DTU Finals quiz

Instructions
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1
X by John Trumbull is one of the most iconic paintings in US
history. Commissioned in 1817, the painting has been sitting
in the US Capitol building for almost 200 years. In reality, it
shows the five-man drafting committee led by Thomas
Jefferson (and including Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger
Sherman, and Robert Livingston) presenting the first draft to
the President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock. In
the painting, it would appear at first glance that Thomas
Jefferson is stepping on John Adams’s foot, and some
speculated this was meant to represent the political tension
between the two. However, closer examination reveals that
their feet are side-by-side. Just to be sure, the image was
modified to create more space between their feet. Where is
this painting most famously shown?

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1
X - Declaration of Independence
Y - On the reverse side of 2$ bill.

2
Managed by Major Frank Buckley, the Wolverhampton Wanderers
club became involved in the strangest doping scandal in sports history
in 1939. Buckley had heard of a revolutionary technique pioneered by
surgeon Serge Voronoff that involved grafting tissue as a rejuvenation
method. In fact, his treatment was quite popular throughout the 1920s
and ’30s. Buckley had his players undergo the procedure. He
announced it to the media and other clubs, arguing that it wasn’t
doping and that there were no rules against it. After the procedure,
there appeared to be an improvement in his players’ stamina and
strength that was immediately attributed to the rejuvenation
therapy.However, any changes were likely the result of the placebo
effect. Even so, more football clubs soon adopted the technique. But
other clubs protested so vehemently that the House of Commons had
to debate in 1939 whether football players were allowed to use this.
Eventually, the practice fell out of favour, and Voronoff was ridiculed
for his beliefs. Which technique?

2
Grafting skin from monkey testicles onto human
testicles

3
X originally bought the rights to Anthony Burgess’s novel for
$500 with the plan that he would play Alex and the rest would
play Alex’s gang of “Droogs.” The sound track would be
provided by Y, who reportedly loved X’s vision for the film.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, the plan went out the
window when X sold the rights to producer Si Litvinoff for a
massive profit. The job of adapting the book for cinema went
to Easy Rider and Doctor Strangelove scribe Terry Southern,
who cast David Hemmings as Alex. X and Y then started a
celebrity petition to return X to the role, culminating in a
signature-heavy letter being sent to Southern’s office. They
needn’t have bothered. The British Board of Film Censorship
banned Southern’s script, and the job eventually went to
Stanley Kubrick.

4
All boxers who have been defeated by Vijendar
Singh

5
President Reuven Rivlin of Israel presented the previously unreleased letter, which
was written to then president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
“There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like
me forced to serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders,” the
presidency quoted X’s letter as saying.
“I was not a responsible leader, and as such do not feel myself guilty,” X wrote.
“I am not able to recognise the court’s ruling as just, and I ask, Your Honour Mr
President, to exercise your right to grant pardons, and order that the death penalty
not be carried out.”
The letter was signed and dated: “X, May 29, 1962.”
He was hanged at about midnight on 31 May.
Identify X and why was he hanged?

5
X - Adolf Eichmenn(Architect of Holocaust). Killed
Jews

6
A non-profit association manages and selects costumes from among hundreds
of designs submitted each year.
Dressed in farmer attire. The stunt was organised by Veterinary without Borders to
draw attention to the fact that milk is a major source of nutrition in Africa. The NGO
hopes to improve the living conditions of African farmers and their livestock.
Dons a special Hungarian hussar costume to celebrate Hungary's six-month
presidency of the European Union.
Celebrating the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 2006.
Dressed as a soldier by Amnesty International to draw attention to child soldiers in
2004.
Wearing a Russian cosmonaut suit donated by the members of an International Space
mission.
In Judo attire.

