2. So it goes..
30 questions
Mostly one or few worded answers
Would request no cellphones to be used
Take a time of 40-50 Minutes in running the deck
Blanks, when there, are indicative of the size
3. Whodunnit?
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4. 1.
A ______ Oven is a slang term for lying in bed with another
person and pulling the covers over the person's head while
flatulating, thereby creating an unpleasant situation in an
enclosed space.
This is done as a prank or by accident to one's sleeping partner.
The book The Alphabet of Manliness discusses this term and a
phenomenon it refers to as the "______ Oven surprise", that
"happens if you force it too hard". First Part refers to a
European country’s language/citizens probably due to high
consumption of beans in th diet earlier. Fill in the Blanks
5. 2.
About an hour long canal ride from Mexico City lies Isla de las
Muñecas. It is the best-known chinampa, or floating garden, in
Xochimilco. In 1950, Paramahansa Yogananda in his celebrated
classic Autobiography of a Yogi wrote that if there is a scenic
beauty contest, Xochimilco will get the First Prize.
Julián Santana Barrera, a native of the La Asunción neighborhood,
discovered a little girl drowned in mysterious circumstances in the
canals and also found something else floating nearby and,
assuming it belonged to the deceased girl, hung it from a tree as a
sign of respect. What were hung? How do we better know Isla de
las Muñecas?
(Images of Xochimilco attached)
8. 3.
The image to the right is Hylas
and the Nymphs, painted by
John Waterhouse in 1896.
Recently Neha Kapil, an art
aficionado tried to do a fusion
and made a painting on an
Indian equivalent of Nymphs.
What were they, as in those
dangerous beauties in water
called?
(Neha Kapil’s work follows)
10. 4.
A certain John Hinckley Jr. wrote to a hollywood celebrity just before
his attempt on Ronald Reagan's life in 1981.
“Over the past seven months I've left you dozens of poems, letters and
love messages in the faint hope that you could develop an interest in
me. Although we talked on the phone a couple of times I never had the
nerve to simply approach you and introduce myself.... The reason I'm
going ahead with this attempt now is because I cannot wait any longer
to impress you”
Who was this celebrity, for whom Hinckley developed an infatuation
after she appeared as a child in Taxi Driver (1976) ?
(Image of Hinckley and the child (middle) in Taxi Driver next)
12. 5.
A great little artistic flourish that Howard Hawks Scarface(1932)
integrated into the set design is the “X” insignia visible when a
body lies cold by the hand of Scarface Camonte. Whether the X
is a signature of sorts – the bodies signed with an X to match
Tony’s scar – or just a literal representation of a killer “X-ing” his
victim is up for debate. Perhaps its a nod to journalistic
practices at the time which used an X to show where a body lay
in photographs. These X were the actual reason why they were
so cleverly put (often called movie easter eggs) in a Martin
Scorcese movie. Which Movie?
(Images of X in Scarface(1932) attached)
14. 6.
The 3 knots to the right are
identified as the Trefoil Knot
(Celtic Cross, Thor’s Mjolnir),
Borremeo Rings (from the
Italian Borremeo Family) and the
Solomon’s Knot (often in
Roman Mosaics). These were
proposed by a certain Stoddart
and Sauvage decades ago as the
basis of axles and motors of
some tiny substances which was
highly applauded in 2016. What
was the claim to fame of Stoddart
and Sauvage?
15. 7.
What, in ancient history constituted usually of 3 parts
called Praenomen, Nomen and Cognomen and
also had Agnomen to some?
Hints: Think Army and Generals
16. 8.
The taegeuk symbol is also called taegeukgi (along with four of the
eight trigrams used in divination). The “geon” trigram represents
the heaven, spring, east, and justice. The “gon” trigram symbolizes
the earth, summer, west, and vitality, the “gam” trigram the moon,
winter, north, and wisdom, and the “ri” trigram the sun, autumn,
south, and fruition. The four trigrams supposedly move in an
endless cycle from “geon” to “ri” to “gon” to “gam” and back to
“geon” in their pursuit of perfection. These 4 are actually part of a
bigger eight trigram. Where are the 4 (geon, gon, gam, ri) used?
(complete taegeuk image attached)
18. 9.
In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, Jenny (Robbin Wright) sings this
song for a show in a strip club and is introduced as X .
In 1975, a particular song Y of X was included as poetry in a
high-school English textbook in Sri Lanka causing huge
controversy because it replaced Shakespeare's work with X’s.
Who is X , having created new poetic expressions within the
great American song Tradition? Also give Y
19. 10.
The following image is of the 1911 Gräf & Stift 28/32 PS
Double Phaeton. This was one of the 6 cars going in a
motorcade from Ilidza Spa to Sarajevo, now immortalized
by what happened to its main occupant, the number plate
of this particular car read “ A III 118 ”.
