(c) Anannya Deb

1. Yet Another Quiz
Ideas, Inquiring
Minds, Breakthroughs, Explorations, Human
Achievement, Expression, etc etc

2. Stories from around the world
Choose your hot spot
VIKRAM JOSHI’S IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION OF
YAMOUSSOUKRO ROUND

3. Your Choices
Bujumbura Mosquito Coast
Goalpara Rotorua
Kobe Srebrenica
Kolonia Yaroslavl

4. Bujumbura
Connect the passage and the
monument
On the sixteenth day of
October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine, I was
in Madrid, fresh from the
carnage at Valencia. At 10
A.M. Jacopo, at No.— Calle de
la Cruz, handed me a
telegram: It read, "Come to
Paris on important business."
The telegram was from Mr.
James Gordon
Bennett, jun., the young
manager of the `New York
Herald.'

5. Bujumbura
Opening lines of Henry
Stanley’s
chronicle, “How I
Found Livingstone”.
The Livinstone-
Stanley Monument at
Mugere, 12km south of
Bujumbura, commemor
ates two days that the
two spent here in
November 1871
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6. Goalpara
Connect: <Audio removed> Dil
Ghoom Ghoom
<Video removed>
A clip from a Jaya
Bachchan film

7. Goalpara
Rudaali and Hazaar
Chaurasi Ki Maa are
based on Mahashweta
Devi‟s works
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8. Kobe
These two clips are <Video removed>
from the 2003 film 2 clips from the film
Winter Days based on Winter Days
Basho‟s renku of the
same name. It features
36 stanzas animated by
36 different animation
artists. So what is a
renku?

9. Kobe
Renku is collaborative
poetry – each poet
writes one stanza to
which the next poet
responds and so on.
The film was made the
same way with each
animation artist
responding to the earlier
one
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10. Kolonia
The first part of the name of this marine species comes from the
Spanish for a cloth or blanket used on a horse or a mule. It refers to the
general shape and form of the creature. The second part of the name is
refers to the Superorder itself (Batoidea in case any zoologists want to
know). Other orders in this superorder have names like
torpedo, guitar, saw, butterfly and electric. Which is this genus which
currently has two species – Alfred and Giant – though molecular
research suggest they are the same?

11. Kolonia
Manta Ray
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12. Mosquito Coast
X said “music in <place> <Audio removed>
flows like a river. Music is
like a treasure hunt, you
dig and dig and
sometimes find
something”
Y wanted to make a film
that “would float like this
river… not wanting to
interfere with it, just
drifting along”.
Name X, Y and the film

13. Mosquito Coast
Ry Cooder, Wim
Wenders, Buena Vista
Social Club (1997)
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14. Rotorua
The original was modified This appears in the book
by X in his book Y. Name Y
X and Y and what is it
anyway. Let us propel us for the frey of the
Original: fray! Us, us, beraddy!
Ko Niutirenis hauru leish! A lala!
Let us prepare for the fray
Ko Niutirenis haururu laleish! Ala
(the sound of being ready)
lala!
The New Zealand storm is about
to break
The Wullingthund sturm is
(the sound of the imminent storm) breaking.
The sound of maormaoring
…
The Wellingthund sturm waxes
fuercilier.

15. Rotorua
The Haka song “Ko
Nieu Tireni” written for
the New Zealand
Invincibles tour of 1924-
1925; James Joyce
heard it and used it in
Finnegan’s Wake.
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16. Srebrenica
What do they share
with respect to their
name?

17. Srebrenica
Both their names mean
“silver mines / fields”
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18. Yaroslavl
This is considered to be probably the
greatest goal in ice hockey scored by
<Video removed>
“the best hockey player in the world
today”. Mike Idov writing in GQ in Nov
2010 says: His may be the perfect
face of the NHL: broad, broken-
toothed, misshapen by countless on-
ice collisions—an affable Slavic
caveman with an NHL scoring title, a
dazzling highlight reel, and the capital
of the Free World in his
gloved, bloodstained hand. Who and
the nickname that he goes by?

