Slides of the quiz conducted for Kutub Quizzers on Sep 9 2012

1. AGONY PARIKSHA
A KUTUB QUIZ
Hari Parameswaran
Sep 09 2012

2. Pounce and bounce etc.
The quiz has two halves, and a stage-2
Each half has a written round. This set of 10
questions is relatively simple. Each correct answer
carries 10 points.
Each regular round has 15 questions
We close with a stage 2
We’ll make up the other rules as we go along…

3. Written 1-1
When Thomas Wakley founded this weekly in
1823, he gave the rationale for the name in
the following terms
"A _____ can be an arched window to let in the
light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut
out the dross and I intend to use it in both senses".
Name this internationally renowned weekly.

4. Answer
Lancet

5. Written 1-2
This flowering plant belongs to the
Solanaceae family, which includes
Datura, Capsicum, Potato, Tomato
and Tobacco, among others. It is
closely related to Tobacco, and
indeed, it takes it’s name from the
Guarani word for Tobacco – a word
that also used in the past by the
French. What is the name the
flower is commonly known by?
(Bigger picture in next slide)

7. Answer
Petunia (Petun)

8. Written 1-3
The 3200 kg bronze sculpture was one in an
edition of 5 created by the Sculptor. He installed
it “guerilla style” on the night of December 15,
1989. Impounded the next day, it was placed at a
location two blocks south of where it was
originally installed.
Copyright on it is still held by the sculptor, and in
2009 he sued the publisher of “A Colossal Failure
of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the
Collapse of Lehman Brothers” for using a picture
of it without permission.
Identify this iconic sculpture.

9. Answer
The Charging Bull/ The Wall street Bull

10. Written 1-4
This sculpture under the north end of
the George Washington Memorial
Bridge in Seattle is depicted as holding
a Volkswagon Beetle. The being
depicted is from Norse mythology, and
it is assumed that a term popular on
the internet is named after it – but
odds are that the term originates from
the Old French for “to lead, or drag,
somebody about”.
What term/being?
(Bigger picture in next slide)

12. Answer
Troll

13. Written 1-5
After giving up on her law degree at the
University of Alabama, she moved to New
York in the footsteps of a childhood friend.
He himself was a writer, and introduced her
to his friends, most of whom found her dull.
Recounts one – “Here was this dumpy girl from
Monroeville. We didn't think she was up to
much. She said she was writing a book and
that was that”
Name her and her childhood friend.

14. Answer
Harper Lee and Truman Capote

15. Written 1-6
The International Hall of Fame for this sport
inducted its first members in 1965. Of the 21
people who were inducted in the first year, 17
were American, 2 were from Australia, and
one each were from Japan and UK. Two
among the Americans had successful film
careers. Which sport?

16. Answer
Swimming (Buster Crabbe and Johnny W)

17. Written 1-7
The clip below is from Sacha Guitry’s 1914 film
“Ceux de chez nous”.
You have to identify the person shown, and the
location where this scene was shot (5 points
each)
<<VIDEO REMOVED. Sorry>>

18. Answer
Monet and Giverny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMVyFmB
nbY

19. Written 1-8
The etymology of this word, so popular in
Kerala and West Bengal, is from a
combination for a Hindi word for shop (still
seen in Delhi in a similar sense) and the Hindi
word for lock.
What’s the good (or bad) word?

20. Answer
Hartaal (Haat and Tala)

21. Written 1-9
The paper “The origin of chemical elements”
appeared in in the April 1, 1948 issue of
“Physical Review”. It was done on work done
by George Gamow and his student Ralph
Adler. However, the paper listed 3 authors.
The third name was that of a Nobel laureate
who had nothing to do with the paper, but
was known to have enough of a sense of
humor to appreciate the reason for the
addition. Name him.

22. Answer
Hans Bethe (Adler Bethe Gamow)

23. Written 1-10
The Macaca Sylvanus comes in the IUCN
endangered category as the population of the
species has been estimated to decline at a
rate exceeding 50% over the last 3
generations (24 years).
Besides humans, Macaca Sylvanus is the only
other primate living freely/natively in Europe.
What’s it more commonly known as?

