saarang travel and living quiz 2017- prelims with answers

Travel and Living Quiz

Saarang 2017Varun Murthy

Gokul Nair

Question 1Shown in the next few slides are pictures from a cookbook released about four decades ago. Consisting of 136 recipes along with illustrations from the author, more famous in other contexts, it is named for the author’s wife and their famous parties. The book is slated for another limited print release in December 2016.

Give me the illustrator of the book.

Saarang Travel and Living Quiz - 2017

Ans : Salvador Dali

Question 2 “The naming of streets in Delhi is governed by home ministry guidelines of September 27, 1975. These guidelines clearly state that names of existing streets should not be changed and only new or unnamed roads should be given names after eminent personalities.”“X is the archetypal villain in the Hindu nationalist imagination — the cruel ruler who put a sword to people’s heads, offering them a choice between Islam and death. And a despot who hated music so much he ordered it buried deep so that no sound could escape and reach anyone’s ears. Not only cruel, X for the BJP is an outsider, a part of Mughal history, and history it desires to wish away.”

These were some of the responses to online petitions calling for the renaming of a street, sometime in July 2015. Give X, and the proposed new name which would solve the “Good Muslim/Bad Muslim” debate.

Aurangzeb ; A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road

Question 3 On 5th April 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia, erupted in what was the largest eruption in recorded history. The dust plume and debris caused significant changes to the weather patterns, causing temperatures to drop by nearly 3-6 degrees.In May of the same year Lord Byron found himself on the shores of Lake Geneva with P B Shelley, who had eloped there with his lover. They soon moved into two villas on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Shelley’s lover would write “An almost perpetual rain confines us. The lake was lit up, the pines on the Jura made visible, and all the scene illuminated for an instant, when a pitchy blackness succeeded, and the thunder came in frightful bursts over our heads and the darkness.”The setting the authors found themselves in proved inspirational in creating what some say was the first truly great piece of science fiction in 1818.Name the author and the work.

Mary Shelley ; Frankenstein

Question 4 Who, parodying which other celebrity for Halloween 2016?

Eugenie Bouchard , Kim Kardashian

*Question 5What item of Indian ethnic women’s clothing is named for a character from the 1960 film Mughal-e-Azam?

Ans : Anarkali

Question 6Sex on the beach is a cocktail of vodka, peach schnapps , orange juice and cranberry juice.

What is the non-alcoholic version of Sex on the Beach called ?

Ans : Safe Sex on the Beach/Virgins on the Beach

Question 7 Eric Clapton was a regular at this particular chain’s restaurant in London. He wanted to save a particular seat in the restaurant for himself. What did he do to mark that seat as his ? Which Restaurant chain am I talking about ?

He donated his guitar which was to be hung over his seat ; Hard Rock Cafe

Question 8 Why would you visit all these places in Tunisia ?

Ans : Star Wars was filmed here

Question 9 Connect the following:

• Petra , Jordan• Longman Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes , China• Temple of Abu Simbel , Egypt• Lalibela , Ethipoia

India has many examples to contribute to this list.

Ans : Rock Cut Architecture

*Question 10 Designed by Danish architect firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), this under-construction building will be finished sometime in 2017. The building will eventually house exhibition areas, a ____ store and feature full public access to it’s rooftop. The following paragraph is a bit from the PR material released on the occasion of the announcement of the project.

“The creative use of the ____ brick shape is a true visualization of the systematic creativity that is at the core of ____ play, so we believe that this is the right look for the ____ House. And it simply looks amazing.“

FITB.

Ans : LEGO

Question 11 31st March and 1st April in Japan is Kanamara Matsuri or “Festival of the steel ______” . The ______ , the central theme of the festival is reflected in illustrations , candy , carved vegetables and a parade featuring people carrying a giant pink ______ around town. While the festival has been around since the 18th century , the modern version started in 1969 and nowadays it helps raise funds for AIDS research.

FITB.

Ans : Phallus

Question 12 Give the first two items on the list.

1)__________________ - _____2)__________________ - _____3)Crazy Horse Memorial - USA4)New Colossus of Rhodes - Greece

Ans : Sardar Patel Statue , Shivaji Statue

Question 13 On the following slide is a painting by Domenico di Michelino in the Florence Cathedral. The Cathedral is visible on the right side of the painting.

Who is the man holding the book ?

Ans : Dante

Question 14 Combine the two parts to give a Harry Potter character.

X) A Welsh prince called Llewelyn the Great supposedly left X, a dog given to him by the king of England, to guard his baby while he went hunting. Llewelyn returned to find the bed empty, the baby missing, and the bedclothes soaked with blood. He thought that X attacked the baby, so he killed X. Then, looking for the baby, he found it safe, with a huge wolf lying dead nearby. X had saved the baby's life, and had been rewarded with death. This is a common folktale motif. In India , for example , a mongoose replaces X and the snake replaces the wolf. The violent conflict, resulting in the death of an innocent is considered by many as the inspiration for J.K. Rowling for the name of the character X Y.

