The 12/11 Quiz

The 12/11 Quiz
English Languages Activities Society
By:
Vighnesh Hegde
November 12, 2018
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Rules:
30 Questions.
No negatives. Guess away.
Joke answers may fetch brownie points.
A friendly warning - titles to the questions can be grossly misleading.
Your opinion on the matter of blocking hints is unnecessary unless
asked for.
Mod is God. Argument is futile.
The highest scorer of this quiz is entitled to a cup of chai at Nutan.

Q1.
The signalling pathway is one of the key regulators of animal
development and is present in all bilaterians. The pathway takes its name
from its polypeptide ligand, an intercellular signalling molecule called
found in fruit ﬂies of the genus Drosophila. The signalling
molecule, in turn, takes its name from an animal, because of the
appearance of fruit ﬂy larva lacking the gene. Mutant larvae tend to have
”solid lawns” of denticles. The appearance of the stubby and ”hairy” larvae
inspired the name.
What is the name of this gene? (Image follows)
Hint: Concentrate on the question number.

Q2.
The Yreka Bakery situated in a city in California called Yreka. It was
founded in 1856 by a baker called Frederick Deng. In the 20th century, it
moved to 322 West Miner Street in the same city where it famously
continued to operate till 1965, when the chief baker Martin retired.
Popular mathematics author Martin Gardner wrote about the bakery in an
article much later, when one of his readers pointed out that Yreka Bakery
no longer existed - the premises were occupied by an art store.
What was this art store named, aptly?

Q3. What’s yours?
Dynamic Tripod
Lateral Tripod
Adaptive Tripod (D’Nealian)
Inter digital brace
Digital Pronate
Lateral Quadrupod
Dynamic Quadrupod
Thumb Tuck
(Non-exhaustive) list of what?

Q4.
In an Anime show called ”Hunter x Hunter”, a character called ”Hisoka” is
seen to be of a villainous nature, a serial killer with irresistible murderous
tendencies and a long list of victims.
Which popular villain is his character said to have
been inspired from?
(Larger image follows)

Q5. Nosey Parker
Afraid that he would go the way of his three elder brothers who died as
infants, X’s family raised him as a girl. His nose was pierced, and he wore a
nose-ring as a kid. This ornament gave him his name, which means
who wears a nose-ring.
X was, however, feminine by no metric. A journalist by profession, he went
on to commit a crime the entire country knows him for.
Id X.

Q6. Let’s talk about the weather
Sweeping from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood,
Drown’d Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench’d in Mud,
Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood.
These lines appear in a satirical poem - ”A Description of a ”,
written by Jonathan Swift, ﬁrst published in the 1710 collection of the
Tatler magazine. The poem’s meaning has been much debated, but it has
been seen as a denunciation of the London Society.
One of the many theories about the origin of the phrase X points to this
poem. It is further supported by the fact that Swift, in his 1738 work - A
Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation, used it for the
ﬁrst time in its current form - ’I know Sir John will go, though he was sure
it would X’
ID the phrase X.

Q7. All Correct.
This ungrammatical phrase is ubiquitous in India, and pre-dates
Independence. There are numerous theories about how it came to be, but
nobody knows its exact origins.
In 2015, the Maharashtra state government banned it, deciding that this
phrase, which was somewhat useful decades ago when the highways in our
country were mostly single-lane, is now obsolete.
Which phrase?

Q8. No u
There is a popular legend in folklore about the origin of the phrase X, which
allegedly dates back to the Battle of Agincourt (1415), where the French
army was defeated by the English.
The English archers, renowned for their use of longbows, were supposedly
mutilated when defeated – their fingers were chopped off, which made it
impossible to draw the bow. Longbows were made of the native English yew
tree, and so the act of drawing the longbow was known as ”plucking yew”.
Thus, when the victorious English waved their fingers at the defeated
French, they said, ’See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!’ Over
time, the phrased altered in form, but is still in use, as an expression of
defiance or aggression.
This myth has been debunked, based on the lack of any evidence of
mutilation of fingers, and evidence that the phrase was in use independently
before the Battle of Agincourt.
Identify X, a phrase all of us are familiar with.

Q9.
What is the blanked out title of this image?

