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Venue: A.C. Dutta Bhavan, Cotton College.Date: 25/12/2016
QM: Bibhuti Handique
Winners:
1st - Souvik Bhattacharjee, Bhaskar Chakraborty and Tribune Jyoti Sarma.2nd - Jyotishman Gogoi, Bedanga Das and Rituraj Kashyap.3rd - Dipankar Sarma, Sudarshan Goswami and Biswajit Sarma.
5 Questions. Answers to be written down. +10 for each correct answer. No negative on wrong answers.
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This song from the 1963 classic ‘Tere Ghar Ke Samne’ was originally intended to be shot inside a particular Indian monument but back then, the size of the cameras made shooting inside the narrow staircase a challenge.And so, the director had to settle for a replica set. Since early 1980s, the gates to the interior of this monument have been permanently locked.Which Indian monument?
Eriovixia _________ spider is a newly discovered species of spider discovered in a small grove in the Shivamogga district of the Indian state of Karnataka.What is this new species of spider called due to its striking resemblance to ‘something’ in the fictional world?
Dr Suniti Solomon was an Indian physician and microbiologist who was conferred the 'National Women Bio-scientist Award' by the Indian ministry of science and technology in 2009. An unsung hero of India, she is best known for her pioneering work in something that startled the medical fraternity and pushed the government to act 30 years ago. While her work was initially disapproved by those around her, over the years, Dr. Solomon earned national and international recognition for her pioneering work. Much ignored by the Govt Of India at the later part of her life, she died on July 28, 2015, in her home in Chennai, at the age of 76.
For which pioneering work does India need to remember this lady?
Locally known by the name ‘Bilad al Barbar’ what name was chosen by the pre-colonial British immigrants to represent this region of the African continent comprising of the countries Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia owing to its appearance?
An excerpt from a 1992 essay written by Steve Tesich, a Serbian-American playwright about the Iran-Contra scandal and the Gulf War and published in “The Nation” :
“We, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some ________ world”
Which particular word found its debut appearance in this essay?
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This song from the 1963 classic ‘Tere Ghar Ke Samne’ was originally intended to be shot inside a particular Indian monument but back then, the size of the cameras made shooting inside the narrow staircase a challenge.And so, the director had to settle for a replica set. Since early 1980s the gates have been permanently locked to the interior of this monument.Which Indian monument?
Qutub Minar
Eriovixia _________ spider is a newly discovered species of spider discovered in a small grove in the Shivamogga district of the Indian state of Karnataka.What is this new species of spider called due to its striking resemblance to ‘something’ in the fictional world?
Eriovixia gryffindori
Dr Suniti Solomon was an Indian physician and microbiologist who was conferred the 'National Women Bio-scientist Award' by the Indian ministry of science and technology in 2009. An unsung hero of India, she is best known for her pioneering work in something that startled the medical fraternity and pushed the government to act 30 years ago. While her work was initially disapproved by those around her, over the years, Dr. Solomon earned national and international recognition for her pioneering work, and along with it, the funding for her NGO. Much ignored by the Govt Of India at the later part of her life, she died on July 28, 2015, in her home in Chennai, at the age of 76.For which pioneering work does India need to remember this lady?
Discovered the first HIV/AIDS case of India
Locally known by the name ‘Bilad al Barbar’ what name was chosen by the pre-colonial British immigrants to represent this region of the African continent comprising of the countries Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia owing to its appearance?
Horn of Africa
An excerpt from a 1992 essay written by Steve Tesich, a Serbian-American playwright about the Iran-Contra scandal and the Gulf War and published in “The Nation” :
“We, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some ________ world”
Which particular word found its debut appearance in this essay?
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Mary Ryan was an Irish girl who worked as a constant model in British photographer Julia Cameron’s photographs. It was in the year 1865 when a person studying to join the Indian Civil Service back then saw Mary Ryan for the first time in a photograph by Mrs Cameron. He, thereafter, fell in love with her and decided to ask her hand in marriage to which Mary Ryan agreed. Mrs Cameron celebrated this unconventional romance with a series of pictures titled “Romeo and Juliet” and the couple were married in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England in 1867. The poet Laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson placed a respectable seal on the occasion by lending the happy couple his carriage and his youngest son for the wedding.By what name Mary Ryan came to be known as after her marriage ?