Who was the occupant? What could A III 118 be
comprehended as (a tribute which English cricketers wore
something in remembrance, very recently) ?
Images follow
22. 11.
New England’s Frederic Tudor, when preparing to ship many tons of
___ to the sweltering West Indies, he “was laughed at by all his
neighbors” back home in Massachusetts—as a local history from 1888
recounts—who thought loading up a ship with ___ and setting sail for
the Caribbean was an insane undertaking. As the Boston
Gazette wrote of his voyage, “We hope this will not prove to be a
slippery speculation.” When he did ship a 130-ton load of ___ to the
Caribbean island of Martinique, in 1806, no one wanted it. People
were intrigued by the novelty, but had no idea what to use it for. He
lost thousands of dollars on the venture, but eventually, he was
traveling the world bringing ___ to hot places from New Orleans to
Calcutta, plying people with drinks and convincing doctors to use ____
on their feverish patients. What super cool thing was the Blank?
23. 12.
Under the rules of cricket in the 1700s, a batsman had to
place his bat into a hole cut in the turf to score a run. The
wicketkeeper and/or fielders had to get the ball into the hole
before the bat in order to affect a run-out. This hole was
called the X hole (as in the act with the bat/ball into it), but
after too many fielders had their fingers broken by the
batsman slamming his bat into the hole at the same time as
the fielder's hand, it was decided to change the hole to
something more linear and rigid. What resulted after they
had changed the hole?
24. 13.
The sport was first developed, as a father-son game at a bridge
located in Ashdown Forest, close to the village of Upper Hartfield,
East Sussex, England. Built in 1907 and originally called Posingford
Bridge, it appeared in the late 70’s in the BBC Nine O'Clock News.
The bridge was subsequently reopened by Christopher Robin Milne
and officially renamed to what we know today. It is a simple sport
which may be played on any bridge over running water; each player
drops a stick on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose
stick first appears on the downstream side is the winner. Which Sport
which shares the name of an iconic character penned by the father of
Christopher Robin Milne?
Image of the game follows
26. 14.
Play the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcV1UpZAWAc
The song, "A Real Hero", by French electronica artist College, in
collaboration with Electric Youth, released in 2010, is about X.
Frontman Austin Garrick was inspired to write the song by a quote
from his grandfather, who spoke of X and the incident. Garrick's
grandfather referred to X as "a real human being and a real hero",
which became the song's refrain
(Also appeared in sountracks of Drive(2011) as seen). Who is X
and what heroic incident in Jan 15, 2009?
27. 15.
Agalmatophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to
_____________or other similar figurative object. The attraction
may include a desire for actual sexual contact with the object, a
fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with an
animate or inanimate instance of the preferred object, the act of
watching encounters between such objects, or pleasure gained
from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into
the preferred object. Agalmatophilia may also encompass
Pygmalionism (from the myth of Pygmalion), which denotes love
for an object of one's own creation
What is the blank, which started in Jacksonville in Oct 2016?
(Image of Pygmalion)
29. 16.
Ankylosing spondylitis has a long history, having been
distinguished from rheumatoid arthritis by Galen as early as the
2nd century AD. Skeletal evidence of the disease was found
even in an archaeological digs that unearthed the skeletal
remains of a 5000-year-old Egyptian mummy. In 1858, David
Tucker published a small booklet which clearly described the
case of Leonard Trask, after falling from a horse, exacerbating
the condition and resulting in severe deformity. Named after a
plant species what is this disease in layman’s terms known as?
(Image of Leonard Trask, 1858, follows)
31. 17.
Harish Bhimani, an MBA from JBIMS, is an Indian voice-over artist
and a Master of ceremonies/compere. He has been chosen for the
President’s award in the National Film Awards 2016 in the category
of voice overs / narration. A veteran of some 20,000 recordings he
is credited with several iconic recordings. He is the leading voice in
many documentaries, corporate films, feature films, TV & Radio
commercials, games, music albums apart from hosting public
events and ceremonies, since the 1980s.
With what iconic heavenly voice would you associate him in the
late 80’s ?
(Image follows)
33. 18.
A brain child of Jennifer 8. Lee, a former NYT journalist,
this convention was held in San Francisco in Nov 6th
2016. Aimed at making sure that everyone—no matter
which of the world’s 7,000 languages they speak can
communicate, this convention was carefully coordinated
by Mark Davis, a 63 year old, a key approver of the key
subject(s) of this convention. What was the convention all
about?
(Image, generic, follows)
37. 21.
This sage, Hindusim, is said to have first instituted the
fire-sacrifice or yagna. According to mundaka upnisad
and other texts, he was a manasputra born from mind of
the brahma. The name of the sage is cognate with
Avestan (āθrauuan / aθaurun) "priest", but the etymology
of the term is not yet conclusively established. Attempts
have been made to connect the term with Avestan atar-
"fire" (not attested in Vedic) and in a way he would be an
analog of the Greek Prometheus. Who is this sage, who
along with Angiras ‘heard’ something divine?