24. Answer
Barbary Ape/Macaque

25. MAIN ROUND - CLOCKWISE

26. Clockwise-1
This map depicts the writing systems extant in the
world today. Most of the Indian languages are
classified as alphasyllabic, where consonants and
vowels are written as a unit.
Tibetan, Thai, Khmer, Hmong, Sinhala also belong
to this category, as do some Cree Indian languages.
This family of writing systems takes it’s name from
the first four letters of the Ge’ez script of Ethiopia
(similar to the word “abecedary” – an inscription
consisting of the letters of an alphabet).
What is the common name given to this family?

27. Clockwise 1

28. Answer
Abugida

29. Clockwise 2
Nathaniel Wyeth was born in 1911
into what was the foremost American family of the arts. Unlike
his brother Andrew though, he showed an aptitude for
Engineering. He went on to get his master’s degree in
Mechanical engineering from U. Penn. He worked for Dupont,
and made several inventions there.
In 1987, he was inducted into o the Polymer Processing Hall of
Fame (yes – there is such a thing) for his 1973 invention of the
technique of stretch-blow molding. The product resulting from
this technique is used world-wide. What was this product?

30. Answer
The PET Bottle

31. Clockwise 3
This 1970 movie starred Shashi Kapoor, Aparna
Sen and Utpal Dutt, among others.
As can be seen from the title scene, it involves
elements of a meta-film, being set in the
Bollywood film industry. One of the
screenwriters is a Booker prize winner.
The 2007 film “The Darjeeling Limited” used the
song “Typewriter Tip Tip” from this film.
Name it
<<Video of credits scene REMOVED>>

32. Answer
Bombay Talkies

33. Clockwise 4
This classic cookbook was published
in 1945. It was widely considered to
be among the first attempts to present authentic Chinese recipes to
Americans. The author, BuweiYang Chao, was a doctor who learned to
cook while a student at Tokyo Women’s Medical College. While she
came up with the recipes, it is believed that the text for the book was
written up by her husband Yuen Ren Chao, a linguist (who is also the
author of the well known poem “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”).
This book also introduced a new term into the lexicon, as the
translation for the word “Ch’ao”, a cooking technique for preparing
food in a wok.
What term was cooked up as a translation for “Ch’ao” in this book?

34. Answer
Stir-Fry

35. Clockwise 5
What familiar, last-but-not-least convention
in comics is usually traced back to this
Katzenjammer kids strip that appeared on
August 2, 1903?
(Thanks to Arul Mani for the wording on this
question – that’s also a hint)
(Bigger picture on next slide)

37. Answer
Use of “Z..Z..Z” to indicate Sleeping

38. Clockwise 6
US Patent number
3803463 for a “WEAPON
FOR IMMOBILIZATION AND
CAPTURE” was granted to
Jack Cover, a NASA
researcher, in 1974.
How does it connect to
this 1911 book, which was
also known as “Daring
Adventures in Elephant
Land”.

40. Answer
TASER

41. Clockwise 7
The artist normally asked for his pictures to be hung
in such a manner that they must be encountered at
close quarters - “Since my pictures are large,
colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are
usually immense and formidable, there is the danger
that the pictures relate themselves as decorative
areas to the walls”.
There’s no real danger of that, since his 1961 work,
measuring 93 in × 81¼ in, set the record for the
highest price paid for a post-war work on May 8,
2012.
Name this painting with a rather mundane,
though descriptive title.

42. Answer
Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow”

43. Clockwise 8
Generally called “Portrait of a Man”,
this Jan van Eyck painting portrays
an unknown man donning a piece
of headgear. Initially the term for this
type of headgear referred to a simple
hood, but over the years it evolved
into a complex headgear of the type
shown here.
In French, the word was also used in falconry to denote the
hood placed over the hawk’s head to prevent it from flying
away. It is quite probable that this was behind the origin of
the current meaning of the word (with an “e” suffixed) as is
used in English today – as a protector.

44. Answer
Chaperon/Chaperone

45. Clockwise 9
Near the cricket stadium in Thalassery in
Northern Kerala, there’s this statue of a
person who stayed in the area from 1839 to
1859. It was in this period that he started
work on what was to be the first Malayalam-
English dictionary. He also started
Rajyasamacharan, which is considered by
most to be the first significant Malayalam
newspaper.
His grandson shared his first name, and had
written a famous novel in 1921 that was set in
India. This novel was also made into a 1972
movie directed by Conrad Rooks.
Name both of them.

