General Quiz

1. GENERAL QUIZ
T H E 9 8 T H W E E K LY D 4 2 M E E T

2. R U L E S
• 18 QUESTIONS
• +10/0 ON BOUNCE
• +10/-5 ON POUNCE

4. Q1
The _____’s battle-forged origin explains a few things about the high-energy breed as,
according to Welsh legend, fairies rode them into battle. Many _____ have a darker
patch of fur under their shoulders that even today is sometimes known as the “fairy
saddle.”
Queen Elizabeth II has had a long adoration for this breed, having owned more than
30 over the course of her reign, 3 of which appeared in the 2012 Olympic opening
ceremony when James Bond arrived at Buckingham Palace to escort the Queen to the
event.
Her ______ reside in individual wicker baskets in the _____ Room, (entry to which animal
lovers may consider a welcome to paradise).
FITB and for bonus +5 give me the name of her very first _____.

6. CORGI
DOOKIE

7. Q2
Both sexes are physically capable of phonating in the X register. Prior to research done
by scientists in the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely believed that only men were able to
produce X.
It has been pointed out that while the German school of teachers had largely
embraced the idea of a female X into pedagogical practice, there is division within the
French and English schools, and a complete rejection of the idea of female X in the
Italian schools.
X is the 3rd register of human speech preceded by fry, modal and succeeded by
whistle.
Id X.

9. FALSETTO

10. Q3
The very first ____ ____ in Japan was set up in 1926 by Tokyo Pan Bakery in Shinjuku
district to advertise their business. During and after World War II, ___ ___gradually
became a popular form of advertising in the country and at the very end of 1957, the
Totsuko company erected a huge ____ ________ modeled after New York City's famous
__________ in Sukiyabashi, which is located in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.
The lighting of the ________ was a nationally televised event, and revealed to the world
the new name of the company.
What is the company known as today, which led to the ________ becoming an instant
landmark?
FITB, something for which Tokyo has been depicted in a countless sci-fi works.

12. SONY
NEON SIGNS/BILLBOARDS

13. Q4
In 1842 Charles James Napier was appointed Major General to the command of the
Indian army within the Bombay Presidency. Here Lord Ellenborough's policy led Napier
to _____ Province, for the purpose of quelling the insurrection of the Muslim rulers who
had remained hostile.
Napier's campaign against them resulted in the subjugation of the _____
Napier is supposed to have dispatched to his superiors a telegram with a single Latin
word Peccavi, which translates to I have sinned.
Put Funda.

15. HE HAD CAPTURED SINDH PROVINCE

16. Q5
This nail polish is a logical brand
extension, as an assistant's nail
polish was the impetus for the
product’s iconic look. Much like the
product, the polish is receiving
attention for its provocative shape,
a long spiky cap, designed to
resemble a calligrapher's brush or a
spire.
What product is being talked
about?

18. CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN SHOES

19. Q6
The photo on the right depicts a
phenomenon that happens due to the nose
being in the foreground, and the rest of the
face being in the background, in a certain
practice.
This has led to an increase in a number of
specialized requests, as shown in the graph,
with the wider proliferation of the said
practice
What practice is this and what has this led to
an increase in demand in?

21. SELFIES
NOSEJOBS

22. Q7
In its original sense, a shaggy dog story is an extremely long-winded anecdote
characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by
an anticlimax or a pointless punchline.
Shah Guido G is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, which tells the story of
Philo Plat, an aristocrat who secretly plots the downfall of Shah Guido G, the hereditary
Secretary-General of the United Nations ,a tyrant who rules the Earth from a levitating
island called ________ by convincing him to order in a division of Waves (female shock-
troops), which is sufficient to overload the Sky-Island's power generators, causing it to
plummet to the ground
The story ends with “Why, once more in history, ________ sank beneath the _____”
Simply give me the blank (s).

24. ATLANTIS

25. Q8
In the 1780s, a London brewer called Hodgson answered a necessity by sending out a
strong, heavily hopped beer called October ale that would normally be aged like wine
before drinking. The beer not only survived the journey, but was found to have
improved immeasurably. This was the prototype IPA; the beer gradually became paler
and more refreshing to suit the ______ climate.
This beer saw a revival with American microbreweries digging up old recipes to brew
beer in the 1970’s, and was ironically then copied by British breweries, bringing it a full
circle.
Give the full form of IPA, and what was the problem that Hodgson solved?

27. INIDAN PALE ALE
This was done as it was too hot to brew
beer in India, hence the heavily hopped
version was transported, giving rise to
this variety.

28. Q9
______ which are mushrooms from the Morchella family, are distinguished from other
mushrooms by their spongy, honeycombed heads, a rather unsavoury looking mass of
pleats and pits.
When cooked properly, it has a texture similar to pig tripe, with a subtle umami-rich,
earthy flavour
______ is one of the most prized ingredients from Kashmir, ranging in price from
15000/kg to 35000/kg, with the best ones coming from a small village called Kishtvar
Being a luxury ingredient, they’re usually served only at celebratory occasions like
weddings, and are either prepared in a Yakhni or paired with paneer or in a dessert.
What is the name of this mushroom, considering its luxurious heritage, something that
might remind you of a certain oft-repeated two-word phrase that made waves last
October?

