Quiz conducted as part of the August monthly at Margao. Quiz Master: Aditya Mallya

1. August Monthly – Margao
QM: Aditya Mallya

2. Round 1 – Mind Mapping
• Written round
• 7 questions relating to maps
• +10 for each correct answer

3. Question 1 / 7
In 1766, London cartographer and engraver John Spilsbury
created what he called a ‘dissected map’ as an educational
tool to teach geography. What pastime did he thus invent?

4. Question 2 / 7
48°52.6′S , 123°23.6′W is a location on Earth called Point
Nemo, in reference to the character created by Jules
Verne. It was used by H P Lovecraft in describing the
location of his famous fictional monster, Cthulu. It is also
called ‘spacecraft cemetery’ because hundreds of
decommissioned satellites, space stations and other
spacecraft have been deposited there upon reentering the
earth.
What is Point Nemo’s distinction?

5. Question 3 / 7
Born Thomas __________ Mapother IV, he joined a
Franciscan seminary in his teens before changing
professions and exchanging his unwieldly surname for his
far simpler middle name. Who?

6. Question 4 / 7
First identified in 1976 in the
town of Yambuku.
Microbiologist Peter Piot
decided to name it after the
blacked out river so that
there would be no stigma
associated with the town.

7. Question 5 / 7
A port city that was a major
marketplace for coffee from
the 15th to 18th century. To
prevent propagation, coffee
beans from this city were
only shipped after roasting.

8. Question 6 / 7
Named in November 1840 by
the directors of the New
Zealand Company. Named
after the famous title of
Arthur Wellesley, in
recognition for his strong
support for the company’s
principles of colonization.

9. Question 7 / 7
A type of riding trouser that
gets its name because it was
popularized in England by
Sir Pratap Singh, a younger
son of the Maharaja of
______________, who visited
Queen Victoria with his
famous polo team in 1897

10. Answer 1 / 7
In 1766, British cartographer and engraver created what he
called a ‘dissected map’ as an educational tool to teach
geography. What pastime did he thus invent?
Jigsaw Puzzle

11. Answer 2 / 7
48°52.6′S , 123°23.6′W is a location on Earth called Point
Nemo, in reference to the character created by Jules
Verne. It was used by H P Lovecraft in describing the
location of his famous fictional monster, Cthulu. It is also
called ‘spacecraft cemetery’ because hundreds of
decommissioned satellites, space stations and other
spacecraft have been deposited there upon reentering the
earth.
What is Point Nemo’s distinction?
It is the point in the ocean furthest from land

12. Answer 3 / 7
Born Thomas __________ Mapother IV, he joined a
Franciscan seminary in his teens before changing
professions and exchanging his unwieldly surname for his
far simpler middle name. Who?
Tom Cruise

13. Answer 4 / 7
First identified in 1976 in
Yambuku.
Microbiologist Peter Piot
decided to name it after the
blacked out river so that
there would be no stigma
associated with the town.
Ebola

14. Answer 5 / 7
A port city that was a major
marketplace for coffee from
the 15th to 18th century. To
prevent propagation, coffee
beans from this city were
only shipped after roasting.
Mocha

15. Named in November 1840 by
the directors of the New
Zealand Company. Named
after the famous title of
Arthur Wellesley, in
recognition for his strong
support for the company’s
principles of colonization.
Answer 6 / 7
Wellington

16. Answer 7 / 7
A type of riding trouser that
gets its name because it was
popularized in England by
Sir Pratap Singh, a younger
son of the Maharaja of
______________, who visited
Queen Victoria with his
famous polo team in 1897
Jodhpur

17. Round 2 – Who What Venn Where Why
• 16 questions on a grid
• Each question is an intersection of two topics: E.g.
Hollywood + Sports
• Teams take turns choosing a question from the grid
• Clockwise, infinite bounce : +10 for each correct answer
• One (Wrong) Pounce Out – Pounce is available on each
question, but a wrong answer on a pounce will disqualify a
team from pouncing for the rest of the round

18. Inventors
Rock Music
Football
Children’s Literature
Politics
Poetry
Hollywood
Secrets and Lies
Botany
History
Alcohol
Geography
Etymology
Adults Only
Journalism
Television
Animal Kingdom
Internet
Art
Paranormal
Asia
Crime
Protests
Puns
Olympics
Economics
Weaponry
Pulp Fiction
Food
Religion
Monuments
Bollywood

19. Weaponry / Pulp Fiction
The signature brand of weapons sold by
________ International. There are
conflicting views over their safety. A 2009
Police Executive Research Forum study
said that injuries drop by 76% when a
________ is used. However, a database
run by The Guardian tracking killings by
US police in 2015 classifies 47 out of 965
deaths as arising from the use of a
_______
The weapon derives its name from the
1911 young adult novel shown on the
right.

