What the F!

Pardon my French !

A quiz on Frank, France, Fishes and

Flags

Merci Beacoup

Guinea pigs : • Amith M P • Surbhi Verma

• According to local Belgian lore, poor villagers living in Meuse Valley often ate small fried fish they caught in the river. During the winter months the river would freeze over — making fishing impossible and forcing the villagers to find other sources of food.• Thus they turned to a more vegetarian option. This food item was

served to the soldiers during the first world war and because of the language spoken by the Belgians then , the food was wrongly attributed. • Which food item am I talking about ?

Answer is ..

French Fries .. For starters

• The map shows the habitat of 2 species A&B which were considered the same till 1970s, then different and later in 1998 unified again with A being given a minor status . • C belongs to the same Phylum and

is named after a river which in turn is named after a mythical creature that is also a symbol for water. • Id A, B and C

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• A- Indus River Dolphin• B- Gangetic River Dolphin• C- Irrawady River Dolphin( after

Irawata of hindu mythology)

• The appearance of the X, according to Sidonius Apollinaris (5th century)• "Their eyes are faint and pale, with a glimmer of greyish blue. Their

faces are shaven all round, and instead of beards they have thin moustaches which they run through with a comb. Close fitting garments confine the tall limbs of the men, they are drawn up high so as to expose the knees, and a broad belt supports their narrow middle.“• X were first known to be people of a Germainic tribe and later from

the gaul tribe who later lend their name to a place .

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X- Franks after whom the country France was named

• Earliest known reference for this phrase can be found in the epic Greek poem, The Iliad, by Homer. During Book 21, When Achilles taunts Lykaon, a son of Priam after he slays him.• A similar reference can be found in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, in

the second mate Stubb soliloquy where he references Aquarius, the Water-bearer and Pisces. • What Phrase ?

Answer is ..

“sleep with the fishes”

• The practice was first called “Maraichanage” as it was practiced by the Maraichins, inhabitants of Brittany. The Petit Robert 2014 dictionary, released on May 30, 2013, added the verb "se galocher" making it the first time a single word described the practice. • Though the director Q, in his award winning documentary argues that

the practice originated in India only. • What practice ?

Answer is ..

The French Kiss.

• Q argues about its references in kamasutra and that it was first invented in india

• The Image you see is of a legendary filmmaker. Behind him is his portrait as a child. Identify him and the painter of the portrait, one of the greatest impressionist painters of all time .

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• Filmmaker: Jean Renoir• The painter is his father : Pierre

Auguste Renoir

• Evidence came to light in 1896—primarily through an investigation instigated by Georges Picquart, head of counter-espionage—identifying a French Army major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy as the real culprit. After high-ranking military officials suppressed the new evidence, a military court unanimously acquitted Esterhazy after a trial lasting only two days. The Army then accused the frnch military artillery officer of additional charges based on falsified documents. Word of the military court's framing of the suspect and of an attempted cover-up began to spread.• What is cited as the prime reason behind the reopening of the case

and justice being served?

Answer is ..

J’Accuse open letter by Emile Zola

• The emblem which depicts an eponymous double-edged sword called a khanda in the centre, a chakkar which is circular, and flanked by two single-edged swords, or kirpans. • Where would you find a flag with such an emblem ?

Answer is ..

The khalistan Flag or the sikh flag found in the gurudwaras

• The Phrase is said to have arisen from the notion of slipperiness or as an allusion to meat with a specific taste can be an indication that the meat is bad. A simpler explanation is that of a production of a chemical named Trimethylamine which is released.• What Phrase?

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Something’s Fishy

• One Fish, Two Fish, X fish, Blue Fish is a Simpsons episode in which Homer Simpson consumes a notorious delicacy .• The title is a play on a book by a famous author who is considered as

a great in the specific genre. • What delicacy and what book and author .