46. Answer
Herman Gundert and Herman Hesse

47. Clockwise 10
Columbo, starring Peter Falk was a
legendary TV serial, inspiring, among
others, our own “Karamchand”.
His first name is never explicitly mentioned,
though screenshots of his badge seem to
indicate that it is Frank.
A case that hinged around his first name
being Philip was argued in the US courts in
1987, and appealed all the way to the
Supreme Court.
Interestingly, the case revolved around the
world of trivia.
What’s the story?

48. Answer
Fred Worth, the author of “The trivia
encyclopedia” had inserted this question on
Columbo’s first name being Philip in the book –
using the old mapmaker’s trick to catch anyone
who would copy from his work.
Sure enough, “Trivial Pursuit”, which came out a
few years later, had the same question and
answer.
He took the makers of Trivial Pursuit to court
and asked for USD 300 million in damages. He
lost.

49. Clockwise 11
This work, which starts with the sentence
“Salutation to Ganesa” was published in 10
volumes from 1991 to 1996. The collected work
was released in 1999 (shown with most, but
not all, of the writing masked in the picture
here)
Regarding how was inspired to tackle the
subject in the manner he did, the writer said “I
changed the emphasis from 'whodunit' to 'what
happened'. I'd seen advertisements for Douglas
Adams' book "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective
Agency". A holistic detective? You wouldn't just
have to solve the crime, you'd have to solve the
entire world that that crime happened in. That
was the twist that I needed.”

50. Answer
From Hell

51. Clockwise 12
Dangdut is a Bollywood influenced musical genre that
emerged in the early 70s from the Orkes Melayu that
played tunes that were popular among their multi-
ethnic audiences in the urban centers of Java and
Sumatra. The term is onomatopoeic, and comes from
the sound of the Tabla (or gendang, the local variant).
It is thought to be coined as a term of derision by a
music magazine, but was popularized by musician
Rhoma Irama, who used it in his 1973 superhit song
Terajana which has the lyrics
“This is the song, song of India”.
What 1959 song of India was Terajana talking (or singing
about)?

52. Answer
Terajana refers to “Tera Jana Dil Ke
Armaanon Ka” - From Anari

53. Clockwise 13
This is one of the most
commonly used technique
for joining two pieces of
wood in carpentry.
The term is also commonly
seen in English to mean “To
combine or interlock into a
unified whole”.
The name of the joint itself
comes from the avian
world.

54. Answer
Dovetail

55. Clockwise 14
Eddie Saunders had
caught this shark in
the 54th Metropolitan
South Florida Fishing Tournament in 1989 , and
displayed it in his JD Electricals Supplies shop in
Shoreditch, London. On 17 April 2003, when the
new Saatchi Gallery opened at County Hall with a
famous exhibit, under what title was this shark
exhibited at a Shoreditch gallery?

56. Answer
“A dead shark isn’t Art” exhibit at the
Stuckism International gallery in response to
Damien Hirst exhibit at Saatchi.

57. Clockwise 15
This temple situated in what is
now Pakistan is dedicated to Siva.
Legend has it that when Sati
died, the tears of Siva were
collected in two ponds, one at
Pushkar, and the other at this
place. It is also said that the
Pandavas spent 4 of their 14
years of exile here. The
government of Pakistan has
supposedly decided to nominate
this temple complex for World
Heritage status. Identify it.

58. Answer
Katas Raj Temple

59. PHASE 2
We start with a written Set of 10 questions

60. Written 2-1
The ceremony is conducted by members of I.B.M
when one of their group passes away. As part of the
ceremony, a prayer is offered which starts – “O Divine
Master of all mystery, who in wisdom and skill didst create and design all
that is visible and invisible. Thou hast instilled within us the talent to
amaze, mystify and entertain….”
The ceremony was first performed in 1926, after the
death of one who was perhaps their most famous
member.
Name the ceremony. Also tell me what I.B.M is?

62. Answer
Broken Wand Ceremony
International Brotherhood of Magicians

63. Written 2-2
For what does scriptwriter Anjum Rajabali
identify the following narrative functions in the
context of Bollywood cinema
Introduction
Thunderbolt
Beyond Forbearance
Ah! Relief
A parallel narrative
Can’t say it? ___ it!
Transition
What’s grammar without punctuation?

