The Spanish Inquisition

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~ The Elim has 30 questions
~ Qn nos 13 to 20 (8 questions) are starred questions
and will be used to resolve ties
~ If ties are still not resolved that way, we use sudden
death
~ If still not resolved, the team with the more
fanatical devotion to the Pope wins
The BCQC June Open Quiz | Aditya Gadre

1
What was established (in part) by Queen Isabella in
1498 and abolished in 1834 by Queen Isabel II ?

A
The Spanish Inquisition
How many of you expected that
answer?

2
During World War II direct wage increases were
prohibited.
The War Labor Board used various indirect increases /
substitutes for actual money to attract and retain
labor in this situation.
What term did the Labour Board coin to refer to this
category of remuneration?

A
Fringe Benefits

3
The size of a small dog, it became the largest
carnivorous marsupial in the world following the
extinction of the Thylacine in 1936.
Its large head and neck allow it to generate the
strongest bite per unit body mass of any living
mammal
Name this creature.

A
Tasmanian Devil

4
In 2004, The Sunday Times paid £300,000 to settle a
libel case after the newspaper alleged something.
Recently the newspaper sued the original plaintiff
and is demanding the return of the £300,000
settlement payment along with interest and legal
costs. a
Their letter said: "It is clear that the proceedings were
baseless and fraudulent. Your representations that
(..) were deliberately false.“
Who is the Sunday times suing?

A
Lance Armstrong
They alleged that
he used
performance
enhancing drugs

5
Colón is a province of Panama.
This province has traditionally been focused in
commerce but also has natural resources that are
being developed as tourist attractions.
Who is this province named after?

A
Christopher
Columbus

6
If one of these
women is Geneva,
name the other.

A
Helvetia

7
The 1953 Chrysler Imperial was the first production
car in twelve years to have a particular feature,
following tentative experiments by Packard in 1940
and Cadillac in 1941.
Walter P. Chrysler had seen to the invention of this
feature back in the 1930s for the Chrysler Building,
and had ostensibly offered it on cars in 1941-42, and
again in 1951-52, but none are known to have been
sold in the latter form until the 1953 model year.
What feature?

A
Air Conditioning

8
The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites
Punch magazine which wrote that the term was coined in
Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for "Saturday-night
carousers"
Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a postchurch ordeal of
heavy meats and savory pies, why not a new meal, served
around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and
other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier
fare? By eliminating the need to get up early on Sunday,
_________would make life brighter for Saturday-night
carousers. It would promote human happiness in other ways as
well.
Fill up

A
Brunch

9
Krishta Purana is a 11,000 stanza* long poem written
in Marathi by Fr. T. Steven (possibly the first English
settler in India).
Whose life is this poem about?
*‘strophe’ if you want to get pedantic

A
Jesus Christ

10
The guy recently admitted to having attempted
suicide last year and almost succeeding. In a
documentary for BBC Two called The Secret Life of the
Manic Depressive, he also speaks of how he
attempted suicide after walking out of the West End
play Cell Mates in 1995.
Name this actor who made his return to the West
End stage in November 2012 as Malvolio in Twelfth
Night and will feature in The Hobbit: The Desolation of
Smaug as Mayor of Laketown.

A
Stephen Fry

11
As a former movie critic and lifelong lover of films, I have closely
watched the evolution of Hindi cinema. (..)
In recent decades, Hindi movies have also emerged as India’s
powerful cultural ambassadors all over the globe. When I think
of these twin-roles of Indian cinema (and I recognise the role of
non-Hindi films also in this), my heart is filled with a sense of
gratitude towards all the great artists, singers, music
composers, producers, directors and others associated with our
film industry. (…)
I love film songs, both old and new, especially those with slow
and soulful tunes. I have nearly 300 songs stored on my i-pod as
well as in my MP3-installed mobile, and listen to them whenever
I have some free time.
Quote from whose autobiography?

