i couldn't come up with a name - gen quiz (prelims)

Names are for sissies

Prelims

26 Questions (Why 26?)

Starred questions are … marked with a star (No surprises there)

#1

Mahatma Gandhi and Joseph Stalin are the

second and third most common among searches

on individuals in the Nobel Peace Prize nomination

database. Stalin was nominated in „45 and 48 and

Gandhi around five times between ‟37 and ‟48.

Who‟s the first?

#2

This 2003 book portrays the event held in

Reykjavik in 1972 against the backdrop of

cold war politics which “held the world

spellbound for two months with reports of

psychological warfare, ultimatums, political

intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a

Marx Brothers film.”

What has been blanked out?

#3

Basically a chemical compound (functional group)

consisting of Carbon atom triple bonded to a

Nitrogen Atom, its name stems from the Greek

“dark blue” so called because it first had been

obtained by heating the dye pigment powder

known as Prussian blue.

What?

#4

It is said that it was X‟s Persian translation of the

Upanishads Sirr-e-Akbar (The Greatest Mystery) in the

seventeenth century that first attracted the attention of

Western intellectuals. In the introduction, he boldly

speculates that the work referred to in the Qur'an as the

Kitab al-maknun or the hidden book, is none other than

the Upanishads itself.

Who?

#5

Google has several funny hidden features built in its

program. For example, searching for “Anagram” will result

in Google asking if you meant “Nag A Ram.” (Searching

for “Define Anagram” will result in Google asking if you

mean “Nerd Fame Again.”)

Typing “the answer to the ultimate question of life, the

universe, and everything“ in the calculator, one gets 42 as

the answer.

By what name are such features called in general?

#6

In a interview with the BBC, J K Rowling said that she found

these novels “sinister” because “they never had a

hormonal impulse - except that Anne was sometimes told

that she would make someone a good little wife whenever

she unlaid the picnic things”.

In another with The Guardian, “I don't want Harry stuck in a

state of permanent pre-pubescence like poor Julian…”

Which work, which recently celebrated its 70th anniversary

was she referring to?

#7 Whose house do you see in the

background?

#8

There are only a couple of stories where X is shown to be wearingsomething that remotely resembles Y. The original illustrators decidedto go with it as that thing was the only one which came close to thedescription provided by the author.

But the accesory is traditionally a rural outdoorsman's, notappropriate for the properly dressed urban gentleman. Sidney Pagetand the other contemporaneous illustrators who portrayed X aswearing this always placed him in the proper setting for such attire,travelling cross-country or operating in a rural outdoor setting. Lateruninformed depictions of X that depict him wearing this in the cityfail to take into account that the fashion-conscious X would nevercommit such a sartorial faux pas.

Id X (surname) and Y.

#9 Who?

#10

In the Simpsons episode Elementary School Musical where

Krusty wins the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin has a bet on this

person winning it for economics. Many say he should have

won along with Paul Krugman who built on his theories of

international trade.

Identify this other argumentative Indian.

(Image in next slide)

#11

A famous 1968 Hindi song was copied from this

1963 piece.

Name the Hindi version.

Also, give me the singer here.

https://soundcloud.com/user376267304/margu

erita-1963?in=user376267304/sets/names-are-

for-sissies-preli

#12 What is (was) being parodied

here?

#13

Though she (X) is well known for the sheer political

power she maintained over the throne with

extraordinary levels of nepotism, we know her more

because of something which resulted out of her crafty

arrangement to marry her niece Arjumand Banu

Begum with Prince Khurram.

The upcoming Chitrangada Singh, Amitabh Bachhan,

Rishi Kapoor starrer Pehle Aap Janab was formerly

titled X, with Ms Singh playing the titular role. The

name of the movie/ her real name(X) is what I want.

#14 Cosmic Gall by John Updike.

What‟s the subject?

“They snub the most exquisite gas,

Ignore the most substantial wall,

Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,

Insult the stallion in his stall,

And, scorning barriers of class,

Infiltrate you and me! Like tall

And painless guillotines, they fall

Down through our heads into the grass.

At night, they enter at Nepal

And pierce the lover and his lass

From underneath the bed – you call

It wonderful; I call it crass.”

#15

The Icelandic naming system is not based on

family names. A surname indicates the first name

of the person‟s father or mother. For example, Mr.