64. Answer
The song and dance sequence

65. Written 2-3
Literally from the Greek for “Beyond the
Dowry”, this was a term for things like
clothing and jewelry that a woman brought
into the marriage which remained exclusively
her property.
The current meaning of “equipment, or
apparatus” is attested from 1791. Today the
term is again generally used in a negative
legal sense, with the most common usage
being associated with drugs.

66. Answer
Paraphernalia

67. Written 2-4
Considering non-polar persistent, moving
bodies of ice formed when the accumulation of
snow in the region exceeds its sublimation, the
largest one is in the Pamirs and is named after
the Russian naturalist and explorer, Alexei
Fedchenko.
The second largest non-polar one was
“discovered” by mountaineer Tom Longstaff in
1909 and is named after the Balti term which
approximately means “the land of abundant
Roses”. Name it.

68. Answer
Siachen Glacier

69. Written 2-5
For long we had been told that the only
movie Mahatma Gandhi saw was Vijay
Bhatt’s 1943 movie “Ram Rajya”. He saw it
in 1945.
As it turns out, he had seen a movie before
that. In 1944 he had seen a Hollywood
movie. Directed by Mike Curtiz, it was made
in response to a request by FDR. It was also
one of the movies targeted by the House
committee for Un-American activities.
Name it.

70. Answer
Mission to Moscow

71. Written 2-6
The latin word that means “cultivated” may
be seen the name of many plant species,
including that of pineapple, the cucumber,
radish and Asian rice.
What’s the good word?

72. Answer
Sativus

73. Written 2-7
…what happens in between these scenes is what most people
remember. Name the movie.

74. Answer
Un Chien Andalou

75. Written 2-8
Aristotle himself called it “First philosophy”,
but this branch of philosophy gets it’s name
from the order in which Aristotle’s works
were anthologized. His editor, Andronicus, is
supposed to have the chapters on “first
philosophy” right after another of Aristotle’s
works, and called it “τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικὰ
βιβλία” (the work right after X).
Which branch of philosophy are we talking
about?

76. Answer
Metaphysics

77. Written 2-9
When he visited Rome with five
small portraits, including this
one, he was hailed as “Raphael
Reborn”.
The name by which he is
popularly known may be
confused with the name of a
cheese – both names are based
on the city where he was born.

78. Answer
Parmigianino

79. Written 2-10
Hot off the presses – who do we see attempting
to do a “Konrad Lorenz” here?

80. Answer
Putin

81. ANTI-CLOCKWISE

82. Anti-Clockwise 1
In the Landmark finals
there was a question about
connecting Salman
Rushdie, Anton Chekov
and Joseph Conrad.
Similarly, connect the two
images shown here.

83. Answer
Sebastian Melmoth – The name under which
Oscar Wilde travelled for 3 years after his
imprisonment

84. Anti-Clockwise 2
Chadayamangalam is a village
in the Kollam district of
Kerala. For some years there
has been a project to create
the sculpture shown on the
right, on top of a rocky hill of
mythological importance.
What’s the story with this
place?

86. Answer
The place where Jatayu fell to earth after the
battle with Ravana

87. Anti-Clockwise 3
Died in 1841, but preserved in Arsenic - you can find this Raven
in the Rare books department of the Philadelphia Free Library. It’s in
the library because of literary associations. It was the pet of a
famous author, and when his children asked him to put the bird in one
of his books, the author obliged. Poe made a special mention of this
in his review stating that the bird’s “croaking might have been
prophetically heard in the course of the drama”. Not long after, he wrote
“The Raven” – and was taunted with the refrain
“Here comes Poe with his Raven, like ____ _____
Three fifths of him genius, two fifths sheer fudge”
Which author’s pet is so immortalized?
Which book of his did it appear in?

88. Answer
Charles Dicken’s “Grip The Raven”.
Makes an appearance in Barnaby Rudge

89. Anti-Clockwise 4
This style of Karate was the first to adapt the
concept of “dan” and coloured belts.
The style is now known in terms of the name
of the first Dojo – and the name means
something akin to “the house of the pine-
waves (the movement of pine needles when
the wind blows through them” after the pen-
name under which the founder, Gichin
Fanakoshi, wrote.

90. Answer
Shotokan

91. Anti-Clockwise 5
On the 16th of March, 2012, media outlets were
focusing almost entirely on the story of the
budget, and that of Sachin’s 100th century. Lost
in that din was a story about the verdict of a case
- A.K. Bhattacharya, a manager at the Indian
Iron and Steel Company, and Dipak Sircar, a
safety officer at the same company, were given
a sentence of one year’s imprisonment, for
something that happened on Dec 27, 1975 (and
which “inspired” a 1979 Bollywood movie).
What were they sentenced for?

