vapour cluesday pub quiz - 28/10/14

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I f i t ’ s Tuesday , i t ’ s

1. Doodle2. Noodle3. Poodle4. Eldood5. Boodle/Moodle6. Yodel/Finale

Rounds po in ts

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Sure of your strengths? *Use the joker to double your points in any of the first four rounds. Call out before the round begins.

•What the quiz lacks in reason, it makes up for in rhyme.•Negatives/ -1 only if you don’t guess for the question.•Joker available once, for any of the first five rounds.

Rounds•What the quiz lacks in reason, it makes up for in rhyme.•Negatives/ -1 only if you don’t guess for the question.•Rounds ( First 5 rounds for Joker) – Points double for your Jokered Round•Doodle - Doodles, Arts, Comics, Anything with a picture really.•Noodle – Food, Beverages, Things that Stretch•Poodle – Animals, Mostly the ones that were spared in the previous round.•Eldood – Symbols, Reflections, Imitations, Parodies•Boodle/Moodle – Money/Business/Science/Technology•Yodel –Music/Songs/Audio – (3 points each)

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DoodleRound 1

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Doodle

• 5 questions about Doodles, Arts, Comics, Anything with a picture really.• +1 if you get it right• +2 if you’re the only one to get it right• -1 if you don’t answer

D-1

• In August this year, Google released an animated/Interactive Doodle that had many options to choose from. Sample Inputs and Outputs.• Who was it honouring?

D-2

• A To-Do list to catch up on some things he’d missed while he was gone. • Whose list? • Even though this was a tiny scene in the film, the creators of the

movie thought of many neat customized variations of it. How/Why?

D-3

• In “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, we see that the Motto of the Bond family is “Orbis Non Sufficit”.• How do we know this motto in English?

D-4

• What is being talked about here?

D-5

• Qwantz/Dinosaur Comics making an atrocious pun about the webcomic shown below. Put Pun Da/Funda.

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Doodle

D-1

• In August this year, Google released an animated/Interactive Doodle that had many options to choose from. Sample Inputs and Outputs.• Who was it honouring?

Answers Follow

D-1

• John Venn’s 180th Birthday.

•D-Bonus – Who is in the intersection?

D-2

• A To-Do list to catch up on some things he’d missed while he was gone. • Whose list? • Even though this was a tiny scene in the film, the creators of the

movie created many customized variations of it. Why?

Answers Follow

D-2

• Captain America : The Winter Soldier. Rogers has a diary where he maintains a To-Do list of things he’s missed while he was asleep.• The list varied depending on the country where it aired, in many countries.

D-2

D-3

• In “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, we see that the Motto of the Bond family is “Orbis Non Sufficit”.• How do we know this motto in English?

Answers Follow

D-3

• Orbis Non Sufficit = The World is Not Enough

D-4

• Who/What is being talked about here?

Answers Follow

D-4

• Pran used to sign on his comics as

• ‘Pra 01 on the Diamond Comics cover was his way of writing Pran′

D-5

• Qwantz/Dinosaur Comics making an atrocious pun about the webcomic shown below. Put Pun Da/Funda.

Answers Follow

D-5

• Questionable Content

NoodleRound 2

Make some noise if you want a clue

Noodle

• 5 questions about Food and Beverages, and Things that Stretch• +1 if you get it right• +2 if you’re the only one to get it right• -1 if you don’t answer

N-1

• Although the common origin is that this was prepared by people from a profession to lure customers, or• An explanation that pleases the minimalist cook – that since these

people were busy to cook much or store fresh ingredients – thus these were made entirely from ingredients in the pantry.

• The more practical explanation comes from an alternate meaning of the word – meaning “shit” -as an all-purpose profanity, “take some shit, whatever items you can find from the pantry, mix it up, and voila”

N-2

• Bunny-Chow (often called Bunnies) is a South African/Durban dish that was devised by Indian immigrants who used to take it to the Sugar cane fields and Railroads, and it was a self-contained Curry Meal+Bread Loaf Eating Apparatus.

