Prelims of Lonewolf quiz held at IIM Indore as part of Mridang 2012 - Sutra, the Quizfest

1. Do i t

2. IIM Indore
Mridang 2012
Sutra – Lone Wolf
Prelims

3. Rules
• Solo Quiz
• Use of mobile phones, and any other Internet connectivity devices during the
duration of this quiz, is strictly discouraged, at risk of disqualification.
• Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
• Write your name, Institute name, and a contact number, on the answer
sheet.
• Starred questions will be used to arbitrate ties (more stars win): no. 5, 10, 15,
20, 25, 30. Mentioned on the slides. Please mark them on the answer sheet.
• Quizmasters’ decisions are final.

5. 1.
• According to the Anti-Defamation League, the term “___
___" was popularized by white supremacists Alex Curtis
and Tom Metzger in the late 1990s.
• One of the most influential aspects of Metzger's right-wing
activism has been his advocacy of the “___ ____ " or
"leaderless resistance" model of extremism, which favors
individual or small-cell underground activity, as opposed to
above-ground membership organizations. The term “___
____" was subsequently adopted by US law enforcement
agencies and by media to refer to individuals following this
strategy. Currently, the term “____ ____ terrorism" now
refers to violent acts that take place outside a command
structure, regardless of ideology.
• Identify the term.

6. Answers Follow

7. 2.
• What is unusual about these logos ?

8. Answers Follow

9. 3
• Varahappa Iyer, who was a minister in the Maratha court of Tanjore, was also a
friend of the British governor in Madras. The Governor had a band which he
showed off to Iyer. When Iyer saw the piano, he fell in love with it immediately,
given its range of seven octaves that could support singing in the very low pitches
prevalent in South India and its versatility in composing.
• There was one problem though. The piano could not produce the nuanced
microtonal variations called gamakam, the soul of a Carnatic ragam.
This prompted him to do something.
• Sometime, also in the late 18th Century, Balaswami Dikshitar, brother of composer
Muthuswamy Dikshitar, attended a Western music concert by the European
Orchestra, run by the East India Company. Inspired as he was, This prompted him
to do something. 
• Two alternative stories behind what prominent inclusion to Carnatic Music?

10. Answers Follow

11. 4
• Whose tombstone?

12. Answers Follow

13. 5*
• This is the Besant Theosophical High School in
Adyar, Chennai.
• The school made history when she came to
Madras teach children in 1939, and train
teachers through the War years.
• Shown is a pic with her teaching some
children.
• Who she?

14. 5

15. Answers Follow

16. 6
• Dow B. Hover (born ca. 1901, died June 1,
1990) was the last person to serve as a State
Electrician of the New York State, after which
that post was removed.
• He worked from the mid 1950s to 1960s.
• Who/What is a State Electrician?

17. Answers Follow

18. 7
• X is the world's first and premier Hindi a cappella
group, formed in 1996 by students at the
University of ______ . X’s music has been
influenced by the Eastern and Western cultures
that represent the group’s membership.
• The group was featured on the soundtrack of
American Desi, and has released seven full-length
albums: Awaaz, 11 PM, Soundcheck, The Brown
Album, Pehchaan, On Detours, Panoramic, and
the compilation album Out of Stock.

19. • Filename:PM_Obama.jpg

20. Answers Follow

21. 8
Celebrities who appear on the show are usually
impersonated, though some celebrities lend
their voice to their characters. Celebrities who
have voiced themselves include Michael Buffer,
Brent Musburger, Jay Leno, Robert Smith and
the bands Radiohead and Korn.
Interestingly George Clooney provided the barks
for a dog named Sparky in Season One.
Identify X.

22. Answers Follow

23. 9
X is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms.
Considered a very graceful dance meant to be
performed as a solo recital by women. The credit
for reviving this dance in the nineteenth century
goes to Swathi Thirunal.
The word X literally means "dance of the
enchantress". There are approximately 40 different
basic movements, known as 'atavukal', in X.
The dance follows the classical text of Hastha
Lakshanadeepika, which has elaborate description
of Mudras. What dance form is X?

