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OQA Session

Without much further “ado” - Nordic etymology from at + do

• Jaconet muslins or walking dress were quite famous in the fashion circles of 19th century,England.

• The fabric by the same name is a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish. The name is derived from a particular place from where this kind of fabric is traditionally made.

• Which place ?

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• Jagannathi, as in Jagannath Puri

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• He is the spymaster as described by hindu mythology. From his home with thousand doors, he keeps watch on mortals through the stars as his thousand eyes. Possibly the word spy has come into vogue because of the weapon he holds(Pasa).

• Name ?

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• Varuna

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• What is the subject of this Pattachitra sketch ?

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• A month before the famous Rosswell UFO incident, in 1947, an UFO was reported to have landed in Odisha's Nayagrah district.

• Pachanana Moharana(famous pattachitra artist), had made sketches of these alien visitors and their spacecraft which was claimed to have landed in a hilly area of Nayagarh on May, 31, 1947.

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1/2 a pointWhat is this invention about ?

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1/2 a pointWhat is going on here?

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Ctrl+Alt+Delete wand

Taking a screenshot

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• The Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander.

• The probe disintegrated while doing the orbital insertion maneuver.

• Reason ?

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It’s rocket science !!

Lockheed(the manufacturer) used English unit, and NASA provided input in Metric unit. The brightest of engineers never accounted for such a scenario.

The probe was lost in translation

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• This is a cultural identity phenomena observed in twitter, which came to mainstream media notice after Trayvon Martin shooting.

• Name ? A two word name that can be derived from the Image

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Black twitter

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The term Salary comes from roman legionnaires getting salt pouches for their sustenance.

Which word derives it origin from sprinkling Salt over food ?

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Salad

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Who with a penchant for sarcasm left his wife the following in the Last will and Testament

“I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture”

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Will’s Will (William Shakespeare) 8*

• It stands on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. The building serves as the primary office of the government of Russia and is the official residence of the Russian Prime Minister.

• What is it called ?

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• The White House or Russian White House

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• What is this phenomenon ? 10

Student Syndrome

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Famous poster from Ben Franklin extensively used in American revolution. What do the pieces of the snake signify ?

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Each segment represents one of the original thirteen American colonies. New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies as it was at that time. Delaware (then a part of Pennsylvania) and Georgia were omitted completely.

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This is the coronation chair on which since 1308, all anointed sovereigns of England (until 1603) and Great Britain have been seated in this chair for their coronation, with the exception of Queen Mary II (who was crowned on a copy of the chair).

Their is a slot just below the seat. What goes in their ?

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Stone of scone, Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny. Its not going back to Scotland after all.

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Jindun Gongcheng or The Golden Shield project is the internet censorship program of Chinese govt. which is responsible for blocking sites like Google and Facebook.

What is the nickname given to this project by the western media ?

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The great firewall of China

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Robert McHenry a former editor in chief of Encyclopedia Britannica, quipped that “It is like a public restroom , you never know who touched it last”

What is he referring to ?

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Wikipedia14

Once upon a time , Rishi Bharadvaja went with his companions to the Ganga to perform his ablutions. There he beheld a beautiful apsara named Ghritachi who had come to bathe. The sage was overcome by desire, causing him to produce a reproductive fluid. Bharadvāja Muni captured the fluid in a vessel

Thus a Son was born, who ?

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Drona

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Who is the English Counterpart of Uncle Sam ?

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John Bull

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Two typefaces are used in the text, both in Yellow, News Gothic for the main body of the text, and Univers for the title. Several words are in capital letters to stress their importance.

In the 4:3 aspect ratio versions, the full lines of text are cut off on the sides until they have scrolled further hence the text is much smaller and harder to read.

What is being discussed ?

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Star Wars Opening Scrawl

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Who owns this ?

Flintheart Glomgold, Scottish descent hence the pound sign compared to $ of Scrooge

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The components of the Dow have changed 53 times in its 128-year history. Which one is the continuously traded and longest running scrip out of the current 30 Co. ?

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GE

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Print Ad of ?20

Apple II

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One of those coffee house stories, that a brass container for the benefit of waitrons was first inscribed with the words “To Insure Promptness”. The idea was that a patron would put an amount of money into the container before sitting down to insure promptness of service from the waitrons. The “to insure promptness” on the container is what we now call a TIP. Or so it is told.

Which Coffee house ?

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Lloyd’s

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According to WSJ, 11% of worlds Gold which is conservatively estimated as approximately 30,000 tons , is held in India privately. This is more than the gold reserve in USA, Germany, RBI or IMF.

Which non-corporate entity holds this treasure ?

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Indian Housewives22

Mostly online ads on web pages, these ads are tall — very tall — with heights often ranging from 500 to 800 pixels (and widths often ranging from meagre 120 to 160 pixels)

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Skyscraper ad/banner

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Etym: Breaking up of ice in a river which unleashes a flood. from the breaking, to the disastrous flood, to a collapse in general.

This word can be used to summarize Indian teams performance in test matches

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Debacle

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The proponent is one Melvil Dewey who suggested this system in 1876. The notation is in Indian/Arabic numerals and it introduces the concepts of relative location and relative index which allow new items to be added to their appropriate location.

What is this concept used for ?

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Dewey Decimal System used for Cataloging books in a Library

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Duke’s university has successfully developed certain technology which can be used like this.

What object would you associate from the world of literature with this ?

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Invisibility Cloak, Harry Potter

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This was published in “Gentleman's Magazine" (London), Oct.1794. 2

“A friend has transmitted to me from East Indies …… A thin plate of wax is fitted to the Stump of the nose, so as to make a nose of a good appearance. It is then flattened, and laid on the forehead. A line is drawn round the wax, and the operator then dissects off as much skin as it covered ……………. ”

Which book describes this Indian procedure of Rhinoplasty ?

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Shushruta Samhita

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E. W. Hornung wrote a series of twenty-six short stories and one novel about the adventures of Arthur J. Raffles, cricketeer and gentleman thief, and his chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders, in London, between 1898 and 1909. The first story, "The Ides of March", appeared in the June 1898 edition of Cassell's Magazine.

He is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries.

Hornung dedicated the first collection of stories, The Amateur Cracksman, to whom ?

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Hornung Brother-in-Law Sir Arthur Conon Doyle

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This book has famously got quite narrow margin. Claim to Fame ?

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Fermat’s last theorem,

Was first conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637, famously in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica where he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin.

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Identify the Raga, the courtesan was singing ?

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Deepak

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