Travel & Living QuizAditya S Acharya

Rajan Arora

Round 1

• Infinite Bounce and Pounce

• Clockwise

• On Pounce: +15/-10

• On Bounce: +10/0

1.

• Picture (water color) dated 1812. Which place?

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2.

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3.

• For a brandy to bear the name X, its productionmethods must meet certain legal requirements.In particular, it must be made from specifiedgrapes of which Ugni blanc, known locally asSaint-Emilion, is the most widely used. Thebrandy must be twice distilled in copper potstills and aged at least two years in French oakbarrels from Limousin or Tronçais.

• X?

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Cognac

4.

• X became queen when her brother, Edward VI, died in 1553. She was a Catholic and wanted everyone in England to worship at Catholic churches. She made a new law that said people who refused could be burned. From 1555 till she died in 1558, three hundred men and women were burned. The people of England learned to hate her and to call her ‘Y’. They had bonfires and parties when she died. X’s sister, Elizabeth I, took the throne and stopped the burning of people who refused to worship in Catholic churches. But killing ‘witches’ still went on.

• ID Y.

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Y: Bloody MaryX: Mary Tudor

5.

• This fragment of stone has been on permanent displayin the old Electrical Engineering Building in the TexasTech University since the St. Patrick's Day of 1939.Legends say that while on a field trip, it was discoveredby a team of petroleum engineers.It is said that seniors that kiss this on graduation dayreceive a certain kind of gift.

• This is supposedly a piece of a famous block of stone inIreland.

• What gift do they receive?

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Blarney Stone; The gift of flattery, coaxing talk

6.

• This is an Asian Palm Civet found mainly onthe islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesiin the Indonesian Archipelago.

• What is it known for in the world of F&B?

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Manufacture of Kopi Luwak (World’s most expensive coffee) from their feces

7.

• Which food item’s origin?• Lemuel X, a retired Wall Street stock broker, claimed

that he had wandered into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894and, hoping to find a cure for his morning hangover,ordered "buttered toast, Y, crisp bacon, anda hooker of Hollandaise". Oscar Tschirky, thefamed maître d'hôtel, was so impressed with the dishthat he put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus butsubstituted ham for the bacon and a toasted Englishmuffin for the toast.

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Eggs Benedict

8.• The term appears to have been coined by Rosalind Coward in her 1984

book in which she writes:• "Cooking food and presenting it beautifully is an act of servitude. It is a

way of expressing affection through a gift... That we should aspire toproduce perfectly finished and presented food is a symbol of a willingand enjoyable participation in servicing others. X exactly sustains thesemeanings relating to the preparation of food. The kinds of picture usedalways repress the process of production of a meal. They are alwaysbeautifully lit, often touched up.”

• In the United States, X is a term applied when "food manufacturers arecapitalizing on a backlash against low-calorie and diet foods bymarketing treats that boast a high fat content and good artery-cloggingpotential"

• X?

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Food Porn

9.• At 42.3 billion candela, the X is the strongest beam of light in the

world. Using computer designed, curved mirrors to collect the lightfrom 39 xenon lamps and focus them into one intense, narrow beam,engineers claimed that newspaper can be read from a distance as faras 10 miles. This however, was later revealed to be a false claim. On aclear night, the Sky Beam is visible up to 275 miles (443 km) away byaircraft at cruising altitude.

• The beam has operated reliably since first enabled on October 15,1993, and is an FAA designated navigational landmark for aviators.

• The light might be the world's best bug attractor, establishing a newecosystem of moths, bats, and owls.

• Where would you find this beam of light?

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Luxor, Las Vegas

10.• What are these?• X• Y• Z• Magnum• Jeroboam• Methuselah• Salmanazar• Balthazar• Nebuchadnezzar

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Wine bottle sizes

End of Round 1

Round 2

• Infinite Bounce and Pounce

• Anti-Clockwise

• On Pounce: +15/-10

• On Bounce: +10/0

1.