92. Answer
The Chasnala Tragedy

93. Anti-Clockwise 6
On the right are a couple of stills from Andy
Warhol’s “Eat” (1963) – a 45 minute film
which is filmed in black and white, has no
soundtrack, and for it’s entire duration
shows a man, played by a fellow pop artist,
eating a mushroom.
Said pop artist is otherwise best known for
something that he designed as a Christmas
Card for MoMA. He later made a sculpture of
it – this has been exhibited at the
Indianapolis museum of Art since 1970, but
has been reproduced in multiple forms. The
USPS released a stamp in 1973 that features
the image.
Google’s logo on Feb 14, 2011 was also a
homage to it.
Identify this iconic sculpture.

94. Answer

95. Anti-Clockwise 7
Henry De Vere Stackpoole (1863-1951) was an Irish
author, who worked as a ship’s doctor for over 40 years.
He also gained expertise on the islands of the South
Pacific in the course of his travels, and his books
contained description of the natural life on those islands.
He is primarily remembered today for a trilogy he wrote.
The first book was published in 1908, and filmed thrice –
in 1929, 1949 and 1980 (this last version was released in
India to great success).
The second book – “The garden of god” was also filmed
in 1991.
The third book – “The gates of morning” was published
in 1925.
What was the name of the first book?

96. Answer
The Blue Lagoon

97. Anti-Clockwise 8
One of those questions where chimping can
help…
One of the Russian Five, this composer was
Military Engineer by profession. He was well
known for his expertise on fortifications and
rose in the ranks to become a General in
1906.
He was also a critic, but because of his role in
the military, all his articles on music were
written under the pseudonym “***”

98. Answer
Cesar Cui

99. Anti-Clockwise 9
Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in Gabon.
French prospectors had identified Uranium deposits in
the region, and the Uranium mined there was exported
to France for use in it’s nuclear program.
In 1972 a worker at a nuclear fuel–processing plant in
France noticed that was a much lower than expected
percentage of U-235 in the sample – in fact the Ore from
one part of the mine seemed to missing the equivalent
of 200 kg of U-235.
No one could explain this, till one of the scientists
remembered a 1953 paper from UCLA scientist George
Wetherill - he had posited a scenario which proved to be
true at Oklo. What was this scenario?

100. Answer
This is the only known case of natural fission reactors.
There were 16 such natural fission reactors in this area –
here, self-sustaining natural nuclear reactions took place
about 2 billion years ago, running for a few hundred
thousand years, and averaging 100kW of power output
during that period
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ancie
nt-nuclear-reactor for more info

101. Anti-Clockwise 10
This is a picture of the giant
bubble chamber that was used
at CERN from 1970 to 1978.
The Z-boson was identified in
this bubble chamber. Billed as
the “Mother of all bubble
chambers”, it was named after
the mother of a fictional
character from the 16th
century.
Name the mother.

102. Answer
Gargamelle

103. Anti-Clockwise 11
After his career came to an
abrupt halt in 1919, he left
the field, but he still holds
the third highest career
batting average, behind Ty
Cobb and Roger Hornsby.
His nickname came about
due to incident caused by a
particularly painful case of
blisters.

104. Answer
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson

105. Anti-Clockwise 12
This honor, the highest accorded by the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, was formalized in
1813, and is given by the Governor and
Secretary of State to individuals in recognition
of noteworthy accomplishments and
outstanding service to a community, state or
the nation. LBJ, Reagan and Churchill have
been accorded this honor.
Name this honor, which has nothing to do with
the military – though the title may suggest
otherwise.

106. Answer
Kentucky Colonel
Sanders of KFC was a Kentucky Colonel
Avinash Mudaliar pointed out that Dr
Rajkumar was also so honored

107. Anti-Clockwise 13
When Cornell awarded him his doctoral degree in 1876, he
became the first D.V.M (doctor of Veterinary medicine) in the
US. Along with his assistant Theobald Smith, he made
several important discoveries. During a study of hog
cholera, they demonstrated that dead (heat killed)
organisms could immunize animals against living organisms
– thus laying a foundation to a method of creating a typhus
vaccine.
If we were told that an organism was named after him, we
might leap to the conclusion that it is a species of fish, but
that species probably gets it’s name from the Latin for “to
leap”.
What was named after him is a micro-organism that is often
in the news as a source of infection.
Name him, or the micro-organism.

