atlantis '16 travel and living quiz

TRAVEL AND LIVING ATLANTIS ‘16

vishal katariya5 august 2016

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THE QUIZ

34 questions, 35 points

part points wherever applicable

no negatives anywhere, feel free to guess

questions 11 to 18 are starred, and will be used to break ties

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1.X is a meal replacement beverage that’s advertised as a ‘staple meal’. Founder Rob Rhinehart started the company after blending together the main constituents of his meal to avoid the complications of cooking. The name is a portmanteau of two words describing the main ingredients of X, and is a homage to the food consumed by people in the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room!. Increasing in popularity in the US, what is X that is drunk in units of 400 calorie bottles?

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2.Describing the travels of X and Alberto Granado on a motorcycle named La Poderosa (the mighty one) for a rather symbolic nine months, this memoir has been a New York Times bestseller multiple times. It was originally marketed as “Das Kapital meets Easy Rider” and describes a coming-of-age story that is both personal and political. The memoir ends with a declaration by the author displaying his willingness to fight and die for the cause of the poor, and his dream of uniting his homeland (*). Who is X, and what is the name of the memoir?

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3.Built by X in the 1930s, the Kauffman Residence is an icon of modern architecture. It was designed as a summer home for the Kauffmans. It was claimed by Time magazine to be X’s ‘most beautiful job’. It was also named, in 1991 as the ‘best all-time work of American architecture’.

The building was constructed in rural Pennsylvania in a property which had waterfalls and cabins. This building was commissioned after the aforementioned cabins had deteriorated. What building is this, and who was the architect?

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4.The building in the previous question is part of the Smithsonian’s 28 Places to See Before You Die list, figuring in the Triumphs of Vision category. Another of the four entries in this group is the X. The palazzo that houses X was designed and built in the 16th century.

Ever since it was opened to the public in 1769, it has been come to be known for its collection of Renaissance art, it being one of the world’s finest, housing both Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as well as da Vinci’s Annunciation. X?

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5.Forming a part of the city’s flag, the Table Mountain is a veritable tourist attraction in Cape Town. The Table Mountain is an example of an X, which is a geographic entity that is used as an intermediary between a plateau and a butte. The word X is used throughout the US to describe a flat-topped mountain or hill. Additionally, the word X is both Spanish and Portuguese for ‘table’. X?

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6.US law prevents the sale of these animals as pets when they are under 4 inches long as they are known carriers of salmonella, like all reptiles. Sulcata ________s are one of these that have become very popular as pets, although this boom has been founded on misinformation. Apparently they eat “anything vegetarian” (which is false) and will stay little if put in a small tank for their whole lives (again false).

Experts say that to protect house foundations, sheds or doghouses should be built in the house’s yard for these pets, heated to 80F year-round.

Sulcata ________s kept in captivity sometimes develop a condition known as ‘pyramiding’, where these ________s develop spikes. FITB.

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Castle Garden is a circular sandstone fort located in Battery Park. It’s best remembered for being the precursor to X, another place very close to Castle Garden which is more famous for the same reason.

What is X?

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8.The Museum of broken _____________ is a one-of-a-kind museum that has won various awards, including the Kenneth Hudson Award for the most innovative museum in Europe. On their website, they say that it grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed _____________ and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed _____________, the Museum offers a chance to overcome […] through creation: by contributing to the Museum's collection. FITB.

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On the next slide are two animals that both have two-word names, with one word common. Identify both, one of which is currently extinct.

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10.This phrase originally represented a commitment to building an economy that would serve culture based on Buddhist values, rather than gauging development based on the ideals of western material development. It was coined in 1972. It was studied by scholars, politicians and economists and in 2011, the UN passed resolution 65/309 placing X on the global development agenda. Its four tenets are:

1. Sustainable development

2. Preservation and promotion of cultural values

3. Conservation of the natural environment, and

4. Establishment of good governance

ID this phrase, which is now considered a socioeconomic model.

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11.

The next slide shows something that was closed in 2005 and is currently owned by the city of New Orleans after the original owners terminated their 75-year lease with the city after assessing the damage caused in 2005.

Identify what was shut down, and also what caused its closure?

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This chain describes themselves as “Fast, convenient. X. Thank Heaven.” Very ubiquitous in the countries that it operates in, what is this chain?

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13.Another city that translates to ‘City of the Dead’, X is a port city in Western India. One of the world’s first known docks, X is one of the best preserved cities of the Indus Valley civilization, which thrived for years after the demise of Mohenjodaro and Harappa.

