Prelims with answers
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1. The document discusses various topics including rules, Bhagavad Gita verses, stilettos, The Shining hotel inspiration, Camp David, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, red carpet terms, the Tea Party movement, Ramayana stories in different countries, the origin of the word 'decimation', how to draw the Nepal flag, the origin of 'Azkaban', a possible Disney/Fox merger image, the origin of the word 'Mafia', Animal Farm, Schindler's List and the girl in red, Vodafone's Zoozoos advertisements, Jackie Chan's film credits, Severus Snape translations, Icelandic geothermally baked bread, the
Prelims with answers
- 2. Rules QM is God
- 3. 1. FITB The below shloka is from Chapter 2, verse 50 of the Bhagvad Gita. Simply, FITB Buddhiyukto jahatiha ubhe sukritadushkrite l Tasmadyogaya yujyaswa _____ _______ _________ ll
- 5. 2. FITB These objects first appeared on Paris runways in 1952 at a Christian Dior fashion show and have been ruining women’s heels ever since. Its name comes from its resemblance to a stabbing weapon (pictured here) called a “_______ dagger” that was first used during the Renaissance.
- 6. Stilettos
- 7. 3. What was the inspired creation? Given in the image is the Stanley Hotel of Colorado which is considered to be one of the most haunted places in America. Sometime in 1970s, a certain someone stayed in Room 217 of this hotel and was inspired to create something based on the stories of haunting he heard. The hotel takes its role in this creation quite seriously and even plays the adaptation of the creation in the hotel’s TV continously.
- 8. Inspiration for the Overlook hotel in The Shining
- 9. 4. Officially called Naval Support Facility Thurmont, because technically it’s a military installation and the staffing is majorly provided by the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Its got its current name from the nephew of Eisenhower while Roosevelt used to call it “Shangri- La” ID this place which shot into major world news in September of 1978 for a Nobel Prize winning effort made here.
- 10. Camp David
- 11. 5. ID what this event is popularly called This event that occurred in the second week of February,1929 resulted from the struggle between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by __ ______ to take control of organized crime in the city and consolidate his power. The event or version of it have been portrayed in Scarface, The Untouchables and the Making of the Mob.
- 12. Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre
- 13. 6. The phrase owes its origins comes from the practice of the 20th Century Limited train, that ran from New York to Chicago, rolling out this to welcome boarding passengers. What popular 2 word term that captures the public imagination every year during the award season.
- 14. Red Carpet
- 15. 7. ID this ‘historical’ political movement This American political movement, with darling children like Sarah Palin, Mike Pence and Ted Cruz, is loosely allied with the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Members of the movement have called for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit by lowering government taxes. The movement began following Barrack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 when his administration announced plans to bail out Wall Street after its collapse in 2008. It was first called for by CNB reporter Rick Santelli in a rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he called for a rehash of the events of December 6, 1773. This event is what gives the movement its current name.
- 17. 8. China – Langka Sip Hor Cambodia – Reamker Laos - Phra Lak Phra Lam Myanmar - Yama Zatdaw Hindi - ?
- 18. Ramyana
- 19. 9. Origin story of which word? The word owes its origins to a form of military discipline used by senior commanders in the Roman Army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences, such as mutiny or desertion. The word is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth". Today, it means to kill or destroy in line with its original meaning
- 20. Decimation
- 21. 10. If you follow these steps of drawing, what would you get? (1) On the lower portion of a crimson cloth draw a line AB of the required length from left to right. (2) From A draw a line AC perpendicular to AB making AC equal to AB plus one third AB. From AC mark off D making the line AD equal to line AB. Join BD. (3) From BD mark off E making BE equal to AB. (4) Touching E draw a line FG, starting from the point F on line AC, parallel to AB to the right hand- side. Mark off FG equal to AB. (5) Join CG.
- 22. Nepal Flag
- 23. 11. ID X X comes from the Hebrew word ‘Abaddon’ meaning ‘place of destruction’. It also draws inspiration from a similar institution located in San Francisco, though this institution is no longer used for its intended purpose. This San Francisco institute has inspired an entire genre of movies which are called ‘getting off the rock’ which include “The Rock”, “Birdman of _______”
- 24. Azkaban
- 25. 12. This image had been doing the rounds last year as something that could possibly happen as a consequence of what?