• As with many good things from South Africa, like cricketers,it has now moved to England

• Bunny-Chow isn’t made from Rabbits, isn’t made for rabbits either.• The (D)urban legend behind its naming can be found in “A Dictionary of South African Indian English”, by a prominent South African-Indian Linguist.• So, why is the bunny-chow called so/ Who are the Bunnies?

N-3

• Although Sebastian Vettel was fined after performing this post-race celebration at 2013 Buddh, FIA has now legalized this rubber-burning celebration provided it’s done in a safe manner.• This is a thermal imaging of the same, showing the Blazing/Glazing

tyres in action.• What is this stunt called informally, mostly due to the circular shape it creates on the track?

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N-4

• After His suggestion of 'Sweet'n'Sour Rock'n'Roll' was rejected, they chose the name after He said 'we're the ______', referring to the fact that they were all the most proficient players of their respective instruments at the time.

• Who He? Fill in the Blanks

N-5

• Which bar-restaurant-pub that is notorious for its happening and huge number of gigs per year?• What is the artwork?

N-5

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N-1

• Although the common origin is that this was prepared by people from a profession to lure customers, or• An explanation that pleases the minimalist cook – that since these

people were busy to cook much or store fresh ingredients – thus these were made entirely from ingredients in the pantry.

• The more practical explanation comes from an alternate meaning of the word – meaning “shit” -as an all-purpose profanity, “take some shit, whatever items you can find from the pantry, mix it up, and voila”

Answers Follow

N-1

• (Pasta/Spaghetti alla) Puttanesca• Usually taken to be “Spaghetti prepared in the style of the whore”

• More practical explanation is that Puttana is a generic swear word – like Fuck/Shit etc

N-2

• Bunny-Chow (often called Bunnies) is a South African/Durban dish that was devised by Indian immigrants who used to take it to the Sugar cane fields and Railroads, and it was a self-contained Curry Meal+Bread Loaf Eating Apparatus.

• As with many good things from South Africa, like cricketers,it has now moved to England

• Bunny-Chow isn’t made from Rabbits, isn’t made for rabbits either.• The (D)urban legend behind its naming can be found in “A Dictionary of South African Indian English”, by a prominent South African-Indian Linguist.• So, why is the bunny-chow called so/ Who are the Bunnies?

Answers Follow

N-2

• Most Indian-South Africans trace their roots in Durban to the 19th century, when their ancestors arrived as Sugar cane field servants. South African Whites took to calling all these immigrants as Banias from the set of merchants they knew back in India, which was casteically incorrect. • These eventually became Bunnies, and the curry they served in loaves

of white bread became bunny chow.

N-3

• Although Sebastian Vettel was fined after performing this post-race celebration at 2013 Buddh, FIA has now legalized this rubber-burning celebration provided it’s done in a safe manner.• This is a thermal imaging of the same, showing the Blazing/Glazing

tyres in action.• What is this stunt called informally, mostly due to the circular shape it creates on the track?

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Answers Follow

N-3

• Doughnuts/Donuts

N-4

• After His suggestion of 'Sweet'n'Sour Rock'n'Roll' was rejected, they chose the name after He said 'we're the ______', referring to the fact that they were all the most proficient players of their respective instruments at the time.

• Who He? Fill in the Blanks

Answers Follow

N-4

• Clapton, Cream.

N-5

• Which bar-restaurant-pub that is notorious for its happening and huge number of gigs?• Identify the Mural artwork?

N-5

Answers Follow

N-5

• High Spirits, Pune• Adarsh Balak

N-Bonus

• Vettel paying a tribute to what during his Donut celebrations at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix?

• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16qrsf_sebastian-vettel-doughnuts-and-team-radio-2013-abu-dhabi-gp_auto#from=embediframe

PoodleRound 3

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Poodle

• 5 questions about Animals, mostly the ones that were spared in the Food and Beverages section.• +1 if you get it right• +2 if you’re the only one to get it right• -1 if you don’t answer

P-1

• Although he used very limited datapoints to come up with his theory, it is now popular as the Dolbear’s law after the 19th century physicist Amos Emerson Dolbear ( who had created a telephone before Bell, and a Radio before Marconi).• He defined the lower bound the point where they didn’t waste their energy in

music.• The current theory is that this is due to the Arrhenius equation, which stipulates a

certain amount of “activation energy” to “induce a chemical reaction”. These chemical reactions in turn spark many muscle contractions.• Whether Dolbear inspired Gurunath Meiyappan is very much unknown.• What common measurement method that we’ve heard in Schools, that acts as a

proxy if the actual instrument isn’t available?

P-1 Images

P-2

• Woody Allen describes a mythical beast called the Great Roe – • “A mythological beast with the head of a lion, and the body of a lion.”

• So, Sounds typical. What chief clarification that Woody Allen provides as the punchline to the joke, makes it mythical?

P-3

• In the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchett, he describes a Dead language called Latatian – “A very bad _____ Latin”.• This form of mock latin is known as ______ latinicus, where English

words are poorly/literally translated into Latin for humorous effect.• Unlike Pig Latin, which is a play on word-order, here there is a translation

or pun involved.• Eg. Motto of Ankh-Morpok City Watch : “Fabricati Diem, Pvnc”

• What is the more common name for Latatian? • Translate the Motto into English.

P-4

• Egypt according the Book of Exodus was plagued by, well, 10 Biblical Plagues to persuade the Pharaohs to release the Israelites. These are listed here.

1. Water into Blood2. Frogs3. Diseased Livestock4. Boils5. Storms of Fire6. Darkness7. Death of Firstborn

• The remaining three were caused by insects. Name the three insects.

P-5

• (So the story goes) – This fashion had begun in the court of Louis XVI in the late 1700s, when Marie Antoinette set off this craze. The ladies of Versailles often had to tilt their heads out of the carriages they rode in.• This fashion eventually went on to Britain and America, and from a

sheer Demand-Supply mismatch, is said to have resulted in the deaths of thousands of creatures.• What fashion?

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P-1

• Although he used very limited datapoints to come up with his theory, it is now popular as the Dolbear’s law after the 19th century physicist Amos Emerson Dolbear ( who had created a telephone before Bell, and a Radio before Marconi).• He defined the lower bound the point where they didn’t waste their energy in

music.• The current theory is that this is due to the Arrhenius equation, which stipulates a

certain amount of “activation energy” to “induce a chemical reaction”. These chemical reactions in turn spark many muscle contractions.• Whether Dolbear inspired Gurunath Meiyappan is very much unknown.• What approximate method of measurement that we’ve learnt in school science,

that helps if the actual instrument isn’t available?

P-1 Images

Answers Follow

P-1

• How to tell the temperature using Crickets

P-2

• Woody Allen describes a mythical beast called the Great Roe – • “A mythological beast with the head of a lion, and the body of a lion.”

• So, Sounds typical. What chief clarification that Woody Allen provides as the punchline to the joke, makes it mythical?

Answers Follow

P-2

• “A mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion”

P-3

• In the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchett, he describes a Dead language called Latatian – “A very bad _____ Latin”.• This form of mock latin is known as ______ latinicus, where English

words are poorly/literally translated into Latin for humorous effect.• Unlike Pig Latin, which is a play on word-order, here there is a translation

or pun involved.• Eg. Motto of Ankh-Morpok City Watch : “Fabricati Diem, Pvnc”

• What is the more common name for Latatian? • Translate the Motto into English.

Answers Follow

P-3

• Dog-Latin / Canis latinicus• Fabricati Diem, Pvnc : Make my Day, Punk.

P-4

• Egypt according the Book of Exodus was plagued by, well, 10 Biblical Plagues to persuade the Pharaohs to release the Israelites. These are listed here.

1. Water into Blood2. Frogs3. Diseased Livestock4. Boils5. Storms of Fire6. Darkness7. Death of Firstborn

• The remaining three were caused by insects. Name the three insects.

