CONCURSO DEL MESAN INITIATIVE BY RBIRC

1. What was the end result?

Legend has it that Vilwamangalam Swamiyar was in penance when the lord appeared in the form of a boy. The saint chased after the boy, but he disappeared into a cobra infested forest named Ananthan Kadu. There he saw the boy merging into an Iluppa tree and became the Lord’s idol. A temple was built here with the help of the king.

Thiruvananthapuram was thus formed.

2. Identify this famous “cricketer”.

He was only 25 at that time, the youngest to become president of any state cricket association in the country. To be eligible for a post in BCCI's junior selection committee, a plump post in itself, he needed to have been a Ranji Trophy player.

So, one fine day in the month of November, he just walked into the dressing room of Himachal Ranji team and announced himself captain for this match against Jammu & Kashmir.

As it would have happened to any other administrator in India, he got a 'big zero' as batsman but managed to get two late-order wickets.

Anurag Thakur

3. Why wouldn’t India have a sub prime crisis?

Kaushik Basu in his book An Economist in the Real World says that Indians tend to have much smaller mortgages compared to the real value of their properties than elsewhere in the world.

At the peak of the property boom in the US and the UK it was common for lenders to offer mortgages worth 100% of the value of the property.

Some would even offer 110% mortgages, allowing buyers to roll in the cost of finance and furnishing their new home.

That's why when the crash came, the balance sheets of the big banks collapsed along with property prices.

But the same wouldn’t happen in India because of _______________.

Black Money. This is how it works. Let's say you like the look of a house that

is for sale. You judge it is worth - for argument's sake - 100 rupees.

The chances are the seller will tell you he will only take, say, 50 rupees as a formal payment and demand the rest in cash.

That cash payment is what Indians refer to as "black money".

4. Whose body is in the coffin?

Martin Crowe

5. Who is Harley Quinn’s spirit animal?

SRK

6. Who uses this app? The app catalogues the latest photos,

written reports, radio news bulletins and video releases concerning _____, however it is not available through the Google Play Store. Instead, the users need to download the app's code in order to run it on their smartphones or tablets.

Picture follows.

ISIS

7. Who owns this app? “Guardian of the skies “ is an app in the

play which is arguably India’s first 3D game app. It features a storyline where the ________ is engaged in defence missions against a fictitious nation named ‘Zaruzia’, which coincidentally like India’s neighbour Pakistan, is politically and economically unstable and has also witnessed a military coup.

Indian Air Force

8. This came in El Tiempe, a Bolivian newspaper a few days before the

author was murdered. Who? "Life doesn't end here. We have to

go on. Life cannot end here. No matter how difficult, we must stand back up. We only have two options: either allow anger to paralyze us and the violence continues, or we overcome and try our best to help others. It's our choice. Let us please maintain respect. My warmest regards to everyone. It's been a most amazing and rare experience. We'll see each other again soon because life does not end here"

9. In what particular sort of death does India prosper in?

Selfie Deaths

10. What term connects all this? The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra

Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, and Paul Giamatti. Its plot centers on an earthquake in the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

 The single-player story follows Carl "CJ" Johnson, who returns home to Los Santos from Liberty City after his mother's murder. Carl finds his old friends and family in disarray, and over the course of the game he attempts to re-establish his old gang, clashes with corrupt cops, and gradually unravels the truth behind his mother's murder.

The X is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The fault divides into three segments, each with different characteristics and a different degree of earthquake risk, the most significant being the southern segment, which passes within about 35 miles (56 km) of Los Angeles.

SAN ANDREAS

11. The process of making what perfume?

Clay is extracted from the topsoil and baked in a kiln, then immersed in water within copper cauldrons called degs, which are then sealed with earth.

A cow-dung fire is then lit underneath the cauldron and the vapour travels through bamboo pipes to condense in receivers, over a base of oil, to form the perfume. The process is called hydro-distillation.

“The clay used for this purpose is baked exactly like a chapati. First, it is made into a soft dough, then flattened into discs, which are baked at a fairly high temperature to prepare them for hydro-distillation.”

The perfume is stored in leather bottles, which absorb the moisture and further concentrate the fragrance.

12. What was the petition against ?

 The appointment prompted an angry backlash from some quarters. More than 44,000 people signed a petition that claimed to have been started by “concerned United Nations staff members” which called on the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to appoint a non-fictional woman to the role.

“It is alarming that the United Nations would consider using a character with an overtly sexualised image at a time when the headline news in United States and the world is the objectification of women and girls,” the petition’s authors wrote.

Wonder Woman as UN Ambassador

13. What was the subject? Sir James Taylor arranged for a

photograph to be taken of the entrance gate at Belvedere Estate, Calcutta.

When the final designs came through, he expressed dissent and said that most things in the X was a cause of concern. However it was finalised and no changes could be made.

