Kutub/Kerala quiz

THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF A QUIZ
RUN ON DEC 23 AT THRISSUR, KERALA…
There’s only one rule really…
• And you all know what it is
In the finals, all questions are for 10 marks
• Unless otherwise specified

Most of the answers are known to you…
• Feel free to guess…

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10 questions in this part
• All are fairly simple questions to get
scores on the board
• 5 points per part or as specified
• Some questions have 2 parts for 5 point
each.
• The last question has 11 parts along
with Bonus points

In the movie world, this tune is perhaps most
known for the rendition done by the director
for his 1931 classic.
Here it is being performed at what could be
called a carefree location. The body of the
emperor that built it was brought back and
buried there in 1990.
Identify a) the 1931 movie (5)
b) The location of the concert (5)
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This brittle material results when
iron ore, charcoal from coal, and
limestone are melted together
under intense air pressure.
It is thought that the Chinese were
manufacturing this material as
early as 11th C BCE.
It gets its name from the
appearance of the traditional mold
used in earlier days.
What material are we talking
about?

 PigIron – the mold apparently reminded
of piglets suckling on a sow

This acclaimed 1962 novel has been included in
multiple “Best 100 novels of the 20th Century”
type of lists. The original manuscript was
purchased in 1971 by the McMaster University
(photo of the manuscript at the Mills Library
shown here) for a sum of USD 250. The
manuscript has several illustration that seem to
indicate the author may have considered making
it an illustrated novel.
About the title, the author said that the title was a
metaphor for "...an organic entity, full of juice
and sweetness and agreeable odor, being turned
into a mechanism”

When this material was first developed, it was
given the name Polyhexamethyleneadipamide – but
recognizing that this wasn’t really a catchy name,
they thought of Duprooh “____ ____ pulls rabbit out
of hat”. Then, based on one of the early products
they created using this material, they thought of a
different name, but then reversed that to Nuron.
This too was nixed as it was felt that people may
confuse it with a nerve tonic.
They came up with another variant, and that one
stuck.
Despite what they told us when we were
kids, it really has nothing to do with the names of
major cities.

From 1925 to 1934, the Eiffel tower served
as a giant billboard for an automobile
company.
This was the first mass-production car
company to be based outside the US, and
also was the company that pioneered the
concept of sales and service network for
automobiles.
Name the company, founded in 1919, and
with a worldwide sales of 1,435,688
vehicles in 2011.

As regards this term often used by Captain
Haddock as an insult, originates from ancient
Greek for “one who dwells in holes/caves”. In
the case of the Yeti in “Tintin in Tibet”, the usage
was appropriate.
The Greeks claimed that these were people who
lived in Africa on the coast of the Red Sea.
Name the term/tribe, who Herodotus claimed
were the fastest runners known to man, unlike
the shambling, shuffling image we tend to think
of when we hear the term.

This is a model of a giant turtle belonging to
the extinct Genus Psephophorus that lived in
the Oligocene to the Pliocene era.
In 1995, when Robert Kohler found a specimen
of the genus that seemed to belong a new
species, he decided to name it after one of his
favorite authors – whose 1983 novel featured
such a turtle as one of the plot points.
Name the author

The melody of the original Croatian version
of the song was rewritten by Bert Kaempfert
for the 1966 comedy “A man could get
killed”.
This rendition in the same year was the first
hit for the singer in 11 years.
Fred Silverman at CBS heard the song on a
flight and suggested the name of a
character based on this song.
Which character?
<< Audio Link to the beginning of Sinatra’s
“Strangers in the night”>>

Cicer Arientinum is one of the early
cultivated legumes, and are grown all
over western Asia, the Indian
subcontinent, and in Australia.
The Latin name of this legume is known
for being the source of the cognomen of
a famous Roman.
A dish popular in the middle east takes
its name from the Arabic name of this
legume.
What is its Arabic name?

 Hummus (Hummus Be Tahina)

This photo accompanied an
article titled “India's
leading novelists” as part of
the special issue that the
New Yorker brought out in
1997 on the occasion of the
fiftieth anniversary of India's
independence.
For some reason, it depicted
one Sri Lankan writer along
with 10 writers of Indian
origin.
2 points per name. Bonus 3
for getting 9 or more
names.
3 extra points for getting the
Sri Lankan’s name.