38. 22.
Flash of Genius (2008) was
a movie about the Life of
Bob Kearns and a famous
70’s lawsuit against Ford
Motor Corp about an
automobile invention. What
was the subject of the
movie, whom Bob Kearns
had invented inspired from
a “blinking eye”
39. 23.
Vertumnus is a painting by Mannerist painter Giuseppe
Arcimboldo produced in Milan c. 1590-1591. The painting is
Arcimboldo's most famous work and is a portrait of the Holy
Roman Emperor Rudolf II re-imagined as Vertumnus in nature
and life. The components in the painting include gourds, pears,
apples, cherries, grapes, wheat, artichokes, peapods, corns,
onions, artichoke, cabbage foils, cherries, chestnuts, figs,
mulberries, grapes, plums, pomegranates, various pumpkins
and olives. What was Vertumnus the Roman God of ?
(Image follows)
41. 24.
Thomas Thwaite got prosthetic “legs" from a clinic in Manchester as well
as a specially designed fake stomach, which would digest grass before it
reached his real stomach.
"I could then strap this bag to my torso and spit chewed up grass into one
opening and suck the cultured microbes and volatile fatty acids out another
opening like a milkshake, so I can digest them in my true stomach and live
off grass in the Alps like a _____," he said. That was the plan, at least.
However, after being warned by experts that this could seriously harm his
health, he told BBC Breakfast that he ended up heating the grass in a
pressure cooker first.
Who was Thomas Thwaite pretending, not kidding, to be in the Swiss
Alps, winning a famous prize in 2016 because of his pursuits?
43. 25.
Manufactured in collaboration with an US company,
Honda, will be operated by ATPL, Goa. Two of these of 32
seater capacity each will be pressed into service in
November following which two more vehicles will be
added to the fleet in a phased manner. Tourists will be
picked up from a designated point at Panaji from where
they will be taken on two different routes. The circuit tours
will operate from Panaji to Old Goa and Dr Salim Ali bird
sanctuary during six time slots. Each passenger will
initially be charged Rs500 for the one hour trip. This will
later be increased to Rs 750. What is the ‘Honda’?
44. 26.
The Akhal-Teke is a horse breed from X , where they are
a national emblem. They have a reputation for speed and
endurance, intelligence, and a distinctive metallic sheen.
The shiny coat of palominos and buckskins led to their
nickname "Golden Horses”. When PM Modi visited X, as
a part of the central asian tour he presented the president
a saddle, as the horse was so vital to the culture and the
nation’s interest. Which country is X?
(Images follow, the gift from Modi and the emblem)
46. 27.
The main square of Leeuwarden is one of the largest in the
Netherlands. Artist Hank Hofstra, Remembering an old Dutch
saying, “To lay down the first ____, you have to start with the first
____”, Hofstra decided to do one himself in 2010. After meeting
with local authorities and companies involved in the street art, the
artist and his team spent two days spray-painting these , each one
around 100 meters in diameter. As you can expect, the giant
____immediately drew the attention of passers-by, but reactions
changed to good from bad in weeks, much akin to the philosophy
of Seth Godin in the Purple Cow, which Hofstra is a big beleiver.
What was done in the street art, which very recently appeared in
Chile’s capital Santiago as a part of Hecho En Casa (homemade)?
(Images follow)
48. 28.
The competition for the title goes to a short film called
Howdy Chicago in August 1921. On April 6, 1925, Lost
World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was screened for the
passengers and this, in reality was the first full feature film
as Howdy Chicago was just a short film.
Who were the passengers? What was special about this
screening?
(Supporting Image)
50. 29.
The philtrum or medial cleft, is a vertical groove in the
human body common to many mammals, extending in
humans from a body septum to the procheilon. In Jewish
mythology, each embryo has an angel teaching them all
of the wisdom in the world while they are in utero. The
Angel lightly taps an infant's body part (Philtrum) before
birth, to silence the infant from telling all the secrets in the
universe to the humans who reside in it.
Where /What is the Philtrum?
51. 30.
In October 1995 the newspaper Expressen following an
investigation leaded by Public Auditor Carlos Medina de
Rebolledo revealed that Mona Sahlin, who was then
serving as Deputy Prime Minister and was widely seen as
the main candidate to succeed Ingvar Carlsson as Prime
Minister, had charged more than 50,000 Swedish kronor
for private expenses on her working charge card. The
controversy was dubbed as the "X affair" due to the
inclusion of X on the credit card statement. What is X,
which was in news of 11/9 (Yes,the Trump Triumph Day)