21. Weaponry / Pulp Fiction
Back to Grid
TASER
(Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle)

22. Journalism / Television
X is an English journalist, best-known as the longest-running
presenter of Channel 4 News, which he has presented since
1989.
Y is an actor who originally wanted to become a journalist,
cameraman or war correspondent. On a talk show , he said
that before he had been bitten by the acting bug, X had been
one of his role models in his journalistic ambitions.
In an incredible coincidence, the character that Y is most
famous for playing is named X – down to the unconventional
spelling of the first name.

24. Journalism / Television
X – Jon Snow
Y – Kit Harington
Back to Grid

25. Hollywood / Secrets and Lies
A 1997 neo-noir crime film directed by
Curtis Hanson that was nominated for nine
Academy Awards, winning two.
A 2004 book by Pierre Ballester and David
Walsh that caused a stir with its then
startling allegations that Lance Armstrong
had been involved in extensive doping.
Both share a similar name, tell me either
one.

27. Hollywood / Secrets and Lies
Back to Grid

28. Art / Paranormal
In 2005, art expert Armando Ginesi found a sculpture of
Christ on the Cross among the personal belongings of
Gabriele Maria Berardi, a friar who had died in 1984.
Ginesi showed the work to two experts specializing in the
work of artist X, and they found ‘sufficient stylistic reasons’ to
believe X had created the piece.
This lends some credence to an otherwise unverifiable story
that Berardi had told his friends and relatives: That at X’s
request, Berardi had performed an exorcism in 1947 to rid X
of a demon. Following this, X presumably gave Berardi the
sculpture as a token of gratitude.

30. Art / Paranormal
Salvador Dali
Back to Grid

31. Alcohol / Geography
A liquor and a city whose names sound the same, but have
different origins.
The liquor is the juniper-flavoured national and traditional
liquor of Netherlands and Belgium, from which gin evolved. It
gets its name from the Dutch word for the juniper berry.
The city is a worldwide center for diplomacy, housing several
international organizations including agencies of the UN and
Red Cross. It is thought to get its name from a Celtic toponym
describing a bend or knee in a river or estuary.

33. Alcohol / Geography
Jenever / Geneva gin – from the Dutch jeneverbes
Geneva – from the Celtic genuwa
Back to Grid

34. Asia / Crime
In China, ding zui is a practice that is reported to be
relatively common among wealthy elite who are accused of a
crime.
One of the more notorious examples was a 2012 case in
which lawyer Gu Kailai was convicted of murdering British
businessman Neil Heywood. After the media aired footage of
the trial, a theory that Kailai had engaged in ding zui became
extremely popular on Chinese Internet fora, and authorities
attempted to suppress these conversations.
What is ding zui?

36. Asia / Crime
The practice of hiring body doubles to stand trial / receive
imprisonment in one’s place
Back to Grid

37. Protests / Puns
In 2012, Abercrombie & Fitch
announced their intention to expand
their presence on Savile Row, a street
in London known for its long history of
traditional bespoke tailoring for men.
In response, The Chap magazine,
which describes itself as ‘a journal for
the modern gentleman’, organized a
humorous protest. Protestors
brandished the placard shown on the
left.
Name the phrase that has been
blanked out, a play on a popular
protest slogan popularized by a John
Lennon song in the late sixties.

39. Protests / Puns
Back to Grid

40. Olympics / Economics
Identify the common surname of the two multi-talented
personalities described below:
A) Judoka, swimmer, gymnast, footballer and doctor Paula
______________, who won the judo gold medal in the
extra-lightweight category at the 2016 Olympics,
becoming the first Argentine woman to win an individual
gold medal.
B) Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and
philosopher Vilfredo __________. His most famous
observation was made in 1906, and concerned the
distribution of land in Italy.

42. Olympics / Economics
Back to Grid
Pareto

43. Etymology / Adults Only
X is a flavouring derived from orchids of the genus X.
Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with
introducing it to Europe in the 1520s.
The name X was given by Spanish and Portuguese sailors -
it translates to “little pod”, and is the diminutive form of the
Latin word vagina, which is what the bulb of the plant looked
like to the sailors.
It’s ironic that the word X should have such suspect origins.
What is X?