24. Answers Follow

25. 10*
• Joe Murgo, a meteorologist at central
Pennsylvanian news channel WTAJ, tries to
interview Phil.
• One of the officials say that before 1993, this
event would be lucky to have an attendance of
2500, and now it has increased to over 16000.
• What is this all about?
• What happened in 1993 [ need the name of the
most famous person associated with it, as well ]

27. Answers Follow

28. 11
•As a 17-year-old, X became the youngest winner of the
women's singles title at the 1989 French Open, defeating
World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the final. Monica Seles broke the
record the following year when she won the title at age 16.
•Nicknamed “Barcelona Bumblebee” by Bud Collins for her
“unceasing in determined pursuit of tennis balls, none
seeming too distant to be retrieved in some manner and
returned again and again to demoralize opponents”. X holds
the records for the most matches won by a player in Fed Cup
competition (72) and for most ties played (58)
•Who?

29. Answers Follow

30. 12
This quarry is located in a village on the Swedish
island of Resaro, in the Vaxholm municipality in
the Swedish archipelago is famous for giving the
world, 4 rare earth minerals. Name the place.

31. Answers Follow

32. 13
• X, a Nobel prize winner, is a prolific literary
figure known for writing in a variety of styles
that spanned epics, political manifestoes,
surrealism, prose and erotica. He almost
always wrote in green ink, as it was his colour
of hope .
• His Pseudonym is said to be a tribute to a
French poet Paul Verlaine, and a Czech Poet
Jan _____ .
• We know him as ______ ______ . Who X?

33. Answers Follow

34. 14
After whom is the asteroid named and what is
the funda behind it?
• 25924 ________ is an asteroid from
the asteroid belt. It was discovered
by LINEAR on February 19, 2001 and given the
provisional designation 2001 DA42.

35. Answers Follow

36. 15*
• Robots like these are frequently seen in Indian
fairs these days [ no, this is not a MELA
question] 
• For only 5 rupees or so, the robot’s handler
will allow you to plug a pair of headphones
into its metallic underpants and listen to it.
• Listen to what?

37. 15*
10.
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattlogelin/

38. Answers Follow

39. 16
• The on-screen magic of X and Y in their famous and
only work together was the result of two actors doing
their very best work, not any real-life sparks, though
X's perennially jealous wife assumed otherwise.
• Off the set, the co-stars hardly spoke during the
filming, where normally she had a reputation for affairs
with her leading men. Because Y was taller than X, X
had 3-inch (76 mm) blocks attached to his shoes in
certain scenes.
• She reportedly said later, "I kissed him but I never
knew him”. Years later, after Y had taken up with Italian
director Roberto Rossellini, and bore him a child, X
confronted her. "You used to be a great star", he said,
"What are you now?" "A happy woman," she replied

40. Answers Follow

41. 17
The Company was incorporated on 9th February, 1984 as a
private limited company in the name and style of Genius
Leasing Finance and Investment Company Limited. The
business commenced on 14th March. It was promoted by S.K.
Modi of the Modi Group of Companies. The main objective of
the company was to manufacture Private air taxi operation.
Later X was started as an airline project in February, 1993 by S
K Modi, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar K S Jamwal in
collaboration with the German flag carrier and on 5 May 1993
took the first flight from New Delhi to Mumbai.
The airline due to lack of funds changed hands and became
airborne again in a new avatar as Royal Airways . Presently
known as Y , it is headquartered in Gurgaon.
Id X and Y.

42. Answers Follow

43. 18
X was discovered by V. S. Wakankar in 1957 and is
situated in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on
the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within
massive sandstone outcrops, above comparatively dense
forest, are five clusters of natural rock shelters, displaying
paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic Period
right through to the historical period.
The cultural traditions of the inhabitants of the twenty-
one villages adjacent to the site bear a strong
resemblance to those represented in the rock paintings.
X?

