Quiz 2010 - 2

1. Identify the loving father and the great son

Ans.: Ramesh Tendulkar and son Sachin Tendulkar.

2. A question inspired by the Kumbh Mela :

Why do the Sadhus smoke Charas, Hashish etc.?

Ans.: Sadhu smoking charas, a common practice amongst Sadhus(mostly Shaivite) to suppress and eventually destroy their sexual desire and just concentrate on meditation.

3. Identify

Ans.: Goddess Saraswati (Thuyathadi in Burmese) represented in Bamar fashion, seated on a hamsa, and holding scriptures of the Tipitaka, by a river.


4. XKCD Parody of which famous story?






Ans.: The Gift of the Magi


5. Connect the ladies to a fictional character.

Ans.: Sir Harry Paget Flashman

Flashman's stories are dominated by his numerous amorous encounters. Several of them are with prominent historical personages. These women are sometimes window dressing, sometimes pivotal characters in the unpredictable twists and turns of the books. Among the real women Flashman bedded, some were:

Jind Kaur, Dowager Maharani of Punjab (Flashman and the Mountain of Light).

Lakshmibai, Dowager Rani of Jhansi (Flashman in the Great Game) (a dancing girl may have taken the rani's place)

Lillie Langtry, actress and mistress of Edward VII (Flashman and the Tiger)

Lola Montez (Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert James) (Royal Flash).

Yehonala, Imperial Chinese concubine, later the Dowager Empress Ci Xi (Flashman and the Dragon).

6. Connect






Ans.: An antimacassar is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric.The name is attributable to macassar oil, an unguent for the hair commonly used in the early 19th century. The fashion for oiled hair became so widespread in the Victorian and the Edwardian period that housewives began to cover the arms and backs of their chairs with washable cloths to preserve the fabric coverings from being soiled. Around 1850, these started to be known as antimacassars. They were also installed in theatres, from 1865.

The Macassar oil originated from Makassar, a town port in Indonesia.

7. Connect

Ans.: Rupee - the common name for the currencies used in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, and Seychelles, Indonesia and Maldives, which are cognate words of Hindi rupiya

8. This is an advertisement for an innovative service. Put Fundaez






Ans.: Fazilka, a small town in Punjab is the first place in India to implement a Call-A-Cab format for calling rickshaws. This was implemented as a part of IIT project and is highly successful.

9. A website displays pictures like this, as a promotion. Put fundaez.

Ans.: www.bhopalwater.com packs water in bottles, which is not suitable for consumption. The water is highly contaminated due to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The website write :

The unique qualities of our water come from 25 years of slow-leaching toxins at the site of the world's largest industrial accident.

To this day, Dow Chemical — who bought Union Carbide — has refused to clean up and whole new generations are being poisoned.

10. Where in India could you find this scene?

Ans.: Near the Bhikhiwind village in the Khemkaran area, a strip of land was called

Patton Nagar for a short while in 1965. It was here that more than 60 tanks of the Pakistani army were displayed at the end of the September India-Pakistan conflict. The Pakistan Army tanks were captured at the Battle of Asal Uttar by India's 4 Mountain Division and it became a memorial to the Pakistani tanks being bogged down in the marshes during the 1965 War. The tanks were displayed for some time after which they were shipped to various cantonments and army establishments for display as war trophies.