45. Etymology / Adults Only
Vanilla
Back to Grid

46. Animal Kingdom / Internet
The following is an excerpt from an article published by Popular
Science in September 2013:
“The most commonly heard vocalizations are a quick series of
barks, and a scream-y variation on a howl. The barks are a sort of
ow-wow-wow-wow, but very high-pitched, almost yippy. The
scream-y howl is most often heard during the breeding season, in
the springtime. It is horrible. A shrill, hoarse scream of anguish, it
sounds more like a human baby undergoing some kind of physical
torture. It is thought that this sound is used by females to lure
males for mating.”
The above passage answers a question posed by a video that has
nearly 618 million views on YouTube. What is the question?

48. Animal Kingdom / Internet
“What Does the Fox Say?” by Ylvis
Back to Grid

49. Botany / History
Fuchsia is a colour named after the flower of the fuchsia
plant, which took its name from the 16th century German
botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
The colour fuchsia was first introduced as the colour of a new
aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French
chemist Francois-Emmanuel Verguin. The dye was renamed X
later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French
army at the Battle of X near the Italian city of the same name.
What is X?

51. Botany / History
Magenta
Back to Grid

52. Inventors / Rock Music
X was an English agricultural pioneer. In 1701, he perfected a horse-
drawn seed drill that could economically sow seeds in neat rows. His
agricultural methods were adopted by many landowners, and
effectively helped provide the basis for modern agriculture.
X is also the name of a British rock band formed in 1967. At first, the
band changed their name frequently. Names were often supplied by
their booking agents’ staff. One of these staff, a history buff,
suggested the name X. The name stuck because it was the one they
happened to be using the first time a club liked their performance
enough to give them a second gig.
What is X?

54. Inventors / Rock Music
Jethro Tull
Back to Grid

55. Monuments / Bollywood
Pictured is a memorial
constructed in Nagpur in
memory of the 114 people
from the ___________
community who were killed
in a stampede in the city
on 23 November, 1994.
Fill in the blank, with part
of the surname of a
director whose latest film
is still playing in theaters.

57. Monuments / Bollywood
Back to Grid
Gowari

58. Politics / Poetry
John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration speech is perhaps most
famous for the line “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your country.”
Ironically, JFK lifted the words from famous poet and artist X, who
had used them in a different context. In an open letter titled ‘The
New Frontier’ following the fall of the Ottoman Empire, X had
written, “Are you a politician asking what your country can do for
you, or are you a zealous one asking what you can do for your
country? If you are the first, you are a parasite. If the second, you
are an oasis in the desert.”
Who was X?

60. Politics / Poetry
Kahlil Gibran
Back to Grid

61. Food / Religion
Pictured here is a Simnel cake,
which was featured on a recent
Masterchef Australia episode. It is
a fruit cake with two layers of
almond paste or marzipan: one in
the middle and one on top.
Conventionally, eleven marzipan
balls are used to decorate the
cake.
The cake is prepared and eaten
during a particular religious holiday
in some countries. What do the
eleven marzipan balls represent?

63. Food / Religion
Back to Grid
The Twelve Apostles, Minus Judas – The cake is baked at
Easter in parts of the UK

64. Football / Children’s Literature
X is a German city that is home to a
four-time Bundesliga winning club
nicknamed Die Werderaner (which
translates to The River Islanders)
One of the city’s most popular landmarks
is a bronze statue created by Gerhard
Marcks, seen to the right. The statue
was erected in 1953, and depicts
characters from a Grimm Brothers’ fairy
tale whose title mentions the city.
Which city?

66. Football / Children’s Literature
Bremen
(The club is Werder Bremen. The fairy tale is The Town
Musicians of Bremen)
Back to Grid

67. Round 3 – Baker’s Dozen
• Written round
• Image showing 13 personalities on next slide
• Write the names of all 13
• Names must be in order, from left to right
• +5 for each correct answer
• +10 bonus if you get them all right

68. 1
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3 4 5
6
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“The Scientists’ Last Supper” by Nick Farrantello

70. 1. Galileo Galilei
1
2
3 4 5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
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2. Marie Curie
3. Robert Oppenheimer
4. Isaac Newton
5. Louis Pasteur
6. Stephen Hawking
7. Albert Einstein
8. Carl Sagan
9. Thomas Edison
10. Aristotle
11. Neil deGrasse Tyson
12. Richard Dawkins
13. Charles Darwin

71. Half-Time

72. Round 4 – On the Pass
• 20 questions
• Regular passing - anticlockwise, infinite bounce
• +10 for each correct answer
• One (Wrong) Pounce Out – Pounce is available on each
question, but a wrong answer on a pounce will disqualify a
team from pouncing for the rest of the round

73. Question 1 / 20
The clade Sacoglossa contains several small sea slugs and
sea snails that mainly feed on algae. One example is the
Eastern emerald elysia, which is a slug found along the
eastern coastline of USA and Canada.
Sacoglossans are the only known animals that exhibit a
particular phenomenon. What?