RBI LOGO

14. According to this map of the most popular destination for

migrants, what is India’s choice?

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES / DUBAI

15. What was this an inspiration for?

The webcam.

16. Who were the makers of this app?

 The mapping experts at Google have just launched a way to get folks to diverge a bit from their given path. Field Trip, released for Android, runs in the background on your Android handset, eagerly waiting for you to get near a point of interest. Once that happens, it leaps into action, showing you a card for one of thousands of cool locations -- historic spots, museums, restaurants and the like.

NIANTIC (POKEMON GO FAME)

17. Identify the much more famous X.

Joachim Sauer (born 19 April 1949) is a German quantum chemist and full professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

From his previous marriage to a fellow chemist, Sauer has two sons, Daniel and Adrian. On 30 December 1998, he married X (herself a doctor of physics who had once worked in quantum chemistry research), who later became chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union.

Angela Merkel

18. Who did she take the photograph of?

Nilufer Demir was crossing a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, on Wednesday when she saw him

So Demir, a correspondent and photographer with Turkey's Dogan News Agency, did the only thing she could: She raised her camera and began shooting.

"There was nothing to do except take his photograph ... and that is exactly what I did," she said Thursday in a live on-air interview.

Aylan Kurdi / Refugee on the beach

19. Which country’s flag or which building?

Afghanistan is the only country other than X which features a building in its national flag.

The flag of X has three horizontal bands of blue, red (double width) and blue, with a depiction of the building in white centered on the red band.

Cambodia

20. According to the Google Trends for 2016, the only Indian phone to feature

in the list was.

Freedom 251

21. What epic music video did this lead to?

Pikotaro was listening to the tune when he picked up a pen to start writing. He thought about his background of being from an apple country, and he also realized that he had an open can of pineapples on the table.

Pen- Pineapple-Apple-Pen

Questions 22-26 also have a theme attached. Grab the theme for 10 points.

22. Description of what particular discovery by Sir John Marshall?

The reasons for the identification are four. In the first place the figure has three faces and that Siva was portrayed with three as well as with more usual five faces, there are abundant examples to prove. Secondly, the head is crowned with the horns of a bull and the trisula are characteristic emblems of Siva. Thirdly, the figure is in a typical yoga attitude, and Siva was and still is, regarded as a mahayogi—the prince of Yogis. Fourthly, he is surrounded by animals, and Siva is par excellence the "Lord of Animals", no less than that of domesticated cattle.

The Pashupati seal

23. Name the Headquarters.

The Ārzī Hukūmat-e-Āzād Hind was an Indian Provincial Government that ruled over certain parts of India. They had control of two island groups called Swaraj and Shaheed, the largest city of which served as the major headquarters while Singapore was the Capital in exile.

The leader of this government however visited the Headquarters only once during his rule, which was later captured by the British after the second World War.

Port Blair

24. This temple was inspiration for which piece of architecture built in the early 20th century.

The Chausath Yogini Temple, Morena is formed by a circular wall with 64 chambers and an open mandapa in the centre, separated by a courtyard, which is circular in shape, where Lord Shiva is deified.

The temple is in the Seismic Zone III, and  has withstood earthquake shocks, without any damage to its circular structural features, in the past several centuries.

Sansad Bhavan

25. Name the only UNESCO Mixed Heritage Site in India .

The park combines the religious and cultural practices of Buddhism as well as the ecological significance of the region, and stands out as an outstanding example of traditional knowledge and environmental preservation. It is also a unique example of coexistence and exchange between different religious traditions and people.

The park exhibits one of the widest altitudinal ranges of any protected area worldwide. It boasts of a unique diversity of lowlands, steep valleys and snow-clad mountains besides numerous lakes and glaciers.

Kanchenjunga National Park

26. Which company was thus created?

X, the owner of FLC trattori was having problems with his Ferrari, which he took to the owner Enzo Ferrari himself. The story is that he passed a note to Enzo , since he had refused to meet him, that the clutch of the car needs to be redesigned. Ferrari said that let the farm hands look after things on the farm, he had better things to do.

Taking the insult as a challenge, X went home and fit his Ferrari with a clutch from one of his own vehicles. He then went on to create a company.

Lamborghini

27. “Not sure how this happened but Hey Harvard! Can’t wait to

start the program.” Who?

Maria Sharapova

28. What term? The term X has been used as a

derogatory reference to a black person who is perceived or judged to act in a "white manner." The racial slur may be levied as an accusation that the person called "X" perpetuates the "un-level playing field for blacks." The racial epithet is used to imply that someone is like the X, "black on the outside and white on the inside". What is this term X?

OREO

29. The context please.

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Acceptance speech

30. Simply name the track.

The Rains of Castamere

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