kbmq 2017 prelims

KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 4.0 25th March 2017

SET BY:SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PAST WINNERS2013: Barrackpore Boys

2015: Inmaniacs

2016: Hammer & Tongs

2017:????

PRELIMS:25 questions, worth 30 points.

Questions 11-20 are starred. Kindly mark your sheets accordingly.

Questions 21-25 are 2-pointers.

Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.

ALL THE BEST!

1.Launched in 2008, the annual event is currently sponsored by IDBI Federal Life Insurance. The last edition also served as an official qualifier round for a similar event in Rio Olympics 2016.

Which Athletics Federation of India-authorized project be this, which has roped in Sachin Tendulkar as the brand ambassador for the 2017 edition?25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

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2.Which term, though originated in the 1850s in the British India Office became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used it in 1902 to "designate the area between Arabia and India?25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MIDDLE-EAST


3.Pictured here is Ding Baozhen(18201886), a lateQing Dynastyofficial and governor ofSichuan Province whose title, translating to palace guardian was used to name a dish.

During theCultural Revolution, the dish's name becamepolitically incorrectbecause of its association with Ding. The dish was renamed "Fast-fried chicken cubes" (Hongbao Jiding) until its political rehabilitation in the 1980s underDeng Xiaoping's reforms.


KUNG PAO Chicken comes from GONGBAO

4. Whose grave? As an additional hint, I do not want their names.


SIAMESE TWINS


5. This 2013 book documents the history of which company?


LEGO


6.What, conceived as a piece of jewelry for women, was remarketed through colonial warfare (like the First Boer War and the Third Burmese War) as a thoroughly masculine fashion and became quite the norm as we see it currently, by the 1930s?

It was mainly popularized by soldiers who came back home safely and retained the habit. 25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRISTWATCH


7.So, one fine day, Pope Innocent VIII wished to expel the Jews from Venice. But the canny Venetians, who were never slavish followers of Rome, knew "their Jews" were valuable, particularly as the chief source of financial credit in an age of trade and hence abruptly removed them to one of the lagoon city's 117 islands, Canarregio, and housed there under lock and key in 1516.

The fact that they were housed in a copper foundry, gave this area what name, that would gain notoriety centuries later and is still a dreaded term?25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GHETTO


8.On the next slide is a pic of Pemba Lamu Sherpa, widow of Dawa Wangchuk Sherpa, at her residence. On May 20, 2014, he went missing while descending the western side of Mount Kanchenjunga. Pemba was married to Dawa on January 25, 2014, and he left for the expedition just three months later.

Who was he accompanying in that fateful expedition?25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CHHANDA GAYEN


9.In the preface to an eponymous text, the person states, "Anu and Bel called by name me, _________, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.

Either FITB or name the document.


The CODE of HAMMURABI


10.The _____-_-____ men" were business and government executives who helped the government mobilize and manage American industry during periods of war. U.S. law forbids the government from accepting the services of unpaid volunteers. Those employed by the government had to be paid a nominal salary, and the salary establishes their legal relationship as employees of the government.

What was this practice that evolved into a more well known tradition as observed by billionaires like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Page et al, in the years to come?25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

$1 as base salary.The blanks would be dollar-a-year.25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

*-ed questions


11. Looking for a very specific answerThe Shadi Parath will be required to be signed by a pundit and will be registered with the relevant government department.The simple document has eight columns starting with the date of marriage and followed by the name of the union council, tehsil, town and district.Both the bride and the groom have to sign the document along with one witness and the registrar.This marriage bill, recently passed by the National Assembly, is for which minority community?


PAKISTANI HINDUS


12.In his "Natural History", Pliny the Elder recorded an event like this:We find in Histories almost incredible examples of sharpness of the eyes. Cicero hath recorded, that the poem of Homer called the Iliad, written on parchment, was enclosed __ _ _______.The fact that such a huge volume could be adjusted like that remains a case of scientific miracle. This, however, can be achieved in today's world, thanks to nanotechnology.Hence the blanks, till date, continue to reflect the conciseness of an incident, and over the years found mention in Hamlet or even Victorian era works and went on to enter common lingo.Simply, FITB.


IN A NUTSHELL


13. This is from an adaptation of Balwant Gargis Sultana Razia. ID the gentleman playing Jamaluddin Yakut here.


NASEERUDDIN SHAH


This phrase was 1st brought to popular consciousness at a Conference of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press led by Katherine Lawrence ofHewlett-Packard. This was part of an ongoing discussion of a clash between written policy of promotion versus action opportunities for women at HP. The term was coined by Lawrence and HP manager Maryanne Schreiber.The term was later used in March 1984 by Gay Bryant. In anAdweekarticle written by Nora Frenkel, Bryant was reported as saying, "Women have reached a certain pointI call it the ____ ______. They're in the top of middle management and they're stopping and getting stuck. There isn't enough room for all those women at the top. Some are going into business for themselves. Others are going out and raising families.FITB with a phrase much heard of in the context of the recent US Presidential election.