Question 14Y) Y is a village in Switzerland , among the many seen by James Phlippots when he first climbed Jungfrau. The old german celtic word _______ describes a piece of wood which serves as a barrier. Accordingly, _______+(the german word for forest) would mean a wooded area of valley blocked off from the rest of the world.

Ans : Gellert Grindelwald

*Question 15In 1739 , the Empress Ivanova ordered a grand palace be built to celebrate Russia’s victory over the Ottoman Empire. Once built , the Empress celebrated the opening by a marriage of two jesters. The Empress died the following year and the palace got destroyed in the summer. Why was the palace destroyed ?

Ans : It was made of ice , hence melted in summer

Question 16 These towers of light are monuments to something and/or someone . In each case give me what/who ?

a. 9/11 , b. John Lennon

Question 17 Shown here are Yakanchals , created by Persian engineers in about 400 BCE. What was their purpose ?

Ans : to cool water ; they are evaporative coolers

Question 18 The name X comes from the Italian for “all fruits”. Fruits used for X is usually cherries, raisins and pineapple , often augmented with nuts. In India , X refers to candied raw papaya. They are always small cubical pieces, often brightly coloured. In the United States, X can refer to fruits soaked in Brandy or other spirits.

Give me X ?

Ans : Tutti Frooti

Question 19 In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun-class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs. Common gender divisions include masculine and feminine; masculine, feminine and neuter; or animate and inanimate.While French, German and Spanish speakers are using a newly-coined term with the appropriate masculine gender (subject to approval from their respective language experts), Italian experts have ruled with certainty that the term is feminine.What neologism, of great consequence to Europeans, is being discussed?

Ans : Brexit

Question 20 (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of this paragraph, the commercial designation for any species of ___ specified in column 2 of the following Table shall be a name specified for that species in the corresponding entry in column 1 of the said Table.(2) A customary name may be used for any species of ___ which has been subjected to smoking or any similar process, unless the name of the species in column 2 of the following Table is followed by an asterisk. In such cases the name used for the food when the ____ is smoked shall be either : (a)a name specified for that species in column 1 of the said Table preceded by the word “smoked”, or(b)except in the case of Salmo salar (L.), “smoked ________________”.

This is the reason why , a food that can be called as one of Britain’s most popular dishes , known all over the world, is seldom found under its well known name in restaurant menus.

What am I talking about ?

Ans : Fish and Chips must be called Cod and Chips, Haddock and Chips e.t.c

Question 21X is a religion which developed in the 1930s following the coronation of Haile Selassie the 1st, also known as Tafari Makonnen as Emperor of Ethiopia who worship him much the same way as Christians worship Jesus. The X way of life encompasses the spiritual way of Cannabis (*Cough* Namburi *Cough*), and the rejection of the degenerate society of materialism, oppression, and sensual pleasures. The famous Coldplay Game of Thrones musical refers to Daenerys as a X targaryen.Y is a part of traditional Italian cuisine. Y is made from an unleavened dough of Durum wheat flour or eggs and cooked by boiling or baking. It can be served in three ways, asciutta (ie., plated with a sauce), in borodo(as a part of a soup type dish) or al forno in which it is incorporated into a dish which is subsequently baked?

Give me the name of the social movement which is a portmanteau of X and Y ?

Ans : Pastafarianism

Question 22 (Img on next slide) Neapolitan ice cream is made up of three separate blocks of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice creams side by side in the same container. The name Neapolitan comes from the Italian city of Naples as it was immigrants from there who introduced this to the United States. As seen in the next slide, Chocolate , Vanilla and Strawberry became the standard for the three flavours as they were the most popular flavours of ice cream in the US when the Neapolitan was introduced. Historically , however, the Neapolitan used various flavours, but mostly Pistachio , Vanilla and Strawberry . Why were these three flavours used and what is the inspiration for the design of the Neapolitan ?

Ans : The Italian Flag

Question 23 This route was made famous in a memoir which was later made into a film .

Name the memoir/film ?

Ans : The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

24.X was probably commissioned by Queen Matilda , William the

Conquerer’s wife .It tells the story of the events of 1024-1066 , culminating in the battle of Hastings.The two main characters depicted are King Harold of England and William, the duke of Normandy. It also shows the coronation ceremony of Harold, showing a star with a streaming tail in the sky .

The naming of X is a bit of a misnomer as it is actually an embroidery and not a ________ .

What am I talking about ?

Ans : The Bayeux Tapestery

*Question 25X is an Odiya cheese dish that consists of multiple marble sized balls of cheese soaked in sweetened, condensed milk. Saffrons and cardamoms are typically added to this. The two-word name transliterates to “Ocean of Milk” in the Odiya language. It is thought that X is the predecessor of the Ras-Malai , however , the milk in X is much thicker , almost acquiring the consistency of a Rabdi.

Ans : Kheera Sagara

26.This came to international prominence after the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, where it was offered at the Swedish Pavilion’s restaurant. Derived from the arrangement of food and its actual contents, a derivative of the original Swedish word is now used to denote any instance where a person has to take their pick from a large variety of options.

What are we talking about here?

Question 27 : Video Qn

What is the falash mob trying to recreate ?

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