THE AVIAL PURSUIT OPEN QUIZ

THE FINALS

1. Arthur Coningham played once for Australia, but what's surprising is that he was ever allowed to play for them at all. A colourful character, he once set light to a newspaper in the outfield to "keep warm"; accused an archbishop of adultery with his wife; was sent to prison for fraud and died in a mental asylum. What is his claim to fame in world of cricket ?

• First bowler to take a wicket off the first ball (of his career) in test cricket.

2. Rebirth Island was an island in last century, In Mid 2001 it became a peninsula and became a mainland in last few years. What is root cause of this change ?

Shrinking of the Aral Sea

3. A certain drawback of early photography in Victorian era resulted in children Photos being cropped. What was the drawback and why was it cropped?

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• In 19th century photographs of children you can sometimes spot a mother hiding behind a chair or underneath a decorative throw, ostensibly trying to hold their squirmy children still during the long exposure times of the camera. A 'hidden mother' photograph, women holding infants were often covered because the photograph is meant to be cropped and framed to show only the infant.

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4. The Rotogravure printing process involves engraving an image onto the image carrier, so in the years following WW2 newspapers would publish separate supplements with pictures to make up for the lack of them in the main pages. Now what did the Times of India do in the sixties when it found that the rotogravure machines they had purchased were not being put to use other than to print calendars?

5. What follows is a response by clergyman HT Johnson to a very famous poem, name this poem.

Pile on ________--.

'Tis nearest at your door;

Why heed long bleeding Cuba,

or dark Hawaii’s shore?

Hail ye your fearless armies,

Which menace feeble folks

Who fight with clubs and arrows

and brook your rifle’s smoke.

Pile on the ____________

His wail with laughter drown

You’ve sealed the Red Man’s problem,

And will take up the Brown,

In vain ye seek to end it,

With bullets, blood or death

Better by far defend it

With honor’s holy breath.

• Black Man’s Burden as opposed to White Man’s burden by Rudyard Kipling

6. The X club is a motorcycle club in Australia for bikers over 40 years. The motto of the club is “Grow old, disgracefully”. The name of the club comes from a literary work in which the lead character who is now in middle age leading his country and is bored with all the security and longs for adventure. The founders feel this is exactly the feeling most of the members have and hence the name. The club is the largest of its type in the world and has 138 branches in Australia and other countries.

• Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

7. In 2012, a sculpture was unveiled on rural highway near the eastern town of HowickKwaZulu-Natal,South Africa. What does this Sculpture commemorate?

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• The sculpture is a portrait of Mandela, it has vertical bars which represent his imprisonment.

8. This 200 Kroner features a Norwegian space scientist and this famous terrella experiment which proved a phenomenon. ID the scientist and the phenomenon [Pic Next Slide]

• Kristian Birkeland and his magnetized terrellaexperiment, which led him to surmise that charged particles interacting with the Earth's magnetic field were the cause of the aurora.

9. A Greek maiden was attacked by an illness and passed away. After her burial, her nurse collected her favoritebelongings and put them in a basket, carried it to the tomb, and laid it on top. This basket happened to be placed above the root of an acanthus which grew along the sides of the basket.An architect passed by this tomb and observed the basket with the tender young leaves growing round it, went on to invent novel style and form.

ID the architect and the style he named after maiden's city.

• Callimachus & Corinthian Column

10. "Showing the fig" was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, itself symbolic of a vulva.The story goes that prominent politicians in ancient Greece held aloof from such inflammatory gestures, but privately urged their followers to taunt their opponents with such gestures.• ID the word that later got associated with these servile

followers :-

b) Id the famous 6 / 7 words quote declared by one such follower, Dev Kant Barooah, Congress president at the height of the Emergency in 1976?

