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The Author’s note of X states that “Many
of my native friends used to visit me
frequently and seeing me reading novels,
they started asking me the plot. One of
them liked ‘Henrietta Temple’ by Lord
Beaconsfield and started pestering me for
its translation. But soon after I proceeded,
I found that it is worthless. So I promised
the above mentioned friend to write a
novel in the manner of English novels,
causing this book to be born. Thus I
started writing this from 18/6/1886 and
stopped on 17/8/1886. ID X.

And the answer is...
Indulekha

X’s discoverer first thought that X’s
presence cannot support life but in turn,
cause harm to life. So he First named it
Azote which in French means “One
which opposes life. But with later
experiments with X, he found that all his
previous conclusions about X were false
and therefore gave it the current name.
ID X.

The inspiration for the title of this book
supposedly comes from the
arrangement of his study table in the
alphabetical order into halves with the
first half in i.e.: from A to M to the left of
a division and the second half to the
right. Which book am I talking About?

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank
Baum

What English Term,
originally German means
‘the apparition or ghost of a
living person’ ?

Doppelganger

Which Indian mythical
Character’s name literally
means ‘difficult to slain’ or
‘difficult to control’ ?

Dusshasana

The tile of this book is now an everyday
term, referring to big unforgettable
mistakes that we commit. This book is
about a military and strategical mistake
committed by India during the 1960’s
and is written by a person who had a
hand in that mistake. What is the term
or the title of the book?

Himalayan Blunder

X is a term related to ladies’
apparel. It earned this name
because it looks like a series
of bangles lying close to a
particular body part. ID X

Churidhar

“Reach out your finger and touch my
hands, and reach your hand here and
thrust it into my side and do not be
faithless but believe. ,
because you have seen me you have
believed. Blessed are they who have
not seen, yet have believed.”
This is an excerpt from the Bible. Fill in
the blanks to get a household phrase.

Doubting Thomas

The ancient Phoenicians worshipped
the pagan god, Beelzebub. This pagan
god had an epithet referring to the belief
that flies which caused deadly diseases,
were never allowed into his temples.
What classic novel got its title from this
aspect of Beelzebub?

The lord of the flies by
William Golding.

is a popular phrase
for a certain ceremony in the Roman
Catholic church in which the officiating
clerk closes his book, quenches a
candle by throwing it to the ground and
then tolls a bell. This ceremony is
performed when the church
excommunicates a person. Fill in the
blanks.

Bell, book and Candle.

The play began life as a short radio play
broadcast on 30 May 1947 called Three Blind
Mice in honour of Queen Mary, the consort of
King George V. The play had its origins in the
real-life case of the death of a boy, Dennis
O'Neill, who died while in the foster care of a
Shropshire farmer and his wife in 1945.
The play is based on a short story, itself
based on the radio play, but the author asked
that the story not be published as long as it
ran as a play in the West End of London. The
short story has still not been published within
the United Kingdom but it has appeared in
the United States in the 1950 collection
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories.

Mousetrap by Agatha
Christie

X’s wife’s autobiography stated that when
her father first met her husband, he was
wearing a scarlet-red shirt. Much to the
amusement of his future father-in-law, He
strongly said that he is a pure communist
and is going to start an orphanage with
communist ideology. He also initially tried to
distance his future wife by saying that he is
never going to be rich and he can never give
his wife the facilities that she enjoys now. ID
X, who contradicted everything given here...

And the Answer is...
N R
Narayanamurthy

Which famous children's’ classic
was first told to the Liddell
sisters as a story in a summer
afternoon in July 1862, later
made into a book?

Alice in wonderland

The Tudor rose, which is the
cover Image of Hilary
Mantel’s Wolf Hall.

X’s History, Origin and rules are
described in a book by
Kennilworthy wisp, which still
remains the basic ledger for the
solving of disputes in it. Id X
which is a very famous sport.

Quidditch!

Identify this cartoon character who is a dupe
of both another famous cartoon scientist
and also a person from the puranas.

