A Sunday Quiz at the Bombay Quiz Club

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Invocation song ( audio sampler)

....(Invoked Name), oh won't you come to me
Won't you help me face the music
Bring it out so we can sing it out
Help me to find it before we lose it
At night when the stars are near
And there's no one to keep you from coming here
And there's no one to shield me before your eyes
Is it mine, is it mine, is it mine to know?
I can see it's not too good to me
To be afloat in the sea of glory
(Invoked Name), oh how you comfort me ....

Chaplin of a metaphysical sort ...

Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies wrote the
song as they were impressed by the Beatles'
journey and the Fab Four's experience with
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
a) Name this band.

Hodgson had finished reading a 1946
worldwide bestseller book which inspired him to
develop this song. b) Name the book.


Noel Paul Stookey
got chosen in his
place as Dave's
voice and style were
too idiosyncratic.

What famous
group's performing
name did Dave
nearly become a
part of ?
He was known as The Mayor among folk
musicians in Greenwich Village, NY.


Though he's far from
looking anything like
one, A) what's the name
of the tribe/clan this lad
belongs to?
B) name the blacksmith
whose forge he spends
time in.


a) Which 12th
century
thought-leader and
reformer is being played
in this recent film
portrayal?
b) Very briefly, what's
the incident?


Before the live LP of a
tour (shown here) was
released, there was a
1975 album There's One
in Every Crowd.
The album's original title,
___ _____' _ ________
______ ______ (There's One
In Every Crowd), was
changed/shortened as it
was felt its ironic
intention would be
misunderstood.
FITB.

Go after wrong etymology with an axe...

The faith obtains its name from the 29
principles of morality and conduct articulated by
its leader, and not as erroneously supposed by
some, from attachment to a Deity in the Trinity.
Name the group/community.

Had an Italian visited Lucknow...

First recorded in 1952–53 in an outbreak on the
Makonde plateau, later it emerged in Southeast
Asia.
It appeared in Europe in 2007, when over 200
people in Ravenna were taken ill. Possibly, it
spread from someone who had recently visited
an affected area in India.
Its name in an African dialect means "that which
bends up" because of the contorted posture of
its victims.

Let's talk antidotes... and anecdotes

Z's other major discovery was seven years
earlier. He discovered the antiseptic enzyme
________ in 1921 after he had accidentally
contaminated a culture plate with his own cold
germs.
Answer for the blank, and Z's subsequent
discovery.

Rapidex Course in Indian Bhaasha

A) Tirhutia was famous from ancient times for its use
among scholars, and it still retains many antiquated
linguistic forms. On account of its literary wealth, it has
been the object of increasing interest since 1947. By
what name is this language better known?
B) Anglo-Irish civil servant who worked in Bengal,
George A. Grierson carried out pioneering research on
South Asian, particularly Indo-Aryan, languages. In 1898
he began work on the 19-volume _________ ______ __ _____
and spent the next 30 years publishing data on 100s of
languages and dialects. Name it.

One slip, and you are a former sportsperson...

Name the Olympics-like competition that ESPN
developed in the 1990s, around sports with an
element of strong hazard such as
skateboarding, mountain biking, snowmobile
racing and snowboarding.

Om Shanti Shanti Shantih - NAMe him
The centre at Plum
Village, Dordoigne,
in southern France
– set up by
someone who has
taught at Columbia
University, and was
nominated for a
Peace Nobel by a
peace laureate.

Notations on your sheet – for upto 26 points

1.The new airport terminal here includes a 3
kilometre long multi-storey art wall that
houses 7000 art pieces from across the
country. What is this display titled?

2. If Onkara was Othello, what will Hamlet be,
where Shahid Kapoor will play the title role?


3. Instead of pub and cafe discussions, you
collaborate at a gym or exercise class thus burning
fat while in the company of colleagues/friends, and
drink green tea. The word for this new socialising
trend is ____________.

4.Since 1961, when Jagjivan Ram was the Minister for
Railways, they are an authorised presence at
Mumbai railway stations and presently pay a licence
fee of Rs.263 per month to the railways. Who?

Mind your spellings!

5. To commence in India before 2018, name the
radiation therapy that uses charged protons to kill
the tumour in the affected body part, and not X-ray
beams, so that there's minimum damage to
surrounding normal tissues.

6. Jews arriving from which country introduced a dish
of poached eggs in a tomato sauce into Israel, the
dish's name could itself be from Arabic for `mixture',
or Hebrew for "to shake"?