45. Answers Follow

46. 19
• A long rant about a project being started a couple of folks.
Friends, Robots, Public Domain Literature Fans:
• We're editing a new version of X's Y that won't be bogged down with what X was trying to say
about racism.
• Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed Y as being "the best book we've ever had." We agree
with him-even if he did drink too much. But this classic novel has been banned from many schools
and libraries ever since its first publication, because of the book's use of a word over two hundred
times. Publisher NewSouth Books is attempting to get the book back on library shelves and in
classrooms by publishing a new version that replaces the controversial word.
• Critics are calling this "censorship" and "whitewashing of history." We call it "not far enough."
• Robots instead of : Statistically, people prefer robots to the original word . Robots are fun and
cool...even when they're trying to take over our world! So we've decided to take the word out of X's
classic and replace it with "robot."
• Why robots? Well, there's no denying it: robots are "in" right now. The film "Transformers" made
over $708 million around the world. The film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made over
$800 million dollars. The last film version of Y only brought in $24 million dollars. Even accounting
for inflation (which we frankly don't know how to do), it's clear that robots are more popular than Y.
• But why not vampires? They're "in" too, aren't they? Good point, hypothetical question asker.
Vampires are "in." But replacing the word with vampire would be silly. Robots have a long history in
literature and popular culture of being used as a metaphor for slavery and oppression.
• X, Y, word?

47. Answers Follow

48. 20*
• Waard is a locally brewed drink in this Middle
Eastern country. A mixture of locally grown
pomegranate and trinj (which is a kind of
bitter orange) is combined with carbonated
rosewater to produce an aromatic juice.
• Every year it receives a bit of media attention,
mostly because of its non-alcoholic nature.
• Which country and why?

49. Answers Follow

50. 21
• Cartoon making fun of which incident?
• Close enough spelling will do

51. Answers Follow

52. 22
• A non-fiction book released in 2005.
• This proves the laws of physics also apply to storytelling.
From powerful events come transformative stories. Some
excerpts:
• Colonel Yaroshuk is dying now. He’s a chemist-dosimetrist.
He was healthy as a bull. Now he’s lying paralyzed. His wife
turns him over like a pillow. She feeds him from a spoon.
And:
• One day I walk into the hallway and tell the nurse, “He’s
dying.” The nurse says, “What did you expect? He’s got
1600 roentgen. Four hundred is a lethal dose. He’s a nuclear
reactor.”
What is the Book about?

53. 22

54. Answers Follow

55. 23
• We love some controversy, don’t we 
• X once told Ray Martin that he saw himself in Y, but 15 years after that famous
interview, the theory that Y is a modern-day version of the greatest ever has been
debunked.
• Tony Shillinglaw, a former English player and coach who has conducted an
extensive biomechanical study of X's technique, argues that there are very few
similarities to be made with in terms of style.
• X's tale about watching Y on television became the stuff of legend.
• ''I was very, very struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him,''
X said. ''Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this fellow is playing much the
same as I used to play, and she looked at him on the television and said yes, there
is a similarity between the two.”
• So, if Y is not made in the mould of X, and is in fact significantly different, then who
has come closest to replicating X?
• ''Funnily enough, the nearest I've seen of all people is Z, even though he was a big
bull of a man,'' says Shillinglaw. ''His playing movements were the nearest I've seen
to X, and amazingly his timing and his foot movement for a big man - they were
very quick.'‘
• X, Y, Z ? [2/3 for part points]

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57. 24
• A funny interpretation of something being assembled the IKEA way. ( or is
it IWAY?  )
• What it is?

58. 24.

59. Answers Follow

60. 25*.
• A military manoeuvre known as Goose-
stepping was in practice at this place, in full
gusto since 1959.
• It has now been agreed by the two parties at
either side that the ceremony will now be
toned down.
• The reason given was that the people involved
found this to be undignified, and it caused
them mental and physical strain, and it hurt
their feet.
• What specific ritual/tradition?

