QUATECHETICS

The SASTRICAS Open QuizWith Answers

QMBhrigu Talukdar

Last Gate Inc.

Research

• Bhaskar Sharma

• IIMC

Research

• Kaustav Chakraborty

• IT professional

Research & Grammarian

• BABA NOGEN DAS

• AKA• Nayanjyoti

Medhi

Rules

• Mobile phones in switch off mode• The whole Quiz will be in pounce format +10/-10• The decision of the Quiz master is final and

binding

ROUND 1

1Every year began on the first day of the

week, Saturday, and ended on the last day of the week, Friday.

The mid-year’s day ,and in leap-years the over lithe had no weekday name.

The lithe before mid-years day was called 1 lithe, and the one after was called 2 lithe.

The Yule at the end of the year was 1 Yule, and that at the beginning was 2 Yule.

This is a description of a calendar of a particular place. You have to name it.

Ans

• Shire

2. The structure behind

• Auschwitz

3.

• Where will you find them together?

• Picture next slide

• ANSWER

• Union Jack

4. The game that these people are playing ?

• Curling

5. Something that this person did made his name ‘indelliable’

• John Hancock

6. Whose statue ? Where ?

• Thiruvalluvar

ROUND 2

7

• Dedicated to whom?

• John Keats

8.

• What has been blanked out?

• Picture next slide

• Cubism

9

• Reference to what?

10.

• The author of this book please

• Benjamin Franklin

11

• Patent of what ?

• ANSWER

Ans

12He is supposed to be a very important

Character in Buddhism. Born as a brahmin he was given the name of Ahimsaka. He went to Taxila to for his studies. But the other students of his guru became jealous of him and turned the guru against him. The Guru said that he had to give him a Dakshina which required the cutting off of body parts of humans. He followed his Guru’s orders and became a highway robber in Kosala kingdom to collect the body parts which he would wear in the neck. Thus giving him THE ‘NAME’

Gimme the name

• Angulimala

ROUND 3

13. These are the medicinal uses of something. What?

• Fighting influenza:- in 1918 to fight the Spanish influenza pandemic it was used.

• Remedy for asthma and bronchitis• An antimicrobial • A contraceptive/abortifacient:• Antiepileptic• Balancing the vata and kapha• Antidote for opium• Antiflatulent:- medicine for flatulence and

constipation.

• Hing

• The  ‘Assuwa league’ was a confederation of states in western Anatolia, defeated by the Hittites under an earlier TudhaliyaI around 1400 BC. The league formed to oppose the Hittite empire. The list of its members contains 22 names, including uqqa, Warsiya, Taruisa, Wilusiya and Karkija (Caria).

• This confederacy is mentioned only in the fragmentary tablets making up Laroche's CTH 142/85.

The name of this league is suggested as the origin of which word (pic next slide)

14.

• Asia

15.• In the middle of the town is this structure. It was

conceived as symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection. Silence is maintained inside it to ensure the tranquility of the space. The entire area surrounding it is called Peace area. The surface of the dome has 56 kg of Gold, which was sandwiched between as thin sheets. At its centre is a 70 cm crystal ball in a gold mount which glows with a single ray of sun light that is directed on the globe from the top of the structure. This represents a symbol of future realisation . This is a brief description of a structure

Give me the name of the structure. PIC NEXT SLIDE

• Matrimandir, Auroville

16.• This substance can be produced from the oils

of coniferous trees and can be distilled from turpentine. It is used as  a moth repellent, as an antimicrobial substance, in embalming, and in fireworks.

• It is used in the cullinary world especially in India to cook sweet dishes. However in large doses it is potentially lethal. It is used in folk

Remedies especially in insect bites. It is alsoUsed in hindu religious ceremonies.

Gimme the name of the substance…

• Camphor

17.The following are the first lines of a body of work. It is in four volumes and the volumes were published in the year 1867, 1885, 1894 and the author could not complete the 4th manuscript. His friend and collaborator finished it and published it later. Give me the name of this very famous and influential body of work• The wealth of those societies in which the

capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself As an immense accumulation of commodities its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity……

• Das Kapital

18.• This Hand Gesture was used to

implore God for protection. During the times when the Christians were persecuted then this gesture is used to identify the believers from the non-believers among the Christians.

• Now the gesture has acquired newer connotations

• Give me the name of the gesture

ROUND 4

19.

• Gap ad

20. Which ‘non medicine’ man’s drawings

• Leonardo Da Vinci

21. What is this method called?

• The Method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria). In basic terms, it is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualization to organize and recall information

• Memory palace

22.

• The area marked is blue is known as the Shekhawati region of present day Rajasthan,

• What is its ‘contribution’ to Indian business?

• Marwari business families originate from here

23

• Identify the

person at the right of the

‘Marlin’

Ernest Hemingway

ROUND 5

25.

• This is the dargah of Hazrat Shah Miran located at Sivasagar

• How do we know him better?