75. Answer 1 / 20
Photosynthesis – Through a process called kleptoplasty, they
are able to capture chloroplasts from the algae that they
ingest, and then use these chloroplasts for photosynthesis

76. Question 2 / 20
Isn’t It Romantic? is a 1948 film
from Paramount Pictures. It is set in
Indiana after the American Civil
War, and follows an army major
whose three daughters are courted
by three young men.
This movie was a dud both critically
and commercially, and moreover,
went on to receive a dubious
Guinness World Record. What?

78. Answer 2 / 20
The shortest film review: Critic Leonard Maltin simply wrote
“No.” as a response to the film’s title

79. Question 3 / 20
A 1982 FIFA World Cup group stage match between West
Germany and Austria is one of the most controversial football
matches in history.
In German, the match is known as Schande von Gijón (The
Disgrace of Gijón ). In Dutch, it is known as Het bedrog van
Gijón (The Deceit of Gijón). In Algeria, it is known as
Anschluss, which was the Nazi propaganda term for the 1938
annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.
What happened during the match, and what change did FIFA
introduce at subsequent tournaments as a result?

81. Answer 3 / 20
W. Germany and Austria knew that a German victory would
send both teams into the knockout stages. After W.
Germany scored the first goal in the 10th minute, both teams
simply passed the ball around, making little attempt to score
or even wrest possession from the opposition. This enraged
Algerian fans in particular, because an Austrian victory
would have seen Algeria progress instead of W. Germany.
As a result, for all FIFA tournaments, the final two matches
in each group are now played simultaneously.

82. Question 4 / 20
X and Y are two organizations that coincidentally shared a common
trademark. After years of back-and-forth litigation, they entered into
an agreement in 1994, by which Y accepted certain conditions, and X
dropped pending litigation against Y in exchange.
In 2000, X sued Y for various violations of the 1994 agreement,
particularly in regards to merchandising. The Court of Appeal agreed
with X’s lawsuit, and as a result Y had to make a significant change.
Y announced this grudging change on May 5, 2002 by launching a
marketing campaign titled “Get the F Out”
Name X and Y.

84. Answer 4 / 20
WWF and WWE – The World Wrestling Federation changed
their name to World Wrestling Entertainment on being
successfully sued by the World Wildlife Fund

85. Question 5 / 20
In 2008, The Indian Express published a report on the unusually
high occurrence of a particular phenomenon in the village of
Kodinhi, Kerala. This has led to the village becoming something of a
tourist attraction in recent years.
Although this phenomenon usually occurs 6 times per 1000 births,
Kodinhi displays a ratio that is seven times higher, at 42 times per
1000 births. Similar situations have been found in the towns of Igbo-
Ora in Nigeria, and Candido Godoi in Brazil.
There is no conclusive explanation yet for why this may be
happening, although research in Igbo-Ora suggests it may have
something to do with the dietary habits of women. What am I talking
about?

87. Answer 5 / 20
Twins

88. Question 6 / 20
Almost 40,000 people participated in the London Marathon on
24 April, 2016.
Tim Peake was one of them, successfully completing the race
in 3 hours and 35 minutes. What was unique about his
marathon performance?

90. Answer 6 / 20
He ran it from space: Major Tim Peake is a European Space
Agency astronaut who was aboard the International Space
Station when the marathon took place

91. Question 7 / 20
The1782 Fanny Burney novel Cecilia ends with a paragraph in
which a particular phrase recurs three times. Fill in the blanks
with the phrase, which was to later become the title of a far
more famous novel:
“The whole of this unfortunate business, said Dr. Lyster, has
been the result of __________________. If to
__________________ you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is
good and evil balanced, that to ___________________ you will
also owe their termination.”

93. Answer 7 / 20
Pride and Prejudice

94. Question 8 / 20
A Greedy Cup / Tantalus Cup / __________ Cup is a practical
joke device. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a
siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents
through the base.
Which mathematician is credited with its invention?