A
L.K. Advani

12
The fortunes of the Parsee community in India were
largely driven by their immensely profitable
association with the British.
A Parsee, Rustom Manek, was the chief broker of the
English factory in Surat in 1660 and in 1664, the
British entrusted Kharshedji Pochaji the responsibility
for the construction of what?

A
Bombay Fort

13
___________[was] thusly named because she came to Toklas
and Stein stripped of everything on her dashboard, naked in the
way only an open two-seater Ford could be in post-WWI France.
~ The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

A
Lady Godiva

14
Ad for which product?

A
Gorilla Glass
(No points for saying Corning)

15
La Main Ouverte is a recurring motif in this person's
works. It was a sign of "peace and reconciliation. It is
open to give and open to receive."
What are we talking about?

A
The Open Hand
Le Corbusier

16
In the Japanese anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, the
Three Emperors of Yliaster are individually each
named for which famous group of people in the
original version (in the dubbed version, they are
named differently)?

A
The Three Tenors

17
This post in the USA has a lifetime term and any
person with due credentials can be appointed to this
post by the President at any age. There have been
only 17 people who have held this post since 1789.
This post in India has a retirement age of 65 and the
rules state that the seniormost of the available
candidates has to be chosen by the President. There
have been 39 people who have held this post since
1951.
Which post?

A
Chief Justice (of the Supreme Court)

18
Hans Riegel Sr., a candy maker from Bonn, started
the Haribo company in 1920. In 1922, he invented a
fruit-flavored gum made in the shape of an animal.
The success of this led to the invention of which 2 cm
long typically gelatin based candy ?

A
Gummy Bears

19
Harry’s bar in Venice is one of the most famous bars
in the world. The bar used to stock a drink called the
____________ Martini, which 15 parts gin to 1 part dry
vermouth with the funda behind the name being that
___________ liked to have a 15 to 1 ratio of own
troops against against enemy troops on the battle
field
Fill up.

A
Field Marshal Bernard Law
Montgomery

20
There's just one cybercafe in Pyongyang. Anyone
logging on at the cafe would find themselves at a
computer that isn't running Windows, but instead
Red Star - North Korea's own custom-built operating
system, reportedly commissioned by the late Kim
Jong-il himself.
The computer's calendar does not read 2013, but 102.
Why?

A
Time is measured from the birth year
of Kim-il Sung

21
Georgina Geikie is a British sport shooter (who also
competed for Great Britain in the 2012 Summer
Olympics).
She is a descendent of Scottish geologist Sir Archibald
Geikie, who travelled the world making maps in the late
19th century making as director general of the Geological
Survey
These two facts combined have earned her the nickname
"Britain's __________".
Fill up

A
Lara Croft

22
When Asghar Farhadi's movie A Separation beat a
movie called Footnote at the Oscars, why did Iran’s
state TV give a rare nod of approval towards the
western movie industry which is often criticised by
Iranian hardliners ?

A
Footnote was the entry from Israel
The Iranian government took this
opportunity to harp about an victory
for Iran over Israel

23
What intrigued me was Derdák Tibor said that he and another
_____ leader, Orsós János, had been inspired by the philosophy
of social transformation of Dr Ambedkar and his work among
the Dalits, and that they were now trying to deploy
Ambedkarite ideas in their struggle for equal rights for the
_____ community. How and why Ambedkar? Tibor had chanced
upon a book on Babasaheb in Paris and a new world opened up.
He immediately could see the similarities between the
discrimination faced by Dalits in India and _____ in Europe.
~ Pardeep Atri article in Counter Currents in 2009
Which community were Tibor and Janos from?

A
Roma

24
The term is derived from the fact that, silver coins
known as “___X____” were issued in the Saxon
kingdoms, 240 of them being minted from a __Y____
of silver, the weight of which was probably about
equal to the later troy ___Y___.
Hence, large payments came to be reckoned in “Y of
X,” a phrase later shortened to “Y X.”
Give YX

A
Pounds Sterling

25
Herbert Vivian Hordern was a googly bowler and
more than capable late middle-order batsman. While
a student in Pennsylvania he played in England in
1907, taking 110 wickets in matches not deemed first-
class. He also toured Jamaica with them in 1908-09
before returning home to New South Wales.
What nickname was he given because of his swarthy
complexion?