Dr. J (He is duped after
Richie Rich fame Prof.
Keenbeen and also
Jarasandha, Kansa’s
father-in-law.

Identify this family, which is the indianised
version of a popular cartoon series.

The Singhsons
(indianised
version of the
Simpsons.)

X is awarded by the Columbia university every
year for excellence in various fields and is
named after a media tycoon. Currently, of the
total 25,14 awards are given for journalism, 6
in the field of literature, 1 for music and the
remaining 4 are fellowships. Chinita Macri of
the ‘Angels and Demons’ fame had this award
fixed as her biggest ambition.

Pulitzer Prizes.

Id this book which made news recently.

The Luminaries by
Eleanor Catton
which won this
year’s Man Booker
Prize.

X and Y were born in the city of Hanau in 1785
and 1786 respectively. During their studies,
they found interest in collecting Folktales. They
spent 6 years talking to villagers and writing
down those stories which were handed through
the generations. These were popular among
both Children and adults. They also become
active in liberal politics, especially for the
freedom of press and saw the foreign culture as
a threat to their own and the stories collected
were expressions of a pure national spirit. They
considered their project of collecting folktales as
a wider effort to oppose colonialism and create
a national identity. ID X &Y.

X= Jacob Grimm
Y= Wilhelm Grimm

Id him whose autobiography is titled ‘Magical
me.’

Glideroy
Lockhardt.

X is a love poem which begins with the last
meeting of the Lotus and the Sun. In the
poem, the Lotus and the sun were friends
from childhood and the lotus had loved the
sun without his knowledge and had destined
herself to marry only him. When she came
to know that her parents had fixed another
marriage for her, she ran away and led the
life of an ascetic in the forest. Meanwhile the
Sun had become radiant and youthful. After
their last meeting, the lotus withers and dies.
ID X and its writer.

Nalini by
Kumaranasan.

ഗുത്തിനിഹാലിട്ട ലിത്താപ്ോപാ
സന്ചിനി ബാലീക്ക ലുട്ടാപ്പി
ഹാലിത്ത മാണിക്ക ലി൯ചോലല് ാ
സംകര ബാഹന തൂലീപീ
ഹു൯ചിനി ഹീലത്ത ഹുത്താോലാ
ഫാനത്ത ലാക്കിടി ജിംബാോലാ
These are lines from a song sung by a character
named Ayesha in a famous Malayalam novel.
Name the novel.

Andtheansweris...
ന്റ്റുപ്പാപ്പാക്ൊകാരാന
ോേണ്ടാ൪ന്ന ്… By Vaikom
Muhammad Basheer

The translation of which Hindi novel
starts thus,
“When you have to carry the feet of the
noble on your shoulders, why not
massage them too ?”

Andtheansweris...
Godan by Munshi
Premchand.

He was born in the outskirts of the
village where the world famous travel
Littérateur S.K Pottekad was born and
thus grew up in admiration of the
renowned writer. On writing his first
story, he published it under the name of
V.N Thekkepatt in honour of his role
model. Who am I talking about?

Andtheansweris...
M.T Vasudevan Nair.

“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding
month. The days are long and humid. The
river shrinks and black crows gorge on
bright mangoes in still, dust green trees.
Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst.
Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the
fruity air. Then they stun themselves
against clear windowpanes and die, fatly
baffled in the sun.”
Id the Indian novel which starts this way.

Andtheansweris...
The God of small
things by Arundathi
Roy.

Andtheansweris...
രമണ൯ -ചങ്ങമ്പുഴ
കൃഷ്ണപിള്ള

He is considered one of the greatest
Hindi writers of modern India and the
father of Hindi Literature. A recognized
poet, he was also a trend setter in Hindi
prose-writing. As an author of several
dramas, life sketches and travel
accounts, He represents the agonies of
the people, country's poverty,
dependency, inhuman exploitation, the
unrest of the middle class and the urge
for the progress of the country. He wrote
under the pen name "Rasa".