7
The Día de los Muertos is a holiday in many countries. In Anglophone
countries, a back-translation of its original name, Día de Muertos. It is
particularly celebrated in Mexico where the day is a public holiday.
On October 31, All Hallows Eve, the children make a children's altar to
invite the angelitos (spirits of dead children) to come back for a visit.
November 1 is All Saints Day, and the adult spirits will come to visit.
November 2 is All Souls Day, when families go to the cemetery to
decorate the graves and tombs of their relatives. The three-day fiesta
is filled with marigolds, the flowers of the dead; muertos (the bread of
the dead); sugar skulls; cardboard skeletons; tissue paper
decorations; fruit and nuts; incense, and other traditional foods and
decorations.
Where in the field of entertainment was it seen recently?

7
Opening scene from James Bond - Spectre

8
When Y died in 1861, X was devastated. Grieving in the only way that
made sense to her, she searched for a medium who could help her
make contact with her dead husband. She finally found one who
seemed genuine: Robert James Lees, a 13-year- old medium who
claimed to channel the spirit of her husband. She sent her attendants
to investigate the young medium. After impressing them with
impossible- to-know details of her husband’s personal life, Lees was
invited to see her. He went to visit her nine times. Each time, X was
left completely at his whim, prompting her to ask him to become
resident medium of her household. The boy refused, promising that
she could continue communicating through Y’s former gun boy, John
Brown. For more than 30 years, Brown remained X’s medium, having
a complete hold over her.For years, rumours have persisted that X’s
infatuation with Brown was a romantic one. Some even suggested she
had secretly married him, with newspapers calling her Mrs Brown.
Identify X.

9
X believed that the brain restricts consciousness, and hallucinogenic
drugs may serve to expand that consciousness. His book Y
documented his experience and validated his hypothesis. He believed
that the use of mescaline, along with prayer or meditation, could aid
in the achievement of enlightenment. The book’s title comes from a
line of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, written by William Blake: “If
the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to
man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all
things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”
X’s book inspired the name of a band whose leader was also very
interested in the use of hallucinogens: Z.
Identify X, Y, Z.

9
X - Aldous Huxley
Y - Doors of Perception
Z - The Doors

10
The Missionary Church of Kopimism (in Swedish Missionerande
Kopimistsamfundet), founded by Isak Gerson, has been officially recognized by
the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency as a religious
community, after three application attempts. Some groups believe that Kopimi is
considered to be a god, and others believing it to be a sacred symbol and spirit
residing within every living being.
On April 28, 2012, the Missionary Church of Kopimism held their first wedding.
The wedding took place in Belgrade, Serbia, between a Romanian woman and
an Italian man. The holy ceremony was conducted by a Kopimistic Op, wearing a
Guy Fawkes mask, while a computer read vows.
The church said, "We are very happy today. Love is all about sharing. A married
couple shares everything with each other. Hopefully, they will remix some DNA-
cells and create a new human being. That is the spirit of Kopimism. Feel the
love.”
What is the belief that drives the church?

10
The Missionary Church of Kopimism (in Swedish
Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet), founded by
Isak Gerson, is a congregation of file sharers who
believe that copying information is a sacred virtue.
CTRL+C and CTRL+V, the common computer
shortcut keys for "Copy" and "Paste," are
considered sacred symbols.

11
Open the door of the tavern and let us go
there day and night,
For I am sick and tired of the mosque and
seminary.
I have torn off the garb of asceticism and
hypocrisy,
Putting on the cloak of the tavern-haunting
shaykh and becoming aware.
The city preacher has so tormented me with
his advice
That I have sought aid from the breath of the
wine-drenched profligate.
Leave me alone to remember the idol-temple,
I who have been awakened by the hand of the
tavern’s idol.
Kiss the hand of the shaykh who has pronounced me a
disbeliever.
Congratulate the guard who has led me away in chains.
I'm going into a solitary retreat
from now on by the door of the Magus,
So that in one gulp I may be filled
with the wine of both worlds.
I will not drink the water of Kawthar;
I will not take this heavenly favor.
The beam which shines on your face, oh Friend,
has made me a conqueror of the world.
Console the heart of the dervish from whom the eternal secret
Has been disclosed; who has made me aware of my destiny.
I congratulate the Pir of the tavern who has himself grasped
My annihilation, my nothingness, and who has captivated me,
A servant of my Pir, who comforts the heart himself,
Of one who has forgotten himself and whom he has turned up
side
down.

