Most of the people who attempted the quiz got the Stage II this time around. And some with just three to four answers. Please find the answers and scores below. The cummulative scores from all the quizzes will be updated shortly
1. Identify
I’ll accept two answers for this question, though only one connects to the theme
Answer: The symbol of Swatantra Party.
I said I’ll accept two answers. This is also known as the Bonnie Blue Flag. This used to be the flag of the shortlived Republic of West Florida. Also, the current flag of Somalia.
Full points to anyone who has answered with any of the above
Can’t give it for first flag of Texas, as that had a yellow star on it
2. The two-word name of a place in West Bengal has many theories attached to it’s etymology. Whereas the second word is sanskrit for roaming around, there’s considerable amount of confusion with respect to the origins of the first word. Some say that the first word comes from the Bengali word ’sankoch’. Some beleive it is named after the river Sankosh on the banks of which this place lies. Yet another theory says that name comes from the area where Kochkumari and Mahadev used to roam about
What place?
Answer: Cooch Behar or Koch Behar. Cracked by one and all
3. Given below is a list of items stolen from X in 2004
a)Baluchari Sari used by Mrinalini Devi(ornamented with Zari)
b)Pair of cuff-links
c)Walking Stick with gold top
d)Samurai Sword
e)Bronze Medal from Yale University
f)Gold Pocket Watch with monogram ‘RT’
and the most prized possession of them all
g) Y
Identify X and Y
It’s an incomplete list, by the way
Answer: Shantiniketan and Rabindra Nath Tagore’s Nobel Prize
4. Delicacies prepared here used to be sold under the brand name of TJ Special in the early 90s (I’m not really sure if the brand still exists). It’s last name, for a brief period of time in the 90s, was changed to Ashram on the insistence of the person who was running the place at that time. What are we talking about?
Answer: Tihar Jail. (The person who wanted it named Tihar Ashram is Kiran Bedi)
5. The __________ Stadium has hosted a solitary Test match, between India and Pakistan, in February 1987, when Pakistan President General Zia-ul-Haq crossed the border to watch the second day’s play as part of his “Cricket for Peace” initiative. The Test was notable for Younis Ahmed’s return to the Test fray after an absence of over 17 years and also for Sunil Gavaskar’s dismissal to the first ball of the Test match, for the third time in an otherwise illustrious career. The game sputtered to a draw after the third day’s play was abandoned following heavy rain and a controversy over the alleged deposition of sawdust on the wicket which Pakistan objected to
Fill in the blank.
Answer: Sawai Maan Singh Stadium
6.
Person in the first pic clicked a photograph that created a lot of controversy as people beleived that it upheld racial stereotypes by showing someone in a manner that resembled the second and third photographs. What snap are we talking about or who did she click the snap for?
Answer: The snap on the cover of Vogue depicting Lebron James as the Mad Brute
The photographer is of course, Annie Leibovitz
7.
Whose photograph should the fourth one be?
Answer: Leela Naidu.
She acted in a movie called Yeh Raaste hain Pyaar Ke with Sunil Dutt, which was inspired by the landmark case of Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra.
8.
Put Funda
Answer: This is the Harrods in London. They had a cobra guarding an expensive pair of Shoes. The cobra cost them nearly as much as the shoes. It was innovative alright, but was insensitive and senseless as well. Could’ve done with a strong lock
9. The people whom X patronised include Dr B R Ambedkar, Dada Bhai Naoroji (who was a Dewan
to X in 1874) and Aurobindo Ghosh (who was offered a job at the Baroda college). X was a noted patron of the arts as well. During his reign, Baroda became a hub for artists and scholars. The celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma, was among those who spent substantial periods of time at his court. Who is X?
Clue: A road in Mysore is named after him
Answer: Maharaja Saiyaji Rao Gaekwad III
10. This verse gets its name from the style in which it’s written. It adopts the ________ metre, which is typically three lines with each line consisting of 8 syllables. What verse?
Answer: Gayatri Mantra. Only Srinivas Got this right. Gayatri Mantra gets its name from the Gayatri metre of writing verses as explained in the question
The Connect is of course Maharani Gayatri Devi
1. Contested from Swatantra party’s ticket
2. Born in Cooch Behar
3. Studied in Shantiniketan
4. Spent time in Tihar Jail
5. Married to Sawai Man Singh
6. Voted as the most beautiful blah blah blah by Vogue
7. Leela Naidu also mentioned on the same list
8. This one’s probably the only one that one might consider a bit vague.
I had read somewhere the day she died that as a kid she used to shop so much at Harrod’s (was virtually her second home) that her parents founD it difficult to afford the bill .
9. Was his Grand daughter
10. Duh!
Scores:
Varun Shenoy – 8
Gaurav Dasgupta – 12
Anirban – 9
Uma – 1
Nirad Inamdar – 9
Srinivas Gopal P K – 14
Ratnakar (Techie) – 10
Mayura G – 3
Ratnakar Kulkarni – 8 (Why didn’t you go for the stage 2 ?)
Caumbiah – 3
Kunal – 5
Debajyoti Adhikari – 1
Achaiah – 3
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