Q10. Recognise this?
The etymology of X is obscure.
The use of X in a programming context is generally credited to the Tech
Model Railroad Club (TMRC) of MIT from circa 1960. In the complex
model system, there were emergency switches located at numerous places
around the room that could be thrown if something undesirable was about
to occur, such as a train going full-bore at an obstruction. Another feature
of the system was a digital clock on the dispatch board. When someone hit
a scram switch, the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the
word X.
X’s use in connection with Y is generally traced to the World War II military
slang FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition), later bowdlerised to the
conjunction XY.
What is XY—something everyone who has studied computer science has
encountered—and how is it used in the programming context?

Q11. You and I
Uys and Buys in Afrikaans
Tik and Tak in Arabic
Brea and Bray in Cornish
Kadlec and Tkadlec in Czech
Citserono and Tsicerono in Esperanto
Schultze and Schulze in German
Santu and Bantu in Hindi
Clodius and Claudius in Latin
Tajniak and Jawniak in Polish
Hern´andez and Fern´andez in Spanish
Skapti and Skafti in Icelandic
Nisbet and Nesbit in Scots
Roobroeck and Roobrouck in West Flemish (Kortrijk dialect)
Aspeslagh and Haspeslagh in West Flemish (Ostend dialect)
What is the above a non-exhaustive list of?

Q12.
Pancho Gonzales (1928-1995) was an American professional tennis player,
regarded as one of the greats in the pre-open era. He holds the record for
being ranked world no.1 for eight years.
In 1949, Gonzales was seeded second in Wimbledon, but lost in the ﬁrst
round. This poor performance was criticised heavily in the press, and a
British journalist called him a ”cheese champion”.
This, put together with his name, earned him the nickname ,
which stuck among his colleagues throughout his professional career.
What was Gonzales’ nickname?

Q13.
suggests something amenable, aﬀable, amicable, where is
harder, harsher, more hostile. , I think, may be expected to seep
more gently and co-operatively out of the bottle than the possibly balky and
truculent . sounds to me a more aggressive man, and writer,
than . An might be expected to proﬀer a limp regal
handshake, where sounds more apt for trouble in nightclubs and
service in Iraq.
The paragraph above appears in an article by David McKie in The Guardian.
What is the article about? Put funda.

Q14.
The X eﬀect is a name given to an analogy that correlates the fame of a
sports tournament with the economic success of the business establishments
in the region. The point of the analogy is that an institution can be very
successful despite the lack of strong native competition, due to the
activities that center around the sport.
For example, Sumo in Japan is a big sport, and a lot of revenue is procured
through activities directly or indirectly related to Sumo. However, there has
been only one Japanese-born Yokozuna (Grand Champion) in the last
twenty years. This is an example of X eﬀect.
ID X.

Q15.
When some of his oﬃcers and the troops under them were angry about not
being paid in 1783, George Washington did something. He was reading
them a letter from Congress and said:
”Gentlemen, you will permit me to , for I have not only
grown gray but almost in the service of my country.”
In those days, X was considered not to be for real men. So when he
deliberately asked their permission to do this action, the men in the room
gasped in shock. Here was this paragon of military leaders humbled before
their very eyes. Washington turned his weakness into a ”Look at what I’ve
sacriﬁced for my country” moment.
What is X?

Q16.
X Y is a brand of products we all are likely to have used. (X is a name
and Y is a number)
This product was launched about 6 decades ago in India, and became
popular. Wary of counterfeit products ﬂooding the market, the founders of
this brand decided to attach the number Y along with the name, and that
has stuck since. Y was chosen to be the registration number of this
company with the Indian Government.
ID X Y
Half points if you name only

Q17.
Auguste Piccaard
was a Swiss physicist, inventor and
explorer, known for his helium balloon flights where he
studied earth’s upper atmosphere and cosmic rays. He
is also known for the invention of the first bathyscaphe
which was used to explore the depths of the oceans.
Which famous fictional character did he inspire?

Q18.
Cyrano de Bergerac, a play written in 1897, is about an eponymous
character who is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents but has an
extraordinarily large nose that makes him look ugly.
The plot revolves around how this doubt about his likeability prevents
him from expressing his love for his distant cousin called Roxane. Roxane
likes another handsome young man called Christian who is not very smart
with words. However, Cyrano uses his wit to feed words into Christian’s
mouth to seduce Roxane and wins a kiss for Christian.
A 2018 movie is based on this play. ID the movie.