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62. Audio/ Visuals

63. 26
• In 1961, V S Naipaul wrote a novel set in the
Indian community in Trinidad titled A House for
Mr Biswas . It went on to achieve worldwide
acclaim, post which it was adapted as a stage
musical with compositions by Monty Norman.
One of the songs in this musical (titled “Good
Sign, Bad Sign”), he claims, served as an
inspiration for something iconic. What ?
• AV clip

64. 26
• http://grooveshark.com/s/Good+Sign+Bad+Si
gn/37Tfan?src=5

65. Answers Follow

66. 27
• Connect
http://grooveshark.com/s/Kurai+Ondrum+MSS/2DvSLG?src=5

67. Answers Follow

68. 28
• The bean machine, also known as
the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by
Sir Francis Galton.
• The machine consists of a vertical board with
interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the
top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins.
Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at
the bottom.
• A simulation+diagram of this device is shown.
• What does this device demonstrate?

69. 28
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC6VeE4b
zAs

70. 28

71. Answers Follow

72. 29
• What is this move called?
• Name the goalkeeper as well
• Image in the next slide, see that first
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CtQytrZ
GXw&feature=related

73. 29

74. Answers Follow

75. 30*.
• This parody video references :
• A TV Show.
• A Famous TV-Science personality, with an
epithet that rhymes with his surname.
• Name both [ part points are there]

76. 30*.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fkc5r2lFZ
s

77. Answers Follow

78. ANSWERS

79. 1.
• According to the Anti-Defamation League, the term “___
___" was popularized by white supremacists Alex Curtis
and Tom Metzger in the late 1990s.
• One of the most influential aspects of Metzger's right-wing
activism has been his advocacy of the “___ ____ " or
"leaderless resistance" model of extremism, which favors
individual or small-cell underground activity, as opposed to
above-ground membership organizations. The term “___
____" was subsequently adopted by US law enforcement
agencies and by media to refer to individuals following this
strategy. Currently, the term “____ ____ terrorism" now
refers to violent acts that take place outside a command
structure, regardless of ideology.
• Identify the term.

80. Answers Follow

81. 1.
• Lone Wolf

82. 2.
• What is unusual about these logos ?

83. Answers Follow

84. 2.
• Google hoaxes as part of April Fool joke

85. 3
• Varahappa Iyer, who was a minister in the Maratha court of Tanjore, was also a
friend of the British governor in Madras. The Governor had a band which he
showed off to Iyer. When Iyer saw the piano, he fell in love with it immediately,
given its range of seven octaves that could support singing in the very low pitches
prevalent in South India and its versatility in composing.
• There was one problem though. The piano could not produce the nuanced
microtonal variations called gamakam, the soul of a Carnatic ragam.
This prompted him to do something.
• Sometime, also in the late 18th Century, Balaswami Dikshitar, brother of composer
Muthuswamy Dikshitar, attended a Western music concert by the European
Orchestra, run by the East India Company. Inspired as he was, This prompted him
to do something. 
• Two alternative stories behind what prominent inclusion to Carnatic Music?

86. Answers Follow

87. 3
• These are the stories behind how the Violin,
the western classical instrument, became a
standard feature of a Carnatic Music concert.

88. 4
• Whose tombstone?

89. Answers Follow

90. 4

91. 5*
• This is the Besant Theosophical High School in
Adyar, Chennai.
• The school made history when she came to
Madras teach children in 1939, and train
teachers through the War years.
• Shown is a pic with her teaching some
children.
• Who she?

92. 5

93. Answers Follow

94. 5*
• Maria Montessori of Montessori Movement
fame
• Additional Trivia : One of the kids in that pic is
the famous Chennai Quizzer Swaminathan’s
dad. 

95. 6
• Dow B. Hover (born ca. 1901, died June 1,
1990) was the last person to serve as a State
Electrician of the New York State, after which
that post was removed.
• He worked from the mid 1950s to 1960s.
• Who/What is a State Electrician?

96. Answers Follow

97. 6
• Executioner who operates the Electric Chair.
• New York is now a no death-penalty state.

98. 7
• X is the world's first and premier Hindi a cappella
group, formed in 1996 by students at the
University of ______ . X’s music has been
influenced by the Eastern and Western cultures
that represent the group’s membership.
• The group was featured on the soundtrack of
American Desi, and has released seven full-length
albums: Awaaz, 11 PM, Soundcheck, The Brown
Album, Pehchaan, On Detours, Panoramic, and
the compilation album Out of Stock.

