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• Abbe pata toh hain sab, chhodo naa.

• Lel.

• Easy quiz hain, seasoned people don’t cry please.

• Peace.

RULES

Q1.

• Some of the possible reasons for this tradition are cited to be:

1. At the time of the ancient mariners, even as far back as 500 BC, most were 'married to the sea' due to their love of the ocean. The ships were their livelihood, their home and their love.

2. Some say during the early days of sailing, every ship was dedicated to some goddess.Another theory is that the crew always thought the ship "cradled" them like their mother and as a result treated it with a great deal of respect.

• What am I talking about?

Ships referred to in the feminine

• As a compliment to the woman they loved they named their sailing vessels after them, telling them that it would remind them of the ones they left behind for the months and sometimes years they have would be gone. This caught on.

• The 'she' was also given for things of great beauty found in the sea, like "There she blows!" depicting the massive water spout seen by whaling ships of old which almost all had female names. Even when ships stopped being given feminine names they were still referred to as 'she', but basically this analogy was due to a captain's love for his ship. "She’s a fine ship, Captain" etc.

Q2.

The “Narrative of the Life of James Allen, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the Highwayman, Being His Death-bed Confession to the Warden of the Massachusetts State Prison” is an autobiographical work by James Allen, published in Boston by Harrington and Co. in 1837.

Though there are many copies of the book, the most famous is in the Boston Athenæum.

Because the book is a confession, the author wanted to personalise this particular piece, and given to John A. Fenno, who had earlier resisted Allen's attempt to rob him. The book was donated to the Athenæum in 1905.

What did Allen do to personalise the copy?

Wrapped in the Book in his Own Skin

Q3.

• In the 1980s, Gap had an image which appealed to affluent customers, and in the early part of the 1990s, Target Corporation looked to target a market with lesser expensive products with a lower-end Gap product line.

• Millard Drexler, the then CEO of Gap Inc., contacted the overseas garment factories, and asked if they could produce a lower-priced line using less expensive fabrics and finishes.

• And as a result, from August 1993, Gap Warehouse was started to be seen in the Gap outlets.

• The next year, the company changed the name of Gap Warehouse to the name we know it now as, to establish a separate image from its parent.

• How do we know now this company as, a brand which attempted to launch a bath and body line, called ONbody (Obsessively Natural)?

Old Navy

• X is a term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. It is a cloud supplementary feature, and there coming usually mean severe thunderstorms.

• Individual lobe average diameters of 1–3 km and lengths on average of 0.5 km. A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a whole cluster can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. They usually are composed of ice, but also can be a mixture of ice and liquid water or be composed of almost entirely liquid water.

• What are these types of cloud patterns called/ what are they named after?

Q4.

Mammatus cloud(after mammary glands)

Q5.

• In the '60s, people in Taiwan still used wooden pencils as the main writing instruments.

• Mr. K.C. Chuang felt it is very inconvenient to sharpen wooden pencils all the time and decided to invest a considerable amount of capital to purchase the patent right for the Non-Sharpening Pencil.

• So, he established a company in 1967, to produce the Non-Sharpening Pencil, based solely on the patent and a prototype of the Non-Sharpening Pencil.

• What company?

Bensia (Pioneer Industrial Corp.)

Q6.

• The classic shot her sitting on this bench of the Taj Mahal was taken during a visit to India in February 1992, when she was expected to visit the site with her husband but she went on her own, leading to the defining image of the tour.

• The picture of her hinted at loneliness and isolation, and took on greater significance when the couple separated just a few months later.

• Subsequently, the bench has been named after her, the ‘X Bench’.• Who am I talking about?

Lady Diana

Q7.

• Recently, Pizza Hut has recently come up with a Block Buster Box• The boxes were part of a marketing stunt and were designed by

Ogilvy Hong Kong.

• Look at the image, and tell me what is special about it?

It is a Pizza Box Projector (through your Smartphone)

Q8.