Bottom: Vikram Chandra, Rohinton Mistry,
Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and Anita
Desai.
Top: Amit Chaudhuri, Kiran Desai, Ardashir
Vakil, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and
Romesh Gunesekera

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If the Danish Translation had “Romeo G.
Detlev Jr.“, and the French translation
had “Tom Elvis Jedusor”, and the Dutch
one had "Marten Asmodom Vilijn”, and
the Danish version coming up with, what
would the original name in English have
been?

 TomMarvolo Riddle.
These names could be re-arranged as “I
am Lord Voldemort” in those languages

At the inauguration of the National Flight
Academy in Pensacola on May 6, 2011, this US
Navy Capt (Retd.) gave the keynote address, and
said “Too many years have passed for me to still
be the last man to have _______. I believe with all
my heart that somewhere out there is a boy or girl
with indomitable will and courage who will lift that
dubious distinction from my shoulders and take us
back where we belong“.
He was talking about an event that ended on Dec
14, 1972.
Who?
(The blanks indicate something he had done)

 Eugene Cernan – “The last man on the
moon”

The July/August 1995 issue of the “Annals of
Improbable Research” carried a paper by
P.A Paskevich and T. B Shea titled “The
Ability of __X__ to ___Y___ Cellulose
Fibers”, and it concluded that X can Y
361.9237001 cubic centimeter per day.
They thus laid to rest a question related to
groundhogs that school kids had been
asking each other as a tongue twister for
years.
The question was also the title of a Herzog
documentary about the World Livestock
Auctioneer championship.

 Howmuch wood can a woodchuck
chuck?

This adjective has nothing to do with the
European Country - it comes from the
Old French word that means “having the
same parents”.
The modern usage of “Closely
Connected” or “Relevant” comes from
Hamlet Act V, Scene ii: "The phrase would
bee more ______ to the matter: If we
could carry Cannon by our sides;”

The blanked out result on the
right is a famous result that is
the culmination of a 100s of
pages of background
material in a book that was
published as a set of 3
volumes between 1910 and
1913, and which The Modern
Library places at number 23
in a list of the top 100
English-Language nonfiction
books of the twentieth
century.
What is “proved” here?
Which work?

Principia Mathematica and “1+1=2”

The earliest known instance of this is from 1888 –
the Chicago training school, a Methodist
academy for women missionaries, came up with
the concept of what they termed as the
“Peripatetic Contribution Box”
The Bishop in Bedford seized upon that idea, and
used the same scheme to fund the Home for
Destitute Women in Whitechapel.
Conmen soon seized upon the idea, and very
soon the government had to step in to restrict
this.
However, it saw a resurgence in recent years over
email and social networks.
What hard-to-kill phenomenon are we talking

Proponents of a method of
election called “range
voting” point to the
example on the right,
stating that this was the
second-longest-lasting
government with
substantial democratic
component ever (after
Sparta, which also
followed a system of
range voting).
This depicts the election
for which post?

In 2008, Steven Pearce, a chemist and managing
director of fragrance manufacturing company
Omega Ingredients, was commissioned to
recreate a strange odour that dances the lines
between seared steak, piping-hot metal and arc
welding smoke.
The Organization that made this request was
founded by a federal statute in 1958.
They wanted to use it to train some of their
members chosen for special missions, and the
description of the odour was given based on
impressions of those who had been on previous
missions.

The “smell” of Space. Astronauts who
went on Space walks described smelling
this on their spacesuits and equipment
after the walk.

The story about the composition of the
Chinese word Wei-ji has been repeated in
one form or another by management gurus
and motivational speakers to become a
cliché

Unfortunately, it’s just a story. The first
character does correspond to what the
stories say it does, the second character
could mean, among other things, a
machine, a plane, a pivot, chance,

The image on the top left
is from the 1878 patent
application, and the one
on the top right is a
working model
The first known results
from use of this product
are shown in the middle.
Scientists at UC Berkeley
came up a machine to
decode it.
What did the lab manage
to reproduce using the
decoding machine?

The St. Louis Edison tinfoil recording,
which had Edison singing “Mary had a
little lamb” etc.