- 26. Fox and Disney Deal will make this possible
- 27. 13. In 19th Century Europe, cheese was a hot commodity that was transported all over Europe from Switzerland. However, after World War I, countries could no longer afford to buy their expensive cheese and so the market almost went crashing. To counteract this, the Switzerland government formed a secret Cheese Union which would control all the cheese manufacturers in the country and direct all the activities and dealing of the Cheese Manufacturers and the pricing for the different varieties of cheese. However, over time, their attempts at generating more money and controlling stakes in items beyond just cheese earned them a two-word nickname, Cheese _____. FITB
- 28. Mafia
- 29. 14. China, very recently has been undergoing another phase of censorship and has banned a novel very recently because in the eyes of the Chinese government, it promotes dissent against the established order. In the book, the animals, who hate the farmers are led by pigs into rebellion but eventually, after winning the conflict, the entire situation turns very similar to the original, this time with the pigs at the helm, which is very similar to the situation in China. Which book
- 30. Animal Farm
- 31. 15. In the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most hated and feared Nazi Leaders, this story is one of the moments that Assistant Prosecutor and later Supreme Court Judge, Gavriel Bach describes as one of the moments that affected him a lot more than others. Bach was questioning Dr. Martin Földi, a survivor of Auschwitz, about the selection process at the train station in the shadows of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz. Földi described how he and a son went to the right while a daughter and his wife went to the left. His little daughter wore the ___ ____. When an SS officer sent the son to join the mother and daughter, Földi describes his panic. How would the boy, only twelve, find them among the thousands of people there? But then he realized the ___ ____ would be like a beacon for the boy to join his mother and sister. He then ends his testimony with the chilling phrase, "I never saw them again“ How has this been immortalized in entertainment?
- 32. Schindler’s List, The Girl in Red
- 33. 16. Rajiv Rao, the national creative director of Ogilvy and Mathers India, this company came to them with a project to create close to 30 advertisements in which they wanted people to look as animated as possible. The effect was achieved by a variety of methods including choosing the right material for the body suits to ensure that there were no wrinkles when the characters moved, shooting the footage at lower framerates and keeping backgrounds simple in terms of details and the use of a neutral tone of grey. The sets were made larger than life to make the characters look small as the producers could not take children as the schedule of shooting was odd. The characters themselves were played by small-bodied thin women covered with layers of fabric and the expressions were made from rubber and pasted onto the actors What am I talking about?
- 35. 17. This person holds the Guinness World Record for most number of credits in a film including actor, cinematography, stuntman, stunt coordinator, art direction, theme tune vocalist, gaffer and catering co-ordinator. We also know him apart from his movies, for which he has received an honorary Oscar for a cartoon TV series that he produced and acted in which aired on Cartoon Network which was a part of our childhood.
- 36. Jackie Chan
- 37. 18. In the Harry Potter franchise, there are few characters that invoke severity better than X, which is evident from the name itself. When the Harry Potter books were being translated to other languages, the regional translators wanted to maintain this in the translations for the readers’ understanding. As a result, the official translation of the name for X in Italian was _______ Piton where Piton means snake because the character’s last name sounded like snake. In French, the translated name became _______ Rogue to try to preserve the character sketch of the character in the translation. Which character?
- 38. Severus Snape
- 39. 19. Siggi Rafn Hilmarsson is an Icelandic baker with an interesting technique. He is an example of the traditional baker for ‘hverbraud’ or ______bread where the dough is left to bake for close to 12 hours in a way that is very different from the norm. The resulting bread, which has been very slowly baked over the duration is dark in colour and has a a a sweet and molassy taste, unique because of the baking process, which can only be recreated in Iceland. How does he bake the bread?
- 41. 20. This Sanskrit word is familiar to Indians for at least five different reasons. It means region, but has been used in several other Asian countries where it means ‘nation’ The Lao word ‘pathet’, and the Thai word ‘prathet’ are all derived from this Sanskrit word. What is this word?
- 42. Pradesh
- 43. If only half the normal amount of water is used, the beverage is known as a ristretto. If double the amount of water is used, it is known as a lungo. What is the beverage called when the standard amount of water (25-30 milliletres, according to the National ________ Institute of Italy) is used? 21.
- 44. Espresso
- 45. 22. This ubiquitous food item was first designed and experimented for by a Japanese guy named Momofuku Ando, who after World War Two was trying to solve the hunger crisis in Japan and USA gave flour to the Japanese to try to get them to start baking bread. Ando didn’t see why they should shift to bread when they had a perfectly awesome alternative which was already part of the culture of his country. So, he started to search for a methodology to mass produce and package this but kept failing because he couldn’t keep the texture and flavour intact. This was only until he saw his wife cooking one day and put ______ in a bowl of very hot tempura oil thus flash-frying them.
- 46. Instant Ramen/ Instant Noodles
- 47. 23. China was in the middle of a construction boom of nuclear plants when the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster happened. The reactor meltdown forced China to put on hold the construction of around 25 plants, and hteir fate remained unclear at that point in time. This entire crisis was beautifully summed up in a headline the punned on the name of an action TV series which later inspired the film series because of which we know the original term, with a title sequence, that almost invariably always had a fuse burning across the screen. Which headline?