original ones did not survive the

bombing in World War II. Two others were later demolished and replaced by a modern highway. The three other remain, although only two of them are from Euler's time (one was rebuilt in 1935). Thus, as of 2000, there are now five of them in Kaliningrad.

• What is being talked about?

Bridges of Konigsberg.