99. • Filename:PM_Obama.jpg

100. Answers Follow

101. 7
• Penn Masala from the University of
Pennsylvania

102. 8
Celebrities who appear on the show are usually
impersonated, though some celebrities lend
their voice to their characters. Celebrities who
have voiced themselves include Michael Buffer,
Brent Musburger, Jay Leno, Robert Smith and
the bands Radiohead and Korn.
Interestingly George Clooney provided the barks
for a dog named Sparky in Season One.
Identify X.

103. Answers Follow

104. 8
• South Park

105. 9
X is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms.
Considered a very graceful dance meant to be
performed as a solo recital by women. The credit
for reviving this dance in the nineteenth century
goes to Swathi Thirunal.
The word X literally means "dance of the
enchantress". There are approximately 40 different
basic movements, known as 'atavukal', in X.
The dance follows the classical text of Hastha
Lakshanadeepika, which has elaborate description
of Mudras. What dance form is X?

106. Answers Follow

107. 9
• Mohiniattam/ Mohiniyattam

108. 10*
• Joe Murgo, a meteorologist at central
Pennsylvanian news channel WTAJ, tries to
interview Phil.
• One of the officials say that before 1993, this
event would be lucky to have an attendance of
2500, and now it has increased to over 16000.
• What is this all about?
• What happened in 1993 [ need the name of the
most famous person associated with it, as well ]

110. Answers Follow

111. 10*
• 126th edition of ‘Groundhog Day’.
Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged
from his lair to "see" his shadow, in the
process predicting six more weeks of winter.
• Bill Murray comedy “Groundhog Day”

112. 11
•As a 17-year-old, X became the youngest winner of the
women's singles title at the 1989 French Open, defeating
World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the final. Monica Seles broke the
record the following year when she won the title at age 16.
•Nicknamed “Barcelona Bumblebee” by Bud Collins for her
“unceasing in determined pursuit of tennis balls, none
seeming too distant to be retrieved in some manner and
returned again and again to demoralize opponents”. X holds
the records for the most matches won by a player in Fed Cup
competition (72) and for most ties played (58)
•Who?

113. Answers Follow

114. 11
• Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

115. 12
This quarry is located in a village on the Swedish
island of Resaro, in the Vaxholm municipality in
the Swedish archipelago is famous for giving the
world, 4 rare earth minerals. Name the place.

116. Answers Follow

117. 12
• Ytterby -
yttrium (Y), ytterbium(Yb), terbium(Tb)
and erbium (Er) have been all named after this
place

118. 13
• X, a Nobel prize winner, is a prolific literary
figure known for writing in a variety of styles
that spanned epics, political manifestoes,
surrealism, prose and erotica. He almost
always wrote in green ink, as it was his colour
of hope .
• His Pseudonym is said to be a tribute to a
French poet Paul Verlaine, and a Czech Poet
Jan _____ .
• We know him as ______ ______ . Who X?

119. Answers Follow

120. 13
• Pablo Neruda

121. 14
After whom is the asteroid named and what is
the funda behind it?
• 25924 ________ is an asteroid from
the asteroid belt. It was discovered
by LINEAR on February 19, 2001 and given the
provisional designation 2001 DA42.

122. Answers Follow

123. 14
• Douglas Adams – 2001 is the year of his death
and 42 – answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything

124. 15*
• Robots like these are frequently seen in Indian
fairs these days [ no, this is not a MELA
question] 
• For only 5 rupees or so, the robot’s handler
will allow you to plug a pair of headphones
into its metallic underpants and listen to it.
• Listen to what?

125. 15*
10.
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattlogelin/

126. Answers Follow

127. 15*
• Your Fortune.
• The robots’ wisdom, apparently, comes on
prerecorded tapes, audio fortune cookies that
foresee the future in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada,
and Telugu.