Jón Einarsson‟s son Ólafur would be called Ólafur

Jonsson.

Similarly, if Thor (the Norse God) is Thor Odinson,

what is Odin‟s full name?

#16

What does

this index

measure?

#17

In addition to the four classical elements (water,

earth, fire, air), Aristotle added Ether, the omnipresent

medium said to permeate all things. Unlike the other

classical elements, ether remained completely

passive, not changing, hence pure.

Which word in the modern English vocabulary, used

to mean “the perfect embodiment” of something

refers to this addition?

During the 1962 war The PLA soldiers on the indo-Tibet border,

taunted Indian soldiers by shaking, defiantly, high in the air, their

pocket-sized, bright-red copies of Quotations from Chairman

Mao-better known in the West as "Mao's Little Red Book.“

Balasubramanian, then a conscript on the border studying in his

spare time, soon grew tired of these taunts. So one day, as soon

as the PLA soldiers started waving Mao's Little Red Book in the

air again, he and two fellow Indian soldiers picked up and held

aloft the three big, bright-red volumes of The Y. He wrote to me

and after recounting the "red-books" incident on the Sino-

Indian frontier saying "Now, twenty years later, whose red books

are still being read?

-Paraphrased from the foreword of the book(Y).

Identify Y and the author.

#18

#19

The term was first coined by Mahatma

Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of

John Ruskin‟s Unto This Last. It stands for

“Universal upliftment or progress of all”.

Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal

of his own political philosophy. Identify.

#20

#21Her father, Alfred Kroeber earned the first Ph.D. in

anthropology in the United States from Columbia

University. He went on to establish the second

anthropology department at UC Berkeley.

Her mother, Theodora Kroeber, a respected anthropologist

too, is best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member

of the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of

traditional narratives from several Native Californian

cultures. These accounts were also the basis for a 1992

movie The Last of His Tribe Jon Voight and Graham

Greene.

Who is their more famous daughter?

#22

The following appeared in a 1968 issue of a teen

magazine called Fave. The magazine had

apparently published a letter addressed to Y the

month before, written by a mixed-race girl who

was having trouble finding her place. Y was

moved and penned a detailed response that

didn‟t just offer words of courage, but concrete

advice on how to overcome.

(image in the next slide)

Id X.

X

Y

#23Similarities between the Beatles and which band?

1. First hit is a sped-up version of a slow ballad.

2. First appearance: Lennon is accompanied by the caption,"Sorry Girls, He's Married". With X, it is, "Careful Girls, He'sEngaged“.

3. Both acts first reach fame after replacing their originaldrummer.

4. Each group loses its original bass player.

5. Group manager is gay.

6. Girlfriend gets mistaken for a female fan, stopped by thepolice from following the band. Unlike what happens with X,no one comes back to retrieve Cynthia Lennon.

#24

Hermione Granger: "I mean, you could

claim that anything's real if the only basis for

believing in it is that nobody's proved it

doesn't exist!“

X: "Yes, you could. I am glad to see that you

are opening your mind a little.“

Id X, whose name literally translates into

“One who loves the strange”.

#25

Variations of the phrase apparently go as far back as SamuelRichardson‟s Clarissa (mid 18th century)

“And it teaches me to be covetous of time; the only thing of whichwe can be allowably covetous; since _____________ in this world;

Goethe is supposed to have used it in his play Clavigo (mid 19th) asthe title of a waltz - "Man lebt nur einmal!“.

And then we have Sinatra on his 50th birthday: “I expect to swing for50 more. ______________ … I stole that from Joe E. Lewis.”

It was also the title of a 1937 noir film starring Henry Fonda and SylviaSidney.

Which phrase? And who is it popularly attributed to today?

#26

The earlier name was an adaptation of a word

which means “river that swallows all rivers”. The

referenced river also happens to be the world‟s

deepest and the second largest by volume of

water discharged.

Today, it is known by the name of the ancient

kingdom which first inhabited the lands at the

mouth of the river. By what name was it known

before?

Answers

#1

Mahatma Gandhi and Joseph Stalin are the

second and third most common among searches

on individuals in the Nobel Peace Prize nomination

database. Stalin was nominated in „45 and 48 and

Gandhi around five times between ‟37 and ‟48.

Who‟s the first?