A
‘Ranji’ Hordern

26
Sir Adamjee Peerbhoy visited what describes itself as
“the world’s tiniest hill station” often and wanted to
make it easier to get there.
Hence , this was built between 1901 and 1907 by
Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy , financed by his
father, Sir Adamjee Peerbhoy at the cost of INR 16
lakh

A
Neral – Matheran Hill Railway

27
When Chen Xitong died this year, Zhou Duo, an
intellectual based in Beijing wrote:
“He egged on Deng Xiaoping to take a hard-line
direction at a very critical moment. He, Li Peng and Li
Ximing played a very important role in encouraging
Deng to take a mistaken course.”
What was this ‘critical moment’ ?

A
Protests in Tiananmen Square
Xitong was the mayor of Beijing at the time
and apparently convinced Deng Xiao Peng
to crush the protest by sending out the
army instead of indulging in dialogue

28
Who talking about the name he is popularly known
by?
“I have no idea where it came from or who started it,
for it has no meaning in Portugeuse or any other
language as far as I know. I hated it so much that I used
to get into fights with those who used it. I must have
lost most of them for I was _____ to everyone I knew
except for my family who call me Dico to this day”

A
Pele

29
Who / What is this car inspired by?

A
Green Lantern

30
This literature professor - Patrick Alexander -wrote a
guidebook for a classic work of literature which
includes a 600 word summary of all 7 volumes.
Patrick writes on his website that this summary has
been added to prove that all that is to be said cannot
be compressed into 15 seconds “even in the briefest
bikini” and reading out this 600 word summary
would take at least 3 minutes.
Which work of literature?

A
In Search of Lost TimeBy Marcel Proust
The parts about 15 seconds and brief bikinis are
obvious references to the “Summarize Proust
Competition” sketch by Monty Python

Rules
The final has a total of 60 questions over 4 rounds
~ IR passing (24 Questions)
~ Quick Written Round 1 (6 questions)
~ Quick Written Round 2 (6 questions)
~ IR passing (24 questions)
May the most fanatical follower of the Pope win!

Rules
Round 1
- 24 questions
- Clockwise passing on Infinite Rebounds
- Each correct answer in the passing rounds gets you 10 pts
- You have 10 pounces you can use at +10/-5

1
In the Star Trek :The Next Generation novel
‘Doomsday World’, Geordi is introduced to a Gorn
bartender who supposedly “knows everything”
To test the bartender, Geordi asks him a question to
which the bartender responds not with an answer
but with a clarification which seemingly convinces
Geordi that this claim may actually be true.
What was the question and what was the
clarification?

A
Geordie: "He knows everything, huh?
What is the airspeed velocity of an
unladen swallow?"
Gorn bartender: "What do you
mean? An African or a European
swallow?“

2
Who started a business in the 1820s to sell beverages
such as tea, coffee and other similar beverages ?
His motivation to sell those particular beverages
primarily stemmed from his Quaker beliefs as he
wanted to sell beverages as an alternative to alcohol.

A
John Cadbury
Started by selling tea, coffee and then cocoa as
alternatives to alcohol

3
Connect

A
Nelly Kim Furtado is named after the
gymnast Nellie Kim

4
________ computer is a temporary ad-hoc computer
cluster running specific software to coordinate the
individual computers into one single supercomputer.
A ________ computer is distinct from other types of
computer clusters in that it is set up and broken
down on the same day or during a similar brief
amount of time and involves many independent
owners of computers coming together at a central
physical location to work on a specific problem
and/or social event.
Fill up.

A
Flash Mob Computer

5
MOAR STAR TREK!
In a final attempt to kill Kirk, Khan activates the Genesis
Device. The Enterprise is too damaged to escape the
large explosion that the device will trigger. Unnoticed,
Spock exits the bridge, while Kirk orders a withdrawal at
"best possible speed". On Reliant's bridge, Khan says:
"No, Kirk, you can't get away. _____________________"
Seconds later he succumbs to his injuries and dies.
What appropriate line from literature does the Khan use?