Lady Cotton, Her husband was Henry Cotton
After the end of WW2, rumours circulated that Hitler didn’t commit suicide but actually fled somewhere where he could live the rest of his days in an underground hideout far from the observations of the Allies. A quick look through many surviving documents and testimonies suggested that the Nazis reached there as early as 1942 under Nazi General Hans Kammler, who was in charge of a specific Nazi program. The rumours were supported by a Romanian scientist named Radovan Tomovici who said that Kammler mysteriously vanished in Antarctica shortly before the end of the war. The German navy’s “super submarines” disappeared at the fall of the Third Reich. They were never sunk and none of the Allied forces captured them. Similarly, tons of Nazi gold disappeared at the end of the war. The Allies never found it, nor did anyone else.
According to many researchers, where did the answer to all these disappearance lie?
On the dark side of the moon
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival held in Venice that is world famous for its elaborative masks. Venetian masks can be made of leather, porcelain or using the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design, decoration, and often had a symbolic and practical function. Among the several distinct styles of mask worn in the Venice Carnival are the ones shown here which are worn by the localites to commemorate something.Why do Venetians wear such distinct style of masks and what is the reason behind putting the beaks on these masks?
To commemorate the bubonic plague that swept Europe. These masks were worn by the plague doctors while treating plague victims.
The hollow beak allowed for the containment of flowers and other sweet-smelling substances designed to keep away the foul odours that were thought to spread infection.
This particular genre of boxing went underground for a few decades until it gained media attention in 1937 when a match was filmed in New York City. Names like Teddy, Buster Bruin, Big Boy, Jiggs, Gorgeous Gus, Bruno and Terrible Ted achieved great infamy in the sport. The genre surfaced again in 1949 when Gus Waldorf was one of the two boxers and the match was fought in a cage. Waldorf lost the match, but gained lifetime infamy, as the haunting shots from that event became the most famous photos from that particular genre.Identify the genre of boxing.
Codex Gigas is the largest known ancient manuscript created in the early 12th century in Bohemia. Legend has it that the Codex Gigas was written by a monk who made a deal with “X” after being sentenced to death by being walled in alive. It is believed that with X’s aid, the monk wrote the book in a single night and the portrait in the manuscript was painted by “X” himself. The contents of this bizarre book are strange as it contains a full Latin “Y”, interspaced with several other books, including Antiquities of the Jews, a collection of medical works by Hippocrates and Theophilus, The Chronicle of Bohemia by Cosmas of Prague, the EncyclopediaEtymologiae by Isidore of Seville, and other, smaller texts.
What is the more popular name by which ‘Codex Gigas’ is known to historians?
X- The Devil, Y- Bible; The Devil’s Bible
This is a stringed instrument often used in traditional music from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt. In origin, it was a regular string instrument of wandering bards and minstrels from India and is plucked with one finger.Just name this instrument which bears the same name as the title of a song from a 2009 Bollywood film.
Ektara
The origin of this phrase is said to be in the ninth-century Ireland. The ninth century Danes were particularly strict with their tax laws, especially where "foreigners" were concerned. When the Viking Danes conquered the Irish, they imposed an unreasonably high ______ tax on the island's inhabitants. They took a census by counting the number of _______ and levied oppressive sums on their victims. If anyone failed to pay the required amount of tax, they were punished by having their ______ slit. Which phrase is said to have originated from this incident?
This is a series of elegant, abstract paintings made up of coppery yellows, oranges and greens painted by an American artist in the 1970s. The only paint used by the artist in this very “painterly” work was the metallic copper background. The blooms of colour that effloresce over the pictorial space were created in quite a unique manner. Name the artist and in what unique manner was this series of paintings produced?
Andy Warhol Oxidation or Piss Paintings By urinating! Warhol invited
friends to urinate onto a canvas of metallic copper pigments, so that the uric acid would oxidize into abstract patterns.
There was a time when Asuras and Devas would fight all the time. The devaswould always end up beating the asuras. Shukracharya (Guru of Asuras), after being defeated by the Devas in every war between them, decided to approach Lord Shiva, to obtain the powers that would make Asuras invincible. He, meanwhile, asked the asuras to take refuge at the ashram of his father Bhrigu.The Devas found the absence of Shukracharya a most opportune time to attack the asuras once again. However, Bhrigu himself being away from the ashram, the Asuras sought his wife’s help. She decided to protect the Asuras from Indra and other demi-gods. Using her powers, she rendered Indraimmobile. The Devas got scared and ran to Vishnu to seek help. After a long verbal battle, Vishnu finally severed her head with his Sudarshana Chakra. On returning Bhrigu saw his wife lying in his ashram without a head.What happened next?