Adolf Hitler

#2

This 2003 book portrays the event held in

Reykjavik in 1972 against the backdrop of

cold war politics which “held the world

spellbound for two months with reports of

psychological warfare, ultimatums,

political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to

rival a Marx Brothers film.”

What has been blanked out?

#3

Basically a chemical compound (functional

group) consisting of Carbon atom triple bonded to

a Nitrogen Atom, its name stems from the Greek

“dark blue” so called because it first had been

obtained by heating the dye pigment powder

known as Prussian blue.

What?

Cyanide

From Greek kyanos, from which comes cyan.

#4

It is said that it was X‟s Persian translation of theUpanishads Sirr-e-Akbar (The Greatest Mystery) in the

seventeenth century that first attracted the attention

of Western intellectuals. In the introduction, he boldly

speculates that the work referred to in the Qur'an asthe Kitab al-maknun or the hidden book, is none other

than the Upanishads itself.

Who?

Dara Shikoh

#5

Google has several funny hidden features built in its

program. For example, searching for “Anagram” will result

in Google asking if you meant “Nag A Ram.” (Searching

for “Define Anagram” will result in Google asking if you

mean “Nerd Fame Again.”)

Typing “the answer to the ultimate question of life, the

universe, and everything“ in the calculator, one gets 42 as

the answer.

By what name are such features called in general?

Easter Eggs

#6

In a interview with the BBC, J K Rowling said that she found

these novels “sinister” because “they never had a

hormonal impulse - except that Anne was sometimes told

that she would make someone a good little wife whenever

she unlaid the picnic things”.

In another with The Guardian, “I don't want Harry stuck in a

state of permanent pre-pubescence like poor Julian…”

Which work, which recently celebrated its 70th anniversary

was she referring to?

#7 Whose house do you see in the

background?

Gregory House‟s House

#8

There are only a couple of stories where X is shown to be wearing something

that remotely resembles Y. The original illustrators decided to go with it as

that thing was the only one which came close to the description provided

by the author.

But the accesory is traditionally a rural outdoorsman's, not appropriate for

the properly dressed urban gentleman. Sidney Paget and the other

contemporaneous illustrators who portrayed X as wearing this always

placed him in the proper setting for such attire, travelling cross-country or

operating in a rural outdoor setting. Later uninformed depictions of X that

depict him wearing this in the city fail to take into account that the fashion-

conscious X would never commit such a sartorial faux pas.

Id X (surname) and Y.

Holmes; Deerstalker Hat

#9 Who?

Kevin Systrom, Mike Kreiger.

Founders of Instagram.

#10

In the Simpsons episode Elementary School Musical where

Krusty wins the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin has a bet on this

person winning it for economics. Many say he should have

won along with Paul Krugman who built on his theories of

international trade.

Identify this other argumentative Indian.

(Image in next slide)

Jagdish Bhagwati

#11

A famous 1968 Hindi song was copied from this

1963 piece.

Name the Hindi version.

Also, give me the singer here.

https://soundcloud.com/user376267304/marguerita-

1963?in=user376267304/sets/names-are-for-sissies-

preli

Kaun Hai Jo Sapne Mein Aaya; Elvis Presley

https://soundcloud.com/user376267304/kaun-hai-jo-

sapnon-mein-aaya?in=user376267304/sets/names-

are-for-sissies-preli

#12 What is (was) being parodied

here?

Lucent‟s logo – The innovation ring

#13

Though she (X) is well known for the sheer political power

she maintained over the throne with extraordinary levels of

nepotism, we know her more because of something which

resulted out of her crafty arrangement to marry her neice

Arjumand Banu Begum with Prince Khurram.

The upcoming Chitrangada Singh, Amitabh Bachhan, Rishi

Kapoor starrer Pehle Aap Janab was formerly titled X, with

Ms Singh playing the titular role. The name of the movie/

her real name(X) is what I want.

Mehr-un-Nissa

#14 Cosmic Gall by John Updike.

What‟s the subject?

“They snub the most exquisite gas,

Ignore the most substantial wall,

Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,

Insult the stallion in his stall,

And, scorning barriers of class,

Infiltrate you and me! Like tall

And painless guillotines, they fall

Down through our heads into the grass.

At night, they enter at Nepal

And pierce the lover and his lass

From underneath the bed – you call

It wonderful; I call it crass.”

Neutrinos

#15

The Icelandic naming system is not based on

family names. A surname indicates the first name

of the person‟s father or mother. For example, Mr.