A
"From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For
hate's sake I spit my last breath at
thee.“
From Moby Dick

6
This company whose name is Indonesian for "salt
warehouse” is a major kretek manufacturer.
It was founded in 1958 by Surya Wonowidjojo and in
1984, control of the company was passed to his son,
Rachman Halim, who subsequently became the
richest man in Indonesia. Halim headed the company
until his death in 2008.
Name this company which produces 864 million units
of its product every year.

A
Gudang Garam

7
London, 27 February, 1861; A letter from Marx to Engels
Fill up
"The chap is an Egyptian by birth. Schlosser says he
has "no soul," probably because he goes to the
roots of the material basis for these civil wars.
_________ is revealed as the most splendid fellow
in the whole of ancient history. Great general (no
Garibaldi), noble character, real representative of
the ancient proletariat."

A
Spartacus

8
What is common to these marked regions?

A
All give their names to breeds of
dogs
Labrador, Dalmatia, Alsace,
Pomerania

9
He was buried in his own garden, burial in the Muslim
cemetery of Tus having been forbidden by a local
cleric.
A tomb constructed by a Ghaznavid governor which
had fallen into decay, was rebuilt between 1928 and
1934 on the orders of Reza Shah and has now
become the equivalent of a national shrine.
Who?

A
Ferdowsi

10
Which book? Which book?

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11
The original club crest was a crossed pair of tools
commonly used in the iron and shipbuilding industry.
A castle was later (circa 1903/04) added to the crest
and represents a prominent local building, Green
Street House, which was known as "Boleyn Castle”
through an association with Anne Boleyn. The manor
was reportedly one of the sites at which Henry VIII
courted his second queen, though in truth there is no
factual evidence other than the tradition of rumour.
Which football club?

A
West Ham United

12
Words of Thakur Jaidev Singh:
________ was entirely an invention of Khusrau. ________is
a Persian word meaning a song. True, Khusrau had before
him the example of Nirgit songs using śuṣk-akṣaras
(meaningless words) and pāṭ-akṣaras (mnemonic syllables
of the mridang). Such songs were in vogue at least from
the time of Bharat. But generally speaking, the Nirgit used
hard consonants. Khusrau introduced two innovations in
this form of vocal music. Firstly, he introduced mostly
Persian words with soft consonants. Secondly, he so
arranged these words that they bore some sense. He also
introduced a few Hindi words to complete the sense…. It
was only Khusrau’s genius that could arrange these words
in such a way to yield some meaning. Composers after him
could not succeed in doing so, and the ______ became as
meaningless as the ancient Nirgit.

A
Tarana

13
Name the racist bastard
From a piece authored by him in the Reader's Digest
(1939)
“We can have peace and security only so long as we band
together to preserve that most priceless possession, our
inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard
ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by
foreign races”
Reaction to Kristallnacht from his diary
"I do not understand these riots on the part of the
Germans. It seems so contrary to their sense of order and
intelligence. They have undoubtedly had a difficult
'Jewish problem,' but why is it necessary to handle it so
unreasonably?"

A
Charles Lindberg

14
Los Zetas is a powerful and violent criminal syndicate
in Mexico, and is considered by the U.S. government
to be the "most technologically advanced,
sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in
Mexico.”
What appropriate image from the world of
entertainment would you see on the logo of Los
Zetas?

15
Namdev Dhasal founded a social organization in April
1972 in Mumbai with himself, Raja Dhale and Arun
Kamble being the original leaders
The organization was inspired by a revolutionary
organization amongst another oppressed community
who, like the Dalits, were fighting for rights (NOT the
Roma).
Name either the organization founded by Dhasal or
the movement they were inspired by?