Bhrigu then cursed that Vishnu to be born on earth several times and suffer the pains of worldly life. Thus, Vishnu was later born on Earth in 10 different avatars
In 1957, two American inventors Alfred W. Fielding and Marc Chavannes were attempting to invent a three-dimensional plastic wallpaper with a paper backing. While the wallpaper failed, Fielding and Chavannes later realized that what they had come up with something that could be used for packing material.The invention was subsequently used as a greenhouse insulator. Based on this invention, a North-Carolina based company ‘Sealed Air’ was founded in 1960. This is the story behind the invention of which plastic material that some of us might love it as a source of leisure activity?
Bubble wrap
‘The Lower Depths’ is a 1902 play written by Russian writer Maxim Gorky. Subtitled "Scenes from Russian Life“, it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. Inspired by this play was a 1946 Hindi film directed by Chetan Anand. The film was a pioneering effort in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the way for many such 'parallel cinema' films by other directors.Which Hindi film was inspired from this play and how did it create history in the year 1946 when it became the first Indian film to win a certain recognition?
Neecha NagarThe first Indian film to gain recognition at the Cannes Film Festival, after it Best Film award at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946.
In her second novel published in 1976 which is about the plight of the Radhaswamis of Vrindavan who lived in abject poverty and sexual exploitation, the writer examined the social and psychological deprivations of widowhood.
"I have tried to show how the mental and physical state of a young widow takes a different shape and how this change affects her life after her widowhood," she stated in its introduction. In writing this book, the writer did not simply project her own experience on to others but rather used it as an empathetic starting point for research.
Name the writer and the novel.
Mamoni Goswami; Nilakantha Braja (The Blue-necked God )
Between 1309 and 1814, this ‘phenomenon’ was seen in London at least 23 times and on five of these occasions -1683-4, 1716, 1739-40, 1789 and 1814 –fairs were set up as an opportunity. These fairs would have been quite a spectacle, full of hastily constructed shops. There were football pitches, bowling matches, fruit-sellers, shoemakers, barbers and even a pub or two. Even kings and queens would join in the festivities, with King Charles reportedly enjoying a spit-roasted ox at this very fair. In the last 200 years that have elapsed since the year 1814, this phenomenon has never occurred again for such hedonism to be repeated. What phenomenon am I talking about or where in London would you see these fairs in those days?
Freezing of Thames.These were called the ‘Frost fairs’ as they were held on the Frozen Thames.
This is a religious festival and ritual theatre of the Garhwal region in Uttarakhand, India. Episodes from Rama’s life, beginning with his visit to Janakpur and culminating with his coronation following his return from exile, are sung to a total of 324 beats and steps. In 2009, UNESCO inscribed this festival on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Some other entries from India in this list are Kalbelia, Chhau, Ramlila, Koodiyattam etc
Name this religious festival.
Ramman
Located in the Caribbean sea, this island country was formally known as the ‘Isle of Spice’ as it is one of the world's largest exporters of spices. The most common spice in the is depicted on its national flag which makes it the only country in the world which depicts a major crop on its flag.
Identify this island nation and which particular crop features on its flag?
Grenada; Nutmeg
This is a field situated outside the Ely Cathedral in England showing the Ely Cathedral in the distant horizon. Though the field is bare in most of its part, the field has got a major boost in the number of visitors since the year 1994, something that you can connect with the pop culture world.What is the reason behind this?
Pink Floyd’s “The Division Bell” album cover 1994
In the 1970s, the streets of South Korea were patrolled by special ruler-bearing policemen who went looking for potential wrongdoers. They were highly active during the day time and were given the permission by the government to approach anyone on the streets. Anybody who resisted enquiry could be immediately fined and brought to book. The offenders could be anyone ranging from young girls to old men who were heavily fined and even arrested if found guilty. After South Korea became a democracy in 1987, most of the authoritarian restrictions under the Minor Offenses Act were scrapped until they were re-enforced in the year 2013. What were the jobs of these policemen that was quite evident from the name by which they were known?
They were called the ‘Fashion Police’. Their jobs were to measure the level of mini-skirts and the length of male hair.
