Travel & Living Quiz conducted on 16th Apr 2015 at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Quizmasters-Aditya S Acharya, Rajan Arora

1. Travel & Living Quiz
Aditya S Acharya
Rajan Arora

3. Round 1
• Infinite Bounce and Pounce
• Clockwise
• On Pounce: +15/-10
• On Bounce: +10/0

4. 1.
• Picture (water color)
dated 1812. Which
place?

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8. 2.

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11. 3.
• For a brandy to bear the name X, its production
methods must meet certain legal requirements.
In particular, it must be made from specified
grapes of which Ugni blanc, known locally as
Saint-Emilion, is the most widely used. The
brandy must be twice distilled in copper pot
stills and aged at least two years in French oak
barrels from Limousin or Tronçais.
• X?

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13. Cognac

14. 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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16. Y: Bloody Mary
X: Mary Tudor

17. 5.
• This fragment of stone has been on permanent display
in the old Electrical Engineering Building in the Texas
Tech University since the St. Patrick's Day of 1939.
Legends say that while on a field trip, it was discovered
by a team of petroleum engineers.
It is said that seniors that kiss this on graduation day
receive a certain kind of gift.
• This is supposedly a piece of a famous block of stone in
Ireland.
• What gift do they receive?

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21. Blarney Stone; The gift of flattery,
coaxing talk

22. 6.
• This is an Asian Palm Civet found mainly on
the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi
in the Indonesian Archipelago.
• What is it known for in the world of F&B?

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

26. 7.
• Which food item’s origin?
• Lemuel X, a retired Wall Street stock broker, claimed
that he had wandered into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894
and, hoping to find a cure for his morning hangover,
ordered "buttered toast, Y, crisp bacon, and
a hooker of Hollandaise". Oscar Tschirky, the
famed maître d'hôtel, was so impressed with the dish
that he put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus but
substituted ham for the bacon and a toasted English
muffin for the toast.

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28. Eggs Benedict

29. 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 to
produce perfectly finished and presented food is a symbol of a willing
and enjoyable participation in servicing others. X exactly sustains these
meanings relating to the preparation of food. The kinds of picture used
always repress the process of production of a meal. They are always
beautifully lit, often touched up.”
• In the United States, X is a term applied when "food manufacturers are
capitalizing on a backlash against low-calorie and diet foods by
marketing treats that boast a high fat content and good artery-clogging
potential"
• X?

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31. Food Porn

32. 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 light
from 39 xenon lamps and focus them into one intense, narrow beam,
engineers claimed that newspaper can be read from a distance as far
as 10 miles. This however, was later revealed to be a false claim. On a
clear night, the Sky Beam is visible up to 275 miles (443 km) away by
aircraft 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 new
ecosystem of moths, bats, and owls.
• Where would you find this beam of light?

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34. Luxor, Las Vegas

35. 10.
• What are these?
• X
• Y
• Z
• Magnum
• Jeroboam
• Methuselah
• Salmanazar
• Balthazar
• Nebuchadnezzar

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37. Wine bottle sizes

38. End of Round 1

39. Round 2
• Infinite Bounce and Pounce
• Anti-Clockwise
• On Pounce: +15/-10
• On Bounce: +10/0

40. 1.
• This is a vessel/dish (the French word for
“saucepan”) used both in the oven and for
serving purposes. The word is also used to
describe the food cooked and served in such a
vessel. In British English, this type of dish is
frequently also called a bake, coinciding with
the cooking technique used to cook such
dishes. What’s it called? (Pic in next slide)

43. Casserole

44. 2.
• This dish was invented when the chef Mullah
_________ mistakenly emptied a bowl full of
onions in a dish that was being cooked at the
Mughal Emperor Akbar's court. The dish has
since evolved and has become an integral part
of Hyderabadi cuisine. Which dish am I talking
about?

46. Do Piaza (from Pyaaz)

47. 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?

50. • He was the native who killed Ferdinand
Magellan

51. 4.
• X appeared on the menu of NASA's space
shuttle program and went into orbit on the shuttles. It
was on Skylab and on the International Space
Station and is popular with astronauts as a means of
countering the dulling of the sense of taste that they
frequently experience in space. It is produced by
the US-based McIlhenny Company, made exclusively
from a certain variety of peppers (Capsicum
frutescens), vinegar and salt. It has a hot, spicy flavor.