19. Yaroslavl
Alexander Ovechkin
“The Great 8” of the
Washington Capitals.
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20. Stories from Time Immemorial
Run with the times
THE SATYAM BALAKRISHNAN
ROUND

21. 1
What’s the
significance of this
medal ceremony with
respect to what
happened few days
earlier?

22. 1
Bob Beamon put his
black socks up over
his tracks to show
solidarity with John
Carlos and Tommie
Smith. He got away with
it as most people didn‟t
notice it.

23. 2
The producers said “Anyone but X”. The director however wanted X
and the entire script and his vision of the film was based on X. The
producers made some demands which included a screen test. The
director landed up at X‟s house with his crew and not wanting to offend
him said that he wanted to take some footage for further studying of the
script, etc. The director recalls:
X emerged from his bedroom in a kimono, with his long blond hair
in a ponytail. As I watched through the camera lens, X began a
startling transformation, which he had worked out earlier in front of
a mirror. … X explained, “It’s the face of a bulldog: mean-looking
but warm underneath.”
X modified his voice, putting Kleenex into his mouth “Powerful men
don’t need to shout”. Who?

24. 2
Brando and Coppola
working on The
Godfather

25. 3
What is happening?

26. 3
Reunion, a
performance on stage
which featured Marcel
Duchamp and John
Cage playing chess on
an electronic set, 1968
“loved its conceptual
nature and utter
purposelessness”

27. 4
Identify “the father of <Audio removed>
modern
anthropology”, whose
seminal publication
“Structural
Anthropology” in 1959
created a new discipline
in humanities. He is
here giving the CBC
Massey lecture in 1977
on “Myth and Meaning”

28. 4
Claude Levi-Strauss.

29. 5
Justice Markanday Katju mentioned this concept in one of his pieces
recently. In philosophical debates, in India, each speaker would first
clearly and correctly express the thoughts of his opponent before
making his or her own point, in a way presenting the side of the story
preceding his or her own thinking. This was done in such a way that
even the opponents could not have presented their thoughts better.
What was this concept called? (Katju said debates in Indian media
today are seriously lacking in this practice, among other things)

30. 5
“Purvapaksha”

31. 6
Connect. <2 Audio clips
removed> an Indian
Ocean number and an
Abida Parveen piece

32. 6
Kabir

33. 7
The Universalis
Cosmographia made in
1507 by Waldesmuller
is historic for what?

34. 7
The map was one of the
first world maps to include
discoveries of “Amerigo
Vespucci and others”
which included Columbus.
The map is the first to
use the name
“America”. It also depicts
an Ocean between
America and Asia. Note
Balboa sighted the Pacific
Ocean in 1513

35. 8
Carl Mauch was the first
European to visit this
place in 1871. He refused
to believe it was built by
the native people and
assumed that they were
built by biblical characters
from the North. This has
since been proved wrong.
Which work of literature
takes off from this
theory?

36. 8
King Solomon’s
Mines, H Rider
Haggard
Mauch said that the
ruins of the Great
Zimbabwe resembled
palaces built by
Solomon for Sheba.
This theory was quite
pervasive till the 1920‟s

37. 9
Ludwig von Kochel (1800 – 1877) “K”
Otto Erich Deutsch (1883 – 1967) “D”
Wolfgang Schmeider (1901 – 1990) “BWV”
Anthony van Hobokan (1887 – 1983) “Hob”
What is the significance of these people and the terms written
next to each one?

38. 9
Each one made the
complete catalogue of
compositions –
Mozart, Schubert, Bach,
Haydn respectively. All
their compositions are
now referred to using
K, D, BWV or Hob
numbers.

39. 10
In an article in 2006, who wrote about which (at that time) 25 year
old:
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are
a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is
roughly that of courage to war.
The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular
type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are
universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it
seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with
the fact of having a body.

