SAHIB, BIWI AUR TRIVIA

Siddharth Mishra

B.Tech (Second Year)

Mechanical

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A

Q. In Norse religion, A is one of the Nine Worlds and home to the Æsir tribe of gods. It is surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrithmurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari. Odin and his wife, Frigg, are the rulers of A.

Asgard

B

Q. The name of this dish is thought to have originated from Biscay, as in Bay of Biscay. The crustaceans are certainly bis cuites (twice cooked), as in first sauteed lightly and then simmered in wine and aromatic ingredients, before being strained.

The dish?

Bisque

C

Q. X is a green skinned grape variety used to make white wine. It originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France, but is now grown all over the world.

For new and developing wine regions, growing X is seen as a rite of passage and an easy entry into the international wine market.

Chardonnay

D

Q. D floor plate is a hot rolled structural steel that has been designed to give excellent slip resistance on its upper surface. It has excellent welding and forming properties.

However, most of us relate D to a completely different field – the epicentre of Mughal administration.

Durbar

E

Q. The following are the methods to study what?

Philological research

Make use of dialectological data

The comparative method

The study of semantic change

Etymology!

F

Q. The House of F  is a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, by Gustav F. Gustav was followed by his son Peter Carl F, until the firm was nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The firm has been famous for designing elaborate jewel-encrusted ornaments for the Russian Tsars and a range of other work of high quality and intricate details

Fabergé

GQ. The word comes from the same Latin root as grotto, "a

small cave“. The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century.

In modern times, it is said to represent anything unpleasant or disgusting.

In art, performance, and literature, however, it may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes in an audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity

Grotesque

H

Q. ‘Every meal could have been her last. And when she had finished eating the bland vegetarian dishes put before her, 25-year-old Margot Wölk and her young female colleagues would burst into tears and “cry like dogs” because they were grateful still to be alive.’

What was Margot Wölk’s job?

Hitler’s food taster

I

Q. An I Triathlon is one of a series of longdistance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.86 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.25 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.2-mile (42.2 km) run, raced in that order and without a break. It is widely considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world.

  Held in Kailua-Kona, the world championship has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978 (with an additional race in 1982) and is preceded by a series of qualifying Ironman events. I World Championships has become known for its grueling length, harsh race conditions, and Emmy Award–winning television coverage.

Ironman

J

Q. J is a Swedish table tennis player, known as the ‘Mozart of table tennis’ and is a legend in his native Sweden as well as China.

In China, he is known as Chang Qing Shu – Evergreen Tree.

Jan-Ove Waldner

K

Q. Laszlo K was a Hungarian football who played as a forward, most prominently for FC Barcelona.

One of the finest players of his generation, in 99 he was declared by FCB’s fans to be the best player have played for the club.

Camp Nou has a statue of him dribbling.

Laszlo Kubala

LWhat is this a list of?

Slay the Nemean Lion. Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra. Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis. Capture the Erymanthian Boar. Clean the Augean stables in a single day. Slay the Stymphalian Birds. Capture the Cretan Bull. Steal the Mares of Diomedes. Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon. Steal the apples of the Hesperides (He had the help of Atlas to pick them

after Hercules had slain Ladon). Capture and bring back Cerberus.

Labours of Hercules

M

Q. M is an Englishman born 14 September 1945 in Cheshire, England. M is one of the most famous in his field, being employed by the likes of Sky Sports and ITV amongst others.

(his presence in some of our lives is equal parts joy and annoying)

Martin Tyler

‘he did everything right apart from the finish’

N

Q. The Giza N of ancient Egypt is one of the most popular and well know, ever since the Great Pyramids of Giza were included in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramids were reserved for pharaohs, whereas the Egyptian N were made of individuals of lower status.

Necropolis

O

Q. It denotes a circular opening in the centre of a dome; or in a wall. It is a prominent feature in Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture.

The finest example of this is in the Pantheon, where it has a diameter of 27ft.

Oculus

P

Q. P was invented in 1877 by Robert Koch’s assistant, Julius Richard P.

Israeli photographer and video artist Michal Rovner uses P in many of her exhibitions to project miniature images of groups of humans performing movements and dance.

ID P, now indispensable in labs around the world.

Petri Dish

Q

Q. The character never appears in Fleming's novels though Fleming's first two novels do refer to him. The character does however appear in the novelizations by Christopher Wood, John Gardner and Raymond Benson.

Q!

RQ. It is is the gerund of the Latin verb refero, and has the

meaning "bringing back" (i.e. bringing the question back to the people).

The term plebiscite has a generally similar meaning in modern usage, and comes from the Latin plebiscita, which originally meant a decree of the Concilium Plebis (Plebeian Council), the popular assembly of the Roman Republic.

Today, it can also often be referred to as a "plebiscite", but in some countries they refer to different types of votes, differing in their legal consequences.

Why is this term in news this week?

ReferendumReferendum for Scottish Independence

S

#copied

Q. Major General Henry ________ was a British Army officer. In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air - intending it as an anti-personnel weapon. He successfully demonstrated this in 1787 at Gibraltar. In 1803, the British Army adopted a similar but elongated explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor's name. The name is now used as a generic for components of any such explosive ordnance.

Shrapnel

T

Q. The X Army is a collection of X sculptures depicting the armies of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor.

It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210-209 BC, whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

Terracotta Army/Terracotta Warriors

U

Q. It is a form of assimilation, the process by which one speech sound is altered to make it more like another adjacent sound. If a word has two vowels, one far back in the mouth and the other far forward, more effort is required to pronounce the word than if the vowels were closer, and therefore one possible linguistic development is for these two vowels to be drawn closer together.

In linguistics, it is a sound change whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel and is also used to replace hyphens in Germanic languages

Ü (umlaut)

V

Q. V typically contains a pigment for instant recognition, and silver nitrate which stains the skin on exposure to ultraviolet light, leaving a mark that is impossible to wash off and is only removed as external skin cells are replaced. Industry standard electoral inks contain 10%, 14% or 18% silver nitrate solution, depending on the length of time the mark is required to be visible.

Voter Ink (will accept Electoral Stain as an answer)

W

Q. This is a professional football club from England, originally found as the Thames Ironworks. This club has been home to three of England’s WC heroes.

However, people who don’t follow football have heard about this club in one of the hallmarks of modern fiction writing.

West HamDean Thomas from Harry Potter

was a die hard West Ham fan

X

Q. X I of Persia (meaning "ruling over heroes”) also known as X the Great (519–465 BC), was the fourth of the king of the kings of the Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes I is most likely the Persian king identified as Ahasuerus in the biblical book of Esther.

ID X, brought into limelight by a 2007 movie.

Xerxes

Y

Q. Y was the only son of Dhritarashtra to survive the Kurukshetra war. After the war, he took charge as the king of Indraprastha.

Y?

Yuyutsu

Z

Q. This Spanish-American character was created in 1919 by New-York based pulp writer Johnston McCulley.

He has been featured in numerous books, films, television series and other media. He was immortalised on screen by a Latin American actor, whose name will give you extra points.

ZorroAntonio Banderas

Thank You!