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Bar Bar Dekho
Written Round
6 questions
10 each
All questions have a visual clue to work out the
answer from.
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1. Following the solidarity march in Paris, conspiracy
theorists were quick to point out that the Charlie
Hebdo attacks were actually a well-engineered
anti-Islam propaganda move.
A key point-in-case had to do with the route of
the march. What’s the story?
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1. Following the solidarity march in Paris, conspiracy
theorists were quick to point out that the Charlie
Hebdo attacks were actually a well-engineered
anti-Islam propaganda move.
A key point-in-case had to do with the route of
the march. What’s the story?
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1. Speaking to, News.com.au, this artist, who has worked
for Shepard Fairey’s Obey, admitted:
It's kind of creepy that that many people have seen me
naked. I feel like I’m the world's biggest porn star.”
The story was carried with a picture headline which
said:
Embarrassed By Exposure.
______, Mate
FITB
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2. This beautiful pheasant is a rare sight in the
regions of NE India, Myanmar, China and Thailand.
Also the state bird of Mizoram, it’s classified as
NT.
It’s named after one Mary Ann Grindall.
What’s the bird called?
Alternatively, who was M A Grindall?
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3. What movie trivia is exclusive to Bill Paxton –
who is also seen in movies like:
Edge ofTomorrow, Titanic, Twister, True Lies,
Vertical Limit, U-571, Indian Summer, etc
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4. It’s made with garlic, tomatoes, and red chili
peppers, and is ideally cooked in olive oil.
This leads to its given name, in Italian, meaning
angry – probably due to its appearance and the
pepper-induced hotness.
However, it has nothing to do with a
tumultous region.
What’s this variety called?
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5. Avtar Narain and Pushpa ___ gave birth to two sons
in 1919 and 1925 at Jhelum (Punjab, Pakistan).
Both went ahead to reach the apex in their respective
fields.
While one joined the Communist Party (later changed
allegiance and was jailed during the 1942 QIM,
partition left a deep scar on the younger, as seen in his
works.
Who are these two brothers?
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6.
Karl Silberbauer served in the Austrian military before
joining the police in 1935. Four years later, he joined
the Gestapo.
During 1945-46, he served a 14-month sentenence for
unnecessary brutality while interrogating members of
the Communist Party of Germany.
Ironically, post-war, he was hired to infiltrate neo-Nazi
and pro-Soviet organisations.
What’s his bigger claim to infamy?
Clue: Someone is photographed at Opekta's
warehouseon the next slide.
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Nabbed Anne Frank and
family
I bought the little book last week to see if I am in it.
But I am not. Maybe I should have picked it up off the
floor
Picture: Otto Frank visiting the attic where the
family was in hiding.
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7. It’s written of him:
- At a little over one year he had the miraculous gift
of fluent speech
- at 5, he acquired an unusual stock of information
and could both read and write.
- at 7, he became the treasurer of his father's stores
of knowledge and a trusty keeper of the jewels of
hidden meaning and as a serpent, guarded the
treasure.
Who is the man – Jehangir shatched a plot to have
him killed byVir Singh Deo of Bundela, while he was
on his way back from Deccan?
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Abul Faizal
Picture shows him presenting the
Akbarnama to Akbar.
let me proceed to say a few words regarding myself
and thus unburden my mind, to refresh this narrative
and loosen the bonds of my tongue
Jahangir had him killed as he opposed his
accession
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8.
An eggcorn occurs when you substitutes a given
word/phrase and changing the meaning, but alluding to
the original meaning. However, the pronunciation
often remains the same.
Examples:
acorn - eggcorn
expatriate - expatriot
alzheimer's disease – old timer's disease
baited breath – bated breath
The most common example in entomology has to do
with the creature's posture and predatory habits.
What?
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9. In 2009,Thomas Feasby, dean of medicine at the
UofCalagry, widely promoted the use of fist
bumps.
Why?
Sarkar-KJo: Now, FIGHT.
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10.There are the lyrics from Mark Knopfler’s
Sailing to Philadelphia. Who are X andY?
We Are Sailing To Philadelphia
A World Away From The Coaly Tyne
Sailing To Philadelphia
To …….
…….
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11.Following an unveling on Janurary 18, Twitteratis
had these to say about what?