7. Which set of symbols of faith is said to have
originated from the idea of `permanent renunciation
of the renunciation' i.e. it expresses the opposite of
the ritual of turning into a Jogi or a Sannyasi, and
within the complementary pairs, thus there's a
concept of orderly control?

8. How can the mathematical sign for the geometric
relation "is similar to" be X) approximately equated
to thumbs kept busy, and Y) connected with a/any
Spanish gentleman?

Mind your spellings!

9. About 25% of all the criminal cases filed under
pornography and obscene video laws in India in the
last couple of years have been registered in which
State?

10. Long before Dhanush's song, it is said to have
affected Dutch troops posted in Indonesia in the
1800s, because they ate unpolished rice which had
no thiamine; they showed muscle atrophy, paralysis
and mental confusion. What was their condition
called?


11. "Yamaha Wo Tsubusu" is not a shloka, what is it?

12. The 2007 winner of the African Footballer of the
Year played for Mali, but how was he (a player also
for Sevilla FC) a first-time in the award's history since
its inception in the early 90s?

Any team with ten/twelve or more, add +2 to
your score. Four points per question.

Answers :
1. Jaye He 2. Haider 3.Sweatworking 4. Shoe-shiners/Boot
Polish wala
5. Hadron Beam Therapy 6. Tunisia ( the dish is shakshouka)
7. Khakaars/ 5 Ks of Sikhism – kesh etc. 8. Tilde is also called x)
Twiddle y) placed over N in Senor.
9) Kerala 10) Beri-beri 11) "We will crush Yamaha" – Honda's
mission slogan 12) Frederic Kenoute was born in France

Let's launch into the quiz with a French painting from 1786. Name the
famous pair depicted here.


Which famous fictional character ( who you've
seen on screen) was born in the King's cages
at Oodeypore, and `...broke the silly lock with
one blow of..." ?

The book, its writer.

1962 quote from
Ch.17 of the book.
"The “control of nature”
is a phrase conceived
in arrogance, born of
the Neanderthal age
of biology and the
convenience of man."

Just throw in the name...

Robert Parish 1,611

1,560

John Stockton 1,504

Karl Malone 1,476

Name the film.

Jason Robards who played
Lt.Gen. Walter C.Short in
this 1970 film happened
to be a witness to the
actual event that had
taken place a few decades
ago.
Akira Kurosawa was to be
invited to direct a section
of the film, but eventually
that didn't happen.

Your couturier, perhaps....

This bodybuilder created
the famous black dress
worn by Demi Moore in
the 1993 movie, Indecent
Proposal. He directed the
video for George Michael's
Too Funky in 1992, and
was artistic advisor and
costume designer for
Beyonce's 2009 world
Tour.


The name now
refers to the specific
style of bag with a
drawstring closure,
though it can also be
any bag made of
thick fabric used to
carry luggage or
sports equipment.

Here's a Sunday question:

The most frequent
occurrences of a
person's name in the
Bible is ________, which
occurs 1,085 times,
followed by JESUS,
which occurs 973 times.

Then comes the name of
_________, which occurs
829 times.


This depicts a famous
abduction in mythology
( we've already had a
question on Troy). Name
the perpetrator and the
victim.
You can bet the victim's
mother was distraught.

Name the four west European cities ( as taught to US school students)
 In the Middle Ages, the
Mediterranean and the
Baltic Seas were used as the
highways of commerce.
Genoa and Venice were the
main centers where the
merchants of Asia and
Europe gathered. But the
discovery of America and of
a sea-route to the east
made the Atlantic, the chief
highway of commerce. Q, R,
S and T were now the
centers of commercial
activity.

Identify the work, and name its inspiration.
...an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song...
Mount Abora is said to be the same
as the Hill of Amara in the book that
inspired the poet - "There are two
Temples, built before the Raigne of the
Queene of Saba, one in honour of the
Sunne, the other of the Moone, the most
magnificent in all Ethiopia".


Thomas Moore's
(d.1852) poem:
The harp that once through
_______'s halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on
_______'s walls
As if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of
former days,
So glory's thrill is o'er...
... some heart indignant
breaks,
To show that still she lives.

The capital of the
ancient Videha
kingdom(Vardhaman
Mahavira is said to have
lived here) is identified
as which present-day
town in Dhanusa district
of Nepal?

Name the bard and the title-place.

"My city's fit and noble name resumed,
Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous
beauty, meaning,
A rocky founded island – shores where ever
gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea
waves."