40. 10
David Foster Wallace
on Roger Federer
“Federer as Religious
Experience” Aug
20, 2006

41. 11
Give the blanked out
word

42. 11
A tribute to Bill at a Los
Angeles art gallery

43. 12
This sonnet was written by
an artist for his biographer
who was also an architect
(left is his most famous
work). Give
artist, biographer and
place.
With pencil and with palette hitherto
You made your art high Nature’s paragon…
…
…
You, reilluming memories that died
In spite of Time and Nature have revealed
For them and for yourself eternal fame

44. 12
This is Michelangelo‟s
tribute to Giorgio Vasari
who wrote “The Lives of
Artists” which included
Michelangelo, the only
living artist in the list.
Vasari was himself a
Florence artist and
architect and the Uffizi
loggia and colonnade is
his magnum opus

45. 13
ACK #304, March 15 Doron K Antrim in 1950
1984, introduction. writes:
X was a “rishi” of a "You've probably never
scientist…the man who heard of X. Yet because
discovered he lived you may be alive
Aureomycin, the man and are well today.
who synthesized folic Because he lived you
acid, the man who gave may live longer.“
us Hetrazan never
pushed himself into the Who is X?
glare of publicity…

46. 13
Yellagaprada
Subbarow.

47. 14
Connect

48. 14
Lyon, known as
Lugdunum in Roman
times, home of
Olympique Lyonnais
and till sometime back
Juninho,

49. 15
Both these poems use a <Audio removed>
feminine ideal to convey Bengali poem narrated
their respective quite by Soumitra
different messages.
Identify both the
poets.
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.

50. 15
Edgar Allan Poe “To
Helen” and Jibonanda
Das “Bonolata Sen”

51. 16
This may be a repeat from
some old quiz. According to
one classic Sanskrit
text, this real life king was
the son of a donkey
Gandharba Sena who
himself was the cursed son
of Indra. Apparently his
mother stabbed herself
before delivery and he was
born on his own and raised
by Indra himself. Why is
this picture put on the
right?

52. 16
Vikramaditya, who
inspired the legends of
Baital Pachisi played by
Arun Govil in the DD TV
series

53. 17
This bicycle was made
during WW2 for the
British soldier. It came
equipped with a rifle
holder as you can see.
Name the
manufacturer?

54. 17
BSA (formerly
Birmingham Small
Arms). The model is
called 1942 Military
Mk.V Roadster with
Rifle Clips

55. 18
The Arabic word for “without nationality” is used to describe about
100,000 people in Kuwait who have no citizenship, no rights, no identity
of any kind. They cannot take jobs, hold bank accounts, access any
government services. If they leave the country, for example to go on a
Hajj, they cannot come back. They are usually people who lived in the
desert but did not integrate themselves with the different Arab states
that were formed in the 20th century. What’s the word for these
stateless people?

56. 18
Bedoun or Bidun, not
to be confused with
Bedouin though most
Bedoun people are
Bedouin in origin.

57. Stories from Time Immemorial
Race against the Clock
THE GRANDPA ROUND

58. 19
This temple in Peru
predates the Incas but
the Incas adopted it as
part of their own culture.
It is dedicated to their
creator God and the
name means “Earth
Maker”. How is it
relevant to a 2011
popular culture
release?

59. 19
Pachacamac (Pacha
Kamac) is the place. It
is also the name of the
ship in which Calculus
is kidnapped to South
America (The Seven
Crystal Balls / Prisoners
of the Sun)

60. 20
Connect.
<Video removed>
Clip from Sant
Tukaram, Marathi film
from the „30s

61. 20
Sant Tukaram was a
Varkari worshipping
Vithoba of
Pandharpur. MF
Husain, born in
Pandharpur, was
felicitated by the town in
1995 where he painted
Vithoba on a bull.

62. 21
In what way did this <Audio removed>
song mark a shift in Bob Bob Dylan‟s Maggie‟s
Dylan‟s personal Farm
convictions?

63. 21
Bob Dylan announces
that he will no longer be
part of the protest folk
movement, a major step
for one who was
synonymous to the „60s
protest movement

64. 22
What six letter geographic name originating from the Berber for “land
of the black people” is common to the first five and through another
degree of derivation the second 3 and a province each of Venezuela
and Brazil

65. 22
Guinea

66. 23
X once stole some <Audio removed>
cattle of his half-brother
Y. As compensation X
invented the musical
instrument you will hear
made from tortoise shell
and gave it to Y. Y in
return gave X the
Caduceus. Name the
musical instrument
and who is X and Y.