- looks like those wannabe actors frm Lokhandwala,
with gym bags & a moustache to copy Ranveer Singh.
- looks like a press photographer in a Madhur
Bhandarkar movie
- looks like a loan collection agent
- NY cab driver
- (comparing it to Aamir Khan) That same 'I am not
interested' / "I dont belong here' look
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12.In the late 60s, Floyd's technical engineer Bernard
Speight created the Azimuth Co-ordinator.
This rudimentary but revolutionary equipment came
with Bakelite knobs (joysticks) and a collection of
rheostat pan-pots.
It was operated during concerts by Richard Wright.
What purpose did it serve?
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Given sound would travel from one speaker to
the other, as directed by Wright.
One of those many live-concernt innovations the
Cambridge boys came up with.
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13.What are the other two/three elements that will
make this list exhaustive?
Shown here are four entities:
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14. Released in 1954, this film was originally called
The X Story. It later changed its name to
The FlamingTorch.
X stars as himself in the movie.
Who is X?
What unbeaten Olympic record does he hold?
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15. These (___enes) are molecules of carbon and
come in forms of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube,
and other such shapes.
Different types of these include clusters,
nanotubes, megatubes, nanonions, rings etc.
These are named after someone who was the
(second) president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.
Who?
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Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Saint Lucia
SaintVincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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108. In the 1340s, four new colleges - Gonville Hall,Trinity
Hall, Corpus Christi and Clare – were set up to train
clergymen.
Why were they established?
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2.
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only
successful takeover of power and setting up of a
local by Australians.
The then governor of New South Wales was
subsequently arrested and locked up in his own
house. There's a theory that he was probably
hiding when his own troops went to arrest him.
Who was this rather unforunate
governor?
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3. Yagli Gures is the national sport ofTurkey. The
annual tournament has been hosted since1362.
Some argue that it could be the longest running
sports event in the world.
Gures means wrestling.
Yagli is something they use in the sport.
What?
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4. Certain road crossings in the UK allow both
bicycles and pedestrians to avail them.
These crossings are named after a bird as the
crossing serves a dual purpose.
What name?
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5. The Chincha Islands is a cluster of three granite islands
with attractive cliffs, about 21 km off the Peruvian
coast.
Between 1844-1946, the Spanish fought a series of
naval wars – dubbed the Chincha Islands War – with
Peruvian and Chilean forces.
The control over the abundance of what in those three
islands was the reason for the wars?
However, supplies were exhausted by 1874.
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6. The Royal Society gives out the annual Copley
Medal for 'outstanding achievements in research
in any branch of science'
In 1776, X won the award for his paper which
recounted how he preserved the health of his
'employees'. Inspite of short supplies and perhaps
unknown diseases.The Society thought the
communication was of much importance to the
public.
Who is X?
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8. Gastromancy is a word that could mean two
things:
- a performance art
- a clairvoyant/supernatural activity or practice
Name both.
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9. What cliché are these?
This was in a twentytwowords.com article. Which
cliché has been left out? (seen a revival; overdone)
Big heads in the sky over tiny people on a beach
From the back (often with weaponry)
Back to back
In bed
Through the legs
Big eye
Blue
Running for their lives
Cute red dress
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10.This person visited city X in 1873 and noted that the
a prominent area in the city was
‘a road of palaces and a fearful humbug... Immense
commerce and population of ____ ghats - for which I
was not prepared’
Those probably came in the way of his artistic
endeavours. He went on to name the city
Husslefussabad.
Among the paintings he made during his stay, one
went under the hammer at Christies in 2011.Who is
this person? Pictures on next slide
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Edward Lear; Calcutta
Know your QM, boys!
Husslefussleabad – who else? :D
area was Chowringhee
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11.It’s a custom to greet visitors with banners/ flags
in this country.Taking advantage, McCann came
out with this advert at the capital airport.
The ad take advantage of a coincidence, as
spotted and pointed out by some.
Which company?
What country?
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13.
In 1934, the NY-born poet Ogden Nash moved to
city X, where he lived till he died in 1977.
In his inimitable style, he wrote:
I could have loved NewYork had I not loved X.
Which city is X?
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15.Scenes from a Tom&Viv – a film about Tom's
relationship with his first wifeVivenee.Who does
William Dafoe play in the film?