B.C. PATNAIK MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017

ORGANISED BY : DAV POKHARIPUT

QUIZ HOSTED BY: BIVASH RATH, ODISHA QUIZ ASSOCIATION

B.C. PATNAIK MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017

ORGANISED BY : DAV POKHARIPUT

QUIZ HOSTED BY: BIVASH RATH, ODISHA QUIZ ASSOCIATION

Q1

• X is a humorous unit of measurement of beauty. In Illiad, it is said that X (the one whom this unit is named after) had a “face that launched a thousand ships”. Thus, this unit is used to measure quantities of beauty in terms of the theoretical action that could be accomplished by the wielder of such beauty.

• Negative values have also been observed, which are measured by the number of ships sunk. An alternative interpretation of -1 X is the amount of negative beauty (i.e. ugliness) that can beach a thousand ships.X herself has a beauty rating of 1.186 X.Who/What is X?

HELEN – from Helen of Troy

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Q2 Style of play and inspiration

STYLE OF PLAY – GINGAINSPIRED FROM CAPOERIA MARTIAL ARTS

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• Sam Porcello was an American food scientist who worked for the TheCharmscompany. He then applied for a post in a major cosmetic company and was nearly selected but his candidacy ended when the company found that he was color blind.

• Sam then joined “X” and was in charge of the research department of “X” . He was considered a pioneer in the field of “cocoa” technology used to make chocolates.

• The product “Y” has been in production since 1912 but it was Sam who changed the product to how we know it today.

• Identify X and Y.

INTRODUCED THE CHOCOLATE CREAM IN THE OREO

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Q4

• Born and brought up in West London, this actor made his acting debut at 10 years of age in BBC One's 1999 television film David Copperfield, followed by his cinematic debut in 2001's The Tailor of Panama.

• Since he began acting at such a young age and was a superstar after his second film released in 2001 itself, it was difficult for him to attend school and hence he completed his education through “on-set” tutors.

• Identify this very lovable actor who in one of his latest films has played the role of a “corpse” and is carried on his co-actor’s shoulders throughout!

DANIEL RADCLIFFE

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Q5

• X, known commonly as Valluvar, is a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher whose contribution to Tamil literature is the Y, a work on ethics.

• Identify both X and Y

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Q6 IDENTIFY THE THEME OF THIS POEM BY W.H.AUDEN

Shut up in a lonely mansion, with police night and dayPatrolling the gardens to keep assassins away,

He got down to work, to the task of settling the fateOf millions. The maps at his disposal were out of date

And the Census Returns almost certainly incorrect,But there was no time to check them, no time to inspect

Contested areas. The weather was frightfully hot,And a bout of dysentery kept him constantly on the trot,

But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided,A continent for better or worse divided.

The next day he sailed for England, where he quickly forgotThe case, as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,

Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot.

Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission,Having never set eyes on this land he was called to

partitionBetween two peoples fanatically at odds,

With their different diets and incompatible gods.'Time,' they had briefed him in London, 'is short. It's too

lateFor mutual reconciliation or rational debate:

The only solution now lies in separation.The Viceroy thinks, as you will see from his letter,

That the less you are seen in his company the better,So we've arranged to provide you with other

accommodation.We can give you four judges, two Moslem and two Hindu,To consult with, but the final decision must rest with you.'

SIR CYRIL RADCLIFFE

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Q7

• The Ratapani Tiger Reserve, located in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, in Vindhya Range in central India, is one of the finest teak forests in the state and is less than 50 km. away from the capital Bhopal.

• Apart from its varied flora and fauna it is famous for housing a UNESCO World Heritage Site of almost 30,000 years which point to the existence of our predecessors in a “creative way”.

• Which World Heritage Site are we talking of?

BHIMBETKA ROCK PAINTINGS

• These were truly discovered in 1957, and granted WHS in 2003

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Mercator Limited is an Indian company. It was earlier known as Mercator Lines Ltd. The Mercator group of companies has diversified business interests in Coal, Oil & Gas, Commodity Transportation, and Dredging.

Mercator Limited (formerly Mercator Lines Ltd.) is the parent company and is the second largest private sector shipping company in India, and it is based in Mumbai. It has recently forayed into the Offshore business with its subsidiaries Mercator Oil and Gas Ltd and Mercator Offshore Ltd.

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Harriet Tytler, the second wife of Robert Christopher Tytler, a British army officer, an administrator, naturalist and photographer, who were appointed Superintendent of the Convict Settlement at Port Blair in the Andamans from April 1862 to February 1864. Harriet is remembered for her work in documenting the monuments of Delhi and for her notes at the time of the Revolt of 1857 in India. She is remembered for eternity as the national park at Port Blair is named after her.