Although he was considered to
be a gifted cubist artist and a
writer, his fame was always
second to that of his younger
brother. He died in Bergen-
Belsen after being arrested and
interred by the Nazis.
Funny though, a term that is now
associated with his brother was
actually his suggestion. As the
story goes, his brother was stuck
for inspiration, and asked his
brother for help. Busy with
painting, he replied “Then call
them ____”.
Fill in the blank.

 Robot. This is Josef Čapek

The VEI, or the Volcanic Explosivity Index was devised as a
scale to express the severity of Volcanic Explosions. It uses
factors like volume of erupted material, height of eruption
column, duration in hours, and qualitative descriptive terms to
come up with a number from 1 to 8.
The Krakatoa explosion in 1883 is rated 6, with a descriptive
term “colossal”.
The highest rating of 8 is classified as “mega-colossal”, and is
supposed to have volume of ejecta > 1,000 km³ and a plume
larger than 50 km. 42 such eruptions have been identified in the
last 36 million years, with one, the Toba eruption 70000 years
ago almost wiping out human beings from the planet.
Another famous Volcano is responsible for 3 such mega-colossal
eruptions - 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago.
The place where it is located gets over 3 million visitors every
year.

The voice you’ll hear
singing an almost
familiar song is that of a
legendary Indian. Her
mother is a Keralite
hailing from Anakkara
village near Palakkad.
Two parts
a) Name her
b) What’s that she is <Audio Link
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Laxmi Sahgal/Swaminathan singing the
national anthem of the INF and the
provisional government of Free India

As per a recent study by Stuart Laycock, one
way of classifying the countries in the world can
be as shown in the picture here, if you include
the actions of government sanctioned pirates,
and privateers.
On one side, there’s Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia,
Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad,
Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast,
Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali,
Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay,
Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan and Vatican City.
And then there’s the rest of the World.
What’s different about these countries listed
here, as per his study?

Apparently, these are the only countries
that have not experienced an incursion
by Britain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653
497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-
ten-countries-so-look-out-
Luxembourg.html

The Mahavamsa, a Pali work of
Ceylon (c 500 AD) tells the story of a
princess who had a son through her
marriage to a lion. She later
abandoned her husband, and the lion
went on to terrorize the land. The son
went on to kill the lion, but then went
on to erect the statue of the lion as a
guardian of the temples to atone for
his sins.
This is the story behind why you see
these lion like creatures guarding the
entrance of temples and pagodas in
Burma and other South-eastern
countries.
The rest of the world does know a
modified form of their name.
Give me the name of these creatures.

 The Chinthe (Wingate’s Chindits took
their name from here)

The result of a collaboration
that started in 1992, it consists
of one of them reading from a
short story published in 1973.
The other added a backing
track – playing variations of
“Silent Night” and “To
Anacreon in Heaven”
They met after that for the first
time in 1993. After the
meeting, the writer mentioned
– “There’s something wrong
with that boy; he frowns for no
good reason”. Audio
Name both collaborators

 William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain

In 1886, Lord
Salisbury made a
notorious comment
about the election
results in Holborn.
In the 23rd July 1892
edition, Punch
responded with this
cartoon.
Why?

Dadabhai Naoroji winning the Finsbury
Central Election.
He had lost the Holborn elections earlier,
promption Lord Salisbury to comment
that “…however great the progress of
mankind has been, and however far we
have advanced in overcoming
prejudices, I doubt if we have yet got to
the point where a British constituency
will elect a black man to represent them”

While today the term refers to the type of
weave where the warp and the weft go
over and under alternately, in earlier days
it did refer to a type of fabric where the
warp weave was silk and the weft was
wool (for example in Jane Eyre “When the
evening for the small party came, she found
that the _____ wouldn’t do at all, for the
other girls were putting on thin dresses and
making themselves very fine indeed”
Further back, it referred to a type of fabric
made of silk. It took the name specifically
because it was made in Avignon, and
specifically referred to the special
position Avignon held from 1309 to 1376.

He wrote a political tract called “A
New Discourse of a Stale Subject,
called the Metamorphosis of Ajax”.
It started with an exchange of
letters between and his cousin
Misacmos - Philostilpnos exhorts
Misacmos to make his invention
public – since “be a great
benefactor to the Citie of London,
and all other populous townes, who
stand in great neede of such
convayances”
What was this invention?