Get a famous name
in science and
philosophy – his first
name and his family
name – a location in
each of these maps
bears the names.
His work with a celebrated collaborator
aided in formulation of Leibniz's
calculus. His full name required.


nemtsy (немцы), nemtsi (немци), nimtsi
(німці), Niemcy, Němci, Nemci, Nijemci, Német
and Nemţi are various words from the region
for a certain set of people. It derives from a
common root which means "mute", whereas
these people use variants of a term which
means "speech" or `the speaking ones' to refer
to themselves.
Name the two groups ( i.e. who refer thus to
whom).

Eek, another abduction question?

When King Agenor of Sidon found his
daughter was missing, he set his 3 sons to
search for her. One went to Africa, one to Asia
and the other smart guy dropped in at the
Oracle of Delphi.
The eldest, didn't find his sister (who Zeus
had abducted) in Africa and after 10
wandering years, settled there and the area
became an advanced region because of his
knowledge. Name it ( the
land/people/civilisation).


On August 29, 1952
at Woodstock,NY, an
American pianist
David Tudor used a
stopwatch to lift and
close the keyboard lid
at three times.
Explain.

...rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight...

This artist separated from his then spouse, a
month before his birthday in 2006, thus the
answer (in his own case) to a question in a
famous song he composed while in his teens,
is "No". Name the song.


Late 80s California
band won a Best Rock
Album Grammy (an
award they won again
recently) for their 2004
rock opera which sold
5 million copies in the
US. In 2010, a stage
adaptation debuted on
Broadway. Name the
work.

Cultural documentation...

Maharaja Shubhankar (1516-1607) of the
Kharaoire dynasty in Mithila – like some of the
rulers of the region was a great patron of the
performing arts. What is the subject of his tract
Sri Hasta Muktavali, cited as a leading expert
work ?

...ask not for whom the...

In 1796-97, during Napoleon's military
campaign in northern Italy, mainly against the
Austrians, Baron Jean Larrey's special design
using two or four wheels was put into practice,
and pioneered a concept that came to be
adopted worldwide.
What did he pioneer?


Y. Menuhin wrote from
London in 1964: "
_______'s _______ ____
______ will, I hope, enable
many to follow his
example and to become
the teachers whom
mankind so sorely needs.
If this book will serve to
spread this basic art and
will ensure that it is
practised at the highest
level, I shall feel more
than ever grateful for
having shared in its
presentation." FITB.

Connect the two.

Richard Towneley
was a late 17th
c.
Englishman who liked
to go up to his
house's roof. He
installed a funnel
there, and used the
base area of the
funnel's cone to make
a certain calculation.

"But there's one thing
I know
The blues they send to
meet me won't defeat
me
It won't be long till
happiness steps up to
greet me."

Connect the poem to the picture.

Edwin A.Robinson's
(d.1935) poem:
In fine, we thought that he was
everything
To make us wish that we were in his
place.
So on we worked, and waited for the
light,
And went without the meat, and
cursed the bread;
And _______ ______, one calm summer
night,
Went home and .... ..... ... ....

Name the two places in Yeats' famous poem.

Far called, our navies melt
away;
On dune and headland sinks
the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of
yesterday
Is one with _____ and ____
Judge of the Nations, spare
us yet,
Lest we forget – lest we
forget!

Connect the verse with the picture – clues are a
Bach cello suite, Max von Sydow (1961)

When I was a child, I spoke as
a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child:
But when I became a man, I put
away childish things.
For now we see ... ... ........ ...... ;
but then face to face: Now I
know in part;
( from Corinthians I)

Supply the missing phrases in English

XIII
Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Ah, ................. ..... ............ ...... .........
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!


What is the structure
in front of which you
see the statue?
On 15-6-1961,
against which Latin
American side did the
star score a hat-trick
in less than 20
minutes, in a French
tournament?

Height of foster-parenting.....

According to the Persian fable,
who brought up the wise
whitehaired Prince Zal of Seistan,
on top of Mount Elbrus?
As an infant, he'd been
abandoned, but was reclaimed in
his youth to be coronated.


What got killed
(which had eyes of
flame) when the
vorpal blade went
snicker-snack?

Ten point question – open to all, write your five
answers.

Carl Sandburg's poem "GRASS"
Pile the bodies high at ________ and _____,
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at __________
And pile them high at _____ and ______.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work. ( Visual clues follow )

So name the five places/fields...

Get clever now....