The dock connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea. X?

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14.

Shown next are some pictures that won a particular competition that was conducted in collaboration with National Geographic. What was the USP of the competition?

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15.

The X museum is located in Prague in the Czech Republic. On the next slide is a picture of an exhibit from the museum. Identify who the museum is an homage to.

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16.The Scott’s Hut Race is an annual warm-weather 5.2 mile race, where participants have to circle around Discovery Hut. Another establishment’s counterpart of this race is the ‘Race Around the World’ where one zooms through all the time zones in a pre-ordained two- to three-mile long track. Although most participants run this race for fun, there is a coveted grand prize: a luxurious five-minute X as compared to the two-minute Xs residents are usually allotted. X?

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17.

The next slide shows an old Roman tablet that led historians to conclude that a certain board game was very popular among Roman soldiers. Which game?

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18.

An Atlantic article talks about some of the oldest specimens of graffiti that have survived to this day. The article also says that the fact that the graffiti has survived is ‘part miracle, part tragedy’.

One of the iconic pieces of graffiti at this spot is ‘Gaius was here’. Where would you find this graffiti?

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19.

X is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled with soy sauce, mirin and sugar. The word derives from two words that mean the shine or lustre given by the sugar content in the tare and the method of cooking by grilling.

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20.One of the interesting anecdotes that talks about a possible etymology of the name of an Indian city consists of a British man who asked a peasant stacking hay into a barn for the name of the place. The peasant, who didn’t understand English, told the Englishman that he harvested the crop the previous day. He essentially said ‘harvested yesterday’ in his native language, which the Englishman corrupted slightly and assumed to be the name of the city. Which city is this?

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21.

Australia has an incredibly weird time zone state in the summers. Australia doesn’t fully welcome or embrace daylight saving time and this results in a very weird arrangement of time zones in Australia, one that isn’t found anywhere else in the world. There’s an image on the next slide that probably helps. What is this unique arrangement of time zones?

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22.This coming spring, the X Education Program is helping 20,000 11th graders in New York City public schools learn American history through a series of videos and study guides that _______ helped develop. Participating students write and perform their own musical projects based on historical documents and research. Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, within the next year, these 20000 youngsters will get to attend special, student-only showings on Wednesday afternoons for only $10. What is X?

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23.

the next three questions are connected by the drawing of two types of cards

the fourth question is the connection

+0.5 for each answer

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23A

Also the name of a cigarette manufacturing firm in the US, this two word area in London derives its name from a ball game played here in the 17th century, despite the fact that you might assume that it derives its name from the presence of a big shopping center.

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23B

Standing midway between the main line stations at Euston and Paddington, this was originally the London terminus of the former Great Central Main Line to Sheffield and Manchester. It was opened in 1899 and is the youngest of London’s main line terminal stations.

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23C

An exclusive area of the West End by the east edge of the Hyde Park in the city of Westminster, it is known for its extreme poshness and high concentration of five star hotels. It is now mainly commercial, with many houses converted to corporate offices.

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23D

What is the ‘card drawing’ connection between these three regions?

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24.There is some etiquette involved when placing stones from the bowl onto a Y board. It is considered rude to rattle stones in the bowl. It is also considered improper to hold a number of stones in one’s hand. The accepted procedure is to decide on one’s move, and then pick up a stone, X-style with the index and middle fingers, holding the stone between the index fingernail and the middle fingertip. The stone is then placed onto the board, where one is allowed to make a ‘clicking’ sound as the stone touches the desired position on the board.

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25.

A Quora answer to ‘How do you tell a British tourist in the US?’ has a popular answer which contains, in part, ‘they under-X, not knowing that Ys in the USA are a crime against humanity which they are personally obliged to correct for.’

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26.

The fourth most popular tourist destination (and possibly the least-talked about) in Paris is X’s grave. X came to Paris in 1971 to focus on his writing and to take a break from performing. His death in 1971 gained him entry into a rather ‘elite’ club. He was found death in a bathtub and the supposed reason for his death was a heroin overdose, although an autopsy was never performed. Who is X?

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27.Here you see a map that depicts the X-Y canal, the two words differing only by a single letter. What are X and Y, in any order.

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28.The X, also known as the Barbary Coast, refers to a vast region of North and Northwestern Africa, west of Egypt.

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Y is a capital city whose name sounds like X.