First known Valve Closet/Flush Toilet.
This is John Harington

The word originated with the animists Evenki, who
were spread out over a large region of the Siberian
Taiga. The Cossacks heard it among the Tungusian
tribes, and it reached the west via the Dutch explorer
Ysbrants Ides.
Among the Evenki – it referred to those who
conducted the magic rituals associated with hunting
and guarding herds. They could interact with the
spirit world and invoke their powers.
The term is now generally applied to any such
religious practitioner in the indigenous religions
across the world.
There is a disproved theory that the origin of the
term comes via the Sanskrit for “One who does
religious work”

 Shaman (Some etymological dictionaries
still incorrectly link it to Sramana)

This numerical system
was used more than 5000
years ago, and is the first
known positional number
system (where value and
position of digits matter) .
One possibility that the
base was chosen as it is
the smallest number that
is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5
and 6.
Which number systems is
this?

The Babylonian number system. There
were other sexagesimal systems earlier,
but this was the first positional system

Taking it’s name from the French for
“training”, this sport made its Olympic
debut in 1912.
The standard arena for the sport is 20m
by 60m and looks like this

The judges sit at positions C, E, B, M and H

In the Natya Shastra, there is a story that
Sage Bharata staged two of Brahma’s plays
“Amrita Manthana” and “Tripuradha”
before Shiva.
Shiva was pleased with it, but suggested that
it could be improved with the addition of
Nritta – and he instructed one of his
attendants to teach Bharata about the
various Angaharas and Karanas.
The attendent then went on to compose a
dance with songs for Bharata.
Name the attendant, after whom the dance
that was thus created is named.

The blue spots mark elements named after
places (red marks places named after elements).
As you can see, there’s only one element named
after a place in United Kingdom. Element
number 38 is named after a wee little village in
Scotland. The village name means “Nose of the
fairly hill” indicating a place inhabited by the
Siddhe.
The element is generally used nowadays in the
glass of cathode-ray tubes, and as LCD/LED gets
more common, requirement of this element is
going down.

Strontium after the village of Strotian in
Scotland

More inconsequential science.
Raymond Goldstein, a professor of Physics at
Cambridge has been focusing on the physics of
ponytails for some time now. In his paper “The shape
of a ponytail and the statistical physics of Hair Fiber
Bundles”, written with Patrick Warren and Robin Ball,
and published in the “Physical Review Letters”, he
tried to predict the shape of the ponytail from the
properties of a single strand of hair. They found that it
did – the “Ponytail shape” equation depends on,
among other things, the stiffness of the hair, the
elasticity, and the length. They also created a new
dimensionless quantity, the ratio of the length at
which gravity bends a specific strand of hair and the
total length of the hair.
They named this ratio after a character who
appeared first in a tale called “Persinette” by

Who designed the opening sequence for
the Simpson episode shown here.

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shown from +20 seconds

 Bansky – Interestingly, a couple of teams
got it after I modified the question to read
“Which KQA favorite designed the
opening sequence….”

The region (one of 27) in France is
essentially rural, and is famous for
producing great beef, and for French
Oak that is key to the flavors of the
wines of Remi Martin.
I’m looking for the name of a type of
transportation that took it’s name from
the type of hood worn by the
shepherds of this region. Nowadays
you’d associate this transport
(commonly referred to using a 4
letter diminutive) of with prom
parties, Las Vegas, or a luxurious
lifestyle.

In 2010, she described the origin of the
name of her band– it was given by her
husband. As she tells the story
“As I was asked to do a show in Berlin
before he and I got together, I wanted to
use four plastic stands with tape recorders
in each one of them, as my band. I told that
story to him, and he immediately coined
the phrase ____ _____ ____.”

Cork was usually added to the
sole of the high boot called
Cothurnus to emphasize the
greatness of the character,
usually playing a tragic role.
In contrast, the low, loose
fitting slipper was worn by
the comic actor.
What was the name of the
shoe worn by the comic – an
associated term survives to
the day.

Jimmy Van Alen was a US national
singles and doubles champion in
Tennis. Among his contribution
were the creation of the
International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Two days after his death in 1991,
Stefan Edberg lost the Wimbledon
semi-finals to Michael Stitch. About
Van Alen, he said – “If he hadn't
lived, Michael and I might still be out
there playing”
What was the reason for Edberg
making that statement?