The “Wall for Peace” is a work conceived by the artist Clara Halter and architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. It is erected in Paris, on the Champs de Mars, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The glass and metal monument has “peace” written in 32 languages and 18 alphabets, and allows visitors to put their messages in the chinks of the wall. What is the inspiration behind this work?
Another famous work by Clara Halter and Jean-Michel Wilmotte called the “Gates of Peace” was opened in 2005. It contains ten gates representing the nine circles of Hell plus one: "the living hell of that city”.Where would you see this monument “Gates of Peace”?
Wailing Wall/ Western Wall of Jerusalem;Hiroshima
This is a type of syndrome characterized by a man's extreme pride in his personal appearance and the fitness of his physique, which are accompanied by difficulties in coping with the requirements of psychological maturation and with the aging of his body. They try to cling to their youth by depending heavily on cosmetic procedures and products.In sport, this syndrome is applied to ageing baseball players who retain their athleticism with drugs that are illegal in professional sport.Just name this syndrome.
Dorian Gray Syndrome
The name of this music genre is often credited to Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It is believed that Cowboy created the term in 1978 while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. Army, by singing those particular words in a way that mimicked the rhythmic sound of soldiers marching. Cowboy later worked the sound into a part of his stage performance, which was quickly used by other artists such as ’The Sugarhill Gang’. In the 1970s, the term became a powerful medium for protesting the law, particularly police and prisons.What particular term?
Hip-Hop
“X’s Farewell to the Black Sea” is an 1877 oil on canvas painting painted jointly by Russian painters Y and Z.
X was a Russian poet, playwright and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Russian literature. X died on a duel with a French Officer who attempted to seduce his wife.
Y was a Russian Romantic painter and is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. The vast majority of his works depicted the sea. The saying "worthy of Y's brush” was popularized by Anton Chekhov to describe something ineffably lovely.
Z was a Russian realist painter and the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He was the first Russian artist to achieve European fame using specifically Russian themes.
Solve for X, Y and Z. (5 points for getting atleast 2 parts correct)
X- Alexander PushkinY- Ivan AivazovskyZ- Ilya Repin
Shown in the following slides are 6 memorials dedicated to various influential persons from history. Just name the person to whom the memorial is dedicated.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Valentina Tereshkova
Thomas Alva Edison
Rosa Parks
Bobby Orr; famous diving goal in Stanley Cup 1970.
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‘Chhaupadi’ is a centuries-old social tradition prevalent in western parts of Nepal, as well as some parts of India and Bangladesh. Although it was outlawed by Nepal’s supreme court in 2005, the practice is still widely observed in many areas. In villages where Chhaupadi is practiced, one can find a number of small cowshed-like shelter houses located nearby every house known locally as ‘Chhaupadi houses’. Besides being used as cattle-shed, what ‘impure’ purpose do these ‘Chhaupadi houses’ serve that has faced a lot of criticism over the centuries in Nepal?
These houses are specially made for menstruating women. During menstruation period, women are prohibited from participating in normal family activities, as they are considered "impure". These women are kept out of the house and they have to live in Chhaupadi houses for the next 10-11 days.
Lightning flashed across the Argentine skies as Ricardo Klement stepped off a bus after finishing his shift as an ‘assembly line foreman’ at a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant. As he walked to his small brick house in Buenos Aires on May 11, 1960, he passed by a chauffer and two men working under the open hood of a black Buick limousine. Suddenly, Klement was grabbed by the men and Klement hauled kicking and screaming into the back seat of the vehicle, which sped off into the night.
Who was Ricardo Klement and for which agency were those men working?
Adolf Eichmann; Mossad- the national intelligence agency of Israel
This particular gesture is commonly used for ceremonial purposes to mark the retirement of a senior pilot, air traffic controller, to mark the first or last flight of an airline to an airport or for other notable events. It involves the travelling of a vehicle under plumes of water expelled by two fire fighting vehicles from opposite sides. Symbolically the procession would look similar to a bridal party walking under a wedding arch. When the Concorde flew its last flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport blue, white and red coloured plumes were used. Most recently, President-elect Donald Trump of the United States received the gesture on his first departure from LaGuardia after winning the presidential election in 2016.
By what name is this gesture known?