Answers Follow

P-4

1. Lice/Gnats/Flies2. Locusts3. Flies

P-5

• (So the story goes) – This fashion had begun in the court of Louis XVI in the late 1700s, when Marie Antoinette set off this craze. The ladies of Versailles often had to tilt their heads out of the carriages they rode in.• This fashion eventually went on to Britain and America, and from a

sheer Demand-Supply mismatch, is said to have resulted in the deaths of thousands of creatures.• What fashion?

Answers Follow

P-5

• Feathers in Women’s Hats. The problem was so severe that noted American Ornithologist Frank Chapman used to deliver lectures titled “Woman as Bird Enemy”, and once counted about 40 species of birds in feathered-hats on a routine street walk in Manhattan.

EldoodRound 4

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Eldood

• 5 questions about Symbols, Reflections, Imitations, Parodies.• +1 if you get it right• +2 if you’re the only one to get it right• -1 if you don’t answer

E-1

• What symbolic but widely used change, suggested in 2006 by UR Ananthamurthy to ex- Karnataka CM N Dharam Singh, is actually going to be officially accepted on November 1st 2014 – a full 8 years later?

E-2

• Eisenhower’s purpose for creating a fund for building these was to ensure that in the event of a Soviet attack, the defense forces in the country would be well-connected with supply-routes/roads.• The name for these roads, thus, is indicative of their original purpose – to

connect states in USA.• A certain state however lobbied for these funds, citing that they did have

many US defense establishments, and would very much need such supply routes.• The name of these roads clearly doesn’t make much sense to this particular

state, and is often a source of humorous trivia.• Which State, What are these prominent roads called?

E-3

• Whose first track? • Where did he record this track, because it had perfect acoustic

Flooring? [ Generic answer will do]• (eg. If you think he recorded it in the Auditorium, say Auditorium)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_G7HHJ0GE

E-4

• This is the English version of a Kannada play by a first-rate playwright. The full title being “A Heap of Broken Images”. The same director has made the play in Kannada, English and Hindi.• What is the title of the Hindi Play, that is appropriate to this round? Just translate.• Who is the actress in the Hindi( and also the Kannada)version?

E-5

• This should really have gone in the Food n Beverages section, but there’s a good reason why it’s in this round.• Who, about What?• “On a rare Occasion, I will have one when I am feeling like having

something particularly sweet, like drinking a dessert. I like my _____ without too much milk, not too much Kahlua, just the right proportions.”• “I always like to drink my ______ _______ with a little straw”

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Eldood

E-1

• What symbolic but widely used change, suggested in 2006 by UR Ananthamurthy to ex- Karnataka CM N Dharam Singh, is actually going to be officially accepted on November 1st 2014 – a full 8 years later?

Answers Follow

E-1

• The renaming of cities in Karnataka / Bangalore to Bengaluru

E-2

• Eisenhower’s purpose for creating a fund for building these was to ensure that in the event of a Soviet attack, the defense forces in the country would be well-connected with supply-routes/roads.• The name for these roads, thus, is indicative of their original purpose – to

connect states in USA.• A certain state however lobbied for these funds, citing that they did have

many US defense establishments, and would very much need such supply routes.• The name of these roads clearly doesn’t make much sense to this particular

state, and is often a source of humourous trivia.• Which State, What are these prominent roads called?

Answers Follow

E-2

• This explains why Hawaii has “Interstate” highways.• Many Interstate highways do not travel between states, they can just

belong to a state and are funded/created by the Eisenhower Interstate Act.• Alaska too has Interstate highways.

E-3

• Whose first track? • Where did he record this track, because it had perfect acoustic

Flooring? [ Generic answer will do]• (eg. If you think he recorded it in the Auditorium, say Auditorium)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_G7HHJ0GE

Answers Follow

E-3

• Weird Al Yankovic – His parody of My Sharona.• The acoustic-tiled bathroom across the hall from the college radio

station, finding a microphone cord long enough to reach back to KCPR-FM's tape deck to make it possible.

E-4

• This is the English version of a Kannada play by a first-rate playwright. The full title being “A Heap of Broken Images”. The same director has made the play in Kannada, English and Hindi.• What is the title of the Hindi Play, that is appropriate to this round? Just translate.• Who is the actress in the Hindi( and also the Kannada)version?

