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Without much further “ado” - Nordic etymology from at + do

• Jaconet muslins or walking dress
were quite famous in the fashion
circles of 19th century,England.
• The fabric by the same name is a
lightweight cotton cloth with a
smooth and slightly stiff finish.
The name is derived from a
particular place from where this
kind of fabric is traditionally made.
• Which place ?
1*

• Jagannathi, as in Jagannath Puri
1*

• He is the spymaster as described by hindu mythology.
From his home with thousand doors, he keeps watch
on mortals through the stars as his thousand eyes.
Possibly the word spy has come into vogue because
of the weapon he holds(Pasa).
• Name ?
2

• What is the subject of this Pattachitra sketch ?
3

• A month before the famous Rosswell UFO incident, in
1947, an UFO was reported to have landed in
Odisha's Nayagrah district.
• Pachanana Moharana(famous pattachitra artist), had
made sketches of these alien visitors and their
spacecraft which was claimed to have landed in a hilly
area of Nayagarh on May, 31, 1947.
3

1/2 a point
What is this invention about ?
4a

1/2 a point
What is going on here?
4b

Ctrl+Alt+Delete wand
Taking a screenshot
4

• The Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe
launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the
Martian climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and
to act as the communications relay in the Mars
Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander.
• The probe disintegrated while doing the orbital
insertion maneuver.
• Reason ?
5

It’s rocket science !!
Lockheed(the manufacturer) used English unit, and
NASA provided input in Metric unit. The brightest of
engineers never accounted for such a scenario.
The probe was lost in translation
5

• This is a cultural identity
phenomena observed in
twitter, which came to
mainstream media notice
after Trayvon Martin
shooting.
• Name ? A two word name
that can be derived from
the Image
6*

The term Salary comes from roman legionnaires
getting salt pouches for their sustenance.
Which word derives it origin from sprinkling Salt over
food ?
7

Who with a penchant for sarcasm left his wife the following
in the Last will and Testament
“I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture”
8*

Will’s Will (William Shakespeare)
8*

• It stands on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. The
building serves as the primary office of the government of
Russia and is the official residence of the Russian Prime
Minister.
• What is it called ?
9

• The White House or Russian White House
9

• What is this phenomenon ?
10

Famous poster from Ben Franklin extensively used in
American revolution. What do the pieces of the snake
signify ?
11

Each segment represents one of the original thirteen
American colonies. New England was represented as
one segment, rather than the four colonies as it was at
that time. Delaware (then a part of Pennsylvania) and
Georgia were omitted completely.
11

12*
This is the coronation chair on which since 1308, all
anointed sovereigns of England (until 1603) and Great
Britain have been seated in this chair for their
coronation, with the exception of Queen Mary II (who
was crowned on a copy of the chair).
Their is a slot just below the seat. What goes in their ?

Stone of scone, Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny. Its not
going back to Scotland after all.
12*

Jindun Gongcheng or The Golden Shield project is
the internet censorship program of Chinese govt.
which is responsible for blocking sites like Google and
Facebook.
What is the nickname given to this project by the
western media ?
13

The great firewall of China
13

Robert McHenry a former editor in chief of
Encyclopedia Britannica, quipped that “It is like a
public restroom , you never know who touched it last”
What is he referring to ?
14

Once upon a time , Rishi Bharadvaja went with his
companions to the Ganga to perform his ablutions.
There he beheld a beautiful apsara named Ghritachi
who had come to bathe. The sage was overcome by
desire, causing him to produce a reproductive fluid.
Bharadvāja Muni captured the fluid in a vessel
Thus a Son was born, who ?
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Who is the English Counterpart of Uncle Sam ?
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Two typefaces are used in the text, both in Yellow,
News Gothic for the main body of the text, and Univers
for the title. Several words are in capital letters to
stress their importance.
In the 4:3 aspect ratio versions, the full lines of text are
cut off on the sides until they have scrolled further
hence the text is much smaller and harder to read.
What is being discussed ?
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Flintheart Glomgold, Scottish descent hence the
pound sign compared to $ of Scrooge
18

The components of the Dow have changed 53 times in
its 128-year history. Which one is the continuously
traded and longest running scrip out of the current 30
Co. ?
19*

One of those coffee house stories, that a brass
container for the benefit of waitrons was first inscribed
with the words “To Insure Promptness”. The idea was
that a patron would put an amount of money into the
container before sitting down to insure promptness of
service from the waitrons. The “to insure promptness”
on the container is what we now call a TIP. Or so it is
told.
Which Coffee house ?
21

According to WSJ, 11% of worlds Gold which is
conservatively estimated as approximately 30,000
tons , is held in India privately. This is more than the
gold reserve in USA, Germany, RBI or IMF.
Which non-corporate entity holds this treasure ?
22

Mostly online ads on web pages, these ads are tall —
very tall — with heights often ranging from 500 to 800
pixels (and widths often ranging from meagre 120 to
160 pixels)
23

Etym: Breaking up of ice in a river which unleashes a flood. from
the breaking, to the disastrous flood, to a collapse in general.
This word can be used to summarize Indian teams performance in
test matches
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The proponent is one Melvil Dewey who suggested
this system in 1876. The notation is in Indian/Arabic
numerals and it introduces the concepts of relative
location and relative index which allow new items to
be added to their appropriate location.
What is this concept used for ?
25*

Dewey Decimal System used for Cataloging books in
a Library
25*

Duke’s university has successfully developed certain technology
which can be used like this.
What object would you associate from the world of literature with this
?
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Invisibility Cloak, Harry Potter
26

This was published in “Gentleman's Magazine"
(London), Oct.1794. 2
“A friend has transmitted to me from East Indies ……
A thin plate of wax is fitted to the Stump of the nose,
so as to make a nose of a good appearance. It is then
flattened, and laid on the forehead. A line is drawn
round the wax, and the operator then dissects off as
much skin as it covered …………….
”
Which book describes this Indian procedure of
Rhinoplasty ?
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E. W. Hornung wrote a series of twenty-six short stories
and one novel about the adventures of Arthur J. Raffles,
cricketeer and gentleman thief, and his chronicler, Harry
"Bunny" Manders, in London, between 1898 and 1909.
The first story, "The Ides of March", appeared in the
June 1898 edition of Cassell's Magazine.
He is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a
prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the
Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by
carrying out ingenious burglaries.
Hornung dedicated the first collection of stories, The
Amateur Cracksman, to whom ?
28*

Hornung Brother-in-Law Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
28*

This book has famously got quite narrow margin.
Claim to Fame ?
29*

Fermat’s last theorem,
Was first conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637,
famously in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica where
he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in
the margin.
29*

Identify the Raga, the courtesan was singing ?
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