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• a) Sycophancy / sycophantb) India is Indira, and Indira is India

11. On February 26, 1830 a historic meeting took place between head of a sect and Sir John Malcolm, the then Governor of Bombay. At this meeting, the founder presented a copy of the sacred text to Sir John Malcolm. This copy is now housed at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford. Currently the manuscript has been damaged by constant handling for darshansduring the past twenty years. Hence it is not on public display and is undergoing conservation work. In the meantime, the followers provided with online version of the entire manuscript

ID the manuscript and the Founder :-

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• Bhagwan Swami Narayan- Shikshapatri

12. Zing International is a South Australian manufacturer. They have recently been in news for an innovation that they have pioneered and introduced in BBL.

What innovation are we talking about?

• LED Bails / Stumps Video

13. It is a community ritual in which the entire village participates. After the summer crops have been harvested, the villagers reach the temple in the early morning on an appointed day. The performers purify themselves through fasting and prayer, then draw a huge image of Kali, wherein the spirit of the goddess is invoked. This prepares the ground for the lively enactment to follow, in which sage Narada importunes Shiva to contain the demon Darika, who is immune to defeat by mortals. Shiva instead commands that Darika will die at the hand of the goddess Kali.

a. Id this ritual dance drama from Kerala based on the mythological tale of a battle :-

b. Also Id the symbol associate with it since 2010.

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Mudiyettu , Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage symbol

14. In 1935 for Jawani ki Hawa, Himanshu Rai roped in Khursheed Manchershah Minocher Homji as Music director. The classical score in the movie didn't cool down the protests from the Zoroastrian community.

Why was the uproar and how was it resolved (be specific)?

The orthodox Zoroastrian community could not accept Parsi Girls working in Films. To resolve the uproar, Khursheed was rechristened as Saraswati Devi. Bollywood's first female Music director (most likely).

Infact Saraswati & her sister Chandraprabha both worked in the movie.

15. ID the artist / work that catapulted him as India's costliest modern artist. In addition, where is this piece of Art currently housed :-

Syed Haider Raza's Saurashtra @ Kiran Nadar Art Museum, Delhi

Kiran Nadar is wife of Shiv Nadar (HCL)

16. Following Video shows Gordan Ramsay trying a chutney famous in Chhattisgarh. Id the secret ingredient :-

Video

Red Ant Chutney especially made with weaver Ants

17.The following dance gets its name after the device and is an important entity among these folks. The Dance / Instrument famously inspired an entity.

Id (i) the dance / instrument shown in the video & (ii) the inspired entity.

Video

TARPA / TAPRA.

The TARPA Dance is a popular motif in WARLI paintings

18. The IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage facility was a

precursor to the hard drives and was planned as a

removable disk pack. Early on the design was focused on

two removable 30 megabyte modules. What was the

codename for this device which later became a name for

most hard disks of that era?

Winchester

• Named after the Winchester 30/30 rifles.

19. During the 2011 World cup there were two players who have played Ranji Trophy for Tamilnadu. Who are the two players?

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• Ashwin For India and Balaji Rao for Canada

20. When the first look poster Star Trek: Into Darkness was released, pundits found it similar to the poster of the Dark Knight Rises and an 1818 romantic painting. IGN the entertainment website interpreted the movie poster as stepping into the unknown or as a metaphor for introspection which was the direction the franchise was taking. Which painting? Poster of movie as follows

• The poster looks like Caspar David Friedrich's 1818 painting Wanderer above the sea of Fog, the painting is often mimicked in pop culture.

21. A sturdy right-hand bat who at the turn of the century, was one of the Australia's best batsmen. He made a sensational Test debut against England at Melbourne in 1901-02.

The circumstances were unusual. He was a frontline batsman who had been held back because of a sticky wicket. With Warwick Armstrong he added 120 , as Australia won by 299 runs.