Answers Follow

E-4

• Bikhre Bimb featuring Arundhati Nag.• Girish Karnad wrote the play as a gift and tribute toArundhati Nag when she was building the Rangashankara, and the play made its debut there.• I didn’t know this while I was setting it, but today is the 10th anniversary celebration start of Rangashankara

E-5

• This should really have gone in the Food n Beverages section, but there’s a good reason why it’s in this round.• Who, about What?• “On a rare Occasion, I will have one when I am feeling like having

something particularly sweet, like drinking a dessert. I like my _____ without too much milk, not too much Kahlua, just the right proportions.”• “I always like to drink my ______ _______ with a little straw”

Answers Follow

E-5

• El Dood • Jeff Bridges on whether he likes White Russians.

E-Bonus

• What are those two creepy green men doing behind Superman?

E-Bonus Answer

• To ensure that Superman’s cape keeps flying. Green screen/Chroma Key techniques. http://i.imgur.com/5UGA5mg.gif

Boodle/MoodleRound 5

No clues. Just Make some noise, OK.

Boodle/Moodle

• 5 questions about Money, Business, Science, Technology• +1 if you get it right• +2 if you’re the only one to get it right• -1 if you don’t answer

BM-1

• The Science of Dating – Calendar wala.• What latin word meaning round is used to indicate an approximate or

thereabouts year/date – when the historian isn’t sure?

BM-2

• Literally involves Business, Money and Technology.• For a long while, X.com ( not a variable, the actual website X.com)

used to redirect to a website.• Now it redirects to another website.• Name both websites.

BM-3

• According to US Federal law, and in Indian law etc, this 7 letter word can be used to describe this game/activity/event if it has all these three elements• Prize• Chance• (Mutual) Consideration

BM-4

• Whose statue in St.Petersburg, Russia? • He called the vertical columns as Groups ( Gruppe in this near-original German translation of the original Russian version)

• What did he call the Horizontal Rows?

BM-4

BM-5

• As a result of the recent Close encounter with the comet Siding Spring (which MOM, and MAVEN cautiously missed), Mars got to experience/witness a rare interaction. Since the comet was from the Oort cloud with a wide dusty coma around it, and because it passed so close to Mars (at about 1/3rd the distance between Earth and the Moon) – this friction/interaction happened.• It has been observed on other planets such as Jupiter too – All it

requires is an active atmosphere and the right conditions.• What do we earthlings call this phenomenon?

BM-5

Mars Jupiter

BM-Bonus

• At the launch of this new website recently, nearly everyone made this same appropriate stalking-song reference. Which website?

BM-Bonus

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• The Science of Dating – Calendar wala.• What latin word meaning round is used to indicate an approximate or

thereabouts year/date – when the historian isn’t sure?

Answers Follow

BM-1

• Circa• 1793 -1824 AD ( both dates known exactly)• c 1793 – 1824 AD ( starting date uncertain)• c 1793 – c 1894 AD (both dates uncertain)

BM-2

• Literally involves Business, Money and Technology.• For a long while, X.com ( not a variable, the actual website X.com)

used to redirect to a website.• Now it redirects to another website.• Name both websites.

Answers Follow

BM-2

• X.com use to go to PayPal.com before• Since Ebay bought PayPal, X.com now redirects to Ebayinc.com

BM-3

• According to US Federal law, and in Indian law etc, this 7 letter word can be used to describe this game/activity/event if it has all these three elements• Prize• Chance• (Mutual) Consideration

Answers Follow

BM-3

• Lottery

BM-4

• Whose statue in St.Petersburg, Russia? • He called the vertical columns as Groups ( Gruppe in this near-original German translation of the original Russian version)

• What did he call the Horizontal Rows?

Answers Follow

BM-4

• Dmitri Mendeleev, of Periodic Table fame.• Periods, because it is at this interval that the periodicity is displayed.