67. 23
Hermes (Mercury) and
Apollo.
Hermes, according to
Homer, invented the
lyre.

68. 24
What bad ass guy do you get when you merge these two people?
<Video removed>

69. 24
Edward Blake – The
Comedian

70. 25
Barcelona, for the first
time in its history, agreed
to have a shirt sponsor.
While Barcelona folks are
unhappy, Cruyff called it
“vulgar”, UNICEF, whose
logo they carried pro bono
and who received $2
million every year as
donation, was not
unpleased. Why?

71. 25
The UNICEF logo is
now behind along with
the name of the player
and the jersey number.
And the backside of
the shirt is more
“seen” than the front.

72. 26
This stone carving
depicts a group of
people presenting
something to the seated
gentleman. The whole
motivation was to fix the
vernal equinox so that X
was as per what was
decided in First Council
of Nicaea. What is
this?

73. 26
Adoption of the
Gregorian Calendar by
Pope Gregory in 1582

74. 27
A key moment for this national concept was in 1901. Edward
Barton, PM, while addressing the parliament of his country said “The
doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the
equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.” He was speaking as the
government passed the Immigration Restrictions Act, 1901 with
reference to the 1851 incident when Chinese immigrants coming led to
social conflict. Today, even though country is multicultural, Pauline
Hanson of One Nation party continues to champion this ideology.
What?

75. 27
An ethnically clean White I and most Australians want
Australia. our immigration policy
radically reviewed and that
of multiculturalism
abolished. I believe we are
in danger of being swamped
by Asians. Between 1984
and 1995, 40 per cent of all
migrants coming into this
country were of Asian origin.
They have their own culture
and religion, form ghettos
and do not assimilate. –
Pauline Hanson, 1996

76. 28
This 1496 painting by
Filippino Lippi currently
in Uffizi was
commissioned by the
Augustine monks of
San Doneto a Scopeto
in Florence. Why was
he commissioned?

77. 28
The Augustine monks
had earlier
commissioned a young
Da Vinci who left it
incomplete as he went
to Milan. Using Da
Vinci‟s sketch, Lippi
finished the painting

78. 29
Connect
<Audio removed>
Billie
Holiday
song

79. 29
East of the Sun, West of
the Moon, a Norwegian
fairy tale. The phrase is a
metaphor for a place which
is impossible to reach and
requires special powers.
Frodo sings
Still round the corner there
may wait / A new road or a
secret gate, / And though I
oft have passed them by, / A
day will come at last when I
/ Shall take the hidden paths
that run / West of the
Moon, East of the Sun.

80. 30
Since 1996, there are 223 X‟s, 32 counter-X‟s and 1 counter-counter-
X‟s. India has 102 X‟s, 3 counter-X‟s and 1 counter-counter-X‟s
collectively called Y X. However this number is likely to change due to a
recent foreign visit of Manmohan Singh. What is Y X?

81. 30
Cooch Behar
enclaves. A bit
confusing here but
there are a total of 173
enclaves, 24 counter
enclaves and 1 counter
counter enclaves.

82. 31
DD Kosambi gives me the 31st question. In 1962, he published a paper
on the “Village Communities” of this place “… straddling the 47th degree
east longitude and 15th north latitude…” “one of the most beautiful
sights of the world” “the comparatively thinly populated New Conquests
are less healthy while the Old Conquests are definitely overpopulated
for a region devoid of industry”. Which place?

83. 31
Goa, which he called
“slice of Portuguese
territory” indicating that
the piece was written
much before 1962.
Old Conquests refer to
Albuquerque‟s time vis
a vis New Conquests
since then.

84. 32
Ray had to come to <Video removed>
Bombay to record this
as Kishore Kumar was
busy and could not
come to Calcutta. Ray‟s
wife sang the song and
Kishore learnt it from
listening to the tape.
Whom did Ray get to
play the piano?

85. 32
Manikda himself.

86. AWAKE! WE ARE DONE!