11
This is mystical poetry, compiled in a collection called
The Wine of Love. To Western eyes, the poetry seems
strangely heretical but apparently is part of a long tradition
of poetry written as part of a deeply personal communion
with God. Identify the poet.
Wine from the goblet of the beloved is without consciousness.
Selflessness from the drink of this goblet is without wakening.
Your languid eye draws everyone to languor.
Forever, the sick lover has no sickness.
The lover has withdrawn his heart from everything
save the beloved, silently,
Because he has no conversation with himself,
save the story of love.
In whom may I confide of the sweetness
of the pain of the agony of the beloved?
Save the agony of one occupied with love,
the lover has no sorrow.
Pass by the sick bed, one day, of one love sick for your face;
See how he has no nurse by his sick bed,
save for your love.
Be kind. O Friend, take the veil from your face and stop teasing.
The heart has no request of the beloved
save for a vision.

12
South Talpatti (as known in Bangladesh), or New Moore (India), was a
small uninhabited offshore sandbar landform in the Bay of Bengal, off
the coast of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta region. It emerged in the
Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Bhola cyclone in 1970.
Although the island was uninhabited and there were no permanent
settlements or stations located on it, both India and Bangladesh
claimed sovereignty over it because of speculation over the existence
of oil and natural gas in the region.
Based on a case filed by the Government of Bangladesh in October
2009 at the Permanent Court of Arbitration the dispute was settled in
July 2014 The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) awarded New
Moore island to India. How was the dispute resolved before 2014?

12
In March 2010, Sugata Hazra of the School of
Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University,
Kolkatta, India, said that the island had
disappeared and that sea level rise caused by
climate change was a factor.

13
In My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins makes a bet with
Pickering that he can turn a flower girl into a duchess in
three months by teaching her to speak properly. Higgins
continues to treat Eliza as a flower girl while teaching
her how to speak eloquently, yet because Pickering
treats her as a lady, she not only becomes one, she
passes herself off as a princess.
This is a prime example of Rosenthal effect and is in
direct contrast to golem effect. What is the Rosenthal
effect also known as, the name of which is taken from a
famous Greek myth of a sculptor.

14
"X" is a song composed by Juan Tizol and Duke
Ellington, and first performed by Ellington in 1936.
Irving Mills wrote seldom performed lyrics. Its
exotic sound interested exotica musicians; Martin
Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Gordon Jenkins all
covered it. Woody Allen used the song in two of his
films, Alice and Sweet and Lowdown. (Music
follows)

15
According to the game's Web site, a San Francisco developer found an old dusty
Nintendo game cartridge at a garage sale, bought it for 50 cents and discovered a game
never released in the U.S.
"X" is old-school Nintendo in all its 8-bit glory. With dastardly villains, the requisite
keyboard soundtrack and fantastic flat visuals. The advertisement on the site reads, "It's
the roaring 20s, and trouble's in store for Nick. It's hard to enjoy a party when you're
being chased by wacky waiters, dizzy drinkers, and crazy dancers! Now you have to find
Y, the man you saw disappear on the hillside ... or did he?"
The game has less mysterious beginnings than a garage sale discovery, but it doesn't
make the game any less incredible. The San Francisco developer, Charlie Hoey, actually
created, coded and published the game with the help of his friend Pete Smith as a tribute
to their nostalgic love of old NES games. The duo started working on the game almost a
year ago. They thought they would create an 8-bit tribute to it, but once they finished,
they decided to try to create one level of the game. Four levels later, they decided to
release their product to the world. They only put the game online Monday morning, but by
Tuesday it had ricocheted around the Web, bringing the site down with the number of
requests to play the game.