A
Dalit Panther Party
Black Panther Party

16
Paul Theroux talking about whom in his superb essay “X
is an expatriate” ?
X never became bestial; he ate cooked food and to my knowledge
never bit or clawed any of his enemies or buggered his
functionaries. (..)
Having defined his society (a small superior group, white, human,
strong) X still recognised where he was. His definition therefore was
an assertion of exclusiveness which coupled with the fact that he
did not want to leave, seemed to indicate that he wanted to be a
king, or if ‘king’ was objectionable, then he wanted to be special,
lordly, powerful.

A
Tarzan
The essay is about the white man’s sense of
entitlement in Africa

17
This guy was conceived on Tahiti, and on
14th October 1790 became the first child
born on a nearby island.
He was given an unusual name of
Thursday October _________ because his
father wanted his son to have "no name
that will remind me of England“
Presumably his mother , a Tahitian lady
named Mauatua had no say in the
naming.
Who was his father?

A
Fletcher Christian
Led the famous Mutiny on the Bounty and
settled down on Pitcairn Island (where
Thursday was born)

18
When Peter Mayhew posted this picture on twitter,
the Transportation Security Administration agents in
Denver finally relented and gave him back his cane
(which they had confisticated).
What is Peter Mayhew’s claim to fame?

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A
He played
Chewbacca
Side note: Walking sticks
resembling light sabers seem
like a great idea!

19
On 29 September 1897, the Daily News printed a
short piece on the Indian Uprising which had taken
place about 40 years previously.
The piece was called “ How the ________ _______
Saved India” and commemorated a Mr. William
Brendish, a teenager in Delhi, whose actions on May
11th, 1857 helped the Brits effectively quell the mutiny
by disarming the barracks in Lahore and Peshawar
before the news of the mutiny reached the sepoys
there
Fill in the blanks

A
Electric Telegraph
Brendish was the teenager who sent the message of
the outbreak of the Mutiny in Meerut to the British
Commander-in-chief in Punjab just a day after the
mutiny began. The Brits could thus disarm their
Indian sepoys before the news of the mutiny reached
them.

20
The inventor of this popular item at amusement parks
was Victor Levand, who worked for G.E. at the time.
How it works:
• The oldest and most common method uses a conductive
floor and ceiling, each with a separate power polarity.
Contacts under the vehicle touch the floor while a pole
mounted contact touches the ceiling, forming a
complete circuit.

A
Bumper Cars (Apparently a lot of people in
India know these as “Dashing Cars”)

21
What hitting-on-
head reference to
this painting was
Sharen Davis
responsible for in
2012?

A
The blue valet suit in Django Unchained was a
reference to The Blue Boy by Thomas
Gainsborough
Sharen Davis was the costume designer for the movie

22
A hybrid of debt and equity financing that is typically
used to finance the expansion of existing companies.
__________ financing is basically debt capital that
gives the lender the rights to convert to an
ownership or equity interest in the company if the
loan is not paid back in time and in full.
It is generally subordinated to debt provided by
senior lenders such as banks and venture capital
companies.
What word fills up the blank for this middle ground
of finance?

A
Mezzanine financing

23
Clément Duval was wounded by a mortar in the
Franco-Prussian War. Unable to work, he turned to
theft and subsequently more serious crimes such as
stabbing policemen, blowing up shit and openly
advocating anarchy.
He is often compared to a best selling author of the
20th century because in April 1901, he succeeded at
something (after several failures) and wrote an
account of all this in his memoirs in 1929
What did he do in April 1901?
Who is he often compared to?