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Glass Ceiling


15. FITB with a couple of words.


ROMAN EMPERORS


16.Envisioned by FDR as a world moderator, the vague definition left much room for interpretation by those who would later inhabit the position. According to the website of the entity they are associated with, their roles are further defined as diplomat and advocate, civil servant and CEO.

What am I talking about?


SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS


17.Idries Shah published the book on the right in 1966, just a year before Tales of the Dervishes cemented his reputation.

Who is the subject of this book, someone, who holds a special place in Sufi studies and is quite popular in this part of the world as well?


MULLAH NASIRUDDIN


18.In 1887, a Russian war correspondent,Nicolas Notovitchclaimed that while at theHemis MonasteryinLadakh, he had learned of a document, according to which, X abandonedhis hometownat the age of 13 and set out towardsSind. He crossedPunjaband reachedPuri Jagannathwhere he studied the Vedas underBrahmin priests. He spent six years in Puri and Rajgirh. Then he went to theHimalayas, and spent time in Tibetan monasteries, studyingBuddhism.Notovitch's writings were immediately controversial andMax Mllerstated that either the monks at the monastery had deceived Notovitch (or played a joke on him), or he had fabricated the evidence. Muller then wrote to the monastery at Hemis and thehead lamareplied that there had been no Western visitor at the monastery in the past fifteen years and there were no documents related to Notovitch's story.So, whose supposed visit to India was mentioned by Notovitch?


JESUS CHRIST


19. Lateral hint: the answer to the previous question.Randolphs mother Mona was born in Delhi. He was born on 24th November 1941 in Chennai. His biological father was marine engineer Donald Scanland, who subsequently died during World War II. Mona was training to become a doctor in the service of theRed Crosswhen she met Johnny, who came from a family of sports promoters in Liverpool who ranLiverpool Stadium. During World War II, Johnny was acommissioned officerserving as aPhysical Training Instructorin India. They married on 7 March 1944 at St Thomas's Cathedral,Bombay and Randolph too took Johnnys surname. In 1945, the family sailed for four weeks to Liverpool on theGeorgic. Despite having a superlative surname, Randolph did not prove prolific enough for the entity he would be briefly associated with, in the years to come.25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PETE BESTRingo Starr replaced him as the drummer for The Beatles.


20.Mannargudi Mafia is the disparaging name given to Sasikala Natarajans family, referring to the small town in Tiruvarur district that she comes from. According to an AIADMK insider, it was X, the then CM of a certain state who alerted the lady in Poes Garden and warned her about the Mannargudi mafia. He apparently told Jayalalithaa to keep a watch on her inner ring. He is believed to have indicated to her that big investors were avoiding Tamil Nadu because of the extortionate demands of Sasikala and her family.Specifically, an NRI businessman who came to Tamil Nadu with a project had to shift to another state because the Mannargudi mafia had sought a 15 percent cut.So, friends, ID X.25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE


2-POINTERS1 point for every correct part.

21. Which brand? Also, FITB (variations accepted). Songwriter Fred Leigh may have been the first to use the phrase in the sphere of popular culture, but the phrase entered the common parlance not through this musical tune, but through print advertisements run by a brand beginning in 1925 that featured a sad-faced yet fetching young woman.

The text touting began Ednas case was a really pathetic one. Like every woman, her primary ambition was to marry. Most of the girls of her set were married or about to be. Yet no one possessed more grace or charm or loveliness than she. And as her birthdays crept towards that tragic thirty-mark, marriage seemed farther from her life than ever. She was _____ _ _________ ___ _____ _ _____.25TH MARCH 2017, CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

LISTERINE


22.The pic next slide is the birds eye view of the new urban foot-print of an Asian city, with 17 new islands, called The Great ______.

This is in response to its dubious distinction as the worlds fastest sinking city.

Which city?

FITB.


GARUDA; JAKARTA


1.In October 2016, Alex Younger said X would not get through our recruitment process as he lacked a strong ethical core.

He further added, people in a such a profession cannot take moral shortcuts and have to cope with complex moral and physical challenges in the most forbidding environments on Earth. In fact, new recruits are expected to have high degree of emotional intelligence, should value teamwork and must have respect for the law always.

What is Alex Younger the head of?

Who is X?

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MI-6, JAMES BOND


24. Advt of??? Directed by??? (video removed)


H&M; Wes Anderson


25. Who covering whom?


Akshay Kumar covering Frank Sinatra


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