16
This song is a Sufi composition that speaks of a tale at two levels -
at the literal level, you can see this as the statement of an assistant
whose mind is fired up by the teachings and commands of his
master and whose teachings when followed feel like you're being
conferred immortality;a deeper interpretation is that this song is a
communion with God and the singer is merely following the wishes
of his master, the Lord, and he has tried an accepted the teachings
of God and is willing to follow in his footsteps because he controls
the keys to happiness and runs the life.
The music composer for this song is quite famous for composing
songs for movies like Partner, Wake up Sid, Omkara, Luck, Ishqiya,
Blood Money etc.
Identify the song and the singer/singers.

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Madari by Vishal Dadlani/Sonu Kakkar

17
The song by the American grunge band Nirvana, was inspired by X. The band's singer and
guitarist Kurt Cobain often described the novel as one of his favourite books.
This song is credited to all 3 members of the band. As Kurt Cobain said in interviews around
the time In Utero was released, Dave Grohl came up with the drum beat and the guitar riff for
the song. Kurt Cobain said in an interview that when Dave Grohl first brought this song to
him, he didn't think it was very good, but he decided to go along with it so he wouldn't hurt
Grohl's feelings. All 3 members worked to refine the song and Kurt wrote the lyrics. Cobain
also said he preferred having input from the other 2 to take the pressure off of him to come
up with all the songs. He said he was looking forward to more collaboration like that in the
future, a collaboration that sadly never came to fruition.
Grohl told Mojo magazine January 2010: "One of my favorite lines in a Nirvana song - which
is fucking dark and which I didn't realise the weight of until I sat in my house in Seattle where
Kurt sings, 'You can't fire me because I quit.' If there's one line in any song that gives me the
chills it's that one. Maybe all those things that people wrote about him painted him into a
corner that he couldn't get out of.”
X and the song.

17
X - Perfume
Song is ‘ Scentless Apprentice’.

18
Joel Gold, a psychiatrist at the Bellevue Hospital Center, revealed that by 2008, he
had met five patients with schizophrenia (and heard of another twelve) who were
afflicted with _____. Gold named the syndrome “_____________” after the film and
attributed the delusion to a world that had become hungry for publicity. The
syndrome predominantly affects young white men.
Gold stated that some patients were rendered happy by their disease, while "others
were tormented." One traveled to New York to check whether the World Trade
Center had actually fallen. Another came to climb the Statue of Liberty, believing that
he would be reunited with his high-school girlfriend at the top.
In August 2008, the British Journal of Psychiatry reported similar cases in the United
Kingdom. The delusion has informally been referred to as “____,” according to an
Associated Press story from 2008.
After hearing about the condition, Andrew Niccol said: "You know you've made it
when you have a disease named after you. FITB.

20
One teenager(19) in a motorcycle named Mohd
Maqbool Sherwani chanced upon a certain
powerful group who were asking him for the
directions to his state capital. He purposefully gave
wrong directions to fool therefor which he was
killed and hanged by the group. For four days this
group was lost due to this teenager's directions, by
which time the enemy group managed to get its act
together and outfox the former group. What was
the result of this heroic misdirection?

20
His first cousin Ghulam Mohd Sherwani, General
Secretary, District Congress Committee, Baramulla, says,
"Way back in 1947, the young Mohd Maqbool Sherwani
was just 19 but he single-handedly frustrated the advance
of thousands of raiders (Kabailis) from Baramulla, thus
giving valuable time to the Indian Army to land in Srinagar
and push back raiders. The raiders put him on a wooden
cross, nailed him and fired upon 10-15 times. He remained
like that for two to three days. His body was brought down
only when the Army reached the place.”
Thus India was able to capture Kashmir.

21
Nangeli was a Ezhava woman who lived in the early 19th
century at Cherthala in the erstwhile princely state of
Travancore in India.She questioned the tax system that existed
during that time. She refused to pay the breast tax. When the
pravathiyar (village officer) of Travancore asked her to pay tax,
she took a very drastic step which resulted in her death.
Also indicating protest of the tax, her husband jumped into her
pyre, committing suicide. Following the death of Nangeli, the tax
system was annulled in Travancore. The place she lived came
to be known later as Mulachiparambu.
What was the tax system about?

