Chai Pe Quiz - Informals

 24 qns. [18 dry, 6 themed written]
 Pounce +10/-10
 Bounce +10
 Guess, it’s not injurious to health. ;)
 National anthem won’t be played anytime in
between the quiz.

 Naraha is a town in Asia, which has an official
registered population of 7,098 and a population
density of 68.5 persons per km2, although the
current actual resident population is much
lower.
 A group of old women in the city have resorted
to making life sized mannequin dolls to fill up
the gap in the population.
 Why is there a void in the population of
Naraha ?

 The image shown in the next slide is that of a
painting titled “Bacon’s Man with the Child
and Priest”.
 This painting was awarded with the Lorenzo
De Medici Gold Medal, at Florence
Internazionale Biennale.
 Identify the artist.
 (Visuals follow.)

 From a 1965 Doctor Who episode titled “Celestial
Toymaker”. An alien intelligence has invaded
theTARDIS and rendered the First Doctor invisible,
leaving Dodo Chaplet and StevenTaylor incredulous.They
step outside into a strange realm where the Doctor
reappears.They have come to the realm of the Celestial
Toymaker, an eternal being of infinite power who sets
games and traps for the unwary so that they become his
playthings.The Doctor and theToymaker have faced each
other before, and theToymaker abducts his old adversary
to another place.
 Here the Doctor is asked to solve a game called theTrilogic
Game. What is it based on ?

 _______ ____ _______ Winery is a winery-
cum-adventure park located in Gerseyville,
California.
 Recently this winery has come into the news
for sponsoring the wine to be used at the 89th
Annual AcademyAwards and the Governor’s
Ball that follow.
 Identify the famous co-owner of this winery.

 Klaus Enrique is a photographer and visual
artist. He has a collection of works inspired by
an Italian painter GiuseppeArcimboldo which
he displayed at the Filter Photo Festival in
Chicago.Arcimboldo had a really imaginative
method of recreating portraits.
 What exactly is the method used by
Arcimboldo ?

 He created portrait heads made entirely of
objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers,
fish, and books.

 Deepa Melukote is an 82 year old living in
Indiranagar, East Bangalore. She has created
works from the damaged versions of an item.
 Describing her work, Deepa explains, “I draw an
outline and instead of colours or paints, I use old,
damaged _______. I cut them in various shapes
and sizes to fit the image I want to create. Once
I’ve heard a story of a British woman who used
this item as wallpaper.
 With what item does she create her art ?

 Dialoga tholvi Award is an award to be
presented by Radio Mango 91.9 to dialogues
that have the presence of something society has
been discussing upon recently. [not Beef]
 Nominee dialogues have been from movies such
as Narasimham, Kasaba,
Meeshamadhavan,Hitler etc.
 So presence of what notion in these dialogues is
Radio Mango awarding them for?

 Confederation of Independent Football
Associations [CONIFA] is an organization that
holds aWorld Cup every year since 2015.
 Participants in this cup are countries like
Darfur United, Isle Of Man, Kurdistan etc.
 So who exactly are the participants in this
competition ?

 Rebel countries/ Rebel Organizations.

 Same-sex marriage was legalized inVermont,
USA on the 1st of September 2009 and was a
game changer in the history of LGBT rights in
the United States of America.
 After this legalization, Ben and Jerry’s
renamed their flavour “Chubby Hubby”.
 What was it renamed as ?

 This certain theatrical term used to denote an
area is said to have gotten its name from the
fact that this area was used by actors for
resting. Often new actors who would feel
nervous and nauseous would occupy the
room.
 Identify this term familiar to a majority of
people here.

No one can mimic his final image moored down at the water’s
edge. No artist can provide that low blow. Ah, the world of art,
the world of images, billions of images.The words of a poem
are cleaner, more pure.

 In the previous slide were lines from the poem Sea Of
Pain written by Raul Zurita.This was exhibited at the
Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 inside a large storage
space at the Aspinwall House.
 Who/what incident was this literary work dedicated
to?
 At the very same storage space in 2014, a work titled
'Earth Piece: Listen to the sound of the earth
turning‘ was displayed.Which person popular in the
20th century as someone’s companion was its creator ?

 __________ zone is referred to the habitable
zone around a star.This is derived from a
principle that a planet must neither be too
far away from, nor too close to
a star and galactic center to support life,
while either extreme would result in a planet
incapable of supporting life.
 FITB.

 IndiaVision is said to be India’s first 24 hour news channel that
began airing during 2004. It has had to stop its operations since
2015 because of employees resigning due to irregular salary
payments. It’s broadcasting center is located near to where we are
now.
 Its former chairman is a political leader who is a multi-talented
personality who has written books title Sangh Parivar and
Fascism.
 His father was an even more prominent political leader and has
been credited with revolutionizing the education sector in Kerala,
and was given the nickname Giant Killer because he defeated the
prominent INC Leader KP Kuttikrishnan Nair.
 Identify the father and son.

 Ceylon _________ [Batrachostomus moniliger] is
a species of bird found in theWestern Ghats. It is
one of the rarest birds to find in theThattekad
Bird Sanctuary due to its similarity to that of a
dry leaf.
 It gets its name due to its similarity to that of an
organism from the order Anura. The gape of this
bird is similar.
 Identify this species of bird.

 As DonaldTrump succeeded Obama as POTUS,
protests erupted in various places.
 A protest was also being staged at this peculiar
place with an avian reference where people
were commenting remarks like “not our
president” and “my _______ my choice” etc.
 So where was this protest being staged which
has come into the news again recently ?

 Michael O'Mara Books is a small, family-run, privately
owned publishing house in the United Kingdom. Its
imprint, Buster Books, publishes children's books.
 Some of the main publications which became a huge hit
were Diana: HerTrue Story and My Word Is My Bond.
 Recently, they have been dominating the publications of a
certain kind of stress reliever for adults.They have had
over 30 such publications already.Various studies have
found out that these publications were indeed a remedy
for anxiety and stress.
 What exactly are these publications and whose
autobiography is My Word Is My Bond ?

 Adult-coloring books
 Roger Moore

 This country’s name is supposed to have been
derived from theTurkic word for forty which is a
reference to the folklore of the country where
forty clans were united against the Uyghur
Kaganate.
 The forty-ray sun on the flag of this country is a
reference this and the object displayed in the
center is a tunduk which is a portable dwelling
used in the steppes.
 Which country ?

 6 qns.
 Theme:Art by Mike Leavitt. Movie Director
dolls morphed with their most popular
characters.
 Just identify the director.
 DIFFERENTIAL SCORING.

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