Water salute
It is a dessert of sweetened chestnutstopped with whipped cream popular in France, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary and some Asian countries. It is also a very popular dessert in the north western regions of Romania, where it is usually prepared and sold in Autumn. What is the name of this dessert that one would normally associate with something else due to its appearance?
Mont Blanc
Located on top of a world famous landmark is this secret room “furnished in the simple style dear to scientists”. The owner of this small, cozy room received a number of sky high offers to rent out the space even for one night, but he declined them all, preferring to use the space for quiet reflection, and to entertain prestigious guests such as Thomas Edison who gifted him one of his phonograph machines.
Where can you find this small apartment and to whom did this apartment originally belong?
Eiffel Tower, Gustav Eiffel
The people of this tribe were originally Kshatriyas, the Warrior class. When Parashurama set out to destroy all the Kshatriyas to avenge the death of his father at the hands of Sahastrabahu Arjuna, they decided to go into hiding and escaped to the ‘Lalung’ hills which were somewhere to the north of river Brahmaputra. They lived many centuries in the Lalung hills in disguise eventually forgetting their original traditions and language. As a result, when they returned to their own land they were not recognised as Kshatriyas, but to be known as Lalungs after the Lalung hills where they had lived so long.
This is the mythological origin of which tribe of Assam the meaning of whose name is "the people who were lifted from below"?
Tiwas
It was in the year 1992 when Margaret Thatcher flew on an unofficial visit to Baku, capital of the newly independent Azerbaijan. At the reception, Thatcher was introduced to the members of the government and other public figures. However, there was only one man in Azerbaijan whom Thatcher specially requested a personal meeting. The reason behind Thatcher’s such intrigue to meet this man was obvious due to a certain incident from the year 1966. On meeting him, Thatcher expressed gratitude to this man on behalf of the English people.
Who was this man and why did Thatcher wanted to thank him in particular?
Tofiq Bahramov
The referee who helped to award a contentious goal for England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final against West Germany. England has won only one FIFA World Cup so far.
Only referee in the world to have a football stadium named after him.
This is a bronze sculpture made by an Italian sculptor in 1545 depicting the story of a legendary Greek hero and a monster. This is the first statue since the classical age where the base included a figurative sculpture forming an integral part of the work. This is the most distinguished sculpture of the sculptor as he tried to surpass Michelangelo's David and Donatello's Judith and Holofernes. The sculptor sculpted and hid his own image on the back.
Name the sculpture. Also, name the sculptor.
Perseus with the Head of Medusa; Benvenuto Cellini
The ‘Five Deadly Venoms’ is a cult 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film about five kung-fu fighters with unique animal styles: The Centipede, the Snake, the Scorpion, the Lizard, and The Toad listed. The movie is listed at number 11 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Films list.
Which group of fictional characters from a 2003 American work makes a reference to the ‘Five Deadly Venoms’?Also, name the 2003 work.
First coined and used by this gentleman, this word found its way into an ideology in late 90s. It was first introduced in a treatise by this gentleman during the small time that he spent at the Ratnagiri jail. Smuggled out of the prison, the treatise was published by his supporters under his pseudonym "Maharatta“ and the word gradually gained prominence , being used frequently in political circles.
What word am I talking about that is championed by several organisations in India?
Hindutva , coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923.
Edith Eyde, also known by her pen name ’Lisa Ben’, is an American editor, author, and songwriter. While being a secretary at RKO Studios in Los Angeles, Ben published a periodical titled ‘Vice Versa’ the first issue of which was released in June 1947. It "contained no bylines, no photographs, no advertisements, no masthead and neither the name or address of its editor... yet it set the agenda that has defined something in America”. Ben was threatened to be arrested following its publication.What could ‘Vice Versa’ posssibly be all about?
First lesbian publication in the world.‘Lisa Ben’ was the anagram of Lesbian.
This is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts numerous human beings and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects.The painting's original title was The Blue Cloak or The Folly of the World but later Bruegel changed the title to something else that would be apt for the painting.
Give me the title of this painting or tell me what was Bruegel trying to depict in this painting?
Netherlandish Proverbs
E.g. "Swimming against the tide", "Banging one's head against a brick wall" and "Armed to the teeth"
(literal illustrations of Dutch proverbs and idioms.)
Dracaena cinnabari is a rare tree native to the Socotra archipelago in Yemen territory in the Arabian Sea. It gets its common name from its bright red sap, which has been used by natives to treat a variety of ailments despite containing high levels of mercuric sulphide. Since the 18th century, European (and other western) craftsmen have used the resin for a more decorative purpose, borrowed from a similar practice in China.