96. Answer 8 / 20
Pythagoras

97. Question 9 / 20
The “lucky iron fish” was first developed in 2008 by a
Canadian student on a research trip in rural Cambodia. Its
success led to the formation of The Lucky Iron Fish Project in
2012 to develop and distribute the fish on a larger scale. What
are Cambodians supposed to do with the lucky iron fish?

99. Answer 9 / 20
Cook – the iron leaches into the food and helps fight
anaemia. The nutritional deficiency is estimated to affect
44% of Cambodia’s population

100. Question 10 / 20
What connects these seven countries? (Exhaustive)

102. Answer 10 / 20
Antarctica - The countries listed all have territorial claims

103. Question 11 / 20
A critically endangered species that is native to the northern
part of the Indian subcontinent, its total wild population is
now estimated as being fewer than 235 individuals.
The animal gets its name from a Hindi word for pot, in
reference to a distinctive physical feature that the male of
the species has.
Which species?

105. Answer 11 / 20
Gharial – From ghara, in reference to the swollen end of the snout

106. Question 12 / 20
___________ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom
of Italy during the reign of her husband Umberto I from 1878
to 1900.
Among the things that have been named after her are a pizza,
a mining town in Assam and a peak on Mount Stanley in
Africa.
Fill in the blank.

108. Answer 12 / 20
Margherita

109. Question 13 / 20
In Norse mythology, X is one of Thor’s three children, along
with his brother Magni and sister Thrud.
However, purely Googling the name X today would give you
well over a million search results - about someone else
entirely.
What is X?

111. Answer 13 / 20
Modi

112. Question 14 / 20
The term originates from the textile trade, where to
____________ was to tease or comb out flax or hemp fibres.
The additional meaning (which is the dominant one today) was
added in Scotland, where the ______________ who combed
the flax had established a reputation as the most radical and
aggressive element in the workforce. In the textile factory, one
_________ would read out the day’s news while the others
would pause their work to repeatedly interrupt the speaker
and furiously debate the news being read out.
Fill in the blank.

114. Answer 14 / 20
Heckle / heckler

115. Question 15 / 20
Traité des Fardemens et Confitures, which translates to
Treatise on Make-up and Jam is a 1552 cookbook / cosmetics
manual.
Among other things, this curious book contains recipes for
making toothpaste, love potions, marmalade, jelly and
laxatives.
Who is the author?

117. Answer 15 / 20
Nostradamus

118. Question 16 / 20
Shown below is a ‘cow shoe’, an object that popped up in
America in the 1920s. The idea was reportedly inspired by
the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Priory
School. Who used cow shoes, and for what?

120. Answer 16 / 20
Moonshiners brewing illegal liquor during Prohibition often did
so in the middle of a forest or meadow, and used cow shoes
to throw off police who were tracking them

121. Question 17 / 20
Often lost in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14 1865 is
the fact that he signed an important piece of legislation on the day
he was shot.
During the mid-1800s, it was estimated that almost a third of
American money in circulation was counterfeit. On the urging of
Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch, Lincoln signed
legislation to form a law enforcement division to tackle the problem.
Thus, the division, titled “______________ of Division of the
Department of the Treasury” was born hours before the president
was killed.
What? (Size of the blank is not representative – could be more than
one word)

123. Answer 17 / 20
Secret Service

124. Question 18 / 20
Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable
organizations focused on the alleviation of global poverty. One
of their signature events is the ‘Oxfam Hunger Banquet’.
People wishing to host a Hunger Banquet can apply on the
Oxfam website, and receive a toolkit with a planning guide,
instructions, tips and a suggested script for conducting the
event.
What is the Hunger Banquet?

126. Answer 18 / 20
It is a simulation meant to educate people on the dynamics and
inequity of food distribution. Participants are randomly sorted
into low, middle and high income groups, and are given a
dinner that roughly resembles what the three groups would be
able to afford.
For example, the high income group may have unlimited food
brought to them by servers. The low income group may receive
a plate of plain rice and a cup of water, and the women may
only be allowed to eat after the men.

127. Question 19 / 20
Who wrote these poetry collections? We know the author’s
name primarily in relation to a more famous personality.

129. Answer 19 / 20
Ramesh Tendulkar

130. Question 20 / 20
This physical feature, often considered attractive, is a genetic
deformity caused by variations in the structure of the
zygomaticus major muscle – specifically, a double or bifid
(cleft) zygomaticus major muscle may explain the formation of
the feature.
What?