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The Fugu fish is the notorious delicacy, the book by Dr. Seuss is the inspiration behind the title

• An article titled “The philosopher and a fan”, cites an observation about the “Fan”’s most path breaking work with the philosopher’s classic • “X is play, a commentary on old movies. “Fan” works with trash, and by

analyzing, criticizing, and formalizing it, he emerges with something new, just as “Philosopher” made a lyrical work of art in Y out of his memories of casually crappy American B-movies. Of course Philosopher was, and is, a Swiss-Parisian intellectual, and the tonalities of his work are drier, more cerebral. X, by contrast, displays an entertainer's talent for luridness.“• The Fan’s Production company is a play on Philosopher’s another famous

work Z.• Id X, Y,Z, Fan and the Philospher.

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• The philosopher: Jean Luc Godard• The fan : Quentin Tarantino• X- Pulp Fiction• Y- Breathless• Z- Ban A Parte ( A Band Apart is the production house)

• The X principle was fully developed by the chemist Robert Warington which can be paraphrased as thus• “Only with the presence of a member from a specific kingdom can the

other kingdoms survive in an X”• This principle solved a major bottleneck in the field and is cited as one

of the reasons for its widespread craze.• What principle ?

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The Aquarium Principle

• This gave way to the huge aquarium craze

Written Round FRANKly speaking hope you have a MAST round

Named flags of countries

• The white and light blue one• The Broken Trident• Derti• Sun Disc• l'Unifolié• Qaumi Parcham• Schwarz rot gold

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Named flags of countries

• The white and light blue one: Argentina/greece• The Broken Trident: Barbados• Derti: Kuwait(means “my land”) • Sun Disc: Japan• l'Unifolié: ( translates to “one leaf” so Canada)• Qaumi Parcham: (urdu for national flag)Pakistan• Schwarz rot gold: (translates to Black Red Green) Germany

• Once, when X, unable to move due to severe paralysis , was carried into the Guruvayur temple, he met an educated man Y albeit of lower caste . Y advised X that he could be cured if he "began his treatment with fish". • His disciples who heard this were shocked because he was a devout

Hindu and therefore a vegetarian who would consider it sinful to eat fish. X however understood what Y had really meant and embarked upon his most seminal work Z. • Id X,Y and Z

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• X- Melpathur Narayana Bhatathirippad• Y- Thunjath Ramanujan Ezhutachan• Z- Narayaneeyam

• The reasons for the coloured stripes on what ? • Chandraprabha and Pushpadanta were

white, Munisuvrata and Neminatha were blue or dark color, Padmaprabha and Vasupujya were red, Suparshvanatha and Pārśva were green, while the remaining 16 were golden or yellowish.

Answer is ..

The Flag of Jainism

• The complexions of 24 thirthankaras are the subject

• X Melissa is the only person to have a registered X in her name. She is a worldwide celebrity and a performer who is fighting for the movement aimed at saving the oceans.• “Let’s help save our oceans before all creatures become Mythical.” is

her slogan. • She was also involved in a very popular april fool prank that became a

viral video as well . • What is her claim to fame ?

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The only Professional Mermaid to have Mermaid registered in her name

• After the colossal success of X's design for the Y, critics began referring to the economic and cultural revitalization of cities through iconic, innovative designs as the “Z Effect“ after the location of Y. In subsequent years there have been many attempts to replicate this effect through large-scale eye-catching architectural commissions that have been both successful and unsuccessful, such as Daniel Libeskind's expansion of the Denver Art Museum. • What is Z ?

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Z- Bilbao

• After the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry

• The Flag of Chola is named after an animal. The Jumping posture of the animal was the royal emblem of the chola dynasty . The flag has the animal in between the twin fish symbol and that of a bow and is mentioned in the Periya Puranam by Sekkizhar.• The royal emblem of the chola flag is said to be the inspiration to a

contemporary flag by a different group of people. • Which flag ?