128. 16
• The on-screen magic of X and Y in their famous and
only work together was the result of two actors doing
their very best work, not any real-life sparks, though
X's perennially jealous wife assumed otherwise.
• Off the set, the co-stars hardly spoke during the
filming, where normally she had a reputation for affairs
with her leading men. Because Y was taller than X, X
had 3-inch (76 mm) blocks attached to his shoes in
certain scenes.
• She reportedly said later, "I kissed him but I never
knew him”. Years later, after Y had taken up with Italian
director Roberto Rossellini, and bore him a child, X
confronted her. "You used to be a great star", he said,
"What are you now?" "A happy woman," she replied

129. Answers Follow

130. 16
• X – Humphrey Bogart; Y – Ingrid Bergman

131. 17
The Company was incorporated on 9th February, 1984 as a
private limited company in the name and style of Genius
Leasing Finance and Investment Company Limited. The
business commenced on 14th March. It was promoted by S.K.
Modi of the Modi Group of Companies. The main objective of
the company was to manufacture Private air taxi operation.
Later X was started as an airline project in February, 1993 by S
K Modi, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar K S Jamwal in
collaboration with the German flag carrier and on 5 May 1993
took the first flight from New Delhi to Mumbai.
The airline due to lack of funds changed hands and became
airborne again in a new avatar as Royal Airways . Presently
known as Y , it is headquartered in Gurgaon.
Id X and Y.

132. Answers Follow

133. 17
• X – Modiluft
• Y – Spicejet

134. 18
X was discovered by V. S. Wakankar in 1957 and is
situated in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains
on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau.
Within massive sandstone outcrops, above
comparatively dense forest, are five clusters of
natural rock shelters, displaying paintings that
appear to date from the Mesolithic Period right
through to the historical period. The cultural
traditions of the inhabitants of the twenty-one
villages adjacent to the site bear a strong
resemblance to those represented in the rock
paintings.
X?

136. Answers Follow

137. 18
• Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

138. 19
• A long rant about a project being started a couple of folks.
Friends, Robots, Public Domain Literature Fans:
• We're editing a new version of X's Y that won't be bogged down with what X was trying to say
about racism.
• Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed Y as being "the best book we've ever had." We agree
with him-even if he did drink too much. But this classic novel has been banned from many schools
and libraries ever since its first publication, because of the book's use of a word over two hundred
times. Publisher NewSouth Books is attempting to get the book back on library shelves and in
classrooms by publishing a new version that replaces the controversial word.
• Critics are calling this "censorship" and "whitewashing of history." We call it "not far enough."
• Robots instead of : Statistically, people prefer robots to the original word . Robots are fun and
cool...even when they're trying to take over our world! So we've decided to take the word out of X's
classic and replace it with "robot."
• Why robots? Well, there's no denying it: robots are "in" right now. The film "Transformers" made
over $708 million around the world. The film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made over
$800 million dollars. The last film version of Y only brought in $24 million dollars. Even accounting
for inflation (which we frankly don't know how to do), it's clear that robots are more popular than Y.
• But why not vampires? They're "in" too, aren't they? Good point, hypothetical question asker.
Vampires are "in." But replacing the word with vampire would be silly. Robots have a long history in
literature and popular culture of being used as a metaphor for slavery and oppression.
• X, Y, word?

139. Answers Follow

140. 19
• Mark Twain
• The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
• Replacing ‘n-word’ with
‘slave’ was the incident.

141. 20*
• Waard is a locally brewed drink in this Middle
Eastern country. A mixture of locally grown
pomegranate and trinj (which is a kind of
bitter orange) is combined with carbonated
rosewater to produce an aromatic juice.
• Every year it receives a bit of media attention,
mostly because of its non-alcoholic nature.
• Which country and why?

142. Answers Follow

143. 20*
• BAHRAIN GP – Only GP where this non
alcoholic drink is sprayed instead of
champagne.

144. 21
• Cartoon making fun of which incident?
• Close enough spelling will do

145. Answers Follow

146. 21
• The Eyjafjallajökull volcano that erupted in
Iceland about an year back.