Andtheansweris...
Bharatendu Harishchandra

In which famed Hindi novel
can we find characters
named Chandramukhi,
Parvati, Chunnilal, Harimati
and Mahendra?

Many are of the opinion that X may be
Coimbatore, with a river on one side, forest on
the other, and many similar buildings and
lanes like Lawley road, Variety Hall, Bombay
Anand Bhavan, etc. It is also speculated that it
may be Yadavgiri in the erstwhile state of
Mysore. But as per one of the writings in Y’s
book, he loved Malleshwaram and
Basavanagudi, two prominent and old areas of
Bangalore and may have used few letters
from Malleshwaram and last few letters of
Basavanagudi to create X. Agumbe, a small
village on the Western Ghats served the
screening of most of the episodes of a TV
serial based on X. ID X& Y.

Andtheansweris...
X= Malgudi
Y= R.K Narayan

X, literally translated to the story of anklet that
depicts the life of Y, a chaste woman who lead
a peaceful life with her husband in Puhar, then
the capital of Cholas. Her life later went astray
by the association of her husband with an
another woman Madhavi who was a dancer.
The duo started resurrecting their life in
Madurai, the capital of Pandyas. Y’s husband
went on to sell the anklet of Y to start a
business, but was beheaded having been held
guilty of stealing it from the queen. Y went on
to prove the innocence of her husband and
was believed to have burnt the entire city of
Madurai by her chastity. Id X &Y.

Andtheansweris...
X= Chilappathikaram
Y= Kannagi

Andtheansweris...
Modi (The language is
Marathi)

They are the first 5 women Nobel prize
winners for literature and are,
Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid
Undset, Pearl S Buck and Gabriela
Mistral .

They are the default fonts installed by
Microsoft in Windows XP for various
Indian Languages.

These are the only authors to win the
Man Booker prize twice .They are Peter
Carey, J G Farrell, J M Coetzee and
recently, Hillary Mantel.

They all represent Fictional dogs; Cherry
is for Montmorency (Montmorency in
French= Cherry). Then we have Pluto
(Mickey’s dog), Snow (Rather snowy
from Tintin) Timothy Dalton stands for
Timmy from Famous 5 and Diamond
(Newton’s rumoured Dog).

‘Draco dorminus nunquam
tittilandus’=
Never tickle a sleeping dragon from
Hogwarts.

Frankenstein

They are the only Sahitya Akademi
fellows from Malayalam.

They all Fought against Taliban.

Ampersand
Solidus
Tilde
Grave
Ellipsis
CIRCUMFLEX
VINCULUM

They all are symbols on the keyboard!

He is known as Topolino in
Italy, Musse Pig in Sweden
and Michael Sourrie in
France. Who am I talking
about?

Mickey Mouse.

Which cartoon character is
often credited with the
introduction of oxymorons
like ‘Security Blanket’ and
‘Good Grief’?

Charlie Brown from
‘Peanuts’.

The last unfinished story of X saw him
embroiled in the world of modern art
and the story ends as he is about to be
killed, encased in perspex and
presented as a work of art. Although it
is unknown whether he really dies at
the end of the story, as the creator died
on 3rd
March 1983 leaving the story
unfinished. ID X.

Obelix (Asterix fame)

Chacha Chaudhary by Pran.

Give me his breed, not his name.

Beagle (The Dog is
Snoopy from
Peanuts).

What do you call this kind of Cartoons?

What is the name of
the fakir in ‘Asterix &
the Magic Carpet’?

Whatzisname.

X was the first cartoon Sunday
supplement to an American
newspaper. With X’s merchandising
success as an advertising icon the strip
came to be used more as an
advertisement icon. The two
newspapers which ran X, Pulitzer's
World and Hearst's Journal American,
quickly became known as the yellow
kid papers. This was contracted to Y
and later shortened to ________,
describing the two newspapers'
editorial practices of taking (sometimes
even fictionalized) sensationalism and
profit as priorities in journalism.

X= The Yellow Kid
Y= Yellow kid journalism/
Yellow Journalism.