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Mercator Limited is an Indian company. It was earlier known as Mercator Lines Ltd. The Mercator group of companies has diversified business interests in Coal, Oil & Gas, Commodity Transportation, and Dredging.

Mercator Limited (formerly Mercator Lines Ltd.) is the parent company and is the second largest private sector shipping company in India, and it is based in Mumbai. It has recently forayed into the Offshore business with its subsidiaries Mercator Oil and Gas Ltd and Mercator Offshore Ltd.

SAGAR SAMRAT OFFSHORE

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Harriet Tytler, the second wife of Robert Christopher Tytler, a British army officer, an administrator, naturalist and photographer, who were appointed Superintendent of the Convict Settlement at Port Blair in the Andamans from April 1862 to February 1864. Harriet is remembered for her work in documenting the monuments of Delhi and for her notes at the time of the Revolt of 1857 in India. She is remembered for eternity as the national park at Port Blair is named after her.

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BANKNOTES OF INDIA

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Q9

• This much anticipated annual event is believed to be derived from a local word for X, for it is held on X. However it is actually means A Journey To Y.

• Y is an island province of a country which itself is a collection of more than 17000 islands. Y is the home to the minority of Hindu population which reside in the country.

• Identify this much loved and anticipated annual event.

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Q10

• Their have been many instances of these institutions starting under trees in India as it was a convenient place providing shade for much heated discussions, strong debates, sagacious and thoughtful investments.

• The most famous one in India started in Mumbai under a Banyan tree in the 1840s when some people met in front of the Town Hall, later they moved to a different location as the number of participants in further meetings increased drastically. They formalised as an entity in 1875 with an annual membership of Re.1 and only “natives” were allowed to be a part of it.

• What originated thus?

BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE

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Q11

• Founded in 1761 at Stein near Nuremberg by cabinet maker Kaspar X, the enterprise has remained in the X family for eight generations. It opened branches in New York, London, Paris, and expanded to Vienna and St. Petersburg. It opened a factory in Geroldsgrün.

• It expanded internationally and launched new products under Kaspar X's ambitious great-grandson, Lothar. In 1900, after the marriage of Lothar'sgranddaughter with a cadet of the Counts of Y, the A.W. Y enterprise took the name of XY and a new logo, combining the X motto, Since 1761, with the "jousting knights" of the Ys' coat- of-arms.

FABER CASTELL

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KODAK

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Q13• The X and Y are ethnic people who lived in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, most of

which are located in Bangladesh. X are predominantly Buddhists, while Y are Hindus. They are found in northeast India, West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

• The X and Y were living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and fled erstwhile East Pakistan in 1964-65, since they lost their land to the development of the KaptaiDam on the Karnaphuli River. In addition, they also faced religious persecution as they were non-Muslims and did not speak Bengali. They eventually sought asylum in India. The Indian government set up relief camps in Arunachal Pradesh and a majority of them continue to live there even after five decades.

• Identify these two ethnic groups.

X – CHAKMA; Y - HAJONG

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Q14

• This is one of the major tourist attractions of this place in which it is situated.

• Known as the Park Estate earlier, it was built in 1832. It was purchased by X who bought it from a General Whish.

• Identify this building which is bounded by the Doon Valley on one side and the AglarRiver valley and the Himalayan Range on the north.

THE HOUSE OF GEORGE EVEREST

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Q15• Identify this building which is India’s

first cast iron building and still standing although in a dilapidated and much stressed condition.

• It is marked as a heritage structure and in its hey days was host to Mark Twain when he visited, Lumierrebrothers and many such guests.

• An urban legend says that JamsetjiTata built something of equal if not larger grandeur and magnitude after a racial snub at this place.

WATSON’S HOTEL NOW KNOWN AS ESPLANADE MANSIONS

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Q16• The Royalty of Thailand is the lineage of the Chakri Dynasty. After the death of a

royal, the dead is not immediately buried/cremated. Rather they are laid in a state of rest in a structure as shown for a number of days/ months/ years depending upon the hierarchy of the deceased in the dynasty.

• The previous ruler of Thailand Adulyadej Bhumibhol passed away in 2016 and was laid to rest till 2017 in a structure as shown. King Mongkut(1870) was laid to rest in the largest such like structure ever built.

• What from the world of mythology dothese structures take their inspiration from or what are they called?

MERUMAT – from MERU Mountain

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