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Tamil Eelam (LTTE ) flag

• The jumping tiger is the symbol was the symbol of the chola dynasty

• The twin fish symbol is associated generally with the Pandya empire. • Another twin fish symbol is the symbol for a state in the northern

India. The symbol has been under much scrutiny as it is indicative of a Korean relation with one of the most popular cities of the state . • A professor emeritus from Hanyang university had visited the place

and have confirmed the fact. That korea’s queen hoh was the daughter of this city. This is indicative of a medieval relation ship with the kara dynasty of Korea. • Which state and which city?

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Uttar Pradesh & Ayodhya

• The state symbol of UP is twin fish

• The few legitimates jobs he did after quitting the X , were as a cook, grocer and a movie projectionist • He was fired for an obvious reasons. He later joined a bank . A job

which he quit to start his own firm following his area of expertise. • X testified before the US senate on 2012 about the vulnerabilities of

the insistence shown to SSN in USA. • Id X

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Frank Abignale Jr. (Catch Me If you Can)

• J is a fictional Character appearing in the series Monster High. She is a simulacrum and owing to her famous heritage, X has an interest in broad range of scientific subjects and she favors the practical side over the theoretical one. • The name X is a play on her

more popular parent . Who is X and identify her parent.

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Frankie Stein D/0 Frankenstein’s monster and the bride

• Necessity is…: the early years of X and Y is a book by Billy james about the band Y and its lead musician X. Y were a band of anarchic, free-spirited, musically telepathic mavericks headed by the genius of X. Billy James recaptures the early years as remembered by those who were there.• The title is a play on a very popular English proverb. • Id X and Y

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X: Frank ZappaY: Mother of inventions

• X..X..The sound of his or her heartbeats is a south Korean romantic Fantasy Television Series. The title is a reference to a very popular 1951 French song. Identify the singer as well as the song.

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Padam .. Padam by Edith Piaf

• Given in the image is a popular attraction in Paris . The X is technically a small set of this entity but the Parisians now generally refer to the whole network as X. • X is one of the 14 city of Paris

museums as well . • What are Xs ?

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Catacombs of Paris

• Frank is a common diminutive term for Francis. X is a diminutive term for the Spanish version of the parent word . A 1748 work comprises of a series of letters by a person named X sent to an unknown recipient where X justifies her life choices.• A 2014 Bollywood movie with X in its title stars Naseeruddin

Shah,Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor with Anjali Patil playing the titular character X. • What is X and whats the 1748 work ?

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Fanny and Fanny Hill

• The Bollywood movie is Finding Fanny

What is the inspiration?

The queen is losing faceA national disgrace

Celebrities, statesmen, history's eliteThey're dripping in the hallways, they're starting to secreteThey're pouring out the pores, they're shrinking on the spotSomeone take a photograph, get 'em while

they're hot

The president looks alarmedA general's been disarmed

Elvis and the Beatles have seen a better day

Dylan may be fillin' the puddle they designedIs it gonna take a miracle to make up his mind? Athletes on the floor

They're running out the door

Bad boy McEnroe couldn't keep his coolNow he's with the rest of 'em, wading in the pool"Howard Hughes - Billionaire" says the written guidePity that his assets have all been liquified

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Madame Tussauds

• The Verdon Gorge, Cote d’ azur etc. are major tourist destinations in France. There is a connect as to the naming of these places.• Another region in France which is popular for its wine lends its name

to something that can be considered as a reverse connect from the above places. How are the two places named? Which one is the third place?

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The places get their name from the colour of the water • The reverse connect is a place which lend its name to a colour due to

its wines and that is Burgundy

• The flag you see here is probably the first ever national flag of India. The eponymous creator of the flag was born as Margaret. • Name the flag/creator.

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Sister Nivedita flag

• Bhikaji Kama flag came in 1907 while this came into being in 1906

• X has been a popular attraction in Paris and the image you see here is the first poster of the place designed by a world renowned artist who used to frequent the place. • The place has been the inspiration

to the windmill theatre in London and was at one point compared to Sodom and Gomorrah of Babylon.• Id the place and the artist.

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Moulan Rouge poster by Toulouse Lautrec

• The biological order commonly known as sea cows consists of 4 existing species like the manatees etc. They are named after a mythical creature. This comes from the fact that sailors often used to mistake them for these creatures. Give me the name of the greek mythical creatures.

