The (Last) Resort Quiz

Mensa India AGM – Retreat20 Oct 2013

Shrey Goyal

Organic dung paper, products and packaging

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At Elrhino, we make handmade paper from elephant and rhino dung, plant fibres and other recycled waste

including cotton rags

One elephant produces up to 100 kg of dung daily, enough raw material to

produce 1500 sheets of A4 size paper. There are about 7000 wild

elephants and 2500 domestic elephants in Assam. And then there

are rhinos!

Deriving value from waste

Design is kept as relevant as possible, with locally sourced raw material and all crafts/techniques in use being based on local practices and skills.

Elrhino paper is not ‘just’ paper; it is the story of the

forest and the enormous value of every element within it

The paper is made by hands, with minimal machine intervention. Rural youth, men and women both, transform into expert crafts

persons

A minimum capital investment of Rs 5 lakh will allow local entrepreneurs to set up paper making units.

Human, rather than machine-based technology makes the process accessible at the grassroots

Harvesting trees for paper is expensive, energy intensive and unsustainable

Elrhino paper is tree-free, hand crafted and organic, contributing to a sustainable world

These forests are home to the majestic

elephant and the Great (Indian) One-Horned

Rhinoceros

This year (2012) alone, Assam lost more than 30 of its 2000 rhinos

to poaching and floods.

In Assam alone, 280 elephants were reported killed

between 2005 and 2010 – an average of 56 elephants a year!

•Livelihood•Enterprise •Skills development•Women’s empowerment

•Significance, awareness generation among global young•Man-animal conflict reduction•Resource contribution to conservation projects

•Preservation of an ecosystem•Conservation of green•Promotion of green processes•Local resourcing

SECURITY

CARBON OFFSET

CONSERVATION

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GROUND RULES

1. The Quiz Master’s word is final!

2. Infinite Bounce format shall be followed.

3. Guesses are appreciated.

4. Try not to help the other teams.

5. Additional hints if all teams agree.

6. For any other queries, kindly refer to Rule 1.

Which 2005 book (fiction) has 13 chapters numbered:

10002000500010000500001000002000005000001000000100000001000000001000000000

“Q&A” by Vikas Swarup

“Slumdog Millionaire” also acceptable as the

book was also re-released under that name in

the wake of the Oscar-winning film

On 20 March 2003, the surprise military invasion of Iraq began

without a formal declaration of war, under the US codename

Operation Iraqi Liberation, the UK codename Operation Telic,

and the Australian codename Operation Falconer.

The US operation was hastily renamed “Operation Iraqi

Freedom”. Why?

OIL

The most modern and luxurious facilities of the time were on offer, including electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish bath, a gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical camel, staterooms and first-class facilities to rival the best hotels on any Continent, a six-story, glass-domed grand staircase, leading to the finest cuisine, and, if one desired a more intimate atmosphere, the chic Palm Court and Verandah restaurants, and the festive Café Parisien.

Why were these services discontinued all of a sudden on 10 April 1912?

They were aboard the

Titanic

Commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in

1931, it was made by Stanley Morison and Victor

Lardent. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had

written an article criticizing the newspaper for being

badly printed, and its creation was supervised by

Morison with the help of Victor Lardent from the

advertising department of The Times. After one year, it

was released for commercial sale. It is now used all over

the globe. The answer lies here!

Times New Roman

Recently found explanations for?

Methane mega-bubbles cause immediate loss in

buoyancy. If the bubbles are big enough and

possess a high enough density they can also

reach out higher into the atmosphere and tinker

with applications of Bernoulli’s principle as well.

Bermuda Triangle

The IOR is a successful and profitable bank, and has invested ~$10 billion in foreign companies. In 1968, their key financial advisor began laundering a prominent crime family's heroin money (taking a 50% cut) through the bank, and it was also involved in financing right wing terror groups during the 1970s. A class action suit was filed against the IOR by 300,000 Holocaust victims for their role in financing concentration camp loots. However, almost no arrests or legal action have ever taken place, mainly due to diplomatic immunity. Some of these incidents have also been featured in a prominent hollywood film.

How is the IOR commonly referred to as?

The Vatican BankThe Institute for Works of Religion (Instituto per le Opere di

Religione – IOR), and the Papal banking scandal was featured in The Godfather Part III

Introduction of Toilets on Trains in

Indian Railways

A tavern near Elmsford, New York was popular with the officers of the Revolutionary

soldiers of Washington and Lafayette. The American troops preferred whiskey or gin,

the French preferred wine or vermouth. All enjoyed a bit of brandy or rum. Sometimes

late in the evenings, somebody came up with this idea in the spirit of camaraderie... A

soldier stole a rooster from the tavern owner's neighbour, who was believed to be

a Tory supporter of George III of the United Kingdom. The rooster was promptly cooked

and served to the customers, with the feathers used to adorn the drinks.