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29.The manufacture of XY is intricate because some of the basic steps involved in its making are repeated many times before the desired amount of bruising and browning is achieved. Withering, rolling, shaping, and firing are similar to black Y, but much more attention to timing and temperature is necessary. One last step, baking or roasting, is exclusive to XY and is referred to as the real art in making this Y.

The name XY came into the English language from the Chinese name meaning “black dragon” Y. In Chinese, XYs are also known as qingcha. What is XY?

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30.This game was invented by a person for his son Christopher Robin. The game involves dropping of sticks upstream of a bridge across a river and the winner is the person who’s stick appears downstream of the bridge first.

Ashdown Forest, in East Sussex, is a beautiful heathland that has become a popular tourist destination because of the work of the father of aforementioned Christopher Robin. One may also play the game described above here. What is the reason for the popularity of Ashdown Forest?

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31.In 1965, intention was announced to build a “universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities”.

The proponent of this idea said that the center of this town would be home to a “Park of Unity”. The center also, now, has a shrine dedicated, in a way (literally speaking, at least), to the very person who proposed the “universal town”.

What is this shrine in this universal town of peace and harmony?

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32.Five Weeks in the Amazon is a book written by a person called Sean Michael Hayes who struggles with depression. He goes into a Peruvian forest to try and sort his feelings out, and spends a month living with shamans and trying out X, a traditional spiritual medicine used in ceremonies by people living in the Amazon basin.

Give X, or the blank on the cover of the book.

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33.

Júzcar is a village in the Andalusian region of Spain which is painted almost entirely blue. The blue colour came up from a marketing campaign by an international entertainment company in 2011. After the subject of marketing died down in popularity, the town just decided to keep the colour they had. What was the reason for painting the town blue?

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34.

This word is used by the ancient Romans to refer to a people who lived in desert areas in and around the Roman province of Arabia, and who were distinguished from Arabs. Y-X is a style of architecture that attained popularity in the 19th century in British India. Some of the most popular buildings of this architecture are found in Chennai. X?

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ANSWERS

please hand in your sheets

answers will be discussed now

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1.X is a meal replacement beverage that’s advertised as a ‘staple meal’. Founder Rob Rhinehart started the company after blending together the main constituents of his meal to avoid the complications of cooking. The name is a portmanteau of two words describing the main ingredients of X, and is a homage to the food consumed by people in the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room!. Increasing in popularity in the US, what is X that is drunk in units of 400 calorie bottles?

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Soylent

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2.Describing the travels of X and Alberto Granado on a motorcycle named La Poderosa (the mighty one) for a rather symbolic nine months, this memoir has been a New York Times bestseller multiple times. It was originally marketed as “Das Kapital meets Easy Rider” and describes a coming-of-age story that is both personal and political. The memoir ends with a declaration by the author displaying his willingness to fight and die for the cause of the poor, and his dream of uniting his homeland (*). Who is X, and what is the name of the memoir?

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Che Guevara, and The Motorcycle Diaries

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3.Built by X in the 1930s, the Kauffman Residence is an icon of modern architecture. It was designed as a summer home for the Kauffmans. It was claimed by Time magazine to be X’s ‘most beautiful job’. It was also named, in 1991 as the ‘best all-time work of American architecture’.

The building was constructed in rural Pennsylvania in a property which had waterfalls and cabins. This building was commissioned after the aforementioned cabins had deteriorated. What building is this, and who was the architect?

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Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright

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4.The building in the previous question is part of the Smithsonian’s 28 Places to See Before You Die list, figuring in the Triumphs of Vision category. Another of the four entries in this group is the X. The palazzo that houses X was designed and built in the 16th century.

Ever since it was opened to the public in 1769, it has been come to be known for its collection of Renaissance art, it being one of the world’s finest, housing both Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as well as da Vinci’s Annunciation. X?

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4.

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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence

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5.Forming a part of the city’s flag, the Table Mountain is a veritable tourist attraction in Cape Town. The Table Mountain is an example of an X, which is a geographic entity that is used as an intermediary between a plateau and a butte. The word X is used throughout the US to describe a flat-topped mountain or hill. Additionally, the word X is both Spanish and Portuguese for ‘table’. X?

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mesa

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6.US law prevents the sale of these animals as pets when they are under 4 inches long as they are known carriers of salmonella, like all reptiles. Sulcata ________s are one of these that have become very popular as pets, although this boom has been founded on misinformation. Apparently they eat “anything vegetarian” (which is false) and will stay little if put in a small tank for their whole lives (again false).

Experts say that to protect house foundations, sheds or doghouses should be built in the house’s yard for these pets, heated to 80F year-round.