108. Answer
Salmonella – after Daniel Salmon

109. Anti-Clockwise 14
The general term for the kind of
railing seen in the first two
pictures originates from the
name of the molded shafts that
form the support. This shaft can
be functional or ornamental,
and in turn gets it’s name from
the Italian for "pomegranate
flower”, due to it’s resemblance
to the swelling form of the half-
open flower.
What is the term used for these
supporting shafts?

110. Answer
Baluster (Whence Balustrade)

111. Anti-Clockwise 15
The second season of the BBC documentary series
“The Private Life of a Masterpiece” focused on two
paintings. One was Velasquez’s painting known as
“The Rokeby Venus”. The other was a painting that
was originally called “The bath”, and was a cause of
much notoriety and controversy when it was first
exhibited in 1863 (Emil Zola’s novel “ L'Œuvre” is a
fictionalized version of this).
It inspired, among other things, a painting by
Monet, and a series of paintings, sketches and
linogravures by Picasso
Name it.

112. Answer

113. SCORES AT THIS POINT

114. STAGE – 2
TOPIC : SCIENTISTS
- 6 questions. One (very specific) connect
- 10 points for each answer
- Connect in the first 2 questions for +40/-20
- Connect in next 2 for +30/-15. At question
3, I’ll also tell you more about the connect
- Connect in the last 2 for +20/-10
- One additional clue at the end, and a free
guess at the end for +10

115. 1 - +40/-20
Nikolay Basov was awarded the
Physics Nobel Prize in 1964, along
with Alexander Prokhorow and an
American Scientist. The American
scientist is the one that most folks
associate with the discovery (or
invention) that resulted in the Nobel
Prize, and between 1989 and 1997,
Fujitsu had released a set of gaming
PCs and consoles named after him.
Who was the American Scientist, or
what was the invention?

116. Answer
Charles H. Townes (LASER/MASER)
Nikolay Basov goes into the connect

117. 2 - +40/-20
Although his first degree was in
History, this French aristocrat
soon switched tracks, and his
1924 PhD thesis under Paul
Langevin resulted in a Nobel
Prize a mere 5 years later. Identify
him.

118. Answer
Louis De Broglie (goes into the connect)

119. 3 - +30/-15
His work in the decoding
the waggle dance of the
bees earned this behavioral
biologist a Nobel Prize in
1973. Name him

120. Answer
Karl Von Frisch (goes into connect).
CLUE: The connect is that these 6 people are
the only ones who have won these two
awards – one being a Nobel Prize. You just
need to identify the other award for the
connect

121. 4 - +30/-15
Dugald Stermer (died Dec
2, 2011, so this is almost a
TCQ ) , persuaded Norman
Rockwell to paint the
portrait of this Nobel
Laureate for the June 1967
issue of the magazine
“Rampart” where he
worked as the Art Director.

122. Answer
Bertrand Russell (goes into connect)

123. 5 - +20/-10
Konrad Lorenz was one of the three winners of the
1973 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology (along
with Karl von Frisch – who we already met – and Niko
Tinbergen). He is credited as one of the founders of
the scientific study of animal behavior. Identify this
field, which takes its name from the Greek for “The
study of character”.

124. Answer
Ethology (Konrad Lorenz goes into connect)

125. 6 - +20/-10
In the “Oxford book of modern science
writing”, Richard Dawkins called him “the
wittiest of all scientific writers”. In his
“Memoir of a thinking radish: an
autobiography” he recounts a story of when
he visited the US – “When asked to make
the formal declaration that I did not intend
to overthrow the Constitution of the United
States, I was fool enough to reply that I had
no such purpose, but that were I to do it by
mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.”
Name this winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize
for Physiology/Medicine

126. Answer
Peter Medawar

127. Misc Clues +10
Among those that didn’t get into the list as they
didn’t have a Nobel were
…and the initial grant for the
award came from him

128. Answer for connect
These are the 6 people who have a Nobel
Prize and also the UNESCO Kalinga award for
the popularization of Science. Grant money
for the award came from Biju Patnaik.

129. SCORES