The toasts accompanying this meal were "vive le ____" and

hence the name.

Cocktail

“X was a phenomenon at that time, and what was I? I was a non-entity. The press turned me into a life-sized monster. I have a fourth degree black belt in martial arts and all these plus points became my negative points.I would go to hospital regularly to see X. For 3, 4 years, I did not get any work. I had a wife to support and was jobless. I did Z grade films at that time. I struggled for six years after that accident and only after that did people start coming forward to work with me.”

Identify X. Any guesses for the speaker?

Amitabh Bachchan’s Coolie Accident

Puneet Issar is the guy who punched him.

Based on the novel Rarahu ou Le

Mariage de Loti (inspired by

Kalidas’s

Abhijnanashakuntalam), Léo

Delibes wrote an opera called

____, with a protagonist called

Lakshmi, the name of which

went to inspire which brand?

Lakmé

From the character Lakmé (French for Lakshmi)

The ______ line is a 10-km long defensive line built during the second World War in Switzerland, named after _____ due to their apparent similarity.

He called his friend Krishna Menon, the then

Defence Minister, and requested him to send an

infantry division from Delhi. He had already got

permission to use the cavalry force of the Jaipur

56 regiment. Finally 2,000 camels, 4,000 horses

and 8,000 troops were used, many of them

soldiers on loan from the Indian Army.

What is the context?

The Battle scene in Mughal-E-Azam

Collectively known as ???

• I Was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me• My Angry _____• My ____ Was My Village• The Little ____ _____ That Could• The Woman Who Loved to Make _____ Happy• Because He Liked to Look At It• I Was There In The Room

The Vagina Monologues• I Was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me• My Angry Vagina• My Vagina Was My Village• The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could• The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas

Happy• Because He Liked to Look At It• I Was There In The Room

Whose works/ What’s missing?• __________________________________• The End of Imagination• The Cost of Living• The Greater Common Good • The Algebra of Infinite Justice• Power Politics• War Talk• An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire• Public Power in the Age of Empire• The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations

with _____• The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with _______

Arundhati Roy

and her first novel,

The God of Small Things

State Bureau Order No. FiveBureau Director, Ye XiaowenJuly 18, 2007Article 1: These measures have been formulated.. ..to regulate the management of ____ ____ affairs.Article 2: ____ ____ should respect and protect the principles of the unification of the state...Article 4: Applicants to be ___ ____ who have any of the following conditions may not be permitted...Article 5: ___ _____ should carry out application and approval procedures. The application and approval procedure is: the management organization at local level should submit applications for ____ to the local affairs departments at the level of people's government above county-level; once the people's government above county-level has made suggestions, the people's government....Article 7: Once an application for a ___ ____ has received approval, the corresponding local Association shall establish a _____ guidance team; the management organization at that level shall work under the said team; No group or individual may without authorization carry out any activities related to searching for or recognizing _____ _______....Article 9: Once recognized, the ___ ___ shall be reported the provincial or autonomous regional people's government department for approval.......Article 14: These measures shall be implemented from September 1, 2007.

Reincarnating BuddhasState Bureau Order No. FiveBureau Director, Ye XiaowenJuly 18, 2007Article 1: These measures have been formulated.. ..to regulate the management of Buddhas Reincarnation affairs.Article 2: Reincarnating Buddhas should respect and protect the principles of the unification of the state...Article 4: Applicants to be reincarnating Buddhas who have any of the following conditions may not be permitted...Article 5: Reincarnating Buddhas should carry out application and approval procedures. The application and approval procedure is: the management organization at local level should submit applications for reincarnations to the local religious affairs departments at the level of people's government above county-level; once the people's government above county-level has made suggestions, the people's government....Article 7: Once an application for a Buddha's reincarnation has received approval, the corresponding local Association shall establish a Buddha search guidance team; the management organization at that level shall work under the said team; No group or individual may without authorization carry out any activities related to searching for or recognizing reincarnating Buddhas....Article 9: Once recognized, the reincarnated Buddha shall report to the provincial or autonomous regional people's government department for approval.......Article 14: These measures shall be implemented from September 1, 2007.

9. Identify

Princess Irina of Russia sued MGM in 1932 for libel after the release of Rasputin and the Empress, which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin.

What “trend” in Hollywood films did this start?

The All-Persons-Fictitious Disclaimer

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Significance

What’s so special about these gentlemen? [What’s in the bags?]Extra Points if you can tell me where they work?

They are the only people who know the

results of the Oscars beforehand. (The

bags contain the prized envelopes.) They

are from PricewaterhouseCoopers

(PwC), the official auditors for the

Oscars, who certify the voting process

amongst the Academy members.