In 2010, in a strategy to top the UK chart
during X'Mas, artists including Mr.Hudson,
The Kooks, Enter Shikari, Heaven 17, Suggs
and Pendulum, Billy Bragg and Imogen Heap
kept entirely quiet in the studio, however it
placed only at No.21 on the chart. What did
this collection of artists call themselves?

What's the good word?

In horse-racing, the
term is used for
events where only
female horses take
part.

A holder used in flax
or wool spinning.

Associated with
domesticity.


During the War of Mexico at
the start of the 19th
c., a
prominent soldier and
politician asked a firm to
supply 1000 weapons which he
ordered to be strictly identical.
Thought the famous
company engaged Eli Whitney
Jr. To help in standardisation, it
wasn't possible because of no
automation.

In 1876, a household
appliance Co.( which made
75 mm cannons during WW
One) was the first to achieve
standardisation, it went on to
become an ubiquitous brand,
and owned an early landmark
in New York City.


The music composed for the Austrian emperor
Francis II and performed in Feb.1797 was used
officially by various regimes. It came back into
official use being adopted in mid-20th
c.
It is also the second movement of the
composer's string quartet Op.76, No.3.
Name the composer, and its current song title.

What a misadventure....

Medusa got snakes
for hair because she
had sex in the holy
temple of Athena.
Because of
desecration and
insult, she was
punished with
ugliness. Who was
she with?

Name these two people who impacted industry and
pioneered in their fields.

"A stable competitive
market never has more
than three significant
competitors, the largest of
which has no more than
four times the market
share of the smallest."

"Costs characteristically
decline by 20-30% in real
terms each time
accumulated experience
doubles."

"The desire to stand well
with one's fellows, the so-
called human instinct of
association, easily
outweighs the merely
individual interest adn the
logic of reasoning upon
which so many spurious
principles of management
are based."


In the 1550s, an anatomy professor at Padua
University (Italy) came up with the idea of
using washed pig intestines to prevent the
spread of a certain disease. How was it put to
use?


After observing North Africans,
this American said the progress
of word-of-mouth rumour in Arab
country is 40-60 miles a day.
So many decades before the
concept of web velocity of a
viral.
Who was this much-admired
American?


On 17th
Feb.,1864, Capt. Horace
Hunley of the Confederate
vessel H.L.Hunley sank the
Housatonic near Charleston.
What was historic in this?

Name the artist, and also the subject of the TV biopic.

The song was recorded to lobby for a US
national holiday in January as a tribute, which
became a reality in 1986, with all States
joining by 2000.
The artist also sang this while attending the
premiere of the TV biopic of someone, for
that person's 89th
birthday.

Identify.

Teaches philosophy
in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and has written
a trilogy of novels :
Spurious
Dogma
Exodus

Question on European finance....

When the Vienna Philharmonic
came to Paris in 1900 to play at
the Exposition Universelle, the
concerts were poorly attended
so it was a financial loss. The
celebrated conductor (who
made his US debut in 1908) was
lent money to pay for their
return fare.
Name the borrower and who gave
the money.


Explain the
object of
interest in
exact terms.


Name this mythical
squirrel ( its name means
drilling-tooth) which runs
up and down the tree
carrying tales from/about
the eagle Hraesvelgr,
perched atop the tree to
Niohoggr, a dragon that is
chewing up the tree's
base.

Name the two respective subjects in the
portraits.

From the mandi.

A) Give the family name
of the couple who wrote
this.
B) Complete its subtitle:
__________ Recipes to Win
Friends and Influence
____ - ______

Thanks! Hope it's been fun.

Invocation song : Babaji by SuperTramp. Book - Autobiography
of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

Dave Van Ronk would have been part of Peter, Paul and Mary -
the folk trio which might have been Peter, Dave and Mary.

Hiccup is a Hairy Hooligan and works with Gobber, the
blacksmith.

Basavanna of Karnataka, who reciprocated the devotion of a
cobbler, Haralayya who made shoes for him out of his own hide.

"The World's Greatest Player" - Eric Clapton's 1975 album.

Bishnoi ( from Twentynine, and not from Vishnu) - Guru
Jambheswar.
Chikangunya fever

Lysozyme and Penicillin ( Sir. A. Fleming in the 1920s )

Maithili, Linguistic Survey of India ( Bhaasha question /
Grierson )

X-Games from ESPN

Thich Nhat Han is in southern France. Martin Luther King Jr.
nominated him for his pacifist role in the Vietnam conflict.