 He invented the tie-breaker. Edberg had
lost 6-4, 6-7(5-7), 6-7(5-7), 6-7(2-7)

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Brutus of Troy
conquered Britain, and decided to divide the land among
his 3 sons. Locrinus received the lands between Humber
and Severn. Albanactus got the land beyond Humber, and
it was called Albion after him. His story goes that all the
lands beyond the Severn were given to, and were named
after the third son.
In reality though, the term comes from the local language
term for “Compatriot” or “Fellow Countrymen”.
At any rate, the term is still in use to refer to this area, and
the term was also used to name the part of the Paleozoic
period that ranged from 541–485.4 million years ago. This
period was so named by Geologist Adam Sedgwick who
studied the strata of that era in this region.

Before Nixon made an announcement on January 5,
1972, his staff made several attempts to change his
mind about a specific term. On January 4, his aide
Peter Flanigan sent him a memo “The term ____ has a
connotation of second class travel and lacks
excitement “. He suggested, among other things,
Clipper or Pegasus as an alternative
Speechwriter William Safire argued for Clipper,
pointing to the “patriotic and historic associations”.
He also said that ““The name would be criticized as
nationalistic, but I think that heat would be good.”
Nixon ignored them, and went ahead with the
original name.
What was the Jan 5 announcement about?

 The launch of the Space Shuttle Program

These characters from “The Big Leboswki”
claim that they follow a philosophical doctrine
that is often associated with Nietzsche, who
argued that it was a characteristic of the modern
age, spurred on by the decline of Christianity and
the rise of decadence. Two non-related questions
related to this
A) The name of this doctrine was coined by
philosopher Friedrich Jacobi, but was
popularized by Ivan Turgenev in his novel
“Fathers and Sons”. Name this doctrine
B) The character on the right was played by the
bassist of a LA based Rock band that was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
this year. Name the bassist or the band

 Nihilism
 Flea/Michael Belzary from Red Hot Chili
Peppers

The US Patents and Trademarks organization gives the
“Mark Information” for trademark 75326989 as
1) a semi-long sound in the chest register,
2) a short sound up an interval of one octave plus a fifth from
the preceding sound,
3) a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
4) a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
5) a long sound down one octave plus a Major 3rd from the
preceding sound,
6) a short sound up one octave from the preceding sound,
8) a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
10) a long sound down an octave plus a fifth from the
preceding sound.
What does this trademark describe?

Mstislav Rostropovich is widely regarded as one
of the greatest Cellists of all time. His fight for
freedom of speech and dissent earned him the
ire of the Soviet authorities on many occasion, the
most egregious one being his sheltering
Solzhenitsyn after his official disgrace in 1970.
He moved to the USA in 1974 to continue with his
career.
One fine morning in November, 1989,
Rostropovich was listening to the radio in his
apartment in Paris, when he heard some news
that prompted him fly down (using the private jet
of a friend) to this location and give an
impromptu performance.
What occasion led to this performance?

“De Vita Caesurum”, commonly known as “The 12
Caesars” was written in 121 AD by Seutonius. It’s one
of two books that mentions that Julius Caesar wrote
“Veni. Vidi, Vici” as a comment on his short war with
Pharnaces II. It is also the first source of another
famous sentence that the Naumachiarii told
Emperor Claudius at the reenactment of a naval
battle that took place on the banks of the Fucine Lake
in AD 52.
Despite common perception, most historians
conclude that this was a one-off, and not a usual
practice among the Naumachiarii.
However, this story remained popular over the
centuries, and is referenced in contemporary culture,
including in the title of AC/DC’s first number 1 album
in US
Phrase, or Album

“We who are about to die salute you”. Unlike what is
commonly thought – this is the only historical record of
such a statement having been made by the
prisoners/condemned, and is not known to be a
customary salute.
The album is “For those about to rock we salute you”
One group that pounced actually wrote some stuff in
Latin – didn’t remember the phrase myself, but gave
points because what they wrote had something like
morituri and salutant in it 

The night of October 31, 1957 saw a power
outage in Minnesota. Dr Walton Lillehei was
performing a life-saving surgery on a baby with
cyanotic heart defect, and this power outage saw
the failure of one of the key devices used –
leading to the death of the child.
Dr Lillehei immediately contacted engineer Earl
Bakken, who inspired by the plans for a
transistor-based metronome in “Popular
Mechanics” came up with a revolutionary device
that has gone on to save millions of lives since
then. What device?