• Azan Fakir

26

• Carnation - Portugal• Velvet - Czechoslovakia• Yellow -Philippines• Bulldozer - Yugoslavia• Rose - Georgia• Orange – Ukraine• Purple – Iraq• Tulip – Kyrgyzstan• Cedar - Lebanon• Blue - Kuwait• Jean s -Belarus

Givw me the X and Y

• Saffron- Myanmar• Grape- Moldova• Green - Iran• X - Y

• Jasmine- Tunisia

27.

• This style of cooking XY means slow oven. This style is supposed to have originated in the old Awadh region. The cooking is done on a very low flame so that the meat and other marrow can cook in their juices.

• X also means to breathe in and Y means to cook.

• This form of cooking is done in the a very large pot with the lid sealed tight.

• Give me XY

• Dum pukth

28.• Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price in formation over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970.

• It consisted of a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker ,which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock transaction price and volume in formation .

• What ‘celebratory’ purpose is it used for in a particular place?

• Ticker tape parade of New York

29• He was an Indian aerospace engineer, widely regarded as

father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India.• Born in Srinagar, he was a graduate of University of the

Punjab in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan), where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and Bachelor of Science in physics, followed by a Master of Arts in mathematics from the same institution.

• In 1943, moved to United States to further his education. He attended University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and completed a Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering.

• In 1947, he completed a Master of Science in aerospace engineering and Aeronautical Engineer’s Degree from California Institute of Technology followed by a double PhD. in mathematics and aerospace engineering under the supervision of his advisor Dr. Hans W. Liepmann 1951

• Who is he?

• Satish Dhawan

30.

• This is a daguerreotype of Robert Cornelius taken in 1835

• Connect this to a current phenomenon

• The phenomenon is Selfie• This is the first self photograph

ROUND 6

31.

• Connect this two pics

• Flip- flops

32.

• When Bhrigu's wife Puloma was pregnant and lived in her hermitage, a Rakshasa harassed her. Puloma's child slipped from her womb, called a 'chyut' child in Sanskrit, (early delivery) and thus received his name.

• He was powerful enough to oppose the Vajra of Indra and was responsible for the Ashvins getting their share of the sacrificial offerings.... the ashvins also restored his youth using a substance which bears his name...

• which brand?

• Chyawanprash•

33.

• A’s character is represented by the word oikake, which means “to run down or pursue”

• B’s is characterized as machibuse, meaning “to perform an ambush”

• C’s is portrayed as kimagure, meaning “a fickle, moody, or uneven temper”

• D’s character is described as otoboke, meaning “pretending ignorance”, and his nickname is “Guzuta”, meaning “one who lags behind

• Who are A, B , C and D?

• ANSWER

• The four ghosts of pacman

34.

• According to a published a study, led by Graham Johnson of the emergency department of Royal Derby Hospital, this person’s weekly alcohol consumption totaled 92 units a week, which is more than four times what doctors recommend. A real person would not be able to carry out such complicated tasks and function that he normally does.

• According to the researchers this person has considerable risk of developing alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, impotence, and other alcohol-related health problems, together with being at serious risk of injury or death because of his drinking.

• The researchers have put this person’s life expectancy to be around the age of 56.

• Who are they talking about?

• James Bond

35. Flag of What?

• International Federation of Vexillological Associations

36

• FITB

• Facebook

ROUND 7

37.

• Sir David Brewster began work leading towards invention of this ‘scientific toy’ in 1815 when he was conducting experiments on light polarization. His initial design was a tube with pairs of mirrors at one end, pairs of translucent disks at the other, and beads between the two.

• Brewster chose renowned achromatic lens developer Philip Carpenter as the sole manufacturer of this toy in 1817. It proved to be a massive success with two hundred thousand of these were sold in London and Paris in just three months.

• Brewster wanted to patent it and make money from this invention. But a fault in his application facilitated others to make copies of this invention.

• Give me the name of the toy

• kaleidoscope

38

• Connect both the pictures.

ELABORATE

• Stefan Edberg

39.

• An American actor of Indian origin active from 1930-40.

• His role in his first film was the same as his father’s profession.

• Shares his name with an Indian comic character and an ECW wrestler who was named after him.

ANSWER

• Sabu Dastagir

40

• The phrase ‘Sic Temper Tyrannis’ means "death to tyrants"

• This phrase connects two historical events A and B that happened within a gap of 2000 years.

• How does the phrase connect these two events?

• A: Brutus Killing Caesar• B: John Wilkes Booth Killing Abraham Lincoln

• This phrase was uttered in both the above cases after the killers killing both the personalities

41.

It was designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978 The first of this type had the following colours representing the following

• hot pink: sexuality• red: life• orange: healing• yellow : sunlight• green: nature• turquoise: magic /art• indigo/blue: serenity/harmony• violet: spirit• . After that it has gone numerous revisions due to

manufacturing restrictions culminating into six of the above colours

• ANSWER

• LGBT flag

42.

• It is An aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced investment strategies such as leveraged, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of generating high returns.

• This sort of portfolios were thought to be responsible for the recent recession in the American Financial markets.

• How are they commonly known as?• Clue: Ornamental Plant

ROUND 8

43.

44.

45

• video

•ANSWER

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• Video

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• Video

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