A
Escaped from Devils Island
Often compared to Henri Charriere
who wrote Papillon

24
Non exhaustive. What were the buildings used for in the years given. (1/4)
1989 – Knebworth House

24
1995 and 1997 – Stevenson Taylor Hall, Webb Institute, Glen Cove

24
2005 – Mentmore Towers

24
2011 – Wollaton Hall

A
Buildings that have been used as the
‘Wayne Manor’ in Batman movies
1989 – Batman
1995,1997 – The shit Joel Schumacher passed
off as Batman movies
2005 – Batman Begins
2011 – The Dark Knight Rises

Rules
Round 2
- 6 questions on nicknames of national football teams
- Very quick written round
- Each correct answer gets you 5 pts
- Knowledge of football not required at all

Q
1. Les Lions de l'Atlas
2. Les Aigles de Carthage
3. Cedars
4. La Serenissima
5. Los Cafeteros
6. All whites

A
1. Les Lions de l'Atlas – Morrocco (The Lions of the
Atlas)
2. Les Aigles de Carthage – Tunisia (The Eagles of
Carthage)
3. Cedars - Lebanon
4. La Serenissima – San Marino (The Most Serenity)
5. Los Cafeteros – Colombia (The Coffee growers)
6. All whites – New Zealand

Rules
Round 3
- 6 kolstylz questions
- Each correct answer gets you (T-N) pts
- T= Total number of teams
- N= Number of teams who get the answer

Q
1. What is the Arabic term for 'pall'?
2. Name the tallest Argentine basketball player in history.
3. What warning did Guan Moye's father keep repeating to ensure
his son did not get into trouble by expressing his strong
opinions at a time of the Cultural Revolution?
4. What was their first project of the Braithwite, Burn and Jessop
Construction Company ?
5. Which person’s collected works in poetry (under the pen name
"Brahma”) are reserved in Bharatpur Museum?
6. The city flag of Ljubljana features a dragon. Which traveler killed
this dragon?

A
1. What is the Arabic term for 'pall'?
A: Kiswah
2. Name the tallest Argentine basketball player in history.
A:Giant (Jorge) Gonzales
3. What warning did Guan Moye's father keep repeating to ensure his son did not
get into trouble by expressing his strong opinions at a time of the Cultural
Revolution?
A: Mo Yan (meaning “Don’t speak”)
4.What was their first project of the Braithwite, Burn and Jessop Construction
Company ?
A: Howrah bridge
5. Which person’s collected works in poetry (under the pen name "Brahma”) are
reserved in Bharatpur Museum?
A: Birbal
6.The city flag of Ljubljana features a dragon. Which traveler killed this dragon?
A: Jason

Rules
Round 4
- 24 questions
- Anti - Clockwise passing on Infinite Rebounds
- Each correct answer in the passing rounds gets you 10 pts
- You have 10 pounces you can use at +10/-5

25
As part of the celebration of the artist's 400th
birthday in 2006, a bronze-cast representation by
Russian artists Mikhail Dronov and Alexander
Taratynov was displayed around a statue of the artist
sculpted by Louis Royer.
The work was on tour around the world for a while
but is now back to ‘guard’ the square named after
the artist.

A
Bronze statues version of the Rembrandt
painting The Nightwatch
Currently ‘guard’ Rembrandt’s statue at
Rembrandt square

26
Parul Ghosh, wife of flautist Pannalal Ghosh, was,
along with her more illustrious brother, one of the
pioneers of playback singing in Indian cinema.
Her active career spanned from 1935 to 1951.
Her brother introduced her to singing and later went
on to achieve legendary status in the film industry.
Name her brother.

A
Anil Biswas

27
A reimiro is a decorative crescent-shaped pectoral
ornament with its crescent representing a canoe.
Each side of the reimiro ended in a human head.
Which special territory annexed by a country in 1888
has a remiro on its flag?

A
Easter Island / Rapa Nui

28
On 4th November 1869, a publication had the
following quote by Wordsworth at the top of the first
page
"To the solid ground of ______trusts the Mind that
builds for aye".
Following this was an essay by Thomas Huxley titled:
_________: Aphorisms by Goethe
“ _______! We are surrounded and embraced by her:
powerless to separate ourselves from her and powerless to
penetrate beyond her”
Fill up. All blanks are the same

A
Nature – this is the first page of the
first issue

29
Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of
the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and
starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull.
The play was extremely successful on Broadway
(James Stewart starred in the play as well)
This play was the biggest ever directorial success for
which renowned and annually remembered theatre
personality?