• This is a vessel/dish (the French word for“saucepan”) used both in the oven and forserving purposes. The word is also used todescribe the food cooked and served in such avessel. In British English, this type of dish isfrequently also called a bake, coinciding withthe cooking technique used to cook suchdishes. What’s it called? (Pic in next slide)

Casserole

2.

• This dish was invented when the chef Mullah_________ mistakenly emptied a bowl full ofonions in a dish that was being cooked at theMughal Emperor Akbar's court. The dish hassince evolved and has become an integral partof Hyderabadi cuisine. Which dish am I talkingabout?

Do Piaza (from Pyaaz)

3.

• The seal of the Philippine National Police has a figure of a certain person named Lapu-Lapu. He is considered to be the first Filipino hero and was a ruler of the island of Mactan. The reason why his status in Philippines is similar to that of Birsa Munda in Jharkhand is because he was the first native to stand up against Spanish colonization.What exactly did he do?

• He was the native who killed Ferdinand Magellan

4.

• X appeared on the menu of NASA's spaceshuttle program and went into orbit on the shuttles. Itwas on Skylab and on the International SpaceStation and is popular with astronauts as a means ofcountering the dulling of the sense of taste that theyfrequently experience in space. It is produced bythe US-based McIlhenny Company, made exclusivelyfrom a certain variety of peppers (Capsicumfrutescens), vinegar and salt. It has a hot, spicy flavor.

5.

• To whom or what is this bicycle track in Netherlands a tribute to?

Starry Night or Van Gogh

6.

• A X was originally an open-air marketplace. Historically, Xwere held outside cities at locations where incomingcaravans stopped and merchants displayed their goods forsale. X's formed whenever a caravan or caravans arrived.

• The word entered European languages through French,probably during the French occupation of the Berbercountries Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia in the 19th or 20thcenturies. Thus, the word "X" most likely refers toBerber/North African traditional markets .

• What word often used to describe bazars in Muslimcountries?

Souk

7.

• Late last year, the Venice City Council introduced apeculiar law to do away with a certain kind of pollutionthat was badly affecting the city.

• The law bans the use of a regular commodity thateffected great inconvenience, given the city’scobblestone pathways, staircases, walkways andhistoric places – besides causing general wear and tear.

• What was this ban all about, which would definitelytrouble the city’s 20 million tourists every year?

No wheeled suitcases, to cut noise pollution

8.

• This is the coat of arms of a German city,renowned for its mineral springs. Naturallycarbonated water has been commercially bottledand shipped from this town since the 18th centuryor earlier. Generally X water has no added sodiumsalts, while club soda still retains some of thesodium salts that once were used.

• The town gives its name to genericized trademarkfor carbonated water or soda.

Seltzer

9.

• St. Martin’s Press released this book in Oct 2013, when it had already received 30,000 pre-orders. It soon reached the top of the non-fiction bestsellers list. What is the book called?

Humans of New York

10.

• Identify the cooking style.

Teppanyaki

End of Round 2

Round 3

• Restaurant theme

• Differential Scoring

• +5*(8-N); N=No. of teams giving right answers

• -5 for incorrect answers

1.

• Celebrity guests of this place, established in 1977,include Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin. The ‘Hillaryplatter’ came into existence based on what wasordered by Hillary Clinton on a state visit. Similarly a‘Presidential platter’ (for Bill Clinton) and ‘Chelseaplatter’ also finds a place in its menu. ArnoldSchwarzenegger is known to have visited this place andenjoyed among many others, its giant naan.Which place am I talking about ?

(Hint: It shares its name with a Central Asian city)

Bukhara Restaurant

2.

• X was a Michelin 3-star restaurant near the townof Roses, Catalonia run by chef Ferran Adrià. Thesmall restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bayon Catalonia's Costa Brava, and was described as“the most imaginative generator of hautecuisine on the planet”. The restaurant was alsoassociated with molecular gastronomy. Therestaurant closed on July 30, 2011.