30. GUCCHI

31. Q10
If you ____ it and you ___ it’s X
If it ____ you and you ___ it’s Y
Give X and Y.

33. X-POISONOUS
Y-VENOMOUS

34. Q11
In July of 1941, Roger Sherman Hoar published the short story “_ ______ ______” in Weird
Tales under the pseudonym Ralph Milne Farley. In the story, an American painter called
up for the draft goes back in time to do a certain act.
Time travel being what it is, things don’t work out quite as expected. By the end of the
story, _______’s assassin has himself, through a series of twists and turns, assumed his
place.
This story was the beginning of the common trope/meme/thought experiment which
asks the question “ Would you ___ _____ _______?”
FITB

37. Q12
Down in the street they're all singing and
shouting
Staying alive though the city is dead
Hiding their shame behind hollow
laughter
While you are crying alone on your bed
Pity Cassandra that no one believed you
But then again you were lost from the
start
Now we must suffer and sell our secrets
Bargain, playing smart, aching in our
hearts
Sorry Cassandra I misunderstood
Now the last day is dawning
Some of us wanted but none of us would
Listen to words of warning
But on the darkest of nights
Nobody knew how to fight
This is a 1982 song by ABBA Cassandra which
relates to a certain Cassandra Metaphor.
It has origins in Greek Mythology, where
Cassandra was a daughter of Priam, the King of
Troy. Struck by her beauty, Apollo provided her
with the gift of _________, but when Cassandra
refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a
curse on her.
The metaphor has been applied in a variety of
contexts such as psychology,
environmentalism, politics, science, cinema,
the corporate world, and in philosophy, and has
been in circulation since at least 1949.
What was this curse?

39. HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF FUTURE EVENTS, BUT
COULD NEITHER ALTER THESE EVENTS NOR
CONVINCE OTHERS OF THE VALIDITY OF HER
PREDICTIONS.

40. Q13
The problem is caused by a political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo that is
sapping a small amount of energy from the local grid, causing a domino effect across
Europe’s 25-nation synchronized high voltage power network spanning the continent
from Portugal to Poland and Greece to Germany.
“Since the European system is interconnected ... when there is an imbalance
somewhere the frequency slightly drops,”
The deviation from Europe’s standard 50Hz frequency has been enough to disrupt
heating systems, ovens, security systems, among many other things, that people may
blame the unusually cold weather for.
What is the cause of this disruption?

42. ELECTRIC CLOCKS THAT RELY ON THE GRID
FREQUENCY FOR TIMEKEEPING BECAME
MINUTES SLOWER IN JANUARY

43. Q14
This is a simple X formation shown with only one stone, (white
triangled) in danger.
The term means to “hit the target”, it is used when a
prediction comes true or someone wins a lottery.
X can be seen in modern, high-tech version of the same world
as this.
The first preference of the founders, was however Sente,
which means upper hand, when they had to change the name
Syzygy, as originally decided, when one of the three
cofounders left.
What is X, the logo of which the designer described as
“… had a center line and a force (the ball) that kept hitting its
center from either side. I thought that (force) would bend the
center outward. And that’s what I designed.”

45. ATARI

46. Q15
The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in classic military
fashion, occupying land as warriors on horseback.
They were to continue the process for more than five hundred years, clawing back
sections of the peninsula from its Moorish occupiers, and a nobleman demonstrated
his pedigree by holding up his sword arm to display the filigree of veins beneath his
pale skin—proof that his birth had not been contaminated by the dark-skinned enemy.
What did this show of veins eventually lead too, known as sangre azul in Spanish, a
term used in the same spirit of distinguishing ?

48. ROYALTY IS BLUE BLOODED

49. Q16
Components in X ice cream include cherries, raisins, and pineapple, often augmented
with nuts.
In the Netherlands, X is a compote of dried fruits, served as a dessert or a side dish to a
meat course. In Belgium, X is often seen as a dessert. Typically, it contains a
combination of raisins, currants, apricots, prunes, dates, and figs.
We are however, more familiar with X in India in a different (but related) setting, the
brightly colored bits either loved or hated, X being here a single candied item
masquerading in different ‘varieties’ as the actual meaning of X.
Simply tell me, what is X?

51. TUTTI FRUTTI

52. Q17
In 1960, its name was changed by Haas'German parent company Stempel from Neue HaasGrotesk to X (meaningSwiss in
Latin) in order to make it more marketable internationally.
It comes from the Latin name for the pre-Roman tribes of what became Switzerland.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, it was licensed to Xerox and then Adobe and Apple, guaranteeing its importance in digital
printing.
Swiss coins say "Confoederatio X “, a reason why their websites end in .ch
What is this X?

54. HELVETICA

55. Q18
Ailsa Craig is the only source of a certain item, which needs to withstand the stress of
gliding and smashing against more of the same item, which ordinary quartz rich ones
cannot do.
The item in question is used in a certain shuffleboard-esque setting, which had caught
the attention of the world earlier this year.
Kays of Scotland has been making items since 1851 and has the exclusive rights to
Ailsa Craig. About every 10 years, Kays extracts several thousand tons of the distinctive
blue and green varieties.
The blue hone, whose tight molecular structure makes it impervious to water is used
for the insert and running band, while the green makes up the body.
What is the

57. CURLING STONES

58. FIN