22
A X (more formally, a high voltage traveling arc) is a device
for train of large sparks that rise upwards. The spark gap is
formed by two wires, approximately vertical but gradually
diverging from each other towards the top in a
narrow V shape. X is is the colloquial name for a connection
between the earth and heaven that the biblical
Patriarch Jacob dreams about during his flight from his
brother Esau, as described in the Book of Genesis. The
significance of the dream has been somewhat debated, but
most interpretations agree that it identified Jacob with the
obligations and inheritance of the ethnic people chosen by
God, as understood in the Judeo-Christian-Islam panoply. It
has since been used as a symbolic reference in various other
contexts. (Image on next slide)

23
The registered patent No. 6,469 starts,”
Be it known that I, ______, of Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, in the state
of Illinois, have invented a new and improved manner of combining adjustable
buoyant air chambers with a steam boat or other vessel for the purpose of
enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass
over bars, or through shallow water, without discharging their cargoes.”
The invention stemmed from _____ experiences ferrying travellers and carrying
freight on the Great Lakes and some midwestern rivers. In 1860, _____ wrote his
autobiography and recounted that while in his late teens he took a flatboat down
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from his home in Indiana to New Orleans while
employed as a hired hand. The son of the boat owner kept him company and the
two went out on this new undertaking without any other helpers.
Who?

24
According to a myth it was X who came up with the 40% standard strength of
vodka in 1894, after having been appointed Director of the Bureau of Weights
and Measures with the assignment to formulate new state standards for the
production of vodka. This story has, for instance, been used in marketing claims
by the Russian Standard vodka brand that, "In 1894, X, received the decree to
set the Imperial quality standard for Russian vodka and the 'Russian Standard'
was born", or that the vodka is "compliant with the highest quality of Russian
vodka approved by the royal government commission headed by X in 1894."
The basis for the whole story is a popular myth that X's 1865 doctoral
dissertation "A Discourse on the combination of alcohol and water" contained a
statement that 38% is the ideal strength of vodka, and that this number was later
rounded to 40% to simplify the calculation of alcohol tax. However, X's
dissertation was about alcohol concentrations over 70% and he never wrote
anything about vodka.
X?

25
It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for which the location has for
centuries remained elusive but now an academic from Oxford University believes she has
solved one of the world’s last great archaeological mysteries by identifying the precise spot
on which the X once stood.
Dr Stephanie Dalley focused her search hundreds of miles north of the site of the ancient city
of Y, now near Hillah, in central Iraq, to support her theory that the marvel was in fact built
near the city of Ninevah, in the north of the country.
From piecing together clues from ancient texts, the academic has uncovered evidence that
the X were in fact produced not by the Y and their king Nebuchadnezzar, as has traditionally
been assumed, but rather by their neighbours and foes, the Assyrians under their monarch,
Sennacherib, around 2,700 years ago.
Sennacherib’s capital, Ninevah, is now near to Mosul, an area of Iraq still wracked by
religious and ethnic violence, and although Dr Dalley travelled to the region earlier in the
autumn, her team considered it too dangerous to visit the exact spot.
Identify X.

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The original creators of X, Kambli Arts, have now been granted sole rights to make these in the traditional mould.
Kambli Arts, have been in the business of making X since 1920. But it was in 1935, a year after its inception, that
they began making the popular X for Y.
Ratnakar Madhusudhan Kambli, who now runs Kambli Arts, said he applied for the patent over a year ago.
“Every year we make around 200 of these.
The 12 feet X is the main one for the Y. Apart from this, we make 10 similar ones of 10ft height for different
people in the city.
The other X are all of 2 feet height, and are sold to individual households,” said Kambli.
Kambli said he decided to seek a copyright for X because it is his family who originally designed X and have
been making it for three generations. “In 1935, my grandfather was approached by Y to make it. Since then it is
my family that has been supplying it to Y. My family toiled for years, and I followed, selling the one X throughout
my life that is now famous. We have ensured that the look and design of X has not changed one bit,” said
Kambli.
“But, of late, some makers have started copying our design in total and started making these that are virtual
copies of our pattern, hence I decided to seek a patent,” Kambli explained. “Why should other makers copy our
original design and cash in on its popularity?”
X please.