Jón Einarsson‟s son Ólafur would be called Ólafur

Jonsson.

Similarly, if Thor (the Norse God) is Thor Odinson,

what is Odin‟s full name?

Odin All-father

#16

What does

this index

measure?

Purchasing Power Parity

(The Big Mac Index)

#17

In addition to the four classical elements (water, earth, fire, air), Aristotle added Ether, the omnipresent

medium said to permeate all things. Unlike the other

classical elements, ether remained completely

passive, not changing, hence pure.

Which word in the modern English vocabulary, used

to mean “the perfect embodiment” of something

refers to this addition?

Answer

Quintessence (The Fifth Essence)

During the 1962 war The PLA soldiers on the indo-Tibet

border, taunted Indian soldiers by shaking, defiantly, high in

the air, their pocket-sized, bright-red copies of Quotations

from Chairman Mao-better known in the West as "Mao's Little

Red Book.“ Balasubramanian, then a conscript on the border

studying in his spare time, soon grew tired of these taunts. So

one day, as soon as the PLA soldiers started waving Mao's

Little Red Book in the air again, he and two fellow Indian

soldiers picked up and held aloft the three big, bright-red

volumes of The Y. He wrote to me and after recounting the

"red-books" incident on the Sino-Indian frontier saying "Now,

twenty years later, whose red books are still being read?

-Paraphrased from the foreword of the book(Y).

Identify Y and the author.#18

The Feynman Lectures,

Richard Feynman

#19

The term was first coined by Mahatma Gandhi as

the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin‟s Unto

This Last. It stands for “Universal upliftment or

progress of all”. Gandhi came to use the term for

the ideal of his own political philosophy. Identify.

Sarvodaya

#20

#21

Her father, Alfred Kroeber earned the first Ph.D. in

anthropology in the United States from Columbia University.

He went on to establish the second anthropology

department at UC Berkeley.

Her mother, Theodora Kroeber, a respected anthropologist

too, is best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of

the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of traditional

narratives from several Native Californian cultures. These

accounts were also the basis for a 1992 movie The Last of His

Tribe Jon Voight and Graham Greene.

Who is their more famous daughter?

Ursula Kroeber LeGuin

#22

The following appeared in a 1968 issue of a teen

magazine called Fave. The magazine had

apparently published a letter addressed to Y the

month before, written by a mixed-race girl who

was having trouble finding her place. Y was

moved and penned a detailed response that

didn‟t just offer words of courage, but concrete

advice on how to overcome.

1

2

1 - Vulcan

#23

Similarities between the Beatles and which band?

1. First hit is a sped-up version of a slow ballad.

2. First appearance: Lennon is accompanied by the caption, "Sorry

Girls, He's Married". With X, it is, "Careful Girls, He's Engaged“.

3. Both acts first reach fame after replacing their original drummer.

4. Each group loses its original bass player.

5. Group manager is gay.

6. Girlfriend gets mistaken for a female fan, stopped by the police from

following the band. Unlike what happens with X, no one comes back

to retrieve Cynthia Lennon.

#24

Hermione Granger: "I mean, you could claim that

anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that

nobody's proved it doesn't exist!“

X: "Yes, you could. I am glad to see that you are opening

your mind a little.“

Id X, whose name literally translates into “One who loves

the strange”.

Xenophilius Lovegood

#25

Variations of the phrase apparently go as far back as Samuel Richardson‟s Clarissa (mid 18th century)

“And it teaches me to be covetous of time; the only thing of which we can be allowably covetous; since _____________ in this world;

Goethe is supposed to have used it in his play Clavigo (mid 19th) as the title of a waltz - "Man lebt nur einmal!“.

And then we have Sinatra on his 50th birthday: “I expect to swing for 50 more. ______________ … I stole that from Joe E. Lewis.”

It was also the title of a 1937 noir film starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney.

Which phrase? And who is it popularly attributed to today?

#YOLO; Drake

#26

The earlier name was an adaptation of a word which

means “river that swallows all rivers”. The referenced river

also happens to be the world‟s deepest and the second

largest by volume of water discharged.

Today, it is known by the name of the ancient kingdom

which first inhabited the lands at the mouth of the river. By

what name was it known before?

Zaire River, now the Congo river;

Kingdom of Kongo