Name the residue or the tree and what was this alternate use for this resin?
The resin is known as dragon’s blood, and the tree is therefore called the dragon’s blood tree.
Dragon’s blood is most commonly used to give the red-colored varnish to violins.
Born in 1896 in Prague, she was a Czech-American biochemist who was best known for her extensive research on carbohydrate metabolism. She received the Nobel Prize in the year 1947 along with her husband which made her the third woman and the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Just name this Nobel Laureate after whom a cycle in biochemistry is also named.
Gerty Cori
What eponymous moniker was given to American competition swimmer and Olympic champion Gertrude Ederle after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel on 6 August, 1926?
The name is actually the title of a French hymn sung by French fishermen seeking protection from storms. In the United States, it became well known as a result of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
“_______ ______ _____ ______, look forth across the oceanFrom north to south, from east to stormy west,
See how the waters with tumultuous motionRise up and foam without a pause or rest.”
Queen of the Waves
The term ________ has its origins in an Italian wrestling term that was used to describe the act of tripping an opponent. Today, the term has evolved to mean “an opening move meant to gain advantage”.
One of the variations of this term called the King’s _______ was popularized by a Hungarian grandmaster as a teenager who later became the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and who defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess including Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, etc .
FITB. Also, name the chess player.
Gambit; Judith Polgar
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, insisted on incorporating a wide variety of large chunks of mix-ins such as chocolate chips, toffee, fruit pieces, almond brittle, etc into the ice cream when the first Ben & Jerry’s was started in Burlington in 1978. This resulted in the widely “chunky” style of ice cream that is now common to most Ben & Jerry’s varieties.The reason for this, apart from giving Ben & Jerry’s a USP, was to compensate for an affliction that Cohen suffered from birth, one that affects roughly one in seventeen Americans to various degrees.
What affliction and how did large chunks of mix-ins in his ice-cream help Cohen?
Cohen suffered from anosmia (i.e. the loss of his sense of smell), which meant that he could perceive the 5 basic tastes i.e. sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, but no further flavors.
Without a sense of smell, the only way he could improve his eating experience was by varying the texture of the food he ate, and so large and diverse pieces of mix-ins helped with that in a big way.
This is a Khatri clan which originated in the Gujarat region of Punjab Pakistan. One majority of this clan migrated to the towns of Nurmahal and Jamsher in the Doaba region of Jalandhar district. The town of Nurmahal till date, has a boulevard named ‘_________ da Mohala'. The other members of this clan hail from the Salt Range in erstwhile Pakistan. It is said that the clan migrated from Pakistan to Punjab and then to Uttar Pradesh and the northern New Delhi part of India where most of them can be found today. Both Hinduism as well as Sikhism are seen practiced throughout the clan, although the probability of finding a Hindu member is higher.Just name the clan.
Kohli
This is a prize given to a competing film by the European Parliament. Introduced in 2007, it is named after the unit of illuminance which is Latin for “light”. The objective of the prize is to illuminate the public debate on European integration and to facilitate the diffusion of European films in the European Union.It is said that the appearance of this prize is inspired from an etiological myth which was built by humanity in order to reach heaven.Name the prize and what myth supposedly inspired its appearance?
X – Lux PrizeY - Tower Of Babel
This is the Taipei 101 building situated in Taipei, Taiwan. According to the builders, the design of this building is inspired two concepts in Chinese ethos. What are the two concepts on which the structure of this building is said to be inspired from?
‘Pagoda’ And ‘Bamboo’
Dr James Barry was an Irish military surgeon in the British Army who served in India and South Africa in the 19th century. Among his accomplishments was the first caesarean section in Africa by a British surgeon in which both the mother and child survived the operation. However there is another reason why Dr James Barry should be in the record books. After his death it was found that a unique distinction that is wrongly attributed to another English physician Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson should actually have been attributed to Dr James Barry. What unique distinction?
Dr James Barry was actually a female and NOT a male person. Although Barry lived his adult life as a man, he was assigned female at birth, named Margaret Ann Bulkley. He chose to live as a man for 66 years of his life so that he might be accepted as a university student and able to pursue a career as a surgeon, with his sex only being discovered by the public and his colleagues after his death on post-mortem.