Taking his own daughter Revati, Kakudmi went to Lord Brahma in Brahmaloka which is transcendental to the three modes of material nature, and enquired about a husband for her. When Kakudmi arrived there, lord Brahma was engaged in hearing musical performances by the Gandharvas and had not a moment to talk with him. Therefore Kakudmi waited, and at the end of the musical performances he offered his obeisance’s to Lord Brahma and thus submitted his long-standing desire. After hearing his words, Lord Brahma, who is most powerful, laughed loudly and said to Kakudmi, “O King, all those whom you may have decided within the core of your heart to accept as your son-in-law have passed away in the course of time. Twenty-seven catur-yugas have already passed. Those upon whom you may have decided are now gone, and so are their sons, grandsons and other descendants. You cannot even hear about their names.”

An excerpt from the 9th Canto of the Srimad Bhagawatham throws light into a very famous complex scientific concept. Identify the theory?

Time Dilation

There were 5213 cases of this “disease”

recorded among Union soldiers during the first

year of the Civil War. The term was coined by

Johannes Hofer in 1688, for a condition suffered

by Swiss mercenaries in France and Italy, and

British military doctor Robert Hamilton noted

that it could be cured by simply talking about

the patient’s family and hometown.

Nostalgia

____ ____ was a scientific belief prevalant amongst ancient Greek Scientists and philosophers around the 4th century BC.

The ___ ___ Society (also known as the International ____ ____ Research Society) was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956, and later led by Charles K. Johnson, who based the organization out of his home in Lancaster, California. After Johnson’s death in 2001, it weakened and decentralized, but there are recent attempts to create a more unified and worldwide movement.

Johnson claimed the United Nations supports the belief through their flag.

Flat Earth

"I took a beach chair down to the beach and sat down. And I’m thinking, How the hell am I going to pull this off? I was just thinking to myself, What do I need? Well, the first thing I need is some sort of code. And the only code I knew of was Morse code. You know, I had to learn that in the Boy Scouts when I was a youngster. And I was thinking, [singing] ‘dit-dit-dit, daaah-daaah-daaah, dit-dit-dit’. Remember what that is? That’s SOS. Dit-dit-dit was S. I stuck my four fingers down into the sand and for whatever reason I pulled them to myself.”

This is a chap named Joe Woodland speaking. What did he go on to invent?

The Barcode

The _____ ______ theory states that _____ ______s are short in times when general consumer confidence and excitement is high, meaning the markets are bullish. In contrast, the theory says _____ ______s are long in times of fear and general gloom, indicating that things are bearish.

Fill in the blanks.

Skirt Length

In 1276, a statute was passed in England applying this term to events that occurred prior to 1189, the year in which Richard I ascended the throne. In 1832, this definition was abandoned as a legal term, but common use has prevailed.

The implication of the phrase is that the subject referred to is, or can be regarded as, indefinitely ancient. The phrase is one of the few cases in the English Language where the postmodifier is an adjective.

Modern historians often criticize the use of the term as a view of contemporary conditions as without history.

What term/phrase?

Time Immemorial

This cricketer was considered as perhaps the greatest all rounder of his time. In all, he took 1,109 first-class wickets with a bowling average of 10.32 He was also a fine batsman (4,140 first-class runs with a batting average of 14.12, an average which was very good for the time!!). He retired from cricket in 1863 at the relatively early age of 37 as a result of rheumatism . In later years, among other things, began selling cricket equipment in Leamington Spa. He was posthumously selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1913, 50 years after his retirement from first-class cricket. Identify him.

John Wisden

Where have you seen him?Extra points for the name!

Colonel Sanders

The first such group was formed by Dr. Madan Kataria in 13th March, 1995, at a park in Mumbai. Now a worldwide

movement.

What?

Laughter Yoga

When an American counterpart asked him who the best Indian in the profession was, he flashed back, "I am." The second, third, fourth, fifth best man on the job? He continued to repeat, "I am."

His most famous work can be seen as a 10-feet high bronze statue at the Symbiosis Instt., Pune; on a commemorative postage stamp, and on Aircrafts (not any longer though). His other works can be seen on boxes of paint, and a TV Series. Extra points if you can name all these.

R.K. Laxman

"The Bone Church“, a new poem by Stephen King, is the story of an ill-fated jungle expedition told by a man in a bar. King has written the poem exclusively for ____.

His relationship with ___, which goes back to 1983, can be see in the protagonist of Salem's Lot, a struggling young author with a resemblance to his creator, who confesses at one point, that sometimes when he’s lying in bed at night, he fantasizes about ____ featuring him… “Waste of time. They only do authors if their books are big on campus….”

Thank You!

LVC

• Centaur

• Renault

• Georgia

• Comic

• New York (Mac)

• Gothic

• Baskerville

• Courier

• Arial

• Trebuchet