147. 22
• A non-fiction book released in 2005.
• This proves the laws of physics also apply to storytelling.
From powerful events come transformative stories. Some
excerpts:
• Colonel Yaroshuk is dying now. He’s a chemist-dosimetrist.
He was healthy as a bull. Now he’s lying paralyzed. His wife
turns him over like a pillow. She feeds him from a spoon.
And:
• One day I walk into the hallway and tell the nurse, “He’s
dying.” The nurse says, “What did you expect? He’s got
1600 roentgen. Four hundred is a lethal dose. He’s a nuclear
reactor.”
What is the Book about?

148. 22

149. Answers Follow

150. 22
• Chernobyl Disaster of 1986
• Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a
Nuclear Disaster

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• We love some controversy, don’t we 
• X once told Ray Martin that he saw himself in Y, but 15 years after that famous
interview, the theory that Y is a modern-day version of the greatest ever has been
debunked.
• Tony Shillinglaw, a former English player and coach who has conducted an
extensive biomechanical study of X's technique, argues that there are very few
similarities to be made with in terms of style.
• X's tale about watching Y on television became the stuff of legend.
• ''I was very, very struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him,''
X said. ''Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this fellow is playing much the
same as I used to play, and she looked at him on the television and said yes, there
is a similarity between the two.”
• So, if Y is not made in the mould of X, and is in fact significantly different, then who
has come closest to replicating X?
• ''Funnily enough, the nearest I've seen of all people is Z, even though he was a big
bull of a man,'' says Shillinglaw. ''His playing movements were the nearest I've seen
to X, and amazingly his timing and his foot movement for a big man - they were
very quick.'‘
• X, Y, Z ? [2/3 for part points]

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• X – Don Bradman
• Y – Sachin Tendulkar
• Z – Inzamam Alu Haq

154. 24
• A funny interpretation of something being assembled the IKEA way. ( or is
it IWAY?  )
• What it is?

155. 24.

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157. 24
• Large Hadron Collider ( LHC )

158. 25*.
• A military manoeuvre known as Goose-
stepping was in practice at this place, in full
gusto since 1959.
• It has now been agreed by the two parties at
either side that the ceremony will now be
toned down.
• The reason given was that the people involved
found this to be undignified, and it caused
them mental and physical strain, and it hurt
their feet.
• What specific ritual/tradition?

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160. 25.
• ‘Lowering of the Flags’ Retreat ceremony –
The Energetic parade that follows at the
Wagah Border

161. Audio/ Visuals

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• In 1961, V S Naipaul wrote a novel set in the
Indian community in Trinidad titled A House for
Mr Biswas . It went on to achieve worldwide
acclaim, post which it was adapted as a stage
musical with compositions by Monty Norman.
One of the songs in this musical (titled “Good
Sign, Bad Sign”), he claims, served as an
inspiration for something iconic. What ?
• AV clip

163. 26
• http://grooveshark.com/s/Good+Sign+Bad+Si
gn/37Tfan?src=5

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165. 26
• James Bond theme music

166. 27
• Connect
http://grooveshark.com/s/Kurai+Ondrum+MSS/2DvSLG?src=5

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168. 27
• Connect – C Rajagopalachari. Bharat Ratna
awardee. Founder of the Swatantra party.
Penned the lyrics of ‘Kurai Ondrum Illai’ ( sung
in the 1967 UN General Assembly by M S
Subbulakshmi)

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• The bean machine, also known as
the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by
Sir Francis Galton.
• The machine consists of a vertical board with
interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the
top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins.
Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at
the bottom.
• A simulation+diagram of this device is shown.
• What does this device demonstrate?

170. 28
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC6VeE4b
zAs

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173. 28
• Any of these answers acceptable
• Central Limit Theorem
• Normal Distribution
• Bell Curve

174. 29
• What is this move called?
• Name the goalkeeper as well
• Image in the next slide, see that first
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CtQytrZ
GXw&feature=related

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177. 29
• Rene Higuita’s scorpion kick

178. 30*.
• This parody video references :
• A TV Show.
• A Famous TV-Science personality, with an
epithet that rhymes with his surname.
• Name both [ part points are there]

179. 30*.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fkc5r2lFZ
s

180. Answers Follow

181. 30*.
• Breaking Bad
• Bill Nye, The Science Guy

182. Thank you
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