ID him and who recently emulate his record after 110 years.

a) Reginald Alexander Duff / Reggie Duffb) Abul Hasan (Century by No. 10 Batsman )

22. When walking on the ground, this bird has a stiff marching gait. Hence, what name is given to it

• ADJUTANT STORK

23. Connect & who comes fourth in this list?

• Biography by Walter Isaacson

24. The Dog species comes from the Chinese word for "lion dog"because this kind of dog was bred to resemble "the lion as depictedin traditional oriental art”.

Id this species which is referred in a 2012 British Comedy :-

Shih Tzu

• One of the main attractions on this building named after Viscount Goderich , when it was built was the westminister Quarter Chiming. This was installed by Oakes and Co. in 1913. The clock has a mechanical key system, which is wound every day. There are a total of 4 bells, which were cast by Gillet and Johnston in 1913.

Which Building?

Rippon Building

26. Which term was used in an internal United States Department of Defense report titled "Energy Futures in Asia". It refers to the Chinese sea lines of communication which extend from the Chinese mainland to Port Sudan.

The sea lines run through several major choke points such as the Strait of Mandeb, the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Hormuz and the Lombok Strait, as well as other strategic maritime centres in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Somalia.

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• String of pearls

27. Folklore tells that the species got their distinct feature when it attempted to remove the nails from Jesus' hands and feet as he was crucified. Id species and what its staple diet (cause for their evolution)

• Cross-bill

• Seeds from Pine cones

28. Renowned film director, Tapan Sinha, produced this Hindi Film “Ek Doctor ki Maut” based on the events which real life personality.

What is this person's claim to fame / shame :

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• Subash Mukherjee - creator of India's First Test Tube Baby "Durga" / Kanupriya ahead of Harsha

29. The Marathi word denotes a person who makes a circular pilgrimage . It is usually from his/her home, in a Maharashtrianvillage to the Vithal temple in Pandharpur and back.

This philosophy is interwoven with the agricultural life in Maharashtra. Simple farmers, usually undertake this 21-day walk after they have completed the sowing process in their fields. It suits them, as they are completely free during this period. They come back and begin the de-weeding activity. During the journey , they accompany the flower bedecked palkhis (palanquins) of the two beloved saints on the 21-day walk to Pandharpur every year.

a) Id this Vaishanava religious movement &

b) The Patron saints

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• Pilgrimage to Pandhapur is called as Vari and the pilgrims are Warkari / Varkari

• They carry Palkhi for Sant Dnyaneshwar and Sant Tukaram.

Written Round

W1 . It is most known dialect of Nicobarese and it shares its name with northernmost island of Nicobar. Id the Dialect / the island :-

W2. ID the couple and their mount :-

w3. The small spotted deer measures about 58cm in length and weighs just three kilograms. There have been periodic sightings from South India, especially in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve is the best place to see them, along with other sanctuaries in the Western Ghats.

Id the species

W4. The logo consists of a six branched star with the Rod of Asclepius • The six branches of the star denote

– Early detection– Early Reporting– Early Response– On Scene Care– Care in Transit– Transfer to Definitive care.

• What logo is this?

W5. One of the famous reminiscent of Portuguese in Goa are the following tiles which are found from historical monuments to house name plates.ID the Portuguese word that's used to denote a square plaque of ceramic material, one side of which is decorated and glazed.

• W6. After which mythology character, the most superior (first) cervical vertebra of the spine is named

Answers

• Car Nicobar / Car

• Kama & Rati ; Parrot

• Mouse Deer

• US Paramedics

• Azulejo Tiles

• ATLAS Vertebra

• In 1976 while sorting out materials from the estate of mathematician GN Watson, a manuscript running up to 100 pages written in hand by Srinivasa Ramanujan was found. These were believed to be the last works of the Indian mathematician; the manuscript dealt with mock theta functions and was collated and delivered as a lecture by GN Watson it was fittingly titled X: an account of mock theta functions. Concluding his lecture Watson said that there could be no more suitable title, for it had been used previously by a doctor in what he considered the last memoir.

So what was the title of the essay?

Final Problem