 Theportable, battery-powered
pacemaker.

 The 1974 Oscars are famous for the
comment David Niven made when
Robert Open streaked across the stage.
Truffaut’s “Day for Night” won the best
foreign picture Oscar. That year, the entry
from India was a Hindi movie that starred
Amitabh Bachchan and which was based
on the Bengali short story “Ras” by
Narendranath Mitra.
Name it.

According to the Bible he was the great-grandson of Noah,
and is depicted as “a might hunter before God”. Tradition
holds it that he was the leader of those who attempted to
build the tower of Babel.
The current meaning associated with his name was an
unfortunate result of a Bugs Bunny cartoon – who referred to
Elmer Fudd with this name, ironically comparing him to “the
great hunter”. However, since it was directed to Fudd, it
appears that people interpreted it to mean a dimwitted
person, and that’s the current meaning associated with this
name/word.
The original meaning of the word still remains in the military
world, with multiple ships and weapon systems using this
name.
Who was this great hunter?

During the winter of 2001, workers digging
trenches for telephone poles in Vilnius, Lithuania,
came across a mass grave next to the old Soviet
Barracks.
Forensic investigation was conducted, and the
conclusion they came to seems to indicate that
the result of one of history’s most famous defeats
(of a war where the one of the long term targets
was control of India) was not caused by the
bravery of the opponents, but due to one army
getting devastated due to typhus, spread by lice.
The remnants of which army was found in this
mass grave?

 Napoleon’s Grand Armee’s defeat in
Russia

In India, water was generally kept in
containers with rounded bottoms (generally
clay based pot-like containers), mainly
because it was easier for the potter to make
it in that shape.
It is only with the advent of the Europeans,
especially the Portuguese, that the flat
bottom containers for water became
popular.
This is also evident from the fact that the
Portuguese term for such containers is used
in a modified form in Northern India.
What Urdu/Hindi word are we talking
about?

This 1848 work began “I HEARTILY
ACCEPT the motto, -That government is best
which governs least“. In it the author
describes his refusal to pay the state poll tax
imposed by the US Government to start a
war in Mexico, and to enforce the fugitive
Slave Law.
It was published later under a different title,
and soon the key term in the new title began
to appear in tracts opposing slavery.
Mahatma Gandhi categorically denied he
was influenced by this work.
What 2 word title am I looking for?

 Civildisobedience. Thoreau’s
“Resistance to Civil Government” was
later released as “Civil Disobedience”

The shrubs of the Genus
Syringa belong to the Olive
family, and are popular in
parks and gardens through the
temperate zone, primarily
because of the fragrant flowers
that bloom in the spring.
The common name these
shrubs/flowers are known by
originates from the Persian
term for these flowers. The
Persian term itself is a
corruption of the Sanskrit word
for “bluish”.

 Lilac
(corrupted form of Nilak, which
came from “Nila”)

The Norwegian alphabet has a total of 29 letters –
the standard A to Z and 3 more, including Æ and
Å.
The third additional letter was introduced by
mathematician Andre Weil as part of his work in
the Bourbaki group in the book Éléments de
mathématique Fasc.1: Les structures
fondamentales de l'analyse; Liv.1: Theorie de
ensembles.
What common mathematical symbol did he
introduce to set theory from the Norwegian
alphabet?

The symbol for the empty set Ø

Invented in 1947 by the French engineer Constant
Martin, this was the first mass market electronic
musical instrument. Constant Martin invented it to be
bolted under the keyboard of a piano and used to
imitate orchestral solo instruments.
The sound of this instrument is commonly associated
with Tornado’s “Telstar” – the first British single to
reach number 1 in Billboard’s Top 100 list.
In India, the instrument was first heard in a song in a
hit 1954 movie – where one of music Director Hemant
Kumar’s assistants used the instrument to create a
sound that is instantly recognizable even today.
Name the Instrument, and the assistant Music
Director.

Kalyanji used the Clavioline to get the
sound of the “Been” in Nagin’s “Man
Dole” song

Man O War can be considered one of the, if
not the, greatest racehorses of all time.
He has also sired horses that achieved
greatness in their own right, but we are
interested in one sire in particular – who was
considered to have potential to greatness,
but was too stubborn. This particular sire did
manage to sire another legendary horse – an
inspiration to many during the depression
years, and for a nominee for the best picture
Oscar.
Both of these horses were named after a
type of cracker made of flour, water and salt
that was created for virtues of longevity and
inexpensiveness.
What two terms for this cracker were these
horses named after?