26
X - Lalbaugcha Raja
Y - Lalbaugcha Raja Mandal

27
Rahman personally trained Egyptian singer
Maryem Tollar to sing X, a song which Rahman
wrote while on Hajj in Makkah. After he heard a
man near a river who was continually repeating
“___ ___ ___” (water in Arabic), he told Gulzar to
incorporate the word into the tune he had created
while touring in Toronto, Canada. X was the first
song recorded for the film. Apart from the film's
soundtrack, it also appeared in the compilation
album, A. R. Rahman – A World of Music released
in 2009. The track was sampled by Serbian artist
Jelena Karleuša in her 2008 album JK Revolution.

28
In 1920, much of Europe was still reeling from the aftermath of World
War I.
Many people felt that through a common language, we can better
understand each other and avoid conflict. But a person called Otto
Neurath believed differently and he thought of a system. To develop
this system he collaborated with Gerd Arntz. Arntz worked in a
simple style that could be easily understood by ordinary people.
Neurath named his system ISOTYPE. The next big jump in was in
1964 where Masaru Katzumie and Yoshiro Yamashita began the
initial steps in creating the first international standards. These
designs were taken further in the 1972 when Otl Aicher designed the
system which is still in use today.
What system or design did Neurath make?

29
The X, was a brief war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.
The cause of the war was economic in nature, namely issues
concerning immigration from El Salvador to Honduras. These existing
tensions between the two countries coincided with rioting during a
1970 FIFA World Cup qualifier. The war began on 14 July 1969, when
the Salvadoran military launched an attack against Honduras. The
Organization of American States (OAS) negotiated a ceasefire on the
night of 18 July (hence "100 Hour War"), which took full effect on 20
July. Salvadoran troops were withdrawn in early August.
Despite a formal peace treaty, a decision by the International Court of
Justice, the support of the OAS, and more than forty years having
passed, the dispute remains active.
What name was given to the war?

31
Alfred Heineken, began his career with the company in 1942 and was
later elected Chairman of the Executive Board at Heineken International.
Alfred, better known as “Freddy,”oversaw the design of the classic red-
starred label released in 1964. When Freddy’s beer took off in the
international market, he made it a point to visit the plants the company
had opened as a part of its globalization strategy.
In 1960, Freddy took a trip to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea
and discovered that he could barely walk 15 feet on the beach without
stepping on a littered Heineken bottle. He was alarmed by the waste he
was creating and came up with an idea.
What idea, on which lots of research was done by the company but which
did not see the light of the day? It is regarded as one of the first eco-
conscious consumer designs out there.

31
The rectangular, Heineken World Bottle or WOBO,
designed with the help of architect John Habraken,
would serve as a drinking vessel as well as a brick
once the contents were consumed.

32
Which optical illusion is being demonstrated and
why has it entered public memory recently?

32
Pepper’s ghost
The trick seen in Abominable Bride.

33
A powerful literary figure of the 19th century Shardha Ram
“Phillauri” was a Sanatani missionary. He was also a social
reformer and a trend-setter in the fields of Hindi and Punjabi
literatures. While on his death-bed he had said, “There are two
writers of Bhasha in the whole of India. To-day only one shall
remain.” His reference to the other Bhasha writer was to the
celebrated Bhartendu Harishchandra. His novel Bhagyawati,
written with the sole purpose of bringing an awakening
amongst the womenfolk, has been called the first Hindi novel,
although the claim is not uncontested.
But only a few people are aware of the fact that Shardha Ram
was the creator of ______. ______ has been heard by
everyone and is an integral part of lots of Indian households.
FITB.