BM-5

• As a result of the recent Close encounter with the comet Siding Spring (which MOM, and MAVEN cautiously missed), Mars got to experience/witness a rare interaction. Since the comet was from the Oort cloud with a wide dusty coma around it, and because it passed so close to Mars (at about 1/3rd the distance between Earth and the Moon) – this friction/interaction happened.• It has been observed on other planets such as Jupiter too – All it

requires is an active atmosphere and the right conditions.• What do we earthlings call this phenomenon?

BM-5

Mars Jupiter

Answers Follow

BM-5

• Auroras

Yodel / FinaleRound 6

No clues

Yodel

• 3 questions about Music/Audios/Songs. • +3 if you get it right• +6 if you’re the only one to get it right• -3 if you don’t answer

Y-1

• Paul McCartney once said, “ If you ever play the Sgt. Pepper Album, watch your dog” – Why?• Why is this also appropriate a funda because of the Beach Boys

Album that influenced “Sgt. Peppers” album?

Y-2

• They were initially meant to be the ‘sister’-group of “ The Primes”, hence were known by a name.• Names rejected were “The Darleens”, “The Sweet Ps”, “The

Melodees”, “ The Royaltones”, and “The Jewelettes”• A name change, and some struggles later, they were revered as a top-

group. • What name was finally chosen?

Y-3

• He narrated for this 2005 Hindi film of a debutant director, as well has made a cameo in it.• The reason why this Narrator role is quite interesting is that this

Director’s father, and this Narrator’s father had teamed up for a Superhit comeback Hindi film in 1988, with the story written by the Narrator’s Mother.• Id the 2005 film.• Id the Narrator.• Id the 1988 film.

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Y-1

• Paul McCartney once said, “ If you ever play the Sgt. Pepper Album, watch your dog” – Why?• Why is this also appropriate a funda because of the Beach Boys

Album that influenced “Sgt. Peppers” album?

Answers Follow

Y-1

• At the end of “A Day in the Life”, there is a small bit of a 15kHz Dog-whistle at the5:05 mark.• Sgt. Peppers Album was influenced by the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds.

Y-2

• They were initially meant to be the ‘sister’-group of “ The Primes”, hence were known by a name.• Names rejected were “The Darleens”, “The Sweet Ps”, “The

Melodees”, “ The Royaltones”, and “The Jewelettes”• A name change, and some struggles later, they were revered as a top-

group. • What name was finally chosen?

Answers Follow

Y-2

• The Supremes

Y-3

• He narrated for this 2005 Hindi film of a debutant director, as well has made a cameo in it.• The reason why this Narrator role is quite interesting is that this

Director’s father, and this Narrator’s father had teamed up for a Superhit comeback Hindi film in 1988, with the story written by the Narrator’s Mother.• Id the 2005 film.• Id the Narrator.• Id the 1988 film.

Answers Follow

Y-3

• Salaam Namaste, directed by Siddharth Anand• Abhishek Bachchan• Siddharth Anand is the son of Bittu Anand, and the Nephew of Tinnu Anand – They made Shahenshah• Jaya Bachchan wrote the script for Shahenshah.

The Duryodhana Round – Thigh Breaker!

T-1

• The painter felt really bad that he had made his sister look really old in a previous really-famous painting. So this time round, he made her look all cool in a pretty sleeveless top. • What had his sister modelled for before this? Who is the Painter?

Answers Follow

T-1

• Grant Wood, Nan Wood.• American Gothic

T-2

• What derisive English word meaning social outcast, comes from the Tamil word for a caste who were hereditary Drummers.• Two fascinating birds of India follow casteic-naming conventions, one

of them being a common bird – hence has the derisive word given above.• One is slightly glorified, and hence has a upper caste name.• Which two birds?• What Sanskrit word meaning “Downtrodden/Grounded/Exploited”

is now an assertive empowering term appropriated to be used by people who fight against their numerous oppressions

Answers Follow

T-2

• Pariah• Common Pariah Kite (Milvus migrans)• Brahminy Kite(Haliastur indus)• Dalit

Thank You

• Hope that was fun, not too tough, and May your tribe increase.