What is the specialty of this Pocket
cartoon named
കിട്ടുമ്മാ൯ ?

It is the first pocket
cartoon in
Malayalam to be
printed in a Daily.

Bal (Balasaheb) Thackeray,
The Founder of Shiv Sena.

Hagar the Horrible.

Morty and Ferdie,
Mickey mouse’s
Nephews.

Elmer Fudd.

The common Man by R K Laxman.

Teri aankhon ki namkeen mastiyan
Teri hansi ki beparwaah gustakhiyaan
Teri zulfon ki leharaati angdaiyaan
Nahi bhoolunga main
___________________________
Tera haath se haath chhodna
Tera saayon se rukh modna
Tera palat ke phir na dekhna
Nahin maaf karunga main
____________________________
Baarishon mein bedhadak tere naachne se
Baat baat pe bewajah tere roothne se
Chhoti chhoti teri bachkani badmashiyon se
Mohabbat karunga main
__________________________
Tere jhoothe kasme vaadon se
Tere jalte sulagte khwabon se
Teri be-raham duaaon se
Nafrat karunga main
_______________________

Jab tak hai Jaan by Yash Chopra.

Which classic poem begins with
these lines?
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.

Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea
Hemans.

I am the Indian ocean
Surge of my waves and their mystical theme
Embracing Bombay and Dar-es in hold
We all belong to the cradle of earth
Same human civilization pervades us all.
- Identify the poet who is also famous in
other fields. His other poems include ‘Rakhi
day is Righteous day’ and ‘Our mission is
water.’

Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam

His poems include ‘Oonchai’ which he
recited after receiving Padmavibhushan
in 1992. An ode to his favorite holiday
spot is ‘Bulati tumhen Manali.’ Set to
music, his poems have been sung by
Lata Mangeshkar. He is not much
known as a poet. Who am I talking
about?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Shut up in a lonely mansion with police night
and day
Patrolling the gardens to keep the assasins
away
He got down to work, to the task of settling the
fate of millions....
W H Auden wrote these lines about which
person, who played a significant role in India’s
maps after 1947?

Cyril Radcliffe (Radcliffe line separating
India and Pakistan)

In which famous poem
can we find characters like
Minnehaha, Wenonah,
Nokomis, Mudjekeewis
and Nanabozho?

The song of Hiawatha by Henry
wordsworth Longfellow.

___________________________ shall
stand
In the great history of the land
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
- This is an excerpt from the poem
‘Santa Philomena’ by Longfellow. Fill
in the blanks to get the synonym of a
personality associated with palliative
care.

________- A Lady with the lamp
Person- Florence nightingale

This form of poetry, also a very popular
form of music among Hindustani lovers
is said to have originated from Amir
Khusrau. It is a short poem of rarely
more than a dozen couplets in the
same metre. Its name is of persian
origin and means ‘the art of talking to
women.’ What am I talking about?

“Whose woods these are I think I
know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”
This poem is the favourite of our ex-
PM Jawaharlal Nehru and its last line
is very meaningful, which it gives
emphasis to. Give me its title.

Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
by Robert Frost. The last line is “Miles to go
before I sleep.”

It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing
the subject from an unusual point of view; it mostly
pokes fun at famous people.It has four lines of
irregular length and metre (for comic effect).The
rhyme structure is AABB; the subject matter and
wording are often humorously contrived in order to
achieve a rhyme, including the use of phrases in
Latin, French and other non-English languages.
The first line contains, and may consist solely of,
the subject's name. An example of this style is:
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's.“

Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

Pablo Neruda’s Birthday

Oscar Wilde's 156th
Birthday

Robert Louis Stevenson's 160th
Birthday

Jules Verne’s 183rd
B’day

Charles Dickens’ 200th
B’day

Albert Camus’ 100th
B’day

Mark Twain’s 176th
B'day

Anant Pai’s 82nd
Birthday

End of the Mayan
Calendar

200th
anniversary of the Grimm’s
Fairy tales.

Douglas Adams’ 61’st
B’day

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wonderful quiz.
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