34
Identify the place. Blooms like this happen every 5
to 10 years. Hint if needed.

35
According to one legend, the sage Vishvamitra
through tapasya (penance, meditation and correct
practices) acquired the power to create a whole
new universe. When he set out to create a new
universe it aroused consternation in Indra.
However, he continued and after creating a copy of
our universe, he started creating people, the first
being Trishanku whom he decided to send up to
rule his new universe. Indra stopped his progress.
The Karmanasa river was born out of the saliva
dripping from his mouth. Why is this river famous,
said to be one of its kind?

35
Amongst the sacred rivers of India, Karmanasa
(Karmanasha) River is considered to be cursed
and it is believed that touching its water would ruin
one's plan. There is hardly any development along
the river. The people living around this river just eat
dry fruits, because cooking food would require
water.

36
Started in early 21st century, X aims to increase early cancer
detection, diagnosis and effective treatments, and ultimately
reduce the number of preventable deaths. The goal of X is to
improve men's health. The group started with 80 men from
Adelaide and soon became a nationwide phenomenon. They
also aimed to raise money for the RSPCA through selling T-
shirts.
X also holds a competition every year in the form of nationwide
rounds and then 21 finalists who compete in the final round.
The very first champion was Mark Knight from London in 2010.
South Africa's Anton Taylor won the title in 2011, and in 2012 it
was Chris Thwaites from New Zealand who won the coveted
sash. 2013 saw Sweden's Tom Rickard crowned. X?

36
X - Movember or No-Shave November

38
Nissim Ezekiel was inspired by this board to write a
poem which has become iconic. Where would you
find the original board, the establishment now
closed? The board is now a standard at all such
establishments.
(0.5 for the general name of such establishments
and 0.5 for the original one)

38
Irani Cafes. Original is Bastani Cafe

39
The American physicist and mathematician Jack H. Hetherington,
Michigan State University, in 1975 wanted to publish some of his
research results in the field of low temperature physics in the scientific
journal Physical Review Letters.Hetherington had a Siamese cat
named Chester, who was sired by a cat named Willard. Fearing that
some of his colleagues would recognize his pet's name, he thought it
better to use the pet's initial. Aware that most Americans had at least
two given names, he invented two more given names based on the
species name for a house cat, Felis domesticus, and abbreviated
them accordingly: F.D.C. His article entitled "Two-, Three-, and Four-
Atom Exchange Effects in bcc ³He", written by J.H. Hetherington and
F.D.C. Willard, was accepted by the journal and published in number
35 of November 1975.
Why did he use the cat as a second author?

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A colleague, to whom he had given his paper for
review, pointed out to Hetherington that he had
made frequent use of the first person plural and
that the journal rejects this form on submissions
with a sole author. Rather than rewriting the article
to fix it, or looking for a co-author, Hetherington
decided to invent one.

40
William Moulton Marston , was an American
psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book
writer who created the character X in DC universe.
The character carries an equipment that brings out
a particular virtue in it’s adversaries. Marston is
known in the world of science for inventing a
particular device that mimics the that equipment in
real life, or at least aims to. What did he invent?

40
Wonder Woman and lie detector

41
Identify the voice:
Narrator
Ram
Ravana

41
James Earl Jones
Bryan Cranston
Amrish Puri

42
Alex (1976 – September 6, 2007)[1] was an African grey parrot and the
subject of a thirty-year (1977–2007) experiment by animal psychologist
Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard
University and Brandeis University.
If the researcher displayed irritation, Alex tried to defuse it with the
phrase, "I'm sorry." If he said "Wanna banana", but was offered a nut
instead, he stared in silence, asked for the banana again, or took the nut
and threw it at the researcher or otherwise displayed annoyance, before
requesting the item again. In July of 2005, Pepperberg reported that Alex
understood the concept of zero. If asked the difference between two
objects, he also answered that; but if there was no difference between the
objects, he said "none", which meant that he understood the concept of
nothing or zero.
But he is famous for something else. What?

42
Alex the Parrot is known as the only nonhuman
who has asked an existential question.
When learning colors, Alex asked the scientists,
“What Color Am I?”

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