Sulcata ________s kept in captivity sometimes develop a condition known as ‘pyramiding’, where these ________s develop spikes. FITB.

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Tortoise

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7.

Castle Garden is a circular sandstone fort located in Battery Park. It’s best remembered for being the precursor to X, another place very close to Castle Garden which is more famous for the same reason.

What is X?

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Ellis Island

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8.The Museum of broken _____________ is a one-of-a-kind museum that has won various awards, including the Kenneth Hudson Award for the most innovative museum in Europe. On their website, they say that it grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed _____________ and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed _____________, the Museum offers a chance to overcome […] through creation: by contributing to the Museum's collection. FITB.

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Museum of ‘Broken Relationships’

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On the next slide are two animals that both have two-word names, with one word common. Identify both, one of which is currently extinct.

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Tasmanian Devil, and Tasmanian Tiger

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10.This phrase originally represented a commitment to building an economy that would serve culture based on Buddhist values, rather than gauging development based on the ideals of western material development. It was coined in 1972. It was studied by scholars, politicians and economists and in 2011, the UN passed resolution 65/309 placing X on the global development agenda. Its four tenets are:

1. Sustainable development

2. Preservation and promotion of cultural values

3. Conservation of the natural environment, and

4. Establishment of good governance

ID this phrase, which is now considered a socioeconomic model.

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Gross National Happiness

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11.

The next slide shows something that was closed in 2005 and is currently owned by the city of New Orleans after the original owners terminated their 75-year lease with the city after assessing the damage caused in 2005.

Identify what was shut down, and also what caused its closure?

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Six Flags New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina

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This chain describes themselves as “Fast, convenient. X. Thank Heaven.” Very ubiquitous in the countries that it operates in, what is this chain?

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13.Another city that translates to ‘City of the Dead’, X is a port city in Western India. One of the world’s first known docks, X is one of the best preserved cities of the Indus Valley civilization, which thrived for years after the demise of Mohenjodaro and Harappa.

The dock connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea. X?

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Lothal

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14.

Shown next are some pictures that won a particular competition that was conducted in collaboration with National Geographic. What was the USP of the competition?

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Pictures taken by drones

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15.

The X museum is located in Prague in the Czech Republic. On the next slide is a picture of an exhibit from the museum. Identify who the museum is an homage to.

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Franz Kafka

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16.The Scott’s Hut Race is an annual warm-weather 5.2 mile race, where participants have to circle around Discovery Hut. Another establishment’s counterpart of this race is the ‘Race Around the World’ where one zooms through all the time zones in a pre-ordained two- to three-mile long track. Although most participants run this race for fun, there is a coveted grand prize: a luxurious five-minute X as compared to the two-minute Xs residents are usually allotted. X?

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Hot water showers

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The next slide shows an old Roman tablet that led historians to conclude that a certain board game was very popular among Roman soldiers. Which game?

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Nine Men’s Morris

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18.

An Atlantic article talks about some of the oldest specimens of graffiti that have survived to this day. The article also says that the fact that the graffiti has survived is ‘part miracle, part tragedy’.

One of the iconic pieces of graffiti at this spot is ‘Gaius was here’. Where would you find this graffiti?

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Pompeii

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19.

X is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled with soy sauce, mirin and sugar. The word derives from two words that mean the shine or lustre given by the sugar content in the tare and the method of cooking by grilling.

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teriyaki

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20.One of the interesting anecdotes that talks about a possible etymology of the name of an Indian city consists of a British man who asked a peasant stacking hay into a barn for the name of the place. The peasant, who didn’t understand English, told the Englishman that he harvested the crop the previous day. He essentially said ‘harvested yesterday’ in his native language, which the Englishman corrupted slightly and assumed to be the name of the city. Which city is this?

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Kolkata, from kal kata

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21.

Australia has an incredibly weird time zone state in the summers. Australia doesn’t fully welcome or embrace daylight saving time and this results in a very weird arrangement of time zones in Australia, one that isn’t found anywhere else in the world. There’s an image on the next slide that probably helps. What is this unique arrangement of time zones?

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Australia has, in summer, time zones split both horizontally and vertically!

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22.This coming spring, the X Education Program is helping 20,000 11th graders in New York City public schools learn American history through a series of videos and study guides that _______ helped develop. Participating students write and perform their own musical projects based on historical documents and research. Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, within the next year, these 20000 youngsters will get to attend special, student-only showings on Wednesday afternoons for only $10. What is X?