• X (or double-X) is a gesticulation beloved of fast bowlers, particularly the grumpier sort, such as Glenn McGrath and Angus Fraser.

• Involves having both hands on hips at the same time, usually in reaction to a dropped catch, edged boundary or general misfield.

• It is named after a common household object, the gesture is said to resemble.

• What is X?

Teapot

Q9.

• Around 2 years ago, a campaign from Whole Foods Market showed a contrast between how the produce in your local market would look if it were not for a particular something.

• Whole Foods pulled all of the produce dependent on these things, and found that a whopping 237 items, or 52% of the normal product mix would not be produced, if not for these.

• Around the same time, Europe instituted a temporary ban on a class of pesticides believed to be harmful to these things.

• What is being talked about?

Bees

Q10.

• This point on the Earth Surface holds a very special record.• The place is named after a fictional antihero from literature, who was also

played by an Indian actor in a 2003 American film adaptation.• The character is the son of an Indian Raja, and is a scientific genius who

roams around the planet in a ‘carrier’ which was built in pieces all over the world and transported to the builder.

• What is the point in the ocean called? What is so special about it?

Point Nemo & Oceanic pole of inaccessibility

• The oceanic pole of inaccessibility is the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 

• This remote oceanic location is 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land—Ducie Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands, to the north; Motu Nui, one of the Easter Islands, to the northeast; and Maher Island, part of Antarctica, to the south.

Q11.

• During this era of firmly entrenched slavery in the United States, this event (XY) was a dance event where slaves were invited dressed up in the fine clothes and took on the airs of the white aristocracy. They were held in the plantation home, in the same rooms where the balls were held among white society. The event in question was similar, it was a ball held for the slaves. Couples promenaded through the ballroom, bowing deeply and frequently, chins and noses held highly aloft. The couple who performed the best interpretation of how the white folks did it won a X, baked, one imagines, by a slave.

• American society as a whole abandoned the racial basis of the XY in favour of it simply describing something so easy that just Ying could yield the reward of a X. 

• What is this, that I am blabbering about?

Cakewalk

• ‘To take the cake’ also probably comes from here.

Q12.

• The name of this festival is a confusing one.

• Dating back to the Middle Ages, the day has been associated with the tradition of bestowing gifts upon employees or those in need.

• In a similar tradition, churches would collect donations. The charity would then be distributed to the less fortunate.

• What am I talking about, whose origin you might have confused with the celebration of a sport, though in the modern times, it in some places has actually become associated with sporting events?

Boxing Day

Q13.

• Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer, who was worried he would miss the shot, clicked his shutter without even looking through his viewfinder.

• Of the six men in the photograph, three (Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Michael Strank) did not survive the aftermath; the three survivors (John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes) became celebrities upon the publication of the photograph.

• What photograph am I talking about?

Raising the flag on Iwo Jima

http://dataomaha.com/media/news/2014/iwo-jima/

Q14.

• Adilabad District in Telangana is the centre of a certain performance art in India, which has its history rooted in the 1900s.

• The art has been in existence in our country for about 35 years. But, the use of the mode which is now the primary attraction, was started 11 years ago, in 2005.

• The show involves a temporary cylindrical structure about 25 feet high and 30 feet in diameter built of hardwood planks.

• The performers, in most cases, are unaware of any knowledge about gravitational, centrifugal or centripetal forces.

• What am I talking about?

Maut ka Kuan

Q15.

• A certain section of social outcasts were made to wear distinctive clothing and given these this article to warn people of their approach, in the England of the 1600s (the one in the picture is a copy of an original).

• People were afraid of these outcasts for obvious reasons.

• What was the purpose of these and who were made to use these?

Clappers

• Those who suffered with leprosy (lepers) were given these, which made noise, to announce them being in the vicinity.

Q16.

• What does this TVF video parody?

Paper Boat Advertisement

Q17.

• Identify the voice in the above Paper Boat advertisement and what the setting for the advertisement is based on.

Gulzar and Malgudi Days