El Bulli

3.

• X is a restaurant run by chef RenéRedzepi in Copenhagen, Denmark. Opened in2003, the restaurant is known for itsreinvention and interpretation of the NordicCuisine. In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, it hasbeen ranked as the Best Restaurant in theWorld by Restaurant magazine.

White asparagus with poached egg yolk and sauce of woodruff.

Noma

4.

• X Restaurants are co-owned by X Matsuhisa &Robert De Niro. X Matsuhisa also co-owns XHospitality with Robert De Niro and MeirTeper. The first X Hotel & Restaurant locatedinside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is currentlyopen. It’s known for its fusion cuisineblending traditional Japanese dishes withSouth American (Peruvian) ingredients.

Round 4

• Short Connect (non-exhaustive)

• 5 Element connect

• +15/-5 for individual

• +50/-5 for connect in first 3 questions

• +40/-5 for connect after 4th question

• +30/0 after 5 questions

• +15/0 for theme after revealing individual answers

• Tricky, so Beware!

1.

• “Join, or Die” (on next slide) is a well-known political cartoon first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labelled with the initials of one of the thirteen American colonies or region. This cartoon was used in the French and Indian War to symbolize that the colonies needed to join together with Great Britain to defeat the French and Indians. It became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

• Identify the author.

2. Identify X

• X (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). In 1796, he helped found the state of Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U.S. Senate. Nominated for president in 1824, X narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams. X's supporters then founded what became the Democratic Party. Nominated again in 1828, he won by a landslide against Adams.

3.3.

• This is the United States Declaration of Independence. The document starts as follows:

• When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

• And includes the famous lines:• "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created

equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienableRights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."

• Identify the (principal) author of this document. (Picture on next slide)

4.

• The above painting is “X crossing the Delaware” (Delaware is a river in the US) by Emmanuel Leutze, painted in 1851. X was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, At his death, he was eulogized as "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" by Henry Lee. Identify X.

5.

• The poster (on the next slide) was inspired from another poster of something which contains the name of a very famous historical personality.

• Name the personality.

5.

Waiting for connects

• Individual answers follow

1.

• “Join, or Die” (on next slide) is a well-known political cartoon first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the thirteen American colonies or region. This cartoon was used in the French and Indian War to symbolize that the colonies needed to join together with Great Britain to defeat the French and Indians. It became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

• Identify the author.

Ans:

• Benjamin Franklin

2. Identify X

• X (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). In 1796, he helped found the state of Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U.S. Senate. Nominated for president in 1824, X narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams. X's supporters then founded what became the Democratic Party. Nominated again in 1828, he won by a landslide against Adams.

Ans:

• Andrew Jackson

3.3.

• This is the United States Declaration of Independence. The document starts as follows:

• When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

• And includes the famous lines:• "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created

equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienableRights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."

• Identify the (principal) author of this document. (Picture on next slide)

Ans:

• Thomas Jefferson

4.

• The above painting is “X crossing the Delaware” (Delaware is a river in the US) by Emmanuel Leutze, painted in 1851. X was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, At his death, he was eulogized as "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" by Henry Lee. Identify X.

Ans:

• George Washington

Trivia: Washington, D.C. is one of two national capitals across the globe to be named after an American president (the other is Monrovia, Liberia), name after James Monroe.

5.

• The poster (on the next slide) was inspired from another poster of something which contains the name of a very famous historical personality. Name the personality.

5.

Ans:

• Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

• Abraham Lincoln

CONNECT

• Any random guesses?

Benjamin Franklin on $100 bill

Andrew Jackson on $20 bill

Thomas Jefferson on $2 bill

George Washington on $1 bill

Abe Lincoln on $5 bill

Other currency bills:

Ulysses S. Granton $50 bill

Alexander Hamilton on $10 bill