Q19.
X was an American businessman. He is well known for an eponymous
design for this ubiquitous device. He succeeded in bringing the design to
industrial manufacturing and promoting its rapid adoption as an industry
standard. By 1940, 85% of U.S. manufacturers of this commodity had a
license for his design.
The type X is popular because of its self-centering design, which makes it
ideal for automation.
What/who is X?

Q20.
Ustad Allauddin Khan, a musician of the Maihar court who was moved by a
tragedy in the early 20th century that orphaned many children, taught them
how to play music and formed an orchestral group later known as the
Maihar Band.
This band included a unique instrument of Allauddin Khan’s invention, one
which is called ”Nal Tarang”. It was made of cylindrical tubes set in a
resonant xylophone-like frame. A version of this instrument exists closer
home, in Pilani (image follows).
What did Allauddin Khan use to make his nal tarang? (Image follows)

Q21. BoB tribute
Advertisement for which brand?

Q22.
Dan Bern created this song called & in 2010. What does it
commemorate?

Q23. from 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds.
Actor X, in preparation for movie Y, dropped about 28 kilograms to suit
the role. His rather famous diet consisted of a can of tuna, an apple and a
black coﬀee everyday, along with a lot of water. The movie Y was a great
success.
However, he could not rejoice on that success too long. He had to gain
weight within six months again, to suit his role in movie Z, which he
reportedly did by gorging on pizza and ice cream.
Give me Y and Z.

Q24.
Ruth Graves Wakeﬁeld, an American chef, invented this recipe during the
period when she owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts. In
this era, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant that featured home
cooking. It is often incorrectly reported that she accidentally developed the
recipe, but in fact, she has stated that she deliberately invented it. The
guests loved this novelty, and people began to come to the inn just to eat it.
Ruth Wakeﬁeld had used a bar of Nestle chocolate in her recipe. So Ruth
went to Nestle with it. Nestle liked the idea, and they got permission from
Ruth to put her recipe on the back of their chocolate bars. In return, she
got all the chocolate she wanted to keep on cooking her famous food item.
What is this the recipe for?

Q25.
Pedestrianism was a 19th-century form of competitive walking, often
professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of
racewalking developed.
It was first codified in the last half of the 19th century, in order to make it
distinct from other similar track and field sports, like long distance cross
country fell running, and recreational hiking or hillwalking. Competitors
were expected to extend their legs straight at least once in their stride and
obey what was called the ”fair and ” rule.
Fill in the blanks for half a point, and explain the rule for the other half.

Q26.
In 1870, a German chemist named Erich von Wolf was researching the
nutritional beneﬁts of . In his notes, he accidentally printed the
decimal point in the wrong spot. Wolf accidentally increased its iron level
to 10 times the actual amount - 3.5 milligrams of iron suddenly became
35 milligrams, an extremely high amount of iron.
In 1930, re-investigations on the matter of the iron content in this particular
food item pointed out the error. In 1981, the British Medical Journal
published an article to try and debunk the the myth but it continues to be
widespread till date, thanks to its propagation in the media.
What are we talking about?

Q27.
Two poachers were attacked and killed in 2006 by members of the
Sentinelese tribe in Andaman. An Indian Coast Guard helicopter sent to
retrieve the bodies was repelled by a volley of arrows. However, the Indian
government did not try to prosecute the murders, because it considers the
Sentinelese a sovereign people, with the right to kill interlopers with
impunity. Why is this unique right awarded to the Sentinelese people?

Q28.
This convention was started by Queensland Government Employee
Clement Wragge in 1887, but it stopped with his retirement in 1907. It did
not become popular until after the Second World War, when it was revived
in the Western Paciﬁc region.
Multiple schemes exist around the world in modern times, but each of them
maintains lists of names that circulate every once in four-six years. Each
list typically contains 19-24 names, and upon exhaustion within a year,
either an auxiliary list is used or the Greek alphabet is made use of.