This song received 4 Grammy nominations in
2011. The video was shot in Goa
The primary influence of the song was written as
a Dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon in
“The Republic” - the conversation deals with the
ignorance of humanity trapped within the
precincts of conventional ethics
It has been said that the framework of the “The
Matrix” trilogy is based on this philosophical
concept.
What 4 word phrase am I looking for?

<Video link for Mumford and Sons song removed>

 Allegory/Parable of the Cave

If you were to be accurate, you would
include “A Story Of Life and Love In the
Actual Arctic”, rather than the 4 word title
that it is generally known by.
Oh, and you would change the name used in
the first word to “Allakariallak ”, because
that was the actual name.
Despite all the allegations of fabrication,
Roger Ebert went on to proclaim that he
was "one of the most vital and unforgettable
human beings ever recorded on film.“
Who are we talking about?

Aristobolus, a friend of Philip of Macedon, and the
biographer of Alexander, mentions the time that
Alexander met with and impressed with two
gymnosophists.
The first one he met is named as Calanus, who
commanded Alexander to strip naked before he would
talk to him. Calanus also told him about Dandamis, the
leader of their group. Alexander went to meet
Dandamis in the forest, and told him that he wanted to
learn wisdom from him.
Calanus went back with Alexander, and was with him
in Persia, where he fell ill and decided to die by self-
immolation. Ptolemy prepared his pyre for this.
Who did the Greeks term as gymnosophists?
At what legendary University town did Alexander meet
them?

 Gymnosophists (Naked Philosophers)
was the term used for the Sadhus/Yogis
they encountered near Taxila

Contrary to what most of us have been told, the origin of the name
came about when Khwaja Rahim was reading a book by Olaf
Caroe in the 1930s and came upon a map in which the region
shown here was shown as an autonomous area in Uzbekistan. The
way the map was printed, one part of the name of the region was
on a separate page, and that was the inspiration. He told the name
to a friend of his, who then put in his proposal. Most people now
think that it was the friend who came up with the name
What’s the name of this region?

The region is “Karakalpakstan”. The map
was laid out so that “Karakal” was written
on one side and “Pakstan” on the other.
This led Khwaja Rahim to the name
“Pakstan” (and later in Urdu as Pakistan),
and he suggested it to Chaudhry Rehmat
Ali

Other questions and some that were used
only in the Kerala quiz

This 1653 painting by
Henri Gissey shows a
scene from the final act
of the ballet “Le Ballet de
la Nuit “. The teenager
depicted in the painting
wore a fancy golden
Roman-cut corselet and
a kilt of golden rays.
What sobriquet
originated from here?

These pictures were the creation of New
York make-up artist Eddie Senz.
The first time the general public saw it
was when Der Speigel published them in
the 1990s
What was the purpose of this set of photos?

How Hitler may have looked in disguise –
a set of 7 photos.

Coincidentally Manish Achuth asked this
online the same evening

Created by H T Webster for
his comic strip “The Timid
Soul”, this character gets his
name from a breakfast food
that was popular during the
early 20th century.
His name survives today as
a word, described in
Merriam-Webster as “a
timid, meek, or unassertive
person”
Name him

Two cinematic presentations – one a movie, and the other a documentary.
Both are about Malayalees associated with Films. The documentary by
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is about a man who was the director of the
National Film Archives of India (NFAI), Pune, from 1982 to 1991. He was
also one of the key people behind the creation of the International Film
Festival of Kerala
Name the character portrayed in the movie (Picture on Left)
Name either the documentary or the person who it is about (5) (KQA
rules do not apply for this part)

 The first one is “Celluloid” about J C
Daniels.
 The documentary is “Celluloid Man”
about P K Nair

The video clip is from a 1971 Tamil movie
called Babu, and shows Shivaji with a young
Sridevi.
<Video Clip Removed>

It was based on an acclaimed novel that was
written in 1940. A movie version in the
original language had been released in
1965 (script written by the original author)
was released to great acclaim and won a
Certificate of Merit at the National Awards
that year.
Name the novel.

 Odayil Ninnu – P Kesavadas

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