RULES

• A total of 20 questions

• Starred questions

• In case we are still tied, sudden death will be employed

• NO NEGATIVES, so feel free to take a shot at anything

*1.

2.

• “Be sure to lay wide streets planted withshady trees, every other of a quick-growingvariety. Be sure that there is plenty of spacefor lawns and gardens. Reserve large areas forfootball, hockey and parks. Earmark areas forHindu temples, Mohammedan mosques andChristian churches”.

• Which planned city does it describe?

*3.

• This is a mother of pearl spoon used forserving/taking this gourmet item. The belief isthat this consumable item reacts with anymetal cutlery, hence served with gold,wooden or mother of pearl spoons.

• Which item?

4.

• X was a princely residence of Osman Ali Khan. Itwas designed by Edwin Lutyens after mostimportant princely rulers in British India wereinducted into Chamber of Princes in 1919, andwere to attend the Chambers meetings in Delhi.It’s spread over 8.77 acres, and built in the shapeof a butterfly, an amalgam ofthe Mughal and European architecture.

• X?

5.

6.

*7.

8.

9._________ Alexandrovna of Russia married Prince Alfred, Duke ofEdinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert andbecame Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg andGotha.From 1893 until her death, she had the distinction of being aRussian grand duchess (by birth), a British royal duchess (bymarriage), and the consort (and later widow) of a Germansovereign duke.Something was prepared for her wedding to the Prince and namedafter her, which has now become a household name.What?

10.

• Pictures from the renovation of the 163 year old Georgian House Hotel in London.

• What is the renovation a tribute to?

11.• Durjoy Dutta is one of

those shitty writers whose books sell for Rs.100 at stations and bus stands. He writes teen romantic novels.

• This novel was commissioned by the tourism dept. of a certain place X, where the main character travels to X and, of course, falls in love.

• X?

12.

• X is a small town in the province of Palermo in Italy. X means lionhearted in Italian.

• X?

*13.

• He is Mehran Karimi Nasseri of Iranian origin who now lives in Paris. Why is he famous?

14.

15.

• Who is the temple dedicated to?

16.• Sumerian texts refer to three important centres with which they traded:

Magan, Dilmun and X.

Magan is usually accepted to be the Egyptian civilization while Dilmun is believed to have been the Persian Gulf civilization encompassing modern Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar among other territories. X is a reference to the Harappan civilization, items of which, including seals and artefacts, have been found in excavation sites at Ur.

The word X could have originated from the Dravidian word for ‘High country’ or the Sanskrit word for ‘Barbarian, Foreigner’, something used also regularly in Vedic texts by Aryans to describe the lowest class of their Varna-based society.

What name was the X known to the Sumerians back then?

*17.• Where would you find this much famed 101

seater dining table?

*18.

• According to a book released in 2009, X wasapproached to join the secret service for being aformer pupil of Elizabeth Manningham-Bullerwho went on to become director general of MI5.But X declined this offer on the advice of X’sfather. It was also revealed byleaked Whitehall documents in 2003 that Xdeclined an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.X is now famous in a completely different field.Who is X?

19.

• What is usually available in these five categories?

• Blanco or plata (Silver)

• Joven or oro (Gold)

• Reposado

• Añejo

• Extra Añejo

*20.

• Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to thewhole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Thismethod generally results in a freedom of choosing patternsof different kinds without hampering the quality of shirts.This tradition is maintained even today in many countries inSE Asia and Sri Lanka as well as India.On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian Batik asa ‘Masterpiece in Oral and Intangible heritage of humanity’.Which person made these Batik shirts famous, the first ofwhich was designed by Desre Buirski in 1994?

*1.

Zero Mile (Geometric Center of India)

2.

• “Be sure to lay wide streets planted withshady trees, every other of a quick-growingvariety. Be sure that there is plenty of spacefor lawns and gardens. Reserve large areas forfootball, hockey and parks. Earmark areas forHindu temples, Mohammedan mosques andChristian churches”.

• Which planned city does it describe?

*3.

• This is a mother of pearl spoon used forserving/taking this gourmet item. The belief isthat this consumable item reacts with anymetal cutlery, hence served with gold,wooden or mother of pearl spoons.

• Which item?

Caviar

4.

• X was a princely residence of Osman Ali Khan. Itwas designed by Edwin Lutyens after mostimportant princely rulers in British India wereinducted into Chamber of Princes in 1919, andwere to attend the Chambers meetings in Delhi.It’s spread over 8.77 acres, and built in the shapeof a butterfly, an amalgam ofthe Mughal and European architecture.

• X?

Hyderabad House

5.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

6.

*7.

Great Wall of China

8.

9._________ Alexandrovna of Russia married Prince Alfred, Duke ofEdinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert andbecame Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg andGotha.From 1893 until her death, she had the distinction of being aRussian grand duchess (by birth), a British royal duchess (bymarriage), and the consort (and later widow) of a Germansovereign duke.Something was prepared for her wedding to the Prince and namedafter her, which has now become a household name.What?

Marie biscuit

10.

• Pictures from the renovation of the 163 year old Georgian House Hotel in London.

• What is the renovation a tribute to?

11.• Durjoy Dutta is one of

those shitty writers whose books sell for Rs.100 at stations and bus stands. He writes teen romantic novels.

• This novel was commissioned by the tourism dept. of a certain place X, where the main character travels to X and, of course, falls in love.

• X?

Hong Kong

12.

• X is a small town in the province of Palermo in Italy. X means lionhearted in Italian.

• X?

Corleone

*13.

• He is Mehran Karimi Nasseri of Iranian origin who now lives in Paris. Why is he famous?

14.

15.

• Who is the temple dedicated to?

16.• Sumerian texts refer to three important centres with which they traded:

Magan, Dilmun and X.

Magan is usually accepted to be the Egyptian civilization while Dilmun is believed to have been the Persian Gulf civilization encompassing modern Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar among other territories. X is a reference to the Harappan civilization, items of which, including seals and artefacts, have been found in excavation sites at Ur.

The word X could have originated from the Dravidian word for ‘High country’ or the Sanskrit word for ‘Barbarian, Foreigner’, something used also regularly in Vedic texts by Aryans to describe the lowest class of their Varna-based society.

What name was the X known to the Sumerians back then?

*17.• Where would you find this much famed 101

seater dining table?

Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad

*18.

• According to a book released in 2009, X wasapproached to join the secret service for being aformer pupil of Elizabeth Manningham-Bullerwho went on to become director general of MI5.But X declined this offer on the advice of X’sfather. It was also revealed byleaked Whitehall documents in 2003 that Xdeclined an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.X is now famous in a completely different field.Who is X?

Nigella Lawson

19.

• What is usually available in these five categories?

• Blanco or plata (Silver)

• Joven or oro (Gold)

• Reposado

• Añejo

• Extra Añejo

*20.

• Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to thewhole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Thismethod generally results in a freedom of choosing patternsof different kinds without hampering the quality of shirts.This tradition is maintained even today in many countries inSE Asia and Sri Lanka as well as India.On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian Batik asa ‘Masterpiece in Oral and Intangible heritage of humanity’.However, which person made this Batik shirts famous, thefirst of which was designed by Desre Buirski in 1994?