A
Antoinette Perry
after whom the Tony Awards are named

30
This weekly magazine commenced its first
publication in 1970. The magazine typically features
on its front cover a satirical cartoon, pertinent to an
issue of current social and public interest
The name of the magazine and its mascot draws from
a historical personality that the founder and editor of
the magazine is connected with through a 1968 play
and a 1971 movie.
Name the magazine and the editor.

A
Thuglak, Cho Ramaswamy

31
Queen of England has an official residence in
Berkshire: Windsor Castle. The castle was built by
William the Conqueror after he invaded England with
his Norman army in 1066. It wasn’t until the 1800s
that the county of Berkshire became known as the
“______County of Berkshire” and this wasn’t made
official until 1974.
This whole story tells the origin of which football
club’s nickname?

A
Reading FC
called “The Royals” since Reading is in the
“Royal County of Berkshire”

32
When this person arrived in England he was well
received by King George III and the Tories but
frowned upon by the Whigs.
In 1787, he entered into mercantile business with his
sons Richard and Henry in Saint John, New
Brunswick, but returned to London to settle
permanently in 1791, where he died ten years later.
Who?

A
Benedict Arnold
Betrayed the Americans and switched sides
during the American War of Independence

33
Guo Qinglan has been an honoured guest at many
high-level diplomatic functions between China and
India, such as the banquet Dalian Mayor Bo
Xilai hosted for then Indian President K.R. Narayanan
in June 2000 and during the visit of then Indian PM
Vajpayee to Beijing in June 2003. In November 2006,
she accompanied Chinese President Hu Jintao on a
state visit to India. She has no political connections
nor does she actively take part in local administration.
Why has she been given all these honours?

A
She was Dwarkanath Kotnis’s wife

34
Hamat Gadar are hot springs in the Yarmouk River
valley, near the Sea of Galilee in the Golan Heights.
Lake Ram is in the northeastern Golan Heights, near
Mount Hermon.
As far as biblical stories go, what connects the
genesis of two locations?

A
Both were created as a result of the
great flood and unlike other such
water bodies never dried / closed up

35
From the blog “Motherboard” by Derek Mead
There’s no more fitting metaphor for North Korea’s
Ryugyong Hotel than the fact that it’s shaped like the
Simpsons’ __________. Construction on the hotel
began in 1987, and was supposed to be completed by
1989. By 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union - and
the resulting loss of cash flow from Moscow - put a
major pinch on North Korea’s funds, construction on
what was to be the world’s tallest structure at its
inception halted, leaving a giant skeleton of building
towering over the glittery squalor of Pyongyang like a
wireframe spaceship.
Visual on next slide

A
The Enron Ride

36
Who is talking?
"The gold chains are a symbol that reminds me of my
great African ancestors, who were brought over here
as slaves with iron chains on their ankles, their wrists,
their necks and sometimes around their waists. I
turned my chains into gold..."

A
Mr T
Explaining why he wears all those gold chains

37
These people are Twelver Shi‘a Muslims who reject
the use of reasoning in deriving verdicts, and believe
Qur'an and hadith as the only source of law.
The term to describe them from the word for “news
or report” is used in contrast to Usuli (from “first
principle”).
Which people?

A
Akhbari

38
In the late 1940s, a newly created country saw a clash of
two towering figures of their history.
One was a leader of a paramilitary group and the other
the first Prime Minister of the country. The incident
involved the sinking of a ship and deaths of 16 members
of the paramilitary group.
The leader of the paramilitary group would himself
become PM in 1977 and went on to say that his greatest
achievement was not starting a civil war when the ship
was sunk.
Name both personalities.

A
Menachem Begin – Leader of Irgun
David Ben Gurion – First PM of Israel
The incident being referred to is the sinking of
the Altalena in which 16 Irgun fighters died.

39
www.kissthisguy.com
What does this website archive?