Q29.
This plant with an edible fruit was originally domesticated from the wild
nightshade species thorn or bitter apple, Solanum incanum, somewhere in
South Asia. The ancient Dravidian word for this was adapted into Sanskrit
as v¯atigagama. From there, it migrated to the west along with the Persian
and Arabian traders that also took the plant there.
The Catalans and subsequently the French took this word from there and
thence it went to Britain as the word X.
The Portuguese also took it up from the Arabians and modiﬁed it suitably.
This word was later taken into Indian English as Y, and is more popular in
India, South Africa, Malaysia, etc.
Give me X and Y, both names of the same plant.

Q30.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon seeing this photograph, realized the
image would make an excellent symbol for the upcoming Seventh War Loan
Drive, and ordered the participants identiﬁed and sent to Washington, D.C.
Using a photographic enlargement, one of the participants identiﬁed four
others in the photograph besides himself, but refused to identify the sixth
because he had warned him not to. He revealed the name of the sixth
person only after being informed that he was being ordered by the President
to reveal the information and that refusing would be a serious crime.
President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. Three of the six people in the
photograph met President Truman on April 20 at the White House before
going on the bond tour which began on May 11 in New York City. The
bond drive was a success, raising $26.3 billion, twice the tour’s goal.
ID this iconic photograph.

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Answers

ANSWERS

Q1.
The signalling pathway is one of the key regulators of animal
development and is present in all bilaterians. The pathway takes its name
from its polypeptide ligand, an intercellular signalling molecule called
found in fruit ﬂies of the genus Drosophila. The signalling
molecule, in turn, takes its name from an animal, because of the
appearance of fruit ﬂy larva lacking the gene. Mutant larvae tend to have
”solid lawns” of denticles. The appearance of the stubby and ”hairy” larvae
inspired the name.
What is the name of this gene? (Image follows)
Hint: Concentrate on the question number.

A1
Hegdehog

Q2.
The Yreka Bakery situated in a city in California called Yreka. It was
founded in 1856 by a baker called Frederick Deng. In the 20th century, it
moved to 322 West Miner Street in the same city where it famously
continued to operate till 1965, when the chief baker Martin retired.
Popular mathematics author Martin Gardner wrote about the bakery in an
article much later, when one of his readers pointed out that Yreka Bakery
no longer existed - the premises were occupied by an art store.
What was this art store named, aptly?

A2
Yrella Gallery. Both these names are palindromes.

Q3. What’s yours?
1 Dynamic Tripod
2 Lateral Tripod
3 Adaptive Tripod (D’Nealian)
4 Inter digital brace
5 Digital Pronate
6 Lateral Quadrupod
7 Dynamic Quadrupod
8 Thumb Tuck
(Non-exhaustive) list of what?

A3
Handwriting grasps/Pencil grips.

Q4.
In an Anime show called ”Hunter x Hunter”, a character called ”Hisoka” is
seen to be of a villainous nature, a serial killer with irresistible murderous
tendencies and a long list of victims.
Which popular villain is his character said to have
been inspired from?
(Larger image follows)

A4.
Joker

Q5. Nosey Parker
Afraid that he would go the way of his three elder brothers who died as
infants, X’s family raised him as a girl. His nose was pierced, and he wore a
nose-ring as a kid. This ornament gave him his name, which means
who wears a nose-ring.
X was, however, feminine by no metric. A journalist by profession, he went
on to commit a crime the entire country knows him for.
Id X.

A5
Nathuram Godse

Q6. Let’s talk about the weather
Sweeping from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood,
Drown’d Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench’d in Mud,
Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood.
These lines appear in a satirical poem - ”A Description of a ”,
written by Jonathan Swift, ﬁrst published in the 1710 collection of the
Tatler magazine. The poem’s meaning has been much debated, but it has
been seen as a denunciation of the London Society.
One of the many theories about the origin of the phrase X points to this
poem. It is further supported by the fact that Swift, in his 1738 work - A
Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation, used it for the
ﬁrst time in its current form - ’I know Sir John will go, though he was sure
it would X’
ID the phrase X.

A6
Rain cats and dogs.
The poem was called ”A Description of a City Shower.”

Q7. All Correct.
This ungrammatical phrase is ubiquitous in India, and pre-dates
Independence. There are numerous theories about how it came to be, but
nobody knows its exact origins.
In 2015, the Maharashtra state government banned it, deciding that this
phrase, which was somewhat useful decades ago when the highways in our
country were mostly single-lane, is now obsolete.
Which phrase?

A7
Horn OK Please

Q8. Too easy.
There is a popular legend in folklore about the origin of the phrase X, which
allegedly dates back to the Battle of Agincourt (1415), where the French
army was defeated by the English.
The English archers, renowned for their use of longbows, were supposedly
mutilated when defeated – their fingers were chopped off, which made it
impossible to draw the bow. Longbows were made of the native English yew
tree, and so the act of drawing the longbow was known as ”plucking yew”.
Thus, when the victorious English waved their fingers at the defeated
French, they said, ’See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!’ Over
time, the phrased altered in form, but is still in use, as an expression of
defiance or aggression.
This myth has been debunked, based on the lack of any evidence of
mutilation of fingers, and evidence that the phrase was in use independently
before the Battle of Agincourt.
Identify X, a phrase all of us are familiar with.

A8
Fuck You

Q9.
What is the blanked out title of this image?

A9

Q10. Recognise this?
The etymology of X is obscure.
The use of X in a programming context is generally credited to the Tech
Model Railroad Club (TMRC) of MIT from circa 1960. In the complex
model system, there were emergency switches located at numerous places
around the room that could be thrown if something undesirable was about
to occur, such as a train going full-bore at an obstruction. Another feature
of the system was a digital clock on the dispatch board. When someone hit
a scram switch, the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the
word X.
X’s use in connection with Y is generally traced to the World War II military
slang FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition), later bowdlerised to the
conjunction XY.
What is XY—something everyone who has studied computer science has
encountered—and how is it used in the programming context?

A10
foo bar - a placeholder name in computer programming

Q11. You and I
Uys and Buys in Afrikaans
Tik and Tak in Arabic
Brea and Bray in Cornish
Kadlec and Tkadlec in Czech
Citserono and Tsicerono in Esperanto
Schultze and Schulze in German
Santu and Bantu in Hindi
Clodius and Claudius in Latin
Tajniak and Jawniak in Polish
Hern´andez and Fern´andez in Spanish
Skapti and Skafti in Icelandic
Nisbet and Nesbit in Scots
Roobroeck and Roobrouck in West Flemish (Kortrijk dialect)
Aspeslagh and Haspeslagh in West Flemish (Ostend dialect)
What is the above a non-exhaustive list of?

A11
Names of Thomson and Thompson in translated versions of Tintin

Q12.
Pancho Gonzales (1928-1995) was an American professional tennis player,
regarded as one of the greats in the pre-open era. He holds the record for
being ranked world no.1 for eight years.
In 1949, Gonzales was seeded second in Wimbledon, but lost in the ﬁrst
round. This poor performance was criticised heavily in the press, and a
British journalist called him a ”cheese champion”.
This, put together with his name, earned him the nickname ,
which stuck among his colleagues throughout his professional career.
What was Gonzales’ nickname?

A12
Gorgonzales

Q13.
suggests something amenable, aﬀable, amicable, where is
harder, harsher, more hostile. , I think, may be expected to seep
more gently and co-operatively out of the bottle than the possibly balky and
truculent . sounds to me a more aggressive man, and writer,
than . An might be expected to proﬀer a limp regal
handshake, where sounds more apt for trouble in nightclubs and
service in Iraq.
The paragraph above appears in an article by David McKie in The Guardian.
What is the article about? Put funda.

A13
Pronunciation of the letter H
Aitch suggests something amenable, aﬀable, amicable, where haitch is
harder, harsher, more hostile. Aitch P Sauce, I think, may be expected to
seep more gently and co-operatively out of the bottle than the possibly
balky and truculent Haitch P Sauce. Haitch G Wells sounds to me a more
aggressive man, and writer, than Aitch G Wells. An Aitch R Aitch might be
expected to proﬀer a limp regal handshake, where Haitch R Haitch sounds
more apt for trouble in nightclubs and service in Iraq.

Q14.
The X eﬀect is a name given to an analogy that correlates the fame of a
sports tournament with the economic success of the business establishments
in the region. The point of the analogy is that an institution can be very
successful despite the lack of strong native competition, due to the
activities that center around the sport.
For example, Sumo in Japan is a big sport, and a lot of revenue is procured
through activities directly or indirectly related to Sumo. However, there has
been only one Japanese-born Yokozuna (Grand Champion) in the last
twenty years. This is an example of X eﬀect.
ID X.

A14
The Wimbledon eﬀect

Q15.
When some of his oﬃcers and the troops under them were angry about not
being paid in 1783, George Washington did something. He was reading
them a letter from Congress and said:
”Gentlemen, you will permit me to , for I have not only
grown gray but almost in the service of my country.”
In those days, X was considered not to be for real men. So when he
deliberately asked their permission to do this action, the men in the room
gasped in shock. Here was this paragon of military leaders humbled before
their very eyes. Washington turned his weakness into a ”Look at what I’ve
sacriﬁced for my country” moment.
What is X?

A15
Spectacles. They were supposed to be for intellectuals who never saw a
day of battle in their life, not for real men.

Q16.
X Y is a brand of products we all are likely to have used. (X is a name
and Y is a number)
This product was launched about 6 decades ago in India, and became
popular. Wary of counterfeit products ﬂooding the market, the founders of
this brand decided to attach the number Y along with the name, and that
has stuck since. Y was chosen to be the registration number of this
company with the Indian Government.
ID X Y
Half points if you name only X

A16
Nataraj 621

Q17.
Auguste Piccaard
was a Swiss physicist, inventor and
explorer, known for his helium balloon flights where he
studied earth’s upper atmosphere and cosmic rays. He
is also known for the invention of the first bathyscaphe
which was used to explore the depths of the oceans.
Which famous fictional character did he inspire?

A17
Professor Cuthbert Calculus in Tintin

Q18.
Cyrano de Bergerac, a play written in 1897, is about an eponymous
character who is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents but has an
extraordinarily large nose that makes him look ugly.
The plot revolves around how this doubt about his likeability prevents
him from expressing his love for his distant cousin called Roxane. Roxane
likes another handsome young man called Christian who is not very smart
with words. However, Cyrano uses his wit to feed words into Christian’s
mouth to seduce Roxane and wins a kiss for Christian.
A 2018 movie is based on this play. ID the movie.

A18
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

Q19.
X was an American businessman. He is well known for an eponymous
design for this ubiquitous device. He succeeded in bringing the design to
industrial manufacturing and promoting its rapid adoption as an industry
standard. By 1940, 85% of U.S. manufacturers of this commodity had a
license for his design.
The type X is popular because of its self-centering design, which makes it
ideal for automation.
What/who is X?

A19
Henry F. Phillips, inventor of the Phillips-head screws.

Q20.
Ustad Allauddin Khan, a musician of the Maihar court who was moved by a
tragedy in the early 20th century that orphaned many children, taught them
how to play music and formed an orchestral group later known as the
Maihar Band.
This band included a unique instrument of Allauddin Khan’s invention, one
which is called ”Nal Tarang”. It was made of cylindrical tubes set in a
resonant xylophone-like frame. A version of this instrument exists closer
home, in Pilani (image follows).
What did Allauddin Khan use to make his nal tarang? (Image follows)

A20
Gun barrels from abandoned riﬂes.

Q21. BoB tribute
Advertisement for which brand?

A21

Q22.
Dan Bern created this song called & in 2010. What does it
commemorate?

A22
The longest tennis match ever. In 2010 Wimbledon, John Isner and
Nicholas Mahut played for 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days.

Q23. from 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds.
Actor X, in preparation for movie Y, dropped about 28 kilograms to suit
the role. His rather famous diet consisted of a can of tuna, an apple and a
black coﬀee everyday, along with a lot of water. The movie Y was a great
success.
However, he could not rejoice on that success too long. He had to gain
weight within six months again, to suit his role in movie Z, which he
reportedly did by gorging on pizza and ice cream.
Give me Y and Z.

A23
X - Christian Bale. Y - The Machinist, Z - Batman Begins

Q24.
Ruth Graves Wakeﬁeld, an American chef, invented this recipe during the
period when she owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts. In
this era, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant that featured home
cooking. It is often incorrectly reported that she accidentally developed the
recipe, but in fact, she has stated that she deliberately invented it. The
guests loved this novelty, and people began to come to the inn just to eat it.
Ruth Wakeﬁeld had used a bar of Nestle chocolate in her recipe. So Ruth
went to Nestle with it. Nestle liked the idea, and they got permission from
Ruth to put her recipe on the back of their chocolate bars. In return, she
got all the chocolate she wanted to keep on cooking her famous food item.
What is this the recipe for?

A24
Choco-chip cookies

Q25.
Pedestrianism was a 19th-century form of competitive walking, often
professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of
racewalking developed.
It was first codified in the last half of the 19th century, in order to make it
distinct from other similar track and field sports, like long distance cross
country fell running, and recreational hiking or hillwalking. Competitors
were expected to extend their legs straight at least once in their stride and
obey what was called the ”fair and ” rule.
Fill in the blanks for half a point, and explain the rule for the other half.

A25
Fair heel and toe rule. The rule said that the toe of one foot could not
leave the ground before the heel of the next foot touched down.
(In other words, one foot had to be in contact with the ground at all times.)

Q26.
In 1870, a German chemist named Erich von Wolf was researching the
nutritional beneﬁts of . In his notes, he accidentally printed the
decimal point in the wrong spot. Wolf accidentally increased its iron level
to 10 times the actual amount - 3.5 milligrams of iron suddenly became
35 milligrams, an extremely high amount of iron.
In 1930, re-investigations on the matter of the iron content in this particular
food item pointed out the error. In 1981, the British Medical Journal
published an article to try and debunk the the myth but it continues to be
widespread till date, thanks to its propagation in the media.

A26
Spinach

Q27.
Two poachers were attacked and killed in 2006 by members of the
Sentinelese tribe in Andaman. An Indian Coast Guard helicopter sent to
retrieve the bodies was repelled by a volley of arrows. However, the Indian
government did not try to prosecute the murders, because it considers the
Sentinelese a sovereign people, with the right to kill interlopers with
impunity. Why is this unique right awarded to the Sentinelese people?

A27
This neo-palaeolithic tribe, that lives on the North-Sentinel island in the
Andaman archipelago, is the last group of the so-called uncontacted
people left on Earth. Absolutely no contact exists between these people
and the outside world. Even the other Andaman tribes know very little
about them. The Sentinelese do not allow outsiders onto the island and are
very hostile towards them, and the Government does not interfere with
them in the interests of conservation.

Q28.
This convention was started by Queensland Government Employee
Clement Wragge in 1887, but it stopped with his retirement in 1907. It did
not become popular until after the Second World War, when it was revived
in the Western Paciﬁc region.
Multiple schemes exist around the world in modern times, but each of them
maintains lists of names that circulate every once in four-six years. Each
list typically contains 19-24 names, and upon exhaustion within a year,
either an auxiliary list is used or the Greek alphabet is made use of.

A28
Cyclone naming conventions

Q29.
This plant with an edible fruit was originally domesticated from the wild
nightshade species thorn or bitter apple, Solanum incanum, somewhere in
South Asia. The ancient Dravidian word for this was adapted into Sanskrit
as v¯atigagama. From there, it migrated to the west along with the Persian
and Arabian traders that also took the plant there.
The Catalans and subsequently the French took this word from there and
thence it went to Britain as the word X.
The Portuguese also took it up from the Arabians and modiﬁed it suitably.
This word was later taken into Indian English as Y, and is more popular in
India, South Africa, Malaysia, etc.
Give me X and Y, both names of the same plant.

A29
X-Aubergine, Y-Brinjal
Sanskrit (v¯atigagama) → Persian (bâdengân) → Arabic (al-b¯adinj¯an) →
Catalan (alberg´ınia) → French(aubergine) → English (aubergine) (X)
Sanskrit (v¯atigagama) → Persian (bâdengân) → Arabic (al-b¯adinj¯an) →
Portuguese (brinjela) → English (brinjal) (Y)

Q30.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon seeing this photograph, realized the
image would make an excellent symbol for the upcoming Seventh War Loan
Drive, and ordered the participants identiﬁed and sent to Washington, D.C.
Using a photographic enlargement, one of the participants identiﬁed four
others in the photograph besides himself, but refused to identify the sixth
because he had warned him not to. He revealed the name of the sixth
person only after being informed that he was being ordered by the President
to reveal the information and that refusing would be a serious crime.
President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. Three of the six people in the
photograph met President Truman on April 20 at the White House before
going on the bond tour which began on May 11 in New York City. The
bond drive was a success, raising $26.3 billion, twice the tour’s goal.
ID this iconic photograph.

A30
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

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