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Sirens

• They were commonly mistaken for mermaids and the family name is Sirenia

• Le Raus Maudits or “the accursed kings” is a series of novels set in medieval France which was was written by Maurice Druon between the mid-1950s and the 1970s. It's a seven-volume saga chronicling the dynastic fight for the French throne in the early part of the 14th Century, culminating in the Hundred Years War. • Druon’s work which was lesser known to the English world came into

popular attention for a specific reason. What was the reason?

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According to G.R.R Martin this is the actual inspiration for Game of Thrones

• On April 24, 1964, the statue's head was sawn off and stolen by politically oriented artists of the Situationist movement, amongst them Jørgen Nash. The head was never recovered and a new head was produced and placed on the statue.On July 22, 1984, the right arm was sawn off and returned two days later by two young men. In 1990, an attempt to sever the statue's head left a 18 centimeters deep cut in the neck.

• On January 6, 1998, the statue was decapitated again; the culprits were never found, but the head was returned anonymously to a nearby TV station, and reattached on February 4. On the night of September 10, 2003, the statue was knocked off its base with explosives and later found in the harbour's waters. Holes had been blasted in the wrist and knee.

• In 2004, the statue was draped in a burqa in a protest against Turkey's application to join the European Union. In May 2007, it was again found draped in Muslim dress and a head scarf.

• Which statue has thus suffered the rage of the vandals ?

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Little Mermaid Statue in Denmark

• The flag shown in the image was commissioned from 1912 and used till 1959. the flag is also known as the snow lion flag. • Which “country’s” flag ? From

which other flag is the main motif of the flag inspired by ?

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The flag of Tibet , the motif of rising sun was from the Japanese flag . The designer was Japanese

• When the initial designer of the X’s interior elements died suddenly in 1879, French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi hired Y as his replacement. • Already renowned as a structural engineer and railway bridge

designer, Y designed the skeletal support system to which the X’s metal exterior is affixed. (Today, a scale model of the X stands in the shadow of Y’s Magnum Opus.)

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Y is Gustav EiffelX is the statue of liberty

• During the early second decade of 20th century, French started to experiment with the use of millemes (circle/64000). They were found to be of much use than an existing form of measurement.

• The mil-dot system was later copied by the united states like many French practices and was found to be effective because it concerned with small angles at small angles.

• Given here is a method to calculate mil by hand . Where do you find the mil-dot reticles most effectively used ?

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This is the mil- dot reticle , now please shoot out the answers !!

• In the Jain retellings of the stories, the popular misconception/ belief is attributed to the semi gods called the Vidhyadharas. • The flags/banners of a tribe of Vidhyadharas is considered the source

of this major/misinterpretation.• Another theory put forward by the historians, going by the

etymological way is that they were a group of forest dwelling tribes with a specific flag/totem . • What are they trying to explain using these theories?

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The retellings were trying to emphasize that rama did not have a bunch of monkeys but people with monkeys in their flags

• Historians believe that they were forest dwelling tribes and Vanara comes from the root word of Vana+nara(men of the forest)

• Lack of proper teeth, and a very narrow throat rules out most of the species . • One species that can fit this category have strong gastric juices that

renders the condition unlikely . • These are the facts that are used to debunk which popular legend ?

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Jonah could never have survived inside a whale • Whales despite their large size have a very narrow throat which is why

they consume small fishes and planktons . The ones which have a large throat are the sperm whales but due to their strong gastric enzymes, they too cannot fit into the myth • I know that whales are not fishes and they do not fit into the topic but

the earlier versions of the bible mentions only a big fish .. Soo

• This gesture is said to have originated during the 100 years war. The captured english and welsh longbowmen were maimed by the french in such a way that would render their skills useless. • The longbowmen who managed to survive performed this gesture

symbolic of their defiance from the french .

Answer is ..

This is NOT the middle finger but the V for Victory symbol

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