54. 5.
• To whom or what is this bicycle track in
Netherlands a tribute to?

57. Starry Night or Van Gogh

58. 6.
• A X was originally an open-air marketplace. Historically, X
were held outside cities at locations where incoming
caravans stopped and merchants displayed their goods for
sale. X's formed whenever a caravan or caravans arrived.
• The word entered European languages through French,
probably during the French occupation of the Berber
countries Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia in the 19th or 20th
centuries. Thus, the word "X" most likely refers to
Berber/North African traditional markets .
• What word often used to describe bazars in Muslim
countries?

60. Souk

61. 7.
• Late last year, the Venice City Council introduced a
peculiar law to do away with a certain kind of pollution
that was badly affecting the city.
• The law bans the use of a regular commodity that
effected great inconvenience, given the city’s
cobblestone pathways, staircases, walkways and
historic places – besides causing general wear and tear.
• What was this ban all about, which would definitely
trouble the city’s 20 million tourists every year?

63. No wheeled suitcases, to cut noise
pollution

64. 8.
• This is the coat of arms of a German city,
renowned for its mineral springs. Naturally
carbonated water has been commercially bottled
and shipped from this town since the 18th century
or earlier. Generally X water has no added sodium
salts, while club soda still retains some of the
sodium salts that once were used.
• The town gives its name to genericized trademark
for carbonated water or soda.

67. Seltzer

68. 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?

70. Humans of New York

71. 10.
• Identify the cooking style.

74. Teppanyaki

75. End of Round 2

76. Round 3
• Restaurant theme
• Differential Scoring
• +5*(8-N); N=No. of teams giving right answers
• -5 for incorrect answers

77. 1.
• Celebrity guests of this place, established in 1977,
include Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin. The ‘Hillary
platter’ came into existence based on what was
ordered by Hillary Clinton on a state visit. Similarly a
‘Presidential platter’ (for Bill Clinton) and ‘Chelsea
platter’ also finds a place in its menu. Arnold
Schwarzenegger is known to have visited this place and
enjoyed among many others, its giant naan.
Which place am I talking about ?
(Hint: It shares its name with a Central Asian city)

80. Bukhara Restaurant

81. 2.
• X was a Michelin 3-star restaurant near the town
of Roses, Catalonia run by chef Ferran Adrià. The
small restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bay
on Catalonia's Costa Brava, and was described as
“the most imaginative generator of haute
cuisine on the planet”. The restaurant was also
associated with molecular gastronomy. The
restaurant closed on July 30, 2011.

84. El Bulli

85. 3.
• X is a restaurant run by chef René
Redzepi in Copenhagen, Denmark. Opened in
2003, the restaurant is known for its
reinvention and interpretation of the Nordic
Cuisine. In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, it has
been ranked as the Best Restaurant in the
World by Restaurant magazine.

88. White asparagus with poached egg yolk
and sauce of woodruff.
Noma

89. 4.
• X Restaurants are co-owned by X Matsuhisa &
Robert De Niro. X Matsuhisa also co-owns X
Hospitality with Robert De Niro and Meir
Teper. The first X Hotel & Restaurant located
inside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is currently
open. It’s known for its fusion cuisine
blending traditional Japanese dishes with
South American (Peruvian) ingredients.

92. 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!

93. 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.

96. 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.

99. 3.3.

100. • 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 unalienable
Rights, 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)

103. 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.

106. 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.

107. 5.

108. Waiting for connects
• Individual answers follow

109. 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.

111. Ans:
• Benjamin Franklin

112. 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.

114. Ans:
• Andrew Jackson

115. 3.3.

116. • 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 unalienable
Rights, 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)

118. Ans:
• Thomas Jefferson

119. 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.

121. 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.

122. 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.

123. 5.

124. Ans:
• Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
• Abraham Lincoln

125. CONNECT
• Any random guesses?

126. Benjamin Franklin on $100 bill
Andrew Jackson on $20 bill
Thomas Jefferson on $2 bill

127. George Washington
on $1 bill
Abe Lincoln
on $5 bill

128. Other currency bills:
Ulysses S. Grant
on $50 bill
Alexander Hamilton
on $10 bill