As of today, Dr James Barry is the first qualified known female British doctor or surgeon.
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Astigmatism induces unidirectional elongation in the perception of objects. For example, a cylindrical lens which is used to treat astigmatism, will cause an ellipse to be seen as a circle. Similarly viewing one of X’s works through a cylindrical lens in proper orientation and power, eliminates the distortions.However, this theory has been refuted by the American College of Ophthalmology in a peer- reviewed scholarly article, establishing the alternative theory of X being simply stylistic and an influence of Byzantine and Mannerist eras.
What is being talked about ?
If it was Carnation in Portugal, Velvet in Czechoslovakia, Orange in Ukraine, Rose in Georgia, Blue in Kuwait, Jasmine in Tunisia, what was it called in Belarus in the year 2006?
The name used in Belarus was a reference to the youth icon and the color blue.
On 20 November, 2005 the British tabloid ’News of the World’ published his picture at his own request, showing him in his hospital bed, along with a warning about the dangers of alcohol with his message: "Don't die like me“
Out of the sixty eight limited Edition Faberge Eggs made as a tribute to him, the first is housed in the airport of a capital city that has been named after him.
Name the person and the capital city in which the airport is located.
It is a rare genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. Discovered by Dr. John Langdon ______, a British physician in the 1860s, he used a ‘certain term’ to describe the syndrome as he stated that there were similar physical characteristics of people with this syndrome to people from a certain Asian race. The ’World Health Organization’ decided to drop the term in 1965 after a request by the delegation from that country. Despite this proposal to drop the term, the physicians still continue to refer people with this syndrome by that specific term.Name the syndrome and the eponymous term.
Max Heiliger was probably the richest man in Nazi-occupied Europe during the world war and is still probably one of the richest men in the world today as claimed by many. By the year 1945 he was worth over 100 billion Reichsmarks which is equivalent to 600 billion USD today. His wealth was primarily in gold, diamonds, cash and art. Swiss banks are rumored to have vaults bulging with gold, diamonds and art which could only be signed out by Max Heiliger.Where does or where did Max Heiliger reside?
Exchange sheets
Astigmatism induces unidirectional elongation in the perception of objects. For example, a cylindrical lens which is used to treat astigmatism, will cause an ellipse to be seen as a circle. Similarly viewing one of X’s works through a cylindrical lens in proper orientation and power, eliminates the distortions.However, this theory has been refuted by the American College of Ophthalmology in a peer- reviewed scholarly article, establishing the alternative theory of X being simply stylistic and an influence of Byzantine and Mannerist eras.
What is being talked about ?
El Greco’s elongated style of art
If it was Carnation in Portugal, Velvet in Czechoslovakia, Orange in Ukraine, Rose in Georgia, Blue in Kuwait, Jasmine in Tunisia, what was it called in Belarus in the year 2006?
The name used in Belarus was a reference to the youth icon and the color blue.
Jeans or Denim revolution. Also called cornflower revolution.
On 20 November, 2005 the British tabloid ’News of the World’ published his picture at his own request, showing him in his hospital bed, along with a warning about the dangers of alcohol with his message: "Don't die like me“
Out of the sixty eight limited Edition Faberge Eggs made as a tribute to him, the first is housed in the airport of a capital city that has been named after him.
Name the person and the capital city in which the airport is located.
George Best, Belfast
It is a rare genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. Discovered by Dr. John Langdon ______, a British physician in the 1860s, he used a ‘certain term’ to describe the syndrome as he stated that there were similar physical characteristics of people with this syndrome to people from a certain Asian race. The ’World Health Organization’ decided to drop the term in 1965 after a request by the delegation from that country. Despite this proposal to drop the term, the physicians still continue to refer people with this syndrome by that specific term.Name the syndrome and the eponymous term.
Down’s syndrome ‘Mongoloids’
Max Heiliger was probably the richest man in Nazi-occupied Europe during the world war and is still probably one of the richest men in the world today as claimed by many. By the year 1945 he was worth over 100 billion Reichsmarks which is equivalent to 600 billion USD today. His wealth was primarily in gold, diamonds, cash and art. Swiss banks are rumored to have vaults bulging with gold, diamonds and art which could only be signed out by Max Heiliger.Where does or where did Max Heiliger reside?
No where. Max Heiliger was a fictitious name created by the Reichsbank to launder and store valuables looted from murdered Jews.