132. Answer 20 / 20
Dimples

133. Round 5 – Write and Wrong
• Written round
• 8 made-up book titles
• Each title is made up of words from the titles of actual books
written by an author
• For example, I may have taken words from J K Rowling’s
book titles, and invented the following fake title from them:
“The Philosopher’s Deathly Chamber of Fire”
• Similarly, you have to read each of the 8 titles listed on the
next slide and reverse engineer the names of the writers
• +5 for identifying each writer correctly
• +10 bonus for getting all correct

134. Round 5 – Write and Wrong
1. The Great Twist at Christmas
2. Crooked Styles of the Orient
3. Sigh Beneath the Shame, Children
4. Solitude and Autumn Love
5. Stand in Dark Misery
6. The Palace of Sea, Smoke and Reason
7. Farewell Feast at Sea
8. Sheep in the Wood, Bird on the Shore
(Ignore articles, prepositions and conjunctions)

136. Round 5 – Answers
1. The Great Twist at Christmas
Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Christmas
Carol)
2. Crooked Styles of the Orient
Agatha Christie (Crooked House, The Mysterious Affair at
Styles, Murder on the Orient Express)
3. Sigh Beneath the Shame, Children
Salman Rushdie (The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath
Her Feet, Shame, Midnight’s Children)
4. Solitude and Autumn Love
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, The
Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera)

137. Round 5 – Answers
5. Stand in Dark Misery
Stephen King (The Stand, The Dark Tower, Misery)
6. The Palace of Sea, Smoke and Reason
Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies, River of
Smoke, The Circle of Reason)
7. Farewell Feast at Sea
Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast,
The Old Man and the Sea)
8. Sheep in the Wood, Bird on the Shore
Haruki Murakami (A Wild Sheep Chase, Norwegian Wood, The
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore)

138. Round 6 – Four by Four
• 4 Questions
• Each question has four clues that will be revealed 1 by 1
• Answers only on Pounce
• Points awarded after each clue as follows:
–Answer on 1st Clue: +20 / -15
–Answer on 2nd Clue: +15 / -10
–Answer on 3rd Clue: +10 / -5
–Answer on 4th Clue: +5 / 0

139. Question 1 / 4
A unit of mass used in the Ottoman Empire and among
Turkic peoples of the Russian Empire. The equivalent unit in
British India was called the maund. (+20 / -15)
In military parlance, a soldier or airman assigned to a
commissioned officer as a personal servant. You may have
seen this definition referenced in a joke that goes “Alfred is
____________’s _______________” (+10 / -5)
The name of a town in Turkey that made news when its mayor
sued a Hollywood studio for not getting permission to use the
name of the town, which was the same as the name of the
central character in a 2008 blockbuster. (+15 / -10)
A superhero created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane who first
appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939 (+5 / 0)

140. Answer 1 / 4
Batman

141. Question 2 / 4
A term coined by psychiatrist Nils Bejerot in 1973 (+20 / -15)
Blanked out words in the parody
poster on the right (+15 / -10)
The term was coined in response to
something that happened during the
robbery of Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstorg
(+10 / -5)
Freudian theory is a common hypothesis to
explain the psychiatric phenomenon – it
suggests that identifying with the
aggressor is one way that the ego of the
victim defends itself (+5 / 0)

142. Answer 2 / 4
Stockholm Syndrome

143. Question 3 / 4
The 1844 J. M. W. Turner painting
shown on the right has a three-word-
title. Give me the last two words
(+15 / -10)
It is often associated with the ancient legend of samudra
manthan, but multiple scholars believe this legend has been
applied to the ___________ _________ relatively recently, in
order to show scriptural authority for it (+10 / -5)
The blanked out words in the title of the award-winning 2004
documentary Short Cut to Nirvana: ______ _____ (+20 / -15)
Haridwar. Allahabad. Nashik. Ujjain. (+5 / 0)

144. Answer 3 / 4
Kumbh Mela

145. Question 4 / 4
It was initially created by Andy Hildebrand, an engineer for
Exxon who spent eighteen years working in the field of
seismic data exploration (+20 / -15)
The earliest commercial use of the technique in the context
we now know it was in the 1998 Cher hit “Believe” (+10 / -5)
His technique involved a mathematical model called
autocorrelation. The layers below the earth’s surface could be
mapped by sending sound waves into the earth, and then
recording their reflections with a geophone (+15 / -10)
In 2004, The Daily Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick
called it “a particularly sinister invention that has been putting
extra shine on pop vocals since the 1990s” (+5 / 0)

146. Answer 4 / 4
Auto-Tune