A
Mondegreens in Rock Music
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky” from Jimi Hendrix’s
Purple Haze is often misheard as “Excuse me while I
kiss this guy”

40
Babur writing about what practice first witnessed by
the Mughals at a battle at Chanderi ?
In short time the pagan, a state of complete nudity,
rushed out to attack us, put numbers of my people to
fight … Two, three hundred of them slew each other in
the following manner: One person took his stand with
a sword in hand while the others, one by one, crowded
in and stretched out their necks, eager to die”

A
Jauhar
The Rajput practice where, when faced with
certain defeat, the women and children
immolate themselves and the men ensure they
die in battle

41
What is “nori” ?
From the website of Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO
The tragic tsunami of March 2011 dramatically affected all
industries in Northern Japan. Our client was one of them.
They came to us, their channels of distribution damaged,
their business hurting, and asked us to create an online
campaign for them that would help to rebuild their
business. But it’s hard to think of a product that could spur
less interest online than a black square of nori. The design
of a square of nori has not changed since its creation in the
15th century. We carved into Nori various Japanese classic
patterns that signify happiness, long-life, etc, creating an
unprecedented type of Nori as a result of the combination
of a traditional product with a modern laser cutter, thereby
conveying both our wish for the future, as well as our
respect for the past.
Visual on next slide

A
Seaweed used to wrap sushi

42
Who is Michael Douglas portraying in this highly
acclaimed Steven Soderberg film?

A
Liberace
The flamboyant showman’s relationship with
Scott Thorson is the subject of ‘Behind the
Candelabra’ by Steven Soderberg

43
A tile at a subway station in the US. It shows the
structure from which the area most likely gets its
name. The alternate (though unlikely theory ) is that
the name comes from the fact that 30 of the original
families who came here were from a region Belgium.
Which subway station would you find this at?

A
Wall Street
Gets its name from a fortifying wall that was built by
the Dutch around “New Amsterdam” to protect
them from the Brits
The alternate theory is that Walloon families
inhabited the area when they first came to Europe

44
The mistranslation
of ’pithos’ (actually
meaning “a large storage
jar” like what you see in
the picture) is usually
attributed to Erasmus of
Rotterdam when he
translated Hesiod's tale
into Latin and
translated pithos into the
Latin word pyxis.
What incorrect phrase
thus arises (and has
endured ever since) ?

A
Pandora’s box
was not a box, but a jar

45
Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878, of a Turkish
Jewish father and an Egyptian Jewish mother.
Her travels took her all over France, Italy and Japan
(where she met Robbie T!)
She married Paul Antoine Richard on 5 May 1911
From which constituency did Paul Antoine Richard
seek election for the French Senate ?
By what name is Mirra Alfassa more commonly
known?

A
Pondicherry
The Mother

46
This word is largely obsolete and refers to the area of
jurisdiction of a X (roughly equivalent to ‘sheriff’)
The term survives in administrative usage in the
British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands,
which for administrative purposes are grouped into
the ___________of Jersey (comprising the island of
Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers
and Écréhous) and the _________ of Guernsey
(comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark,
Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou).

A
Bailiwick
X = Bailiff

47
In 1613, this city with a name meaning “oak grove” was
granted a Royal Charter by King James I and a prefix was
added to its name – thus creating its official name which
is used even today.
The name is used as a shibboleth of sorts with two
opposing groups using two different names for the place
– one with and one without the prefix added in 1613.
The city’s name is also known in India through a brand.
Which city?
And which two opposing groups?

A
Londonderry
second largest city in Northern Ireland
Unionists and Nationalists are the
two groups
Unionists use Londonderry while Nationalists reject
association with the UK and insist on just Derry

48
Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1) of World War I, was a fighter
unit of the German Luftstreitkräfte, comprising four
Jastas or 'fighter squadrons'.
What did JG 1 became known as because of the
bright colours of its aircraft, and perhaps also
because of the way the unit was transferred from
one area of allied air activity to another – where they
frequently setting up tents on improvised airfields ?

A
The Flying Circus
Supposedly one of the inspirations for Monty
Python’s Flying Circus

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