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Hamilton

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23.

the next three questions are connected by the drawing of two types of cards

the fourth question is the connection

+0.5 for each answer

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23A

Also the name of a cigarette manufacturing firm in the US, this two word area in London derives its name from a ball game played here in the 17th century, despite the fact that you might assume that it derives its name from the presence of a big shopping center.

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Pall Mall

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23B

Standing midway between the main line stations at Euston and Paddington, this was originally the London terminus of the former Great Central Main Line to Sheffield and Manchester. It was opened in 1899 and is the youngest of London’s main line terminal stations.

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Marylebone Station

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23C

An exclusive area of the West End by the east edge of the Hyde Park in the city of Westminster, it is known for its extreme poshness and high concentration of five star hotels. It is now mainly commercial, with many houses converted to corporate offices.

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Mayfair

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26D

What is the ‘card drawing’ connection between these three regions?

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Monopoly Chance and Community Chest cards

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24.There is some etiquette involved when placing stones from the bowl onto a Y board. It is considered rude to rattle stones in the bowl. It is also considered improper to hold a number of stones in one’s hand. The accepted procedure is to decide on one’s move, and then pick up a stone, X-style with the index and middle fingers, holding the stone between the index fingernail and the middle fingertip. The stone is then placed onto the board, where one is allowed to make a ‘clicking’ sound as the stone touches the desired position on the board.

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Y - Go

X - chopsticks

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25.

A Quora answer to ‘How do you tell a British tourist in the US?’ has a popular answer which contains, in part, ‘they under-X, not knowing that Ys in the USA are a crime against humanity which they are personally obliged to correct for.’

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undertipping, and restaurant wages

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26.

The fourth most popular tourist destination (and possibly the least-talked about) in Paris is X’s grave. X came to Paris in 1971 to focus on his writing and to take a break from performing. His death in 1971 gained him entry into a rather ‘elite’ club. He was found death in a bathtub and the supposed reason for his death was a heroin overdose, although an autopsy was never performed. Who is X?

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Jim Morrison

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27.Here you see a map that depicts the X-Y canal, the two words differing only by a single letter. What are X and Y, in any order.

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Rhine, and Rhone

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28.The X, also known as the Barbary Coast, refers to a vast region of North and Northwestern Africa, west of Egypt.

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Y is a capital city whose name sounds like X.

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X - Maghreb

Y - Zagreb

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29.The manufacture of XY is intricate because some of the basic steps involved in its making are repeated many times before the desired amount of bruising and browning is achieved. Withering, rolling, shaping, and firing are similar to black Y, but much more attention to timing and temperature is necessary. One last step, baking or roasting, is exclusive to XY and is referred to as the real art in making this Y.

The name XY came into the English language from the Chinese name meaning “black dragon” Y. In Chinese, XYs are also known as qingcha. What is XY?

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Oolong Tea

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30.This game was invented by a person for his son Christopher Robin. The game involves dropping of sticks upstream of a bridge across a river and the winner is the person who’s stick appears downstream of the bridge first.

Ashdown Forest, in East Sussex, is a beautiful heathland that has become a popular tourist destination because of the work of the father of aforementioned Christopher Robin. One may also play the game described above here. What is the reason for the popularity of Ashdown Forest?

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31.In 1965, intention was announced to build a “universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities”.

The proponent of this idea said that the center of this town would be home to a “Park of Unity”. The center also, now, has a shrine dedicated, in a way (literally speaking, at least), to the very person who proposed the “universal town”.

What is this shrine in this universal town of peace and harmony?

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Matrimandir, in Auroville

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32.Five Weeks in the Amazon is a book written by a person called Sean Michael Hayes who struggles with depression. He goes into a Peruvian forest to try and sort his feelings out, and spends a month living with shamans and trying out X, a traditional spiritual medicine used in ceremonies by people living in the Amazon basin.

Give X, or the blank on the cover of the book.

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Ayahuasca

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33.

Júzcar is a village in the Andalusian region of Spain which is painted almost entirely blue. The blue colour came up from a marketing campaign by an international entertainment company in 2011. After the subject of marketing died down in popularity, the town just decided to keep the colour they had. What was the reason for painting the town blue?

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34.

This word is used by the ancient Romans to refer to a people who lived in desert areas in and around the Roman province of Arabia, and who were distinguished from Arabs. Y-X is a style of architecture that attained popularity in the 19th century in British India. Some of the most popular buildings of this architecture are found in Chennai. X?

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Indo-Saracenic architecture

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