NOTATIONS - the written round

1.Jaya He 2.Haider 3. Sweatworking 4. Boot Polish wala /Shoe-shine 5. Hadron Beam Therapy 6. Tunisia
( the dish is shakshouka) 7. Khakaars/ 5 Ks of Sikhism – kesh etc. 8. Tilde is also called x) Twiddle y) placed over
N in Senor. 9) Kerala 10) Beri-beri 11) "We will crush Yamaha" – Honda's mission slogan 12) Frederic Kenoute
was born in France.

SLIDE TWENTYONE : Paris and Helen in J L David's paintiing SLIDE TWENTYTWO : Bagheera in The Jungle
Book SLIDE TWENTYTHREE: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Slide 24: Karim Abdul Jabbar NBA ALL-TIME MOST
APPEARANCES SLide 25 : TORA TORA TORA Slide 26 : Thierry Mugler SLide 27 : Duffel bag from Duffel,
Belgium. Also things like Duffel Coat. SLide 28 : David and Moses Slide 29: Pluto and Persephone ( Hades and
Proserpine, if you like). Slide 30: Antwerp, Lisbon, London, Amsterdam ( in the vertical order of visuals) Slide 31 :
Kubla Khan, Samuel Purchas's Pilgrimage Slide 32: TARA, the O' Hara estate in Margaret Mitchell's novel. Slide
33. Janakpur Slide 34 : Walt Whitman - Mannahatta ( accept Manhattan) Slide 35 : Blaise Pascal ( St.Blaise
Church in Amboli, Andheri and Pascal Wadi on Madh Island_ ) SLide 36: "Mute" for the Germanic people - those
are Slavic words, while "slovo" means speech.

Slide 37: Phoenicia ( Punicia) from Prince Phoenix, the son of King Agenor. Slide 38: The pianist premiered the
John Cage composition 4:33 ( a silent piece ). Slide 39: When I'm 64 ( Paul McCartney, Heather Mills left him before
his 64th birthday). Slide 40: American Idiot by Green Day Slide 41: A study of Hand Gestures in Dance Forms
Slide 42 : Field Ambulances Slide 43: B K S Iyengar's "Light On Yoga" Slide 44: Invented the rain gauge, concept
of mm of rainfall, the words are from "Raindrops keep falling on my head"

Slide 45 : The poem is Richard Cory, and Simon and Garfunkel had a hit song on the theme in their Sounds of
Silence album (cover pic).

Slide 46: Nineveh and Tyre ( rhyming with away and fire ). Slide 47: Through a Glass Darkly, Ingmar Bergman's film
Slide 48: Take the Cash, and Let The Credit Go Slide 49: Benfica Stadium, Lisbon. The rival side was Santos. The
player is Eusebio. Slide 50: Simurgh, the giant bird Slide 51: Jabberwock, in the Lewis Carroll poem.

Slide 52: Austerlitz, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Ypres, Verdun. SLide 56: "CAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE" - they were
"performing" John Cage's 4:33

Slide 57: Distaff Slide 58: Zachary Taylor, Samuel Colt, Singer Sewing Co. Slide 59: Joseph Haydn,
Deutscheland Uber Alles, the German National Anthem adopted by FRG in 1950. Slide 60: Poseidon Slide 61:
Bruce Doolin Henderson, founder of BCG consultancy, and Elton Mayo, pioneer of Human Relations/industrial
psychology at Harvard. Sliide 62: Fallopio experimented successfully with condoms to check syphilis. Slide 63: Gen.
George Patton Slide 64: H.L.Hunley was a submarine, it was the first submarine combat strike in history. Slide 65:
Stevie Wonder wrote "Happy Birthday" to campaign for Martin Luther King's birthday to be a national holiday, and
sang it for Rosa Parks's birthday. Slide 66: Lars Iyer Slide 67 : Cherubim mountain near Sednaya in Syria where a
Russian foundation is putting up a giant statue of Christ in the desert despite the fragile military situation there.

Slide 68: Gustav Mahler, the Rothschilds lent the money Sllide 69: It is a candelabra for Hanukkah, that is built into a
turkey shape because the day in 2013 coincided with Thanksgiving Day - this cultural artefact was created to
represent thecoincidence and became a fad.

Slide 70: Ratotoskr, in Norse myth. Slide 71: Painter is Modigliani, the portrait is that of Picasso. The first one is
Picasso's portrait of Modigliani Slide 72: Goldbecks (Nikki and